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[Stephen Fox] A Flaw in the Ice or Stephens Dream of the Macaroni Bucks and Does Turn'd Topsy Turvy.
[Stephen Fox] A Flaw in the Ice or Stephens Dream of the Macaroni Bucks and Does Turn'd Topsy Turvy.
[William Austin].
Pubd as the Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 295 x 380mm (11¾ x 15"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A group of people crash through the ice. The central figure is Stephen Fox (1723-74), brother of Charles James Fox. Stephen inherited the title 2nd Baron Holland the year after this caricature was published but died five months later.
[Ref: 63565]   £350.00  
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[Sons of Henry Fox] A Macaroni Ass Match Between the Cubs NB. St-e Gamblers.
[Sons of Henry Fox] A Macaroni Ass Match Between the Cubs NB. St-e Gamblers. Nature Display'd both Serious and Comic in 12 Designs Dedicated to S. Foot Esq.r by L'Aquaforte & Burin. Pr. a Guinea.
[by William Austin]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, printed in blue, watermark Tot & Son. 270 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾") very large margins.
Two 'cubs' (ie sons of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland of Foxley) ride on horseback. The figure on the right, stood on an ass which refuses to cross the stream, is probably intended for Charles James Fox, while the figure on the left, jeering while crossing the stream, is probably Henry Fox, a keen horserider in his youth. Henry Fox, in the military academy in Strasbourg at this time, was stationed in Boston the following year and participated in the early battles of the American War of Independence. First in a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 5112.
[Ref: 63629]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sons of Henry Fox] A Macaroni Ass Match Between the Cubs NB. St-e Gamblers.
[Sons of Henry Fox] A Macaroni Ass Match Between the Cubs NB. St-e Gamblers. Nature Display'd both Serious and Comic in 12 Designs Dedicated to S. Foot Esqr
[by William Austin]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, sheet 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"). Trimmed, affecting text.
Two 'cubs' (ie sons of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland of Foxley) ride on horseback. The figure on the right, stood on an ass which refuses to cross the stream, is probably intended for Charles James Fox, while the figure on the left, jeering while crossing the stream, is probably Henry Fox, a keen horserider in his youth. Henry Fox, in the military academy in Strasbourg at this time, was stationed in Boston the following year and participated in the early battles of the American War of Independence. First in a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 5112; See also ref 18916.
[Ref: 39527]   £320.00  
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[Stephen Fox] The Voluptuos. Luxurious. Spendthrift. Macaroni. From Holland. In. A. Breathing. Sweat.
[Stephen Fox] The Voluptuos. Luxurious. Spendthrift. Macaroni. From Holland. In. A. Breathing. Sweat. 3.
[by William Austin]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾"), very large margins.
A caricature of Stephen Fox (1723-74), eldest son of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland of Foxley, older brother of Charles James Fox. He is depicted obese and asleep, lying on a garden seat, with nosgay, sword and toupet wig with a large macaroni club. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 5114.
[Ref: 63630]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Dr William Hunter] The Anatomist Overtaken by the Watch Carrying Off Miss W-ts in a hamper.
[Dr William Hunter] The Anatomist Overtaken by the Watch Carrying Off Miss W-ts in a hamper. 8.
[Drawn by William Austin.]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 7th 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 270 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"), with large margins.
Scottish anatomist Sir William Hunter (1718-83) runs from two watchmen, a skull under his arm, dropping both a basket containing the body of a young woman and a copy of his lectures. A satire on the body-snatching problem caused by the sale of corpses to surgeons. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM:5119.
[Ref: 63633]   £390.00  
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The Lucky Mistake Or the Buck and Blood Flourishing Macaroni _ playing a Solo on the Jelly Glasses.
The Lucky Mistake Or the Buck and Blood Flourishing Macaroni _ playing a Solo on the Jelly Glasses. 10.
[Drawn by William Austin.]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 7th 1773.
Etching, J. Whatman watermark. 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾"), with large margins.
A military officer, his hair is in a large macaroni club, unconcernedly rides a heavy cavalry horse past a man whom he has knocked down, breaking his wooden leg and several glasses. Upper right is an illustration of the club with an exaggerated description. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM:5121.
[Ref: 63634]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[George Lyttelton] The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary.
[George Lyttelton] The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary. 11.
Pub.d as the Act Directs May 1st 1773 [by William Austin].
Coloured etching. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"), with wide margins. Some creasing and spotting.
George Lyttelton as a hooked-nosed Death, using a tomb as a writing desk, one hand holding a scythe. A grave-digger with a built-up shoe, holds out a skull which declaims ''Life is a jest & all things shew it. I thought so once but now I know it'', John Gay's own epitaph on his monument in Westminster Abbey. The first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773, a few months after this caricature) wrote 'Dialogues of the Dead' (1760).
[Ref: 54443]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[George Lyttelton] The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary.
[George Lyttelton] The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary. 11
Pub.d as the Act Directs May 1st 1773 [by William Austin].
Etching, J. Whatman watermark. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"), with large margins.
George Lyttelton as a hooked-nosed Death, using a tomb as a writing desk, one hand holding a scythe. A grave-digger with a built-up shoe, holds out a skull which declaims ''Life is a jest & all things shew it. I thought so once but now I know it'', John Gay's own epitaph on his monument in Westminster Abbey. The first Baron Lyttelton (1709-73), a few months after this caricature) wrote 'Dialogues of the Dead' (1760). From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
See Ref: 54443
[Ref: 63635]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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A Peep in a Camp Kitchen by an over drove Ox, with the French Cook's retreat into the Cistern.
A Peep in a Camp Kitchen by an over drove Ox, with the French Cook's retreat into the Cistern.
W.m Austin inv.t et sculp.t.
London Published as the Act directs 1.st Jan.y 1780: We ne'er see our Foes but we wish them to stay. But c. 1820's
Etching. Plate: 280 x 330mm (11 x 13'') large margins. Crease.
A chaotic scene in a kitchen in which the cooks point swords at an angry bull which has knocked over bottles while a scullery boy drops his tray of dishes.
BM Satire 5772.
[Ref: 48371]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sir Thomas Robinson] Long Thomas & Mad.le G_d Going to the Pantheon in Their Natural Masks.
[Sir Thomas Robinson] Long Thomas & Mad.le G_d Going to the Pantheon in Their Natural Masks. 5
[Drawn by William Austin.]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 7th 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 295 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾"), with large margins left & right. Trimmed to plate mark at bottom, binding holes in top of plate.
Sir Thomas Robinson (1702-77), 1st Baronet of Rokeby, politician, architect and garden designer, caricatured as long and thin, with a fat, elderly woman on his arm and followed by a foot-boy. Robinson, a shareholder of Ranelagh Gardens, ruined himself throwing lavish balls and masquerades. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM:5116.
[Ref: 63632]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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The Spanish Dons overtaken by an Ancient Briton in attempting their Escape.
The Spanish Dons overtaken by an Ancient Briton in attempting their Escape.
W.m Austin inv.t et sculp.t.
London Published as the Act directs 1.st Jan.y 1780: We ne'er see our Foes but we wish them to stay. But c. 1820's
Etching. Plate: 280 x 330mm (11 x 13''), with large margins.
A soldier on a great horse holds a rope attached to the legs of two prisoners who sit behind him facing the animal's tail; a drawn sword is in his right hand. Behind is a haystack, on the top of which are two other Spaniards, much alarmed at the approach of a countryman who threatens them with his pitch-fork. A man and woman, both wearing coats with military facings, watch the scene; she points, he looks through a small telescope. In the foreground a sow and three young pigs are galloping.
BM Satire 5773.
[Ref: 48369]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Spanish Dons overtaken by an Ancient Briton in attempting their Escape.
The Spanish Dons overtaken by an Ancient Briton in attempting their Escape.
W.m Austin inv.t et sculp.t.
London Published as the Act directs 1.st Jan.y 1780: We ne'er see our Foes but we wish them to stay.
Etching. Sheet: 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13''). Trimmed, repaired tears. Staining.
A soldier on a great horse holds a rope attached to the legs of two prisoners who sit behind him facing the animal's tail; a drawn sword is in his right hand. Behind is a haystack, on the top of which are two other Spaniards, much alarmed at the approach of a countryman who threatens them with his pitch-fork. A man and woman, both wearing coats with military facings, watch the scene; she points, he looks through a small telescope. In the foreground a sow and three young pigs are galloping.
BM Satire 5773.
[Ref: 48370]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Nathaniel St André] Major G*****n & Lady Landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk.
[Nathaniel St André] Major G*****n & Lady Landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk. 4
[by William Austin]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, J. Whatman watermark. 270 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"), with large margins.
An elderly man with a gouty leg walks on crutches, followed by his tall wife with a witch-like face with hooked nose and protruding bearded chin. Among the other figures that walk along the sea front is a man marked 'The Rabbit Doctor St A-', with a rabbit under his arm. This is a caricature of Nathaniel St André (c.1680-1776), a Swiss surgeon who was appointed as surgeon and anatomist to the royal household by George I in 1723. However, in 1726 he supported the claim of Mary Toft that she had given birth to fourteen rabbits, even publishing an account. When she admitted the deception St André lost his Royal salary. Later one of his patients died and he married his widow the same day. The pair moved to Southampton in 1750. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 5115.
[Ref: 63631]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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