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Gretna Green. Striking the Iron while it is hot.
Gretna Green. Striking the Iron while it is hot. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Collings. Etch.d by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by W. Locke Aug.t 1.st 1791.
Etching, sheet 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on one side, folding creases as normal, stains. Small margins.
A runaway couple get married at Gretna Green. Gretna Green's runaway marriages began in 1753, following the introduction of the Marriage Act, prohibiting young couples to marry without their parents' permission. The act however did not apply in Scotland. The print was issued in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791.
BM Satires 7992.
[Ref: 59544]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Nicolas Pedrosa.
Nicolas Pedrosa. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Collings. Etch.d by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C.o Feb.y 1.st 1791.
Etching, plate 195 x 230mm (7¾ x 9"). Folding creases, as normal, small tear and stain to bottom edge. Small margins.
A scene from 'The History of Nicolas Pedrosa, and His Escape from the Inquisition in Madrid. A Tale'. Surgeon and male-midwife Nicolas Pedrosa on a horse causes havoc among a group of friars wearing cassocks, carrying crosses and rosaries. The next morning, Pedrosa receives a summons from the Inquisition, an especially worrisome situation for him as he is secretly a Jew. Jewish interest. The print was issued in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 59543]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Albion Mill fire] Conflagration! or the Merry Mealmongers, A New dance, as it was performed with Universal Applause, at the Theatre Blackfriars March 2d. 1791.
[Albion Mill fire] Conflagration! or the Merry Mealmongers, A New dance, as it was performed with Universal Applause, at the Theatre Blackfriars March 2d. 1791. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Collings. Etch.d by Barlow.
Publish.d as the Act directs, by Bentley & C.o, April 1.st 1791.
Etching, plate 195 x 230mm (7¾ x 9"). Small margins. Folding creases, as normal.
A scene on Blackfriars Bridge, with the Albion Mills on fire in the background, while a dense crowd on the bridge rejoices at the spectacle. In the foreground three men are dancing: two face each other holding hands, but looking at the fire, the third waves his hat and a toy windmill. One holds out a broadside: 'A New Song', he carries a sheaf of papers over his shoulder inscribed 'Success to the Mills of Albion but no Albion Mills'. The print was issued in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791.
BM Satires 8022.
[Ref: 59541]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Levee, or the Maecenas of Scrubs and Scaramouches.
The Levee, or the Maecenas of Scrubs and Scaramouches. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Collings. Etch'd by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C° June Ist 1791.
Etching. 195 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). Original binding folds.
A boxing satire. A group of parasitic followers surround Richard Barry (1769-1793), 7th Earl of Barrymore, including boxers, jockeys, cock-fighters and a man resembling the Prince of Wales. On the back wall are paintings of 'Scrub' (after his nickname 'Lord Scrub), racing, cockfighting and a pierrot and harlequin. On the floor is an open book: 'New Pantomime by Bar & Co'. Despite being painted at an early age as an angelic Cupid by Richard Cosway, Barry found infamy as a rake, beginning at school at Eton, from where he would hire cabs to London to visit prostitutes. The Prince of Wales nicknamed him 'Hellgate'. He married the daughter of a sedan chair man: after he accidently killed himself with his own musket aged 23, she turned to prostitution and bare-knuckle boxing before becoming a matron of the female prisoners at the Tothill Fields Bridewell.
[Ref: 60162]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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A Provincial Deputy's Maiden Speech to the National Assembly.
A Provincial Deputy's Maiden Speech to the National Assembly. Just Published (Engraved in a superior Stile.) Chesterfield's Principles of Politeness Exemplified, in 20 figures pr. 10/6.
SC [monogram of Samuel Collings.]
Published Feb. 16 1791 by S.W. Fores 3 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). With narrow margins.
A deputy stands on a tribune in profile to the left, poised on one toe and leaning on the railing; he shouts with his ugly head thrown back, a blast issuing from his mouth. From his pocket protrudes a document inscribed 'L'Art de la Rhétorique'. A satire on 'Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world' by Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.
BM Satires 7695, their example trimmed and without attribution.
[Ref: 54340]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Italian Puppet Show.]
[The Italian Puppet Show.]
[Printed and Sold by Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 24th June 1785.]
Engraving with original hand colour, rare. Trimmed to oval 160 x 240mm (6½ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper with the title written in ink underneath.
A street puppet show, with the main character the traditional 'Pulcinella' (Punchinello or Punch), with his wife 'Joan', later Judy. In the audience a fish-wife drops fish from her basket, distracted by the show. This appears to be from a series of acts or amusements making headlines in the mid-1780s.
[Ref: 32836]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Metropolitical Gunnery. Vide the Cockneid.
Metropolitical Gunnery. Vide the Cockneid.
Drawn by Collings. Etch'd by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs by Bentley & Co. Oct.r 1. 1790.
Engraving. Sheet: 200 x 225mm (8 x 9''). Trimmed and creased as issued.
A satirical print showing a group of men taking part in a chaotic shoot, one man fires at an owl.
BM: 7756
[Ref: 48357]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Monmouth Street. Not fit!_(Tho' to be sure as you say a man can't see himself behind)...But I happen'd to be a little out in the measure, Now as I hope to be Saved I lose a Guinea by that there Coat.
Monmouth Street. Not fit!_(Tho' to be sure as you say a man can't see himself behind)...But I happen'd to be a little out in the measure, Now as I hope to be Saved I lose a Guinea by that there Coat.
S. Collings delt. J. Cooke Sculp.t St. Mary Axe.
[Published June 9, 1789 by S.W. Fores N.3 Piccadilly.]
Stipple, etching and aquatint. 242 x 178mm. 9½ x 7". Publication line cut. Laid on album sheet.
A tailor adjusts the arm of an ill-fitting coat. In the background a man with a tricorn points and laughs.
BM Satires undescribed.
[Ref: 17046]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Manning the Navy [&] Ancient Modes of Manning the Navy
Manning the Navy [&] Ancient Modes of Manning the Navy Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), 1794]
Two engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Small margins.
Two prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', reissuing (in two parts) a print first published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1790 (see BM Satires 7753), showing a press-gang at work on Tower Hill (the Tower of London and ships on the Thames can be seen in the background). Press warrants were issued in May 1790 on account of naval preparations against Spain.
BM Satires 8447 (Manning the Navy); 8501 (Ancient Modes).
[Ref: 45863]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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Animal Magnetizm [&] The Devil to_Pay
Animal Magnetizm [&] The Devil to_Pay Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), 1795]
Two engravings and two letterpress sheets, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Two prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', reissuing (in two parts) an earlier print. As the letterpress accompanying the two prints confirms, they satirise quack doctors, specifically new experiments with electricity. As the doctor advises his female patient, 'the electrical shock is violent, I confess, but it is not unaccompanied with rapture'. The scene is inside a tavern, with portraits on the wall including one of the painter J.P. de Loutherbourg.
[Ref: 45864]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Lord Thurlow.]
[Lord Thurlow.]
S. Collings pinx.t J Conde sculp.t
Publish'd Feby. 29 1792 by S.W. Fores No3 Piccadilly.
Fine proof stipple and etching. Plate 274 x 210mm. 10¾ x 8¼".
Edward Thurlow (1731-1806), 1st Baron Thurlow, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor for fourteen years (1778-1792) and under four Tory Prime Ministers.
[Ref: 20122]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Citizen at Vauxhall.
The Citizen at Vauxhall.
Collings del. Smith sculp.
Published as the Act directs, by Harrison & Co July 1, 1784.
Engraving. 180 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"). Original folds, wear to left edge.
A family stand outside the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens. The stout wife puts a handkerchief round her husband's neck to protect him from the night air. Her daughter holds her fan to her face, flirting with a beau in the middle distance who inspects her through his glass. Musicians play on the first floor. The illustration was published as the frontispiece to the June issue 'The Wit's Magazine', accompanying the 'Humourous Description of a Citizen and his family at Vauxhall' which is transcribed without acknowledgement from the essay of Colman and Thornton in 'The Connoisseur' (May 10, 1755).
BM Satires 6741.
[Ref: 53394]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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