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An Agreeable Group of Young Gentlemen, otherwise old batchelors turn'd asses.
R.d Newton delin.t.
[Published 22nd August 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Etching. Sheet 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, some rubbing.
Five elderly men, mutton dressed as lamb. Richard Newton (1777-98) produced nearly 300 single sheet satires in his short career, starting at fourteen and ending with his premature death at twenty-one.
[Ref: 32958] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
R.d Newton delin.t.
[Published 22nd August 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Etching. Sheet 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, some rubbing.
Five elderly men, mutton dressed as lamb. Richard Newton (1777-98) produced nearly 300 single sheet satires in his short career, starting at fourteen and ending with his premature death at twenty-one.
[Ref: 32958] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Giving up the Ghost or One Too Many.
R Newton del. Rowlandson Scul.
Tho.s Tegg. No. 111 Cheapside [n.d., c.1813].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 250 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼"). Paper toned. Unexamined out of frame. Small margins.
A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, his toes curled, lies on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which Death watches. A fat doctor sleeps, with a paper at is feet reading 'I purge I bleed I sweat em / Then if they Die I Lets em': this is an adaptation of a quote from John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815), a Quaker Doctor, which originally had a last line, ''I, John Lettsome'.
BM Satires 12153.
[Ref: 63530] £360.00
R Newton del. Rowlandson Scul.
Tho.s Tegg. No. 111 Cheapside [n.d., c.1813].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 250 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼"). Paper toned. Unexamined out of frame. Small margins.
A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, his toes curled, lies on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which Death watches. A fat doctor sleeps, with a paper at is feet reading 'I purge I bleed I sweat em / Then if they Die I Lets em': this is an adaptation of a quote from John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815), a Quaker Doctor, which originally had a last line, ''I, John Lettsome'.
BM Satires 12153.
[Ref: 63530] £360.00