Grosvenor Prints

[Duke of Wellington] Rats in the barn. Or Iohn Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the Varment.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatuers Daily Pub.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 260 x 250mm (10¼ x 14½"), with large margins.
A fat John Bull, a yokel in a smock, stoops forward to cheer on a terrier with the head of Eldon who grips in his teeth a rat with the (terrified) head of Wellington. Another rat (? Peel) has been flung into the air and falls back. Other rats, all with human heads, scamper away over a heap of unthrashed corn, into which some of them dive, tails only projecting: one disappears down a hole. Behind J. B. is the doorway of the barn, framing the tower of a village church, which is out of the perpendicular, and shored up by beams, one inscribed 'Prop'.
BM Satires: 15699.
[Ref: 50743] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Take Care of Your Pockets _ A Hint for the Orthodox. Take heed, have open eyes; for thieves do foot abroad. Shakespeare Render unto Seizer those things which are Seizers.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub June 2d.1829 by T.McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of Paul Pry Caricatures.
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), large margins. Paper lightly toned.
Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington and his Home Secretary, Robert Peel, depicted as ragged street urchins trying to pick the pocket of a wary parson. A satire on the Ministries' alleged interference with the property and doctrine of the Church, which was alleged during a press campaign against the Ministry.
BM Satires: 15791.
[Ref: 55954] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke of Wellington and his political career after Waterloo - the caricaturists' view.
Edward du Cann.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2000.
4to, blue cloth gilt with illus d/w. pp. 143, colour illustrations. Small tear in d/w.
A selection of over 100 satires of the Duke of Wellington as a politician.
See Ref: 59752
[Ref: 59735] £60.00

The Duke of Coldbath Fields Making Choice of a New Ministry. The Political Drama. No 45.
[by Charles Jameson Grant.]
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market [n.d., 1834].
Wood engraving with letterpress text. Sheet 270 x 350mm (10½ x 13¾"). Trimmed around titles, laid on album paper at sides.
The Duke of Wellington sits on a dining chair, his feet on two more, selecting the new Tory Govenment in 1834 from a group of six unkept and uncooth men, Wellington declined to become prime minister, standing aside for Robert Peel. However Peel was in Italy, so Wellington acted as interim leader for three weeks in November and December 1834. Wellington is reading "Rookwood: a Romance" by William Harrison Ainsworth. It was one of the most successful novels of the 19th century but has been eclipsed by the works of Charles Dickens.
[Ref: 57797] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV & Wellington] Great Connoiseurs examining a celebrated Cabinet Picture.
T.H.J. [Thomas Howell Jones] fec.t.
London Pub.d 1830, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 330mm (9¼ x 13"). Trimmed within plate. Time stained.
George IV, Lady Conyngham and the Duke of Cumberland examine a new portrait of the Duke of Wellington, expressing negative views of the increasingly unpopular Prime Minister.
BM Satires 16048.
[Ref: 61130] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Arther & his man Bob giving Iohn Bull a Bolus). _ Quacks from Church St _
[Monogram of Paul Pry] Esq.r.
Pub April 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket
Coloured etching, sheet 245 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed inside platemark; fold through centre; good colouring.
John, larger in scale than his tormentors, lies on the ground supported by Peel, who kneels behind him, while Wellington, leaning forward on tiptoe, uses a thick rod with a cross-bar to ram down his mouth a large paper: 'Catholic Emancipation'. John, bottle-nosed and brandy-faced, wears an open waistcoat and shirt, with gaiters drawn above the knee. Peel, wearing over sleeves and apron, holds the patient's jaws with grim determination. Wellington, dressed like an old-fashioned doctor except for cavalry boots, rests his whole weight on the cross-bar of his rammer. Behind Peel on the extreme left and partly cut off by the margin is a large pestle and mortar inscribed 'Dose for 40s Free[holders]'.
BM Satires: 15714.
[Ref: 43834] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] John Bull asking a few questions of Orator Mum - Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two) Shakespeare.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Published the largest collection in England. [n.d. c.February 1829.]
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 369mm (10¼ x 14½").
Satire probably published between the King's Speech on 5 Feb, and the introduction of the Catholic Relief Bill on 5 March. Wellington, on the right, refuses to answer John Bull's questions about the Catholics and the 'little Queen' (Mary II of Portugal). He had concealed his intention to bring in Emancipation till a day or two before the opening of Parliament, thus aggravating Tory resentment. Furthermore, when the question of British relations with Portugal was raised in the Lords and in the Commons, a request for papers was refused, reinforcing allegations that the Government was favouring the usurpation of Don Miguel under cover of the preservation of neutrality.
BM Satires: 15659.
[Ref: 30483] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] Caleb Quotem - the parish factotum. He is all - he is evry thing - the parish could not go on without him - He has more trades that hairs in his wig. Parish Characters in Ten Plates by Paul Pry Esq.r. _ Pl. 11.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - Sole Publisher of P.Prys Caricature's - none are original without this name.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 10"), with very large margins. Creasing in lower margins.
The Duke of Wellington holding a bearskin and a whip, reciting a list of his jobs in verse. These include 'Cabinet maker / Undertaker / Finance / Beat France / Bony parte / made him smart...'.
Not in George, but see 15787 for a pirate by Gans.
[Ref: 55952] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Pleasant itimation. Alarming state of the times.
WHeath.
Pub nov 9 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Small margins.
Wellington sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, reading a letter: 'Your Grace You Intend giving a Dinner on monday - Mind it will be the last you ever shall give'. He looks startled and exclaims: 'The duece it will'. Wellington was advised not to go to a City banquet because of a plot against his life.
BM Satires: 16301.
[Ref: 39611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Take Care of Your Pockets_A Hint for the Orthodox. "Take heed, have open eyes; for thieves do foot abroad. Shakespeare "Render unto Seizer those things which are Seizers.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub June 2d.1829 by T.McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of Paul Pry Caricatures.
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Stained. Cut to platemark.
Satire on the Ministries' alleged interference with the property and doctrine of the Church, which was alleged during a press campaign against the Ministry. Here Peel and Wellington are ragged street urchins trying to pick the pocket of an old parson.
BM Satires: 15791.
[Ref: 30524] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Rats in the barn. Or Iohn Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the Varment.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatuers Daily Pub.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A fat John Bull, a yokel in a smock, stoops forward to cheer on a terrier with the head of Eldon who grips in his teeth a rat with the (terrified) head of Wellington. Another rat (? Peel) has been flung into the air and falls back. Other rats, all with human heads, scamper away over a heap of unthrashed corn, into which some of them dive, tails only projecting: one disappears down a hole. Behind J. B. is the doorway of the barn, framing the tower of a village church, which is out of the perpendicular, and shored up by beams, one inscribed 'Prop'.
BM Satires: 15699.
[Ref: 63388] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington and the Catholic Relief Bill] Doing Homage. _Thus they in lowliest plight, repentant bow_Mil[ton].
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d. c.1830.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Small margins.
One of many attacks on Peel and the Duke of Wellington, introducers of Catholic Emancipation. Here they pay homage to the Pope, with Wellington kissing the papal foot.
BM Satires: 15660.
[Ref: 52859] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

George IV & Wellington] The Th___e in Danger. There is a power before the Throne_& a power behing the Throne_greater than the Throne itself. Vide L__d K_gs Speech_
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Slight cockling in left margin and into plate. Some staining in margins.
Wellington, in uniform, stands before George IV, who sits on the throne. Wellington holds up a large cross-hilted sword (the Sword of State). He holds behind him his large plumed cocked hat, from one point of which hangs a paper reading 'Military Commission to throw Dust in John Bulls eyes'. Two papers project from his pockets: Church Patronage and Army Patronage. Lady Conyngham (George's final mistress) peers out from behind a curtain, looking satisfied. The crown is on a table beside Wellington. Etched by William Heath, with his characteristic 'Paul Pry' emblem lower right.
BM Satires: 15512.
[Ref: 37450] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Rats in the barn. Or John Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the Varment.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatuers Daily Pub.
Coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed to image, glue stains in bottom corners.
A fat and gross John Bull, a yokel in a smock, stoops forward to cheer on a terrier with the head of Eldon who grips in his teeth a rat with the (terrified) head of Wellington. Another rat (Peel?) has been flung into the air and falls back. Other rats, all with human heads, scamper away over a heap of unthrashed corn, into which some of them dive, tails only projecting: one disappears down a hole. Behind J. B. is the doorway of the barn, framing the tower of a village church which is shored up by beams, one inscribed 'Prop'.
BM Satires: 15699.
[Ref: 35568] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch of the Row in Parliment Street.
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry', a man holding an umbrella.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other Caricatures are dail Publishing. [n.d., c.1829.]
Handcoloured etching. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), with wide margins.
A pugilistic encounter between two old market-women who are John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838) and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852). Eldon has a basket of oranges (emblem of the Orange Lodges) beside him, and wears a flat wide-brimmed hat. Wellington wears a soldier's coat over his skirt and apron. Each has a bottle-holder; that of Eldon is John Bull, a stout yokel who puts his hand on his principal's bulging posterior, saying, 'Welldone-—old Mother Baggs—you have got the best bottom after all. see what it is to have a good Constitution—give it her—she has'ent got the Mounshears to deal with now.' Wellington's supporter is a bare-legged Irish ragamuffin with a pipe thrust in his little hat who says 'Murder ye ould cat kape your fists Tight—or you'I let the Ould Orange-Woman bate ye clane.' In the background is a freely sketched crowd of spectators, one of whom represents Robert Peel. Possibly a satire on the 4 April 1827 Lords debate on the second reading of the Catholic Relief Bill, in which Wellington accused Eldon of having thrown "a large paving-stone instead of ... a small pebble". By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole, that became a tag used for any very inquisitive person) with the emblem of a small man holding a walking stick in a lower corner of his plates, as seen here.
BM Satires: 15721.
[Ref: 39170] £320.00

This ere pair of left off Vellingtons to be sold wery cheap. 'I wish to G-d that sombody would buy Us - Byron'
W.Heath.
Pub Nov 26 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket [but later].
Etching with partial hand colour. 365 x 255mm (14½ x 10"); large margins.
The heads of Wellington and Robert Peel protrude from two Wellington boots, looking at each other with reflective melancholy. Wellington had lost a vote of no confidence on 15th November.
BM Satires: 16345.
[Ref: 39613] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington & William Huskisson] Druming Out. Or Making an Example of a Mutineer.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] inv del.
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket [n.d., 1828].
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1827', large margins. Old ink numeral in edge of plate.
The Duke of Wellington, in uniform with drum, kicks William Huskisson on the behind, watched by a rank of soldiers from different regiments. Huskisson (1770-1830) had voted against the disfranchisement of East Retford (a rotten borough) contrary to a cabinet decision and was ejected from the government, alongside Lords Palmerston and Melbourne. In 1830 Huskinson attended the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Leaving his carriage to greet Wellington, hoping to repair their relationship, he realised he was on the tracks in front of the oncoming 'Rocket', George Stephenson's pioneering locomotive. He attempted to climb back into the Duke's carriage, but the door swung open, leaving him dangling. He was hit by the Rocket, mangling one of his legs, dying several hours later, becoming the world's first widely reported railway passenger casualty.
BM Satire 15531.
[Ref: 63477] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Dumps.
W.m Heath ~.
Pub march 29 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London.
Fine coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"), large margins.
The Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington with his Home Secretary, Robert Peel, discussing their defeat in a motion which denied superannuation pensions to Dundas and Bathurst by 18 votes.
BM Satire 16077.
[Ref: 55949] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Obsequies of His Grace the Late Illustrious Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, K.G. K.C.B. &c. &c. 18th November 1852.
Drawn & On Stone by A Maclure.
MacLure, MacDonald & MacGregor, Lithographers to the Queen, London, Manchester & Glasgow. [n.d., 1852.]
Large folio, original lithographed illustrated wrappers, original silk ties; four tinted lithographs on chine collé, complete?. Some foxing. Covers bit dusty.
Illustrations commemorating the funeral of the Duke of Wellington: an oval portrait; the lying-in-state at Chelsea Hospital; the arrival of the carriage at St Paul's Cathedral and the service in the cathedral. In 1851 MacLure, MacDonald & Co imported a Sigl machine from Germany which was capable of printing 600 sheets an hour and the firm is believed to be the first in the UK to use steam power for lithographic printing. They invented their own steam-driven press in 1853. The firm closed in 1992.
[Ref: 48285] £680.00 view all images for this item

[Wellington & income Tax] Daring & Impudent Robbery!!! Do villany, do, since you process to do't_Like workmen; I'll example you with thieving_Thieves for their robbery have authority_Shakespeare.
William Heath.
Pub. Oct. 6th. 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of WH's etchings.
Fine coloured etching. Framed, sight size 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼''). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame.
A satire on income tax. Wellington (in army uniform) takes a bag of money from John Bull's pocket while Robert Peel (dressed as one of his new policeman) takes his pocket watch. By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole; however the monogram was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
BM Satire 15875.
[Ref: 61169] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Wicked Subject. Oh! Just take the top off. I say Welling**n this has been burning a long time shall I snuff it short or snuff it out. Political Scraps No. 1.
Pub.d Nov. 10th 1843 by W.H. Mason 81 King's Road, Brighton & Ackermann & Co Strand. Bogue Fleet Street London.
Rare mezzotint. 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11"). Small margins.
Daniel O'Connor reaches out to snuff out a candle, with a human head in the flame, in a candlestick placed on a 'History of Ireland'; Wellington tries to sleep in a chair and tells him to take the top off. Mezzotint is an unusual medium for caricatures of this period. O'Connor's speech bubble has been re-rocked, obscuring some words.
BM 1868,0808.9549, described as an aquatint with etching.
[Ref: 47427] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A. Wicked Subject. Oh! Just take the top off. I say Welling**n this has been burning a long time shall I snuff it short or snuff it out.
Political Scraps No.1.
Pubd. Novr. 10th 1813 by WH Mason 81, Kings Road Brighton, & Ackermann & Co. Strand, Bogue Fleet Street London.
Mezzotint and engraving. 205 x 274mm (8" x 10¾").
Political Irish Satire of the early 1800s.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 8424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Noddle Bazaar.
Q. & H.B. [John Doyle.]
Published by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket, Sep 9 1830.]
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed to printed border. Very slight nick bottom right margin.
Wellington and Peel peruse various busts of politicians, deciding which ones to buy for the new cabinet for William IV's first government. On the ground lower left is a bust of O'Connell: 'This head wont be sold until it be bought'. John Doyle (1797-1868), worked under the pseudonym 'HB' from 1827, usually issuing one satire a month during parliamentary seasons. Doyle preserved his anonymity as 'H.B.' until 1843, when he revealed himself to Sir Robert Peel in a letter justifying his motives and principles as a cartoonist.
BM Satires: 16264.
[Ref: 51587] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Seven Etchings of Wellington College
by Edward J. Burrow.
W.H. Benyon & Co., Fine Art Publishers to the Queen, Cheltenham. [1895]
List of plates and seven interleaved etchings as called for bound in folio. 390 x 300mm. 15¼ x 12". Discoloration to list of plates, occasional foxing in margins.
Seven plates of Wellington College: 1. The College (from the South) 2. A Corner of the Quadrangle. 3. The Pavilion. 4. A Picturesque Corner. 5. The Ante-Chapel. 6. The "No-Thoroughfare" Gate. 7. The College (from the Lakes). The college was founded in 1859 as a monument to the Duke of Wellington.
[Ref: 15549] £480.00 view all images for this item

The Triumphal Entry of the Duke of Wellington into Madrid. To His Royal Highness the Duke of York this Engraving from a Picture in the Possession of His Majesty [...]
Painted by William Hilton R.A. Engraved by John Bromley
Pub.d by R. Bowyer Pall Mall March 1825.
Mezzotint on india, proof; platemark 390 x 525mm (15¼ x 20¾"), with very large margins. India paper slight lifting.
The liberation of Madrid in 1812 following Wellington's victory at the Battle of Salamanca, one of his finest victories. Fine engraving after a painting by William Hilton (1786-1839), who specialised in dramatic historical, biblical and mythological subjects.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 40378] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo Marques Wellington.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Rare engraved fan design. Sheet: 520 x 270mm (20½ x 10½''). Staining and creasing.
A Spanish fan design with a mounted portrait of the Duke of Wellington. In January 1812 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Viscount Wellington was given the title Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo after his victory at the Seige of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812.
[Ref: 49055] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Funeral Car of the Late Duke of Wellington.
Elliot. Holywell-street, Strand, London.
[n.d. c.1852.]
Woodcut with hand colour. Printed area 240 x 735mm (9½ x 29"). Original folds, creasing.
A popular print of the funeral car of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington. A canopied carriage drawn by twelve black horses, it carried his body through London to St Paul's Cathedral where Wellington was laid next to Lord Nelson.
[Ref: 57586] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Funeral Car of the Duke of Wellington.
J.T. Wood. Holywell Sc.
[n.d. c.1852.]
Engraving. 115 x 152mm. 4½ x 6".
The funeral car of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). It carried his body through London to St Paul's Cathedral where Wellington was laid next to Lord Nelson.
[Ref: 16622] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Wellington Harbour.
C.D. Barraud del. W.D. Blatchley, Lith. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Fine Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22").
A view of Wellington from 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Illustrations by C.W. Barraud.' Charles Decimus Barraud (1822-97) emigrated to New Zealand in 1849, opening a pharmacy in Wellington with such success that he opened branches in other towns.
[Ref: 61016] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Obituary.] The Duke of Wellington. The great Duke has departed...
The Religious Tract Society, Instituted 1799; 56 Paternoster Row, and 164, Piccadilly. [n.d., 1852.]
Letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, 4pp., with black border.
An obituary of Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, concentrating on his military successes and 'the simplicity and temperance of his habits' rather than his political career
[Ref: 39698] £65.00

The Speech of His Grace, Field Marshal, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Marquis Duoro, K.G. K.B. &c. &c. Delivered to the House of Commons, on Friday, July 1, 1814; The Reply of the Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker.
[1814.]
A rare broadside. 'J. Whatman 1813' watermark. Sheet: 535 x 380mm (21 x 15''). Folded.
A broadside detailing the events of July I 1814 when the Duke of Wellington made a speech in the House of Commons thanking them for their support during the war with Napoleon and the Speaker in turn made a speech to Wellington, thanking him for his military service. In April 1814 Napoleon was exiled to Elba bringing an end to the War of the Sixth Coalition, the brief period of Peace was brought to an end on 1st March 1815 when Napoleon landed in Cannes having escaped Elba.
[Ref: 49027] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke's Funeral: A Poem.
By Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart., Late Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford.
London: Clarke, Beeton, & Co., Foreign Booksellers, 148 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1852.
Letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, pp.16, two wood engravings. With ink mss envelope (?) with Doyle's signature pasted at rear. Lacking wrappers, pages mounted in album paper. Old ink ownership inscription on front wrapper.
With an interior of Chelsea Hospital during the lying-in-state, and a view of the funeral procession with the hearse. Doyle (1810-88) was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1867 and caricatured by Spy in 1877.
[Ref: 37182] £160.00 view all images for this item

Funeral Car of the late Duke of Wellington.
Published by J.T. Wood, Holywell S.t.
Rare lithograph. 210 x 540mm, 8¼ x 21¼". Folded as issued, tears at centre fold.
The hearse of Arther Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) on its way to St Paul's Cathedral, drawn by twelve horses. His was the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain.
[Ref: 17912] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ode of the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
By Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate.
London: Edward Moxon, Dovers Street Street, 1852.
Rare letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, pp.16. Wrappers and pages mounted in album paper. Old ink ownership inscription on front wrapper.
Six pages of verse composed by Tennyson two years after he became Poet Laureate and over thirty years before he was ennobled.
[Ref: 37179] £240.00

H.L. Wellington Royal College of Art / 1923 - 19
D. Smith 1929 [pencil signature lower right]
Aquatint with very large margins, very scarce, platemark 200 x 230mm (8 x 9").
Probably a portrait of Hubert L. Wellington (1879-1967), artist and art teacher. Wellington arrived at the Slade to study at the same time as Wyndham Lewis, and was close friends with Camden Town Group members Spencer Gore and Harold Gilman. Wellington's work is in the Tate collection, but it was as a teacher that he made his most important contribution, working as lecturer and registrar from 1923-32 (during which time this print was made), and later becoming principal at Edinburgh College of Art and the Slade. Wellington's DNB entry was written by Sir William Coldstream, whose time at the Slade overlapped with Wellington's.
[Ref: 36385] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

David Wells Esq. F.S.A.
Pub. July 1 1808 by J. Nichols & Son
Etching, watermark 1811; platemark 215 x 200mm (8½ x 8"), with very large margins.
David Wells (1733-1790), antiquary, playing the harpsichord. Published in John Bowyer Nichols' 'History of Hinckley', 1815.
O'D 1 (only engraved likeness listed)
[Ref: 40573] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

David Wells Esq. F.S.A.
Pub. by J.Nichols & Co March 1, 1815.
Etching. Sheet 195 x 215mm (7¾ x 8½"). Crease and trimmed within plate.
A lightly caricatured portrait of David Wells, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, playing a piano or harpsichord. Published by another fellow of SAL, John Nichols (1745–1826), an English printer, author and antiquary. He is remembered as an influential editor of the Gentleman's Magazine for nearly 40 years.
[Ref: 68250] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

H.G. Wells. Supplement to the New Statesman, January 16, 1926. (1)
Low.
Etching. 330 x 228mm.
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction". Wells was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, and his later works became increasingly political and didactic. His middle period novels (1900-1920) were more realistic; they covered lower-middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the 'New Woman' and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica).
[Ref: 12699] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Welsh Costumes. [Marked under each figure:] Cottager. Farmer's Wife. Labourer's Wife. Farmer's Daughter. Markey Boy. Cottager's Daughter.
H. Jones, Del. J.H. Lynch, lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen.
Published by T. Catherall, Eastgate Row, Chester. July 1st. 1851.
Lithograph, sheet 270 x 335mm (10½ x 13").
Traditional Welsh Costume of the 19th century.
[Ref: 61493] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Welsh Costumes. Farmer's Daughters. Farm Servant. Market Woman. Farmer's Wife. [&] Welsh Costumes. The Bidding.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Pair of ink and grey wash sketches on card. Each 100 x 135mm (4 x 5¼"). Laid on album paper.
[Ref: 58226] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Welch Costumes, Taken On A Market Day in Wales.
Rb.t S. Groom & C.o Lith.rs 44, Paternoster Row, London.
Published by Hugh Humphreys, Castle Square, Carnarvon. [n.d. c.1853]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 270 x 355mm (10¾ x 13").
Seven figures wearing Welsh national costumes, an elderly woman on the left leads a piglet on rope to a pond, another woman on the right carrying a cooking pot on her head, others knitting or carrying baskets and umbrella; cottage seen behind. A small man is in the foreground is either a dwarf or a child.
[Ref: 61492] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Welch Peasants.
H. Bunbury Esq.r. Delin.t. J. Baldrey Fecit.
London, Publish'd Aug.st 20th 1788 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Oval stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A pair of rustic women, carrying a tub and a ewer.
[Ref: 42028] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Welsh Peasants.
Painted by R. Westall R.A. Engraved by Ant.y Cardon.
Published Oct.r 1799 by I.B. Smith Engraver in Mezzotinto to his R.H. the Prince of Wales No. 31 King Street Covent Garden London.
Coloured stipple, rare. 387 x 420mm (15¼ x 16½").
A family and goats sitting outside a cottage, a young woman looking and gesturing to left, towards a young man, who walks away, downhill to left, carrying a bundle on a stick over his shoulder and covering his face with his hands, while another woman stands beside the first, looking down and an elderly couple sit behind them, watching, the man with his hand on the woman's knee to console her;
[Ref: 29033] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Riddle] The following inscription was written over the Decalogue in a Welsh church. More than a century elapsed before its meaning was discovered. PRSVRYPRFCTMN, / VRKPTHSPRCPTSTN. By placing one of the vowels between the letters, it will form two lines in rhyme.
[Anon. c.1820]
Letterpress on card, sheet 80 x 125mm (3 x 5"). Glued to album sheet with other ms and printed text.
Riddle, with the answer pasted below: 'Persevere ye perfect men / ever keep these precepts ten', referring to the Ten Commandments.
[Ref: 44495] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Welsh Shepherd.
Ls. S.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce etching. Plate: 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼''), with large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A portrait of a Welsh shepherd and his dog in a landscape.
Ex: Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 51011] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Welsh Springer]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching signed by the artist. 293 x 248mm (11½" x 9¾"). Limited edition: 109/150.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 9683] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Welsh Springer & Partridge.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Etching signed by the artist. 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11¾"). Limited edition: 45/250.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 47915] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Welsh Springers]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching signed by the artist. 235 x 298mm (9¼" x 11¾"). Limited edition 22/250.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 9681] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Welsh Springer Spaniel Puppies] [April - The Raw Material.]
Maud Earl.
Copyright 1906 by Photographische Gesellschaft. Berlin Photographic Company Berlin, London W, 133 New Bond Street; New York, 14 East 23rd Street. Copyright 1906
Photogravure on chine collé, printed in colours. 280 x 420mm (11 x 16½"), with large margins. Spots in image.
A litter of Welsh Springers, one of twelve plates in Maud Earl's ''Sportsman's Year".
[Ref: 56245] £380.00

CWemyss [autograph, ink].
d'Orsay fecit 28 Jany 1845 [artist's signature].
Pencil drawing with red crayon to face, on artist's paper, mounted to album leaf, ink-ruled border. Sheet 265 x 205mm, 10½ x 8". Some foxing lower left.
Possibly a portrait of politician Francis Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss (1818 - 1914)? An original sketch by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
[Ref: 21944] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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