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The Countryman and Money Scrivener.
Finucane delin.t
[n.d., c.1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 245 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate. Some paper loss in the bottom left corner and a crease in the top right corner.
A comic scene in which a countryman accidentally walks into a lawyers office mistaking it for a shop and proceeds to insult the lawyer.
[Ref: 44692] £95.00
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John Hobbs, John Hobbs. Sung by Mr. Lovegrove, with unbounded Applause, in ''Any Thing New,''at the Lyceum Theatre, Strand.
Published 12th August, 1811, by Whittle and Laurie, N°.53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 300 x 245mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate at sides.
William Lovegrove (1778-1816) as Jeremiah Babble, singing the story of shoe-maker John Hobbs who, 'having caught a Tartar', tries to sell his wife. Failing, he tries to hang himself but is saved by his wife and they reconcile. BM Satires 11838.
[Ref: 55378] £180.00
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The Retort Courteous.
Finucane delin.t.
Published 1st August 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾") large margins.
A scene outside a grocer's, where a countryman has slipped and fallen. The grocer laughs: ''Our London Stones are too proud to bear such a Bumkin as you are", to which the countryman replies, ''As proud as they are Measter Grocer, _ I have made them Kiss my A_e". In shop window boxes of tea can be seen, including Souchong. BM Satires 9114.
[Ref: 54499] £150.00
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