Grosvenor Prints

The Village Ale-House. No more the Farmer's News, the Barbers Tale / No more, the Woodman's ballad shall prevail / No more the Smith his duskey brow shall clear / Relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear; / The Host himself, no longer shall be found / Carefull to see the mantling bliss go round: / Nor the coy Maid, half willing to be press'd, / Shall kiss the Cup, and pass it to the rest. Goldsmith
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. J. Grozier Sculp.
London, Published April 7.th 1787 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No. 158. New Bond Street
Rare stipple, printed in sepia. 425 x 530mm (16¾ x 20¾"), 18th century watermark. Trimmed into plate at bottom.
An idealised tavern interior, with a pretty maid drinking from a large tankard. The verse is from Oliver Goldsmith's poem, 'The Deserted Village', decrying the population shift to the cities brought about by the Industrial Revolution.
[Ref: 55685] £360.00

My Father urg'd me sair, my Mother did nae speak, / But she look'd in my Face till my heart was like to break. / Auld Robin Grey To Her Grace the Dutchess of Hamilton and Brandon, This Print after an Original Drawing by H. Bunbury Esq.r is with the greatest respect Dedicated, by Her Graces most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t Engraved by F. Bartolozzi
London, Publish'd Feb.y 10th 1783 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No 158 New Bond Street
Stipple, sheet 410 x 365mm (16 x 14¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; small stain on right.
Illustration to 'Aud Robin Grey', a Scots ballad in which a young woman is compelled by her parents to marry an old man, Robin Grey, who promises to support her and her parents, even though she is in love with another man. Stipple engraving after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Tim Clayton).
Calabi & De Vesme 1404 iii/iii
[Ref: 45439] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Bergere de la Bourgogne
H.W.Bunbury del. J.Bretheron f.
Published as the Act directs 2d Feb 1773. By J.Bretherton No 134 New Bond Street.
Engraving, platemark 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Glued to backing sheet.
[Ref: 1007] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Billiards.
H.Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 15th 1780 by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street.]
Stipple. Sheet 280 x 430mm (11 x 17"), with an 18th century watermark. Trimmed into plate top and bottom, losing publication line.
The famous caricature of a billiards game by Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811), probably inspired by the introduction of leather-tipped cues, as used here.
BM: 5803; see F.L. Wilder, 'English Sporting Prints', pp.190-1.
[Ref: 58476] £420.00

[Billiards.]
[Mr.Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.]
[Published 27th Jan. 1781.]
Engraving. Sheet 275 x 405mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, losing title and inscriptions, laid on album paper with other scraps.
A caricatured game of billiards, with a player with a long pigtail queue, taking exaggerated care with his show.
BM: 5913.
[Ref: 59292] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Billiards.
Anibalo Scratchi I. & F. 1798. H.Bunbury.
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 270 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Narrow margins, hole in top left.
A copy of the famous caricature of a billiards game by Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811).
[Ref: 58041] £380.00

Black Brown & Fair. You tell me dear Girl, that I'm given to rove, That I sport with each lass on the green, that I join in the dance and sing sonnets of Love...
Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.
London Pub. May 6 -1807 by T.Tegg III Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Some slight staining.
A satirical songsheet with a scene at Wapping docks. The men, a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, stand on the pavement gazing up at four smiling women, one of whom is black, leaning out a window. A black sailor walks inside, his arm round the waist of another girl. The BM states there was no ‘Sir E. Bunbury’, instead suggesting it was drawn by Henry Bunbury.
BM Satires 10925.
[Ref: 58480] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Black Brown & Fair. You tell me dear Girl, that I'm given to rove, That I sport with each lass on the green, that I join in the dance and sing sonnets of Love... [R2]
Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.
London Pub. May 6 -1807 [but later] by T.Tegg III Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), watermarked 1817. Extremely fine colour. Very slight offsetting near title left.
A fine example of this satirical songsheet with a scene at Wapping docks. The men, a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, stand on the pavement gazing up at four smiling women, one of whom is black, leaning out a window. A black sailor walks inside, his arm round the waist of another girl. The BM states there was no ‘Sir E. Bunbury’, instead suggesting it was drawn by Henry Bunbury.
BM Satires 10925.
[Ref: 59957] £480.00

Blouzelind. The peerless maid that did all maids excel. -Gay
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton Fecit
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching on 18th century laid paper, sheet 435 x 345mm (17 x 13½"). Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811) with line from 'The Shepherd's Week’ (1714) by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The line is from the beginning of 'Friday; or, the Dirge', in which Bumkinet mourns the death of Blouzelind: 'As the wood pigeon cooes without his mate, / So shall my doleful Dirge bewail her fate. / Of Blouzelinda fair I mean to tell, / The peerless maid that did all maids excel.'
For proof before letters see ref. 16983.
[Ref: 37965] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Blouzelind.]
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton f. [ink mss.]
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching, proof before letters on 18th century watermarked laid paper, sheet 380 x 340mm. 15 x 13". Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811), illustrating ‘Sweet William's Farewell To Black-Ey'd Susan: A Ballad’ by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The lettered state of the print in inscribed with a line from Gay: 'The peerless maid that did all maids excel'. The print is a pair with 'Susan'.
[Ref: 16083] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Breakfast. Symptons of Drowsiness. [&] Dinner. Symptoms of Eating and Drinking.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Execudit.
Published April 21, 1803 by Jn.o Harris No.3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street, London.
Pair of stipples. 350 x 450mm (13¾ x 17¾") very wide margins left & right (marginal tears). 'Breakfast' trimmed to plate at top, 'Dinner' with loss of margin to plate at bottom.
The 'Breakfast' shows sportsmen in a bare breakfast parlour; the 'Dinner' shows five men and two ladies seated at a more opulent dinner-table. These plates would have been originally published by Dickinson in the 1780s.
See BM Satires 8537 & 8538 for 1794 editions.
[Ref: 54540] £480.00 view all images for this item

The Breakfast. Symptoms of Drowsiness.
W.H. Bunbury Del [c.1770].
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
Copy of a stipple engraving after Henry Bunbury, published by William Dickinson and John Jeffreys. Bunbury was an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'.
[Ref: 47646] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

I will pay no more debts of her Contracting.
Mr. Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton f.
Published 7th December 1772 by J: Bretherton New Bond Street.
Etching, sheet 255 x 165mm. 10 x 6½". Trimmed to platemark.
On the left stands a thin man holding out his right hand as if for money. In his left hand is a long bill headed "... Mercer...". His hat is under his right arm. He faces a stout man standing in profile to the right whose right hand points at the bill. He is frowning and appears to be shouting. An open door is indicated in the background. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires: 5085. Provenance: ex-collection J.E. Laboureur.
[Ref: 17871] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Wife of Hassan Alhabbal, in cutting open the Fish she finds a large Diamond. Arab.n Nights Ent.s [&] he First Interview of the Prince of Persia and Schemselnihar, at the House of Ehn Thair. Arab.n Nights Ent.s
H. Bunbury Esqr. delt.
London, Pubd. April 10th. 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53, next York House, Piccadilly.
Pair of stipples with etching, printed in brown ink. 285 x 335mm. 11¼ x 13¼". Trimmed.
Kitchen scene with a woman standing over a table at left with knife in hand, displaying a diamond in her palm to a man and young boy, a figure at right seen from behind leaving the room, above a bird-cage hangs; [&] A man leaning on a table at left at which a lady is seated, turning to look at the prince at right, his sword hanging on a chain around his waist, three girls watch the meeting through an arch behind. Related to 'One Thousand and One Nights', known in English as the 'Arabian Nights', from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainments'.
[Ref: 27254] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Woman carrying twigs.]
HW Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
London Publish'd Apr.l 27th 1789 by W. Dickinson Bond Street
Stipple printed in brown ink, sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; creased.
Stipple after Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist who enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. Tim Clayton writes: 'Prints by Bunbury and his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it.' He designed many prints of rural life such as this, which always remained attactive and picturesque.
see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 37968] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bunbury's Whims. Round. Triangle. Square.
Engraved from an original Drawing by the late Henry Bunbury, in the possession of the Publisher.
[London, n.d., c.1820s.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"). Trimmed.
Satire showing three highly stylised geometric figures composed of circles, triangles and squares/rectangles respectively. From an early edition of 'Whims and oddities: in prose and verse' by humourist and poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Lettered with a couplet by Hood beneath each caption.
[Ref: 41589] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bunbury's Whims. The Lovers.
Engraved from an original Drawing by the late Henry Bunbury, in the possession of the Publisher.
[London, n.d., c.1820s.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Remains of album sheet at corners.
Satire showing two highly stylised geometric figures composed of angular shapes; a young man on bended knee before woman holding a fan. From an early edition of 'Whims and oddities: in prose and verse' by humourist and poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Lettered with a couplet by Hood beneath the caption.
[Ref: 41587] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cabriolet - Barbares Anglois! que du meme Couteau / Coupoient le tete aux Roi et les queues aux cheveaux / mais les Francois polis laifsent aux Rois leurs tetes / Et Encore comme vous voyez les Queues a leurs betes.
Pubd. According to Act March 17 1771 [additional text scratched out].
Etching, 180 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet; slight staining.
French coaching print with verses below translating as: 'Barbaric English! who with the same blade/ cut off the head of their king and the tails from their horses/ but the genteel French let their king's heads remain/ and also, as you see, the tails of their beasts' (!) Attributed to Henry Bunbury, possibly one of his earliest works. Bunbury was an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
BM Satire 4633; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 1048] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cabriolet. Barbares Anglois! que du meme Couteau / Coupoient le tete aux Roi et les queues aux cheveaux / mais les Francois polis laifsent aux Rois leurs tetes / Et Encore comme vous voyez les Queues a leurs betes.
H.W. Bunbury invt.
Pub.d according to Act by MDarly (39) Strand April 17th. 1772.
Etching, 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾").
A postillion on horseback drives a cabriolet in which is a macaroni clutching his hat; a footman rides behind and in the background a pedestrian holding a parasol or umbrella doffs his hat. A dog runs alongside in foreground. A copy of an engraving by Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). Numbered '8' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 4633. A copy in reverse of item 1048 dated 1771.
[Ref: 14101] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cabriolet. Barbares Anglois! que du même Couteau / Coupoient le tête aux Roi et les queues aux cheveaux / mais les Francois polis laifsent aux Rois leurs têtes / Et Encore comme vous voyez les Queues a leurs bêtes.
[after H.W. Bunbury.]
Pub.d according to Act March 17. 1771.
Etching. 175 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"), with narrow margins.
A postillion on horseback drives a cabriolet in which is a macaroni clutching his hat; a footman rides behind and in the background a pedestrian holding a parasol or umbrella doffs his hat. A dog runs alongside in foreground.
BM Satires: 1048.
[Ref: 36059] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Calf's Pluck.
H. Bunbury del. [Rowlandson f.]
[n.d. c.1807. Pub. Tegg.]
Hand-coloured etching. 132 x 171mm. 5¼ x 6¾".
A butcher is pulled to the ground as young calf runs off trying to get away. A rather amused woman looks on the scene from a window.
See BM Satires: 10922.
[Ref: 16079] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Eques Cantab.
[after Henry Bunbury.]
[n.d., c.1769.]
Etching with drypoint. 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Album stains at corners. Small margins.
A Cambridge student with a macaroni queue holding out his driving whip as if it is a lance, riding a defecating horse. King's College Chapel can be seen in the distance.
BM Satire 4724.
[Ref: 54592] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Cambridge Jockey. Eques Cantab.
HWB [Bunbury] Invt.
Pubd. according to Act of Parlt. by MDarly Engraver No.(39) Strand.
Etching, 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾".
A young thin Cambridge student in hunting dress riding rapidly across a heath holding out a whip in front of his horse's nose. A lurcher-type dog runs alongside. Racing interest. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
See BM Satires: 4724.
[Ref: 14114] £380.00

A Camp Scene.
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. G. White Sculp.t.
Publish.d June the 25th 1784 by C. White, Stafford Row Pimlico.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 315 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom. Small margins left & right. Foxing.
A scene in a military encampment. Three visitors (two men and a woman) watch with amusement as a soldier, dressed in full regimentals including a busby, shaves another despite having a spade and axe thrust through his belt.
BM Satires 6727.
[Ref: 54586] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[All Fours.]
[Design'd by W.H. Bunbury Esq.r.]
[Publish'd Mar.h 14th 1783 by J.R. Smith, No 83 Oxford Street, London.]
Rare coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into image area, losing title and inscriptions, but keeping the important part of the image.
A satirical scene of a pair of card players, one with a long pig-tail queue, the other in a bob-wig.
D'Oench 214; BM Satire 6341.
[Ref: 59289] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Gardens of Carleton-House with Neapolitan Ballad Singers Design'd 18th May 1784. To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales this Print from the Original Drawing by H. Bunbury Esq,,r in the Possession of His Highness, is by Permission Dedicated by His Royal Highness's most faithfull Servant, W. Dickinson.]
[Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.]
London, Publish'd May 10th; 1785 by W. Dickinson, No. 158 Bond Street, & W. Austin, Drawing Master St. James Street.
Stipple, proof before title, printed in sepia, touches of hand colour. 510 x 660mm (20 x 26"), with large margins.
A proof state of one of the finest 18th century images: a scene of fashionably-dressed people promenading and listening to musicians in Carlton House gardens, under tall leafy trees with no sign of the house. At the centre is George, Prince of Wales, in a tricorn hat and with a lady on each arm. A group of musicians are on the far left, one playing a small trumpet. The Prince of Wales gave the ballad singers breakfast in his garden, where they were all drawn from life on the spot by Bunbury. According to De Vesme and Calabi, Bartolozzi only engraved the faces of the figures.
De Vesme 2549
[Ref: 49835] £1,650.00

[The Game of Chess.]
[James Bretherton after Henry William Bunbury.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, scarce; 18th century watermark; Sheet: 315 x 365mm (12¼ x 14¼''). Trimmed.
A scene showing three women in large headresses playing a game of chess.
[Ref: 48618] £360.00

A College Gate. Divines going upon Duty.
H Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.
London Publish'd Nov.r 15th 1780, by Watson & Dickinson No.158 New Bond Street. & No 33, Strand.
Coloured stipple, printed on 18th century watermarked paper; 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½").
Social satire, on Cambridge 'types': three men riding in different directions, having come through a large gateway. The rider in the centre on a clumsy horse wears a clerical wig, broad-brimmed hat, and gaiters. On the right is a man on a stout cob, wearing boots and a bob-wig. Behind him is a fat old woman with outstretched arms shouting in alarm. On the left a thin man is riding a more spirited horse, and dressed like a layman. Behind him walks a fat divine wearing an academic cap, bands, and a long gown. Through the gateway in the distance a short fat man in a clerical wig stands on a mounting block, a groom beside him holding his horse. With him are two men wearing mortar-boards and long gowns. Behind a large rectangular building is indicated and behind it a church steeple. Numbered '5' upper left, from a series of Cambridge caricatures by Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 5804.
[Ref: 40626] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Count de Peltzer mortally wounded by some Austrian Foragers on ye Eve of his Marriage. [&] Fred. Zemmerman having escaped from ye Abbey of La Trappe & recover'd his beloved Mistress is seiz'd & thrown into a Dungeon for Life. [ink mss titles.]
Mr Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f. [ink mss]
[n.d., c.1787.]
Pair of mixed method engravings, proofs before all letters with colour wash. Sheets 485 x 570mm (19 x 22½"), 1st on Whatman laid paper, 2nd with large 18th century watermark. Creasing and slight staining. Cut inside platemark.
Two well-executed sketches, with the titles and inscriptions of the smaller etchings published by James Bretherton in 1787. The first shows the Count lying on a bed, attended by his fiancée M.lle de Benskow, her mother and her brother, as a boy brings soup for the dying man. The second shows a young man being captured by soldiers as a pair of monks watch, a scene from Claudine Guérin de Tencin's tragedy ''Les Amants malheureux ou Le Comte de Comminges'', adapted for the stage by Baculard d’Arnaud.
[Ref: 54536] £550.00 view all images for this item

Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the Choir. mem: of the Comte de Comminge.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Excudit.
London, Publish'd Oct.r 20;th 1782, by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No. 158 New Bond Street.
Stipple and aquatint, 18th century watermark. 385 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Thread margins top and bottom.
A scene from Claudine Guérin de Tencin's tragedy ''Les Amants malheureux ou Le Comte de Comminges'', adapted for the stage by Baculard d’Arnaud. A girl, dressed in male clothing, is apprehended by two Trappist monks.
[Ref: 54587] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Concerto Spirituale.
Bretherton f
Publis'd 23d March 1773
Scarce etching, 18th century watermark; sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Partially trimmed to plate on left. Tear repaired with tape.
Three men playing a viol da gamba, flute and horn. Etching after Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist who enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. Tim Clayton writes: 'Prints by Bunbury and his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it.' He designed many prints of rural life such as this, which always remained attactive and picturesque.
BM Satires 5217.
[Ref: 61925] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Club.
H Bunbury Esqr Dele. Lambeth.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, tears in edges.
Caricatures of the members of a club.
BM 1935,0522.8.105, a reversed copy of BM Satires 7452. See Ref: 53368, 24488.
[Ref: 54561] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Club. Eamus quo Ducet Gula.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Excudit.
London. Published 5 March 1794 by John Jeffryes Ludgate Hill.
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 395 x 500mm (15¾ x 19¾"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired tear in title area.
The interior of a country club with the members arriving for a supper. On the wall are the Club rules (''No Jokes in this society but practical ones, or forfeit 3d'') and a world map. The Latin motto reads 'let us go where greed leads us'.
[Ref: 53368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Club. Eamus quo Ducet Gula.
[After Henry Bunbury.] I.C. 1823.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 295 x 470mm (11½ x 18½"). Trimmed to image, title excised and pasted in middle verso.
A lithographic copy of Bunbury's caricature, originally published 1788. The Latin motto reads 'let us go where greed leads us'.
[Ref: 24488] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Country Girl and Soldier.]
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton f. [in ink].
[Publish'd 23d. Jany. 1783.]
Etching with added hand-colour. Plate 330 x 299mm. 13 x 11¾". Uncut. Time staining inside plate.
A country girl sitting outside a thatched cottage, holding a jug in one hand and offering a glass to a solider with the other. The soldier is leaning on his gun, wearing a cocked hate and looking curiously at her.
[Ref: 19823] £320.00

Courier Anglois
H.W.Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton. f.
Publish'd as the act dircts 3.d May, 1774. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. 410 x 280mm.
BM Satire 4736.
[Ref: 1021] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Courier Francois.
H.W.Bunbury Delin. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd by Js.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1774.]
Etching. 420 x 280mm.
BM Satire 4737.
[Ref: 1022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Courier Francois.
H.W.Bunbury Delin. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd by Js.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1774.]
Coloured etching. 420 x 280mm. Small tear.
A rider in oversized boots, riding a shaggy horse.
BM Satire 4737.
[Ref: 36056] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dancing Bear.]
Mr Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.
Publish'd 1st April 1774.
Etching with drypoint part 18th century watermark; 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). With small margins.
A showman pointing with a staff at the chained muzzle of a standing bear, while another man plays on a horn and a third watches.
[Ref: 54333] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Dog Barber.
H.B. inv.t.
Pub.d acord.g to Act of Parl.t Aprl, 25th, 1771 by M Darly (39) Strand.
Etching with very large margins. Platemark: 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Light creasing on left.
A standing French man with shears and a dog under his arm. A sign in the upper right reads, 'LA.VENGEANCE.DECROTTEUR.ROYAL TOND.DES.CHIENS PROPREMENT'. Plate 1 from the publication, '24 Caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists, etc. (Vol.1)'. After printmaker and satirist William Bunbury (1750 - 1811), published by caricaturist, printseller and ornamental engraver Matthew Darly (1720 - 1781).
BM Satires ref: 4668.
[Ref: 34306] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

I will pay no more debts of her Contracting
Mr. Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton f.
Published 5th December 1772 by J.Bretherton New Bond Street.
Engraving. 160 x 215mm (6¼ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A man refuses to settle a bill his wife has incurred an a mercer's.
BM Satire 5085.
[Ref: 1025] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Market Girl. [&] The Little Cottager.
H. Bunbury Esqr. Delint. Engraved by G. Shepheard. [&] J. Baldrey Sculpt.
London, Publish'd June 1st, 1791, by W: Dickinson No:24 Old Bond Street.
Pair of stipples with etching, in brown ink, each 430 x 325mm. 17 x 12¾". Fine impressions with margins. Unexamined out of frames.
A girl kneeling before a fence with a dog beside her, her hand on a basket containing a goose; another in an interior sitting in a chair, a caged bird hanging above her head. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). In good matching Hogarth frames.
[Ref: 10955] £550.00 view all images for this item

The Delights of Islington. - WHEREAS my New Pagoda has been cladestinely carried, / off & a new pair of DOLPHINS taken from the top of the / GAZEBO by some blood-thirsty Villians. & whereas / a great deal of TIMBER has been cut down & carried / away from the Old GROVE That was planted last Spring / & PLUTO & PROSPERPINE thrown into my BASON from / henceforth Steel Traps & Spring Guns will be constantly / by me. JEREMIAH SAGO.
H.W.Bunbury delin. Chas.Bretherton Jun. f.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 30th 1772 By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching, sheet 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"). Trimmed to platemark; tipped into backing sheet at sides.
Satire on the recently wealthy owner of an Islington suburban home with a garden: On the left is a gazebo raised on a pillar around which winds a staircase; on the right is an obelisk surmounted by a huge sphere; and beyond is a high wall. The man is ill-dressed, facing front, legs apart, leaning on a stick, and staring angrily as he complains about damage to his property. His hat is on the ground beside him.
BM Satire 4722. Ref: Michael Symes "Prints & the Landscape Garden" pg.25.
[Ref: 61965] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Delights of Islington - WHEREAS my New Pagoda has been cladestinely carried, / off & a new pair of DOLPHINS taken from the top of the / GAZEBO by some blood-thirsty Villians. & whereas / a great deal of TIMBER has been cut down & carried / away from the Old GROVE That was planted last Spring / & PLUTO & PROSPERPINE thrown into my BASON from / henceforth Steel Traps & Spring Guns will be constantly / by me. JEREMIAH SAGO.
H.W.Bunbury delin. Chas.Bretherton Jun. f.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 30th 1772 By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. 265 x 180mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet.
BM Satire 4722. Ref: Michael Symes "Prints & the Landscape Garden" pg.25.
[Ref: 1026] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

D.r Dawdle in a hurry.
M.r Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.
1st March 1782.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 225 x 260mm (8¾ x 10¼"). Narrow margins.
An elderly doctor on a wretched cob, threatening it with a whip.
BM Satires 6142.
[Ref: 54591] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Dog Barber La Francia.
H.W.Bunbury delin. 1772. J.Bretherton. F.
Publish'd as the Act directs 29th march 1772 by J.Bretherton No. 134 New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet size: 245 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Laid on sheet.
A French barber standing on the pavement holding a pair of shears with two dogs behind him. For an alternative earlier impression after Bunbury, see item ref: 34306.
BM Satire 4669.
[Ref: 36592] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Englishman at Paris. 1767.
Mr. Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.
Publish'd 23d Feb.y 1782.
Etching, with partial hand colour. 330 x 410mm (13 x 16"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom, tear entering image at top.
A satire contrasting English and French styles of dress. A stout middle-aged Englishman wears a heavy coat and three-cornered hat and carrying a stick, amusing the passers-by with his lack of elegance. These include: a hairdresser wearing his hair in a large queue, carring a parasol'; a grinning fat monk; and an elegant man driving a cabriolet, with his footman dressed in furs.
BM Satires 4185.
[Ref: 54323] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Evening, or the Man of Feeling.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.
[n.d., but watermarked 1815.]
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Tears in large margins.
Three men around a table, as servants prepare them for bed. A maid brings in a candle and a warming pan, and a boy removes the boots of one of the men. This is a simplified and reversed version of a stipple published by J.R. Smith in 1781.
[Ref: 34068] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Every Sous Begad.
Mr. Bunbury del. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd 10th June 1774.
Etching; 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Caricature of a man stood with his hands in his pockets and a whip under his arm. Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
BM Satire 4720; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 1030] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Expectation. To bosom heaving & to Eyes that weep. / While lovers linger in a distant clime. / Fear multiplies the dangers of the deep / And expectation loads the wing of time. EW.
Designd by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r Engraved by J.R. Smith.
London Publishd Jan.r 1.1784 by J.R. Smith No.83 Oxford Street.
Stipple, printed in brown. 400 x 3602mm (15¾ x 14¼") very large margins. Some creasing in margins.
An oval scene of two young women sitting side by side at the edge of a grassy cliff overlooking the sea, worrying about their sailor beaus.
D'Oench: 232. Frankau: 132.
[Ref: 60767] £320.00

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