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Nelson's Victory; _ or _ Good-news operating upon Loyal-Feelings.
Nelson's Victory; _ or _ Good-news operating upon Loyal-Feelings.
[after James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1798.]
Etching. 175 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed into plate, folded as issued, some soiling.
The reactions of senior members of the Whig Opposition to the news of Nelson's victory at Abukir (the Battle of the Nile), 1798; Burdett, Jekyll, Lansdowne, Bedford, Erskine, Norfolk, Tierney, Sheridan & Fox, who is hanging himself, leaving a note 'Farewell to the Whig Club'. A copy of the Gillray satire published by Hannah Humphrey.
BM Satires 9248a.
[Ref: 54331]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Count Roupee. - Vide. Hyde Park.
Count Roupee. - Vide. Hyde Park.
[James Gillray]
Pub.d June 5.th 1797. by H. Humphrey 27. S.t James's Street
Very rare hand-coloured etching, sheet 385 x 540mm (15¼ x 21"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing card.
Caricature of Paul Benfield (1741-1810), of the East India Company, who made a fortune in India as a trader, banker, and contractor, and was notorous through Burke's (published) speech on the debts of the Nabob of Arcot oppresser. He lost his fortune establishing a mercantile firm in London, called Boyd, Benfield, & Co which engaged in speculations which turned out badly, and Benfield's fortune collapsed rapidly. He died in Paris in poverty. A small dark-complexioned man wearing spectacles rides a galloping horse through Hyde Park. There is a background of grass and trees, and in the distance a building with a pediment, evidently the new Knightsbridge Barracks.
BM Satires 9066. For one with slightly different colouring check out Yale University Library.
[Ref: 61958]   £780.00  
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The Surrender of Ulm _ or. _ Buonparte & Gen.l Mack coming to a right Understanding,
The Surrender of Ulm _ or. _ Buonparte & Gen.l Mack coming to a right Understanding, _ intended as a specimen of French Victories _ i.e _ Conquoring without Bloodshed.!!!
J.s Gillray inv & f-
Publishd Nov.r 6th 1805. by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Str.
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), very large margins.
Austrian General Karl Mack von Leiberich grovels before a tiny Napoleon, offering his sword and the keys to the city of Ulm. Mack eyes three French Grenadiers who each hold a large sack inscribed '20 Million Livres'. At the Battle of Ulm (16-19th October 1805) Napoleon surrounded Mack's entire army at Ulm: Mack surrendered with 25,000 men, 18 generals, 65 guns and 40 standards. He was later court-martialed for cowardice, but Gillray suggests here that he was bribed.
BM Satires 10437, with extensive description.
[Ref: 60962]   £780.00  
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The Bulstrode Siren.
The Bulstrode Siren. Blest as th'immortal Gods is he / The youth who fondly sists by thee, / And sees and hears thee all the while / Softly Sing and sweetly smile.
J. Gillray del.t. 1803.
London, Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured engraving. 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½").
Caricature of William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck (1738-1809), 3rd Duke of Portland and Elizabeth Billington (1768-1818), a famed opera singer whom he paid to sing for him at his estate at Bulstode. A copy of Gilray's original caricature, as published by Humphrey.
BM: 10168.
[Ref: 42447]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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[Francis Burdett] French Habits No. 12.
[Francis Burdett] French Habits No. 12. Messager d'Etat.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins. Slight stain bottom right.
Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), 5th Baronet, in the dress of the French Republican state messenger, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He was a supporter of the Radicals and opponent of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9213.
[Ref: 59154]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Lady Godina's Rout -or Peeping Tom spying out Pope Joan.
Lady Godina's Rout -or Peeping Tom spying out Pope Joan. Vide Fashionable Modesty.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] d: et f:
Pub.d March 12th. 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street [but c.1830].
Hand coloured etching, 260 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins.
A fashionable gathering around card tables where 'Pope Joan' is being played. A man uses a candle-snuffer as an excuse to lean over a woman (identified as Georgiana Gordon, Duchess of Bedford) and ogle her décolletage. Most of the women have elaborate feather headresses.
BM Satires 8899.
[Ref: 60484]   £450.00  
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Posting in Ireland.  [&] Posting in Scotland.
Posting in Ireland. [&] Posting in Scotland.
C. Loraine Smith Esq.r _ pinxt. [but James Gillray.]
Publish'd April 8th 1805 [& May 25th] by H. Humphrey St. James's Street.
Pair of coloured etchings. Sheets 315 x 405mm (12¼ x 16") & 320 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plates, mounted in album paper.
A pair of very fine coaching scenes by James Gillray satirising Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835), the famous sporting artist.
BM: 10478 & 10479.
[Ref: 51674]   £920.00   view all images for this item
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Posting in Ireland.
Posting in Ireland. Forward immediately your Honour; But sure a'nt I waiting for the Girl with the Poker just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, 'tis just to make her start your Honour.
C. Loraine Smith Esq.r _ pinxt. [but James Gillray.]
Publish'd April 8th 1805 by H. Humphrey St. James's Street.
Fine coloured etching, pt. Turkey Mill watermark Sheet 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 16"). Trimmed close to printed border, tear lower right, very small hole lower left.
A scene by James Gillray satirising the coaching prints of Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835). A dilapidated post-chaise with a thatched roof stands outside a ramshackle inn. The emaciated horses refuse to move despite being whipped. A boy raises a pitchfork to strike the beasts and a bare-footed woman approaches with a huge red-hot poker.
BM: 10478.
[Ref: 61778]   £720.00  
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Posting in Scotland.
Posting in Scotland. Hald your Haund Mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun: e'n gin you na mind yoursel, youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels.
C. Loraine Smith Esq.r _ pinxt. [but James Gillray.]
Publish'd May 25th by H. Humphrey St. James's Street.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 320 x 395mm (12½ x 15½"). Trimmed close to printed border, two tears taped top left corner and centre bottom.
A scene by James Gillray satirising the coaching prints of Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835). A post-chaise breaks apart as it descends a mountain road onto a bare moor. All four kilted Scotsmen are bare-footed and show their bare posteriors.
BM Satires 10479.
[Ref: 61777]   £650.00  
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A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe.
A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe. Vednesday was a veek, my Vife & I vent to Vest-Vycombe, vhether it vas the Vind, or vhether it vas the Veather, - or Vat it vas! - ve vhip'd & vhip'd - & vhip'd! - & could not get off a Valk!
[James Gillray]
Published June 10th 1805 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching with aquatint. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1808 W Balston'. Colour slightly faded, stain in top margin.
A smartly dress couple in a gig drawn by a horse so emaciated and decrepit that it attracts carrion crows.
BM Satires 10471
[Ref: 56152]   £480.00  
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Comfort to the Corns.
Comfort to the Corns.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 6th 1800. by H. Humphrey. 27, St James's Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to printed border.
A grotesque old woman sitting in a gothic chair before the fire with her cat, slicing her corns on her feet with a large knife.
BMM Satires 9585.
[Ref: 61764]   £380.00  
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Councillor Ego. _ i:e: little i, myself i.
Councillor Ego. _ i:e: little i, myself i.
J.s Gillray d & f.
Published Oct.r 1st 1798. by J.Wright, No. 169 Piccadilly London.
Engraving. 190 x 220mm.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, (1750-1823), Lord Chancellor, known for his egotism.
[Ref: 6856]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[John Courtnay] French Habits No. 9.
[John Courtnay] French Habits No. 9. Juge du Tribunal Correctionel.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
John Courtnay (1736-1816), then MP for Appleby, in the dress of the French Republican Tribunal Correctionnel, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He opposed Pitt's suspension of habeas corpus. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9210.
[Ref: 59150]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Cymon & Iphigenia.
Cymon & Iphigenia.
J.s G.y des. T. Adams sculp.t. [drawn and engraved by Gillray].
Pub,d May 2.d 1796 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"), watermarked 'E & P 1806', very large margins. Slight stain near man's head.
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep, with a hideous yokel finding a fat black country-woman leaning back against a sandy bank. He drops his stick and gapes with delighted surprise.
BM Satires 8908.
[Ref: 56159]   £480.00  
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Cymon & Iphigenia.
Cymon & Iphigenia.
J.s G.y des. T. Adams sculp.t. [drawn and engraved by James Gillray].
[Pub,d May 2.d 1796 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.]
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 375mm (9½ x 14¾"). Trimmed to printed border, losing publication line.
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep, with a hideous yokel finding a fat black country-woman leaning back against a sandy bank. He drops his stick and gapes with delighted surprise.
BM Satires 8908.
[Ref: 61734]   £520.00  
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A Decent Story.
A Decent Story.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1795, by H. Humphrey, No 37, New Bond Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾") Trimmed within printed border at top, to border elsewhere.
Five people sit around a table drinking port, a raconteur holding forth. Hannah Humphrey (second right, with distinctive chin) and a parson listen with smiles, although an officer is more interested in the woman at the other end of the table. Although the British Museum describes this print as being 'From a sketch by an amateur', it is likely to be by Gillray, who lived with Hannah Humphrey for many years. This and 'Two-penny Whist' (1796) are intimate scenes of their domestic arrangements: both prints are visible in the Humprey shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside Gillray's more famous prints, suggesting a sentimental importance.
BM Satires 8753.
[Ref: 61788]   £480.00  
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A Decent Story.
A Decent Story.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1795, by H. Humphrey, No 37, New Bond Street.
Hand coloured etching, printed border 225 x 295mm (9 x 11½"). Laid on card; lacking margin outside the plate mark at sides.
Five people sit around a table drinking port, a raconteur holding forth. Hannah Humphrey (second right, with distinctive chin) and a parson listen with smiles, although an officer is more interested in the woman at the other end of the table. Although the British Museum describes this print as being 'From a sketch by an amateur', it is likely to be by Gillray, who lived with Hannah Humphrey for many years. This and 'Two-penny Whist' (1796) are intimate scenes of their domestic arrangements: both prints are visible in the Humprey shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside Gillray's more famous prints, suggesting a sentimental importance.
BM Satires 8753.
[Ref: 23165]   £450.00  
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A Decent Story.
A Decent Story.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1795, by H. Humphrey No 37, New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate, tear in top edge.
Five people sit around a table drinking port, a raconteur holding forth. Hannah Humphrey (second right, with distinctive chin) and a parson listen with smiles, although an officer is more interested in the woman at the other end of the table. Although the British Museum describes this print as being 'From a sketch by an amateur', it is likely to be by Gillray, who lived with Hannah Humphrey for many years. This and 'Two-penny Whist' (1796) are intimate scenes of their domestic arrangements: both prints are visible in the Humprey shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside Gillray's more famous prints, suggesting a sentimental importance.
BM Satires 8753.
[Ref: 33095]   £320.00  
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[William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry] Push-Pin.
[William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry] Push-Pin.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] inc. & fec.t ad vivam.
Pub.d April 17th 1797. by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 310mm (9½ x 12¼"). Trimmed into printed border, small hole in border bottom left.
Three people play push-pin: the Duke of Queensberry is push the pin, while leering over his double lorgnette at a very corpulent woman opposite. The chairs are decorated with ormolu and Queensberry's crest. William Douglas (1724-1810) was a rich landowner and high-stakes gambler. The fat woman is identified by Wright and Evans as Mother Windsor, the bawd.
BM Satires 9082.
[Ref: 61798]   £450.00  
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[Thomas Erskine] French Habits. No 7.
[Thomas Erskine] French Habits. No 7. L'Avocat de la Republique.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d May 21.st 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight staining bottom left.
Barrister Thomas Erskine in the robes of a Republican lawyer, sheaf of paper in hand, declaiming. Erskine had successfully defended a number of Radicals against charges of treason brought by Pitt's government. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9208.
[Ref: 59148]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Fast-Asleep.
Fast-Asleep.
[James Gillray.]
London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1806 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Hand-coloured etching. In ink verso "Leighton"; Sheet: 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed, surface dirt and marking. Creases.
A comic scene showing a man fast asleep in his chair, his wig falling to the ground.
[Ref: 42714]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Fast-Asleep. [&] Wide-Awake.
Fast-Asleep. [&] Wide-Awake.
[by James Gillray].
London Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1806 by H. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street.
Pair of coloured etchings. Sheets 245 x 210mm (9¾ x 8¼") & 240 x 210mm (9½ x 8¼"), 'awake' on Whatman paper dated 1811. 'Asleep' trimmed close to printed border; 'Awake' trimmed close to printed border on three sides, into border at bottom.
Two plates: in the first a corpulant man sleeps in a dining chair, his wig falling off his head; in the second a man seated in an armchair by the fair is woken by two cats hissing at each other.
BM Satires 10644 & 10655.
[Ref: 61774]   £490.00   view all images for this item
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[Mrs Fitzherbert & Mary Seymour] The Guardian-Angel.
[Mrs Fitzherbert & Mary Seymour] The Guardian-Angel. the hint taken from the Red.d M.r Peter's sublime Idea of ''an Angel conducting the Soul of a Child to Heaven.''
J.S Gillray inv. & f.t.
Pub.d April 22.d 1805. by H. Humphrey, S.t James's Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate.
Mrs. Fitzherbert as a stout angel, carrying Mary (Minney) Seymour, daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, from Brighton towards a burlesqued altar, surrounded with cherub's heads with the faces of politicians, including Sheridan, Norfolk, Fox, Burdett, and Derby. A satire on a legal struggle (not decided till 14 June 1806) between Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Seymour family for the guardianship of Mary (Minney) Seymour, daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, who had died in 1801. It has been suggested that Mary, born in 1798, was the daughter of Mrs Fitzerbert and George IV. She was one of the two principal beneficiaries in Mrs Fitzherbert's will.
BM Satires 10389.
[Ref: 61782]   £950.00  
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[Charles James Fox] Habits of New French Legislators, and other Public Functionaries, No 1.
[Charles James Fox] Habits of New French Legislators, and other Public Functionaries, No 1. Le Ministre d'Etat, en Grand Costume.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins.
Charles James Fox in the costume of a Revolutionary Minister of State, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He stands with hands on hips on a Royal Crest, legs astride, wearing a looped hat with large ostrich feathers, long loose coat with a lace collar and long revers over a tunic with a sash which defines his vast paunch. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9196.
[Ref: 59139]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers.
[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers. ''Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves''.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d April 16th 1783 by W. Humphrey, N.o 226, Strand.
Etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 235 x 315mm (9¼ x 12½"). Trimmed to image on three sides.
A scruffily-dressed Charles James Fox, with a fox's head and brush, holds open a sack marked 'For Private Use' for Frederick North to shovel guineas into. Empty sacks hang on a wall under a scroll reading 'For the Use of the Publick'. In April North returned to power as Home Secretary in an unlikely coalition with Fox, the radical Whig leader, only lasting to December. 'Cole' was slang for gold or money.
BM Satires 6213.
[Ref: 61043]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers.
[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers. ''Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves''.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d April 16th 1783 by W. Humphrey, N.o 226, Strand.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13"). Trimmed within plate.
A scruffily-dressed Charles James Fox, with a fox's head and brush, holds open a sack marked 'For Private Use' for Frederick North to shovel guineas into. Empty sacks hang on a wall under a scroll reading 'For the Use of the Publick'. In April North returned to power as Home Secretary in an unlikely coalition with Fox, the radical Whig leader, only lasting to December. 'Cole' was slang for gold or money.
BM Satires 6213.
[Ref: 60795]   £680.00  
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French Volunteers on a march to Invade Great Britain!!
French Volunteers on a march to Invade Great Britain!!
[after James Gillray.]
[London: Thomas Tegg, n.d., c.1803.]
Coloured etching, J. Whatman watermark. Sheet 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Loss of outer margin top right. Crease across top area.
A French officer, sitting upon a horse, drags a procession of chained conscripts or 'volunteers'. All the figures are ragged and miserable, though one is able to take snuff. A commentry on french conscription following the breakdown of the Treaty of Amiens and England's declaration of war on France in 1803. A slightly-adapted copy of Gillray's ''French Volunteers, marching to the Conquest of Great Britain'', 1803.
BM Satire 10117a.
[Ref: 61827]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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The York-Minuet.
The York-Minuet.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Dec.r 14th 1791. by H. Humphrey No 18 Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 225 x 280mm (9 x 11") very large margins Crease in top left corner, stains.
George, Prince of Wales, dances with Frederica, Duchess of York, who shows not only her famously small feet but also an immodest amount of leg.
BM Satires 7933.
[Ref: 54603]   £520.00  
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[George, Prince of Wales] The Grand-Signior retiring.
[George, Prince of Wales] The Grand-Signior retiring.
J.s G.y d. et f. [James Gillray]
Pub.d May 25th. 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Small margins. Stitch holes in left edge, a few spots.
A fat and pompous Prince of Wales leaves his bedroom and walks towards that of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey. Her husband, George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, dressed in his nightclothes, lights the way with a candle and raises his night-cap deferentially, although George brushes him off. A torn map of the back of a door is titled 'A Map of the Road into the Harbour of Jersey'. Lady Jersey, a 40-year-old mother of ten and grandmother, replaced Maria Fitzherbert as George's principal mistress in 1794.
BM Satires 8807.
[Ref: 54604]   £680.00  
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The Jersey Smuggler detected; - or - Good cause for Discontent [Seperation]. _
The Jersey Smuggler detected; - or - Good cause for Discontent [Seperation]. _ ''Marriage vows, are false as Dicers oaths.''
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d May 24th 1796 by H. Humphrey N 18. New Bond St.
Coloured etching. 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Small margins. A few spots.
Caroline of Brunswick discovers the Prince of Wales in bed with Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey. She gestures through a door to a crib with Princess Charlotte asleep. Above the Princess's head hangs a 'Map of the Road back to Brunswick'. Jersey's part in the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales was well known, gaining sympathy of Caroline and distain for Jersey. The quote is from Hamlet.
BM Satires 8806.
[Ref: 54606]   £680.00  
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Un Diplomatique, settling affairs at Stevens's.
Un Diplomatique, settling affairs at Stevens's. Comte Haslang [ms in lower margin]
Pubd June 9th 1797 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Square.
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 340 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; slight crease.
Count Haslang sits in Stevens's, the fashionable Bond Street coffee-house, holding a wine-glass as if gesticulating in response to some person (not pictured) at whom he looks sourly. Haslang, Bavarian envoy to London, had long the subject of ridicule for both his love affairs and lack of money.
BM Satires 9067.
[Ref: 50337]   £480.00  
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[Charming - well again.]
[Charming - well again.]
[After James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Staining.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. After a scene from James Gillray's series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires.
After BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 49946]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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Taking Physick.
Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J. Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 61791]   £360.00  
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Taking Physick.
Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to printed border, long tear taped. Damaged.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 59505]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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Gentle Emetic.
Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 61792]   £320.00  
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Gentle Emetic.
Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear taped top left.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 59502]   £380.00  
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Breathing a vein.
Breathing a vein.
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 61790]   £360.00  
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Breathing a vein.
Breathing a vein.
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 59503]   £380.00  
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Charming - well again.
Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 61793]   £320.00  
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Charming - well again.
Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jany. 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½").
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 59504]   £380.00  
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M.r James Gillray.
M.r James Gillray.
From a miniature painted by himself & Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
London, Published april 19 1819 by G.Humphrey, 27 S.t James's Street.
Mezzotint. Plate: 300 x 395mm (12 x 15½") very large margins. Some creasing and marking.
A portrait of caricaturist and printmaker James Gillray (1757-1815).
[Ref: 42599]   £360.00  
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[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 23.d 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"). Slight central crease. Trimmed to plate top and left, laid on album paper.
A caricature of George Hanger riding a pony past the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', in Grosvenor Street, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. Hanger (1751-1824) had served with Banastre Tarleton's Legion as a major during the American Revolutionary War, commanding it at the defeat at the Battle of Charlotte of 1780, in which he was wounded. Returning to England he became a friend of the Prince of Wales and Charles James Fox, becoming known as an eccentric. In 1814 he inherited the barony of Coleraine from his brother but declined to assume the title. In his autobiography ('The life, adventures and opinions of Col. George Hanger', 1801) he predicted that one day the northern and southern states of America ''will fight as vigorously against each other as they both have united to do against the British''.
BM Satires: 8889.
[Ref: 58356]   £450.00   (£540.00 incl.VAT)
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[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[James Gillray.]
[Pub.d Nov.r 23.d 1796, by H. Humphrey] New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"). Trimmed close to plate on three sides, around title at bottom, losing part of publication line.
A caricature of George Hanger riding a pony past the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', in Grosvenor Street, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. Hanger (1751-1824) had served with Banastre Tarleton's Legion as a major during the American Revolutionary War, commanding it at the defeat at the Battle of Charlotte of 1780, in which he was wounded. Returning to England he became a friend of the Prince of Wales and Charles James Fox, becoming known as an eccentric. In 1814 he inherited the barony of Coleraine from his brother but declined to assume the title. In his autobiography ('The life, adventures and opinions of Col. George Hanger', 1801) he predicted that one day the northern and southern states of America ''will fight as vigorously against each other as they both have united to do against the British''.
BM Satires: 8889. See Ref: 58356.
[Ref: 61760]   £480.00  
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[Warren Hastings] Market Day.
[Warren Hastings] Market Day. ''Every Man has his Price''. Sir R.t Walpole. Sic itur ad astra.
[by James Gillray.]
Pubd May 2.d 1788. by S. W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly.
Scarce etching, Sheet 320 x 445mm (12½ x 17½"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, three small tears taped.
A satire of the House of Lords as cattle at Smithfield Market, the majority wanting to follow Warren Hastings, who is dressed as a butcher but wearing a turban, riding a nag (the horse of Hanover) and carrying off a calf with the head of George III, its forelegs tied together. Pitt and Dundas sit on a balcony unconcerned, drinking and smoking; Fox, Burke, and Sheridan, dressed as watchmen, topple off a watchman's box on which they have climbed to evade the cattle. At the front stands Edward Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, a fervent Hastings supporter. The suggestion is that the Lords were supporting Hastings in his impeachment trial for financial gain.
BM Satires 7310; Clayton 'Gillray', p56-7.
[Ref: 61038]   £480.00  
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[Albina Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire.] Enter Cowslip, with a bowl of Cream.
[Albina Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire.] Enter Cowslip, with a bowl of Cream. _ Vide Brandenburg Theatricals.
J.s G.y des.n et fec.t.
Pub.d June 13th 1795 by H. Humphrey No 37 New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. Stuck on verso in ink, a description of an oak tree from Bassaleg Monmouth, 10' in width and 470' high, cut down 1810; Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"). Trimmed to printed border. Some toning.
A caricature of Albina Hobart (c.1737-1816., Countess of Buckinghamshire, almost spherical, holding a bowl. Albinia was famed for her society parties at Hobart House in Ham, which involved illegal high stake gambling on the faro card game. She also performed at the private theatre of the Margravine of Anspach at Brandenburg House, Hammersmith. Her size, lifestyle and love of extravagant fashion aimed at her daughters' generation made her a target for caricatures: over 50 satirical prints of her were made. A rare Gillray image.
BM Satires 8721. From the Collection of Miss Harriet Robinson.
[Ref: 58405]   £420.00  
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[John Horne Tooke] French Habits. No 5.
[John Horne Tooke] French Habits. No 5. Président d'Administration Municipale.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
John Horne Tooke wearing a black suit with a sash, his round hat with small tricolour scarf and tricolour feather on the table beside him. One of a set of twelve. Originally this was a satire of Richard Brinsley Sheridan but after being on sale for only two days, Gillray re-engraved the plate to show Horne Tooke after George Canning intervened.
BM Satires 9200.
[Ref: 59145]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Political Amusements for Young Gentlemen; - or, -The Old Brentford Shuttlecock, between Old-Sarum, & the Temple of St. Steevens.
Political Amusements for Young Gentlemen; - or, -The Old Brentford Shuttlecock, between Old-Sarum, & the Temple of St. Steevens. No. III.
[after James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1805.]
Coloured etching. 180 x 225mm (7 x 8¾.), large margins. Original binding folds.
Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head of John Horne Tooke. A reduced copy of James Gillray's satire on Horne Tooke's return to parliament after a by-election for the pocket borough of Old Sarum, at which Temple tried to exclude him on the grounds that he had taken orders in the Church of England.
See BM Satires 9716 for Gillray's original.
[Ref: 61006]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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"Two Pair of Portraits;"_presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain," by John Horne Tooke.
Js. Gillray, invt. & fect.
Publishd December 1s.1798.by J.Wright Piccadilly for y.e Anti Jacobin Review.
Rare extract. 4pp. letterpress with folded etching. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½").
John Horne Tooke sits at an easel, on which are portraits of Fox and Pitt. Sitting on the floor are portraits of Lord Holland and Chatham. Horne Tooke asks "Which two of them will you chuse to hang up in your Cabinets; the Pitts, or the Foxes?''. On the wall is a bust of Machiavelli. The text is a transcript of Horne Tooke's pamphlet with the same title.
BM Satires: 9270.
[Ref: 60225]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk; William Petty, Marquess of Lansdowne; Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton] French Habits. No 2.
[Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk; William Petty, Marquess of Lansdowne; Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton] French Habits. No 2. Les Membres du Conseil des Anciens.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins.
Lansdowne, Norfolk and Grafton stand together wearing the dress of the Conseil des Anciens, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). They stand, wearing robes, caps and cloaks, talking conspiritorially. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9197.
[Ref: 59140]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Two-Penny Whist.
Two-Penny Whist.
J. Gillray ad viv.m fec.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 11th 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"). Trimmed to printed border.
A game at whist at a round card-table at Hannah Humphrey's house in New Bond Street, shortly before the move to St James's Street. The servant 'Betty' is holding out the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick, a triumphant grin on her face. the bespectacled Hannah Humprhrey sits to her left; then a man identified as either Mortimer, picture-dealer and restorer or Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert); and finally Tholdal, a German. An intimate scene of the domestic arrangements of Gillray & Humphrey, who lived together for many years. A reversed version is visible in her shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808.
BM Satires 8885.
[Ref: 61789]   £480.00  
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