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The Countryman and Money Scrivener.
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   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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John Hobbs, John Hobbs.
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   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Retort Courteous.
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   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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