Grosvenor Prints

"Wholemeal Bread" (D.r T.R. Allinson) "Vanity Fair" Supplement. Men of The Day. No. 1299.
Ray. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
[4th October 1911]
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 250mm (15¼ x 10"), large margins. Paper toned.
Full length caricature portrait of Thomas Richard Allinson (1858-1918) English physician, dietetic reformer, businessman, journalist and vegetarianism activist. He was a proponent of wholemeal bread consumption. His name is still used today for a bread popular in Europe, Allinson bread.
[Ref: 63671] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Alsatian [pencil]
H.Rayner.
[n.d., c.1939]
Drypoint etching, signed in pencil. 180 x 140mm.
Limited to 15 impressions, 'Exhibited London 1939' [pencil] Rayner (1902-1957) worked in the Antipodes before studying at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Sickert.
[Ref: 4784] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Alton Towers.
From Nature and on Stone by S. Rayner, Derby.
Published by R. Moseley. [n.d., c.1830.]
Rare proof lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 280mm (9 x 11").
A view of Alton Towers, the former Staffordshire seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury. Charles Talbot started redeveloping his hunting lodge as a gothic style stately home and over the next twenty years or so the building was developed and eventually renamed Alton Towers. In 1839 the grounds and house were opened to the public at certain times of the year.
[Ref: 47375] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Annesley Hall. Grande Salle, d'Annesley. The Residence of Miss Chaworth. La Residence de Miss Chaworth.
S. Rayner, Derby, Delt. et Lithog.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 190 x 145mm (7½ x 5¾"). Trimmed.
A view of Chaworth Hall in Nottinghamshire, the childhood home of Mary Chaworth the object of Lord Byron's unrequited affection during his childhood who became the subject of many of his poems. Chaworth was two years older than Byron and though they spent much time together she never returned his feelings.
[Ref: 42488] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Combat de Navarin. T.3. Page. 12.
L. Garneray del. Pardinel sculp.
Paris; Imp. Chardon Jne & fils; r Bacine, 3. [n.d. c.1837.]
Engraving. 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11". Some creasing along upper and lower edge.
The Battle of Navarino (20 October 1827) was a naval battle during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay in the Ionian Sea. A combined force of Ottoman and Egyptian power engaged in battle with a combined British, French and Russian naval force that saw the Ottoman and Egyptian armada destroyed. It was notable for being the last major naval battle in history to be fought entirely with sailing ships.
[Ref: 25703] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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)

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.
[Ref: 61958] £780.00

A Billiard Match - [Set Four] 'Left, Kissing, The Canon, Snookered'.
L. Thackeray.
Copyright 1902 By Landemer & Brown, London England.
Chromolithograph, 416 x 303mm. Unfaded impressions, full paper size, laid on old boards.
[Ref: 6109] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

Napoléon 1er Empereur des Français, Roi d'Italie.
Dessine a Berlin. Grave par F.P.Simon a Paris. [After Jean François Garneray.]
1807.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 245 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of Napoléon I as Emperor.
[Ref: 64275] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Ville et du Pont de Bordeaux Prise du quai de la Bastide.
L. Garneray Pinx et Sculps.
Paris chez Bassett, rue St Jacques No 64. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint. Sheet 390 x 490mm (15¼ x 19¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A very fine view of Bordeaux by Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857), with the new Pont de Pierre, built 1819-22. The bridge was designed for Napoleon but built until five years after his fall; however it retained the 17 arches (the number of letters in the name 'Napoléon Bonaparte') and the white medallions in honour of the emperor above each pillar.
[Ref: 48284] £480.00

[Brewing] The Triumph of Quassia.
[after James Gillray]
[n.d. c.1806]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 170 x 220mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet. Folds as issued.
A satire on the new tax on private brewers which was unpopular because it gave a monopoly to the larger public brewers, who were suspected of substituting hops for the cheap bark of quassia, a bitter-tasting tropical plant. In a parody of a Bacchic procession, the brewers carry a barrel on which rides a Bacchus-like black figure. In one hand he holds a scroll that reads "Kill-Devil forever" and in the other a tankard of beer, from which ailments radiate 'apoplexy, palsy, consumption, debility, colic, stupor, dropsy, scurvy, dysentery, haemorrhoid, hydrophobie, idiotism.' The depiction of Bacchus, the classical god of winemaking, fertility and religious ecstasy, as a black figure is based on pseudoscientific notions of the physical and moral inferiority of black Africans. In England at the time, it was widely believed that black people were subject to unbridled sensuality and impulses, and this belief was used to justify their slavery. The group is preceded on horseback by the three leading ministers of the time, pockets full of gold, who formed a coalition known as the Ministry of Talent. From left to right they are: Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister; and Charles Fox, then Foreign Secretary. A reduced version of the print made by James Gillray and published by Hannah Humphrey.
See BM Satires 10574.
[Ref: 62891] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Brewing] The Triumph of Quassia.
J.s Gillray, des.t. & f.t.
Pub.d June 10.th 1806, by H. Humphrey, S.t James's Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½").
A satire on the new tax on private brewers which was unpopular because it gave a monopoly to the larger public brewers, who were suspected of substituting hops for the cheap bark of quassia, a bitter-tasting tropical plant. In a parody of a Bacchic procession, the brewers carry a barrel on which rides a Bacchus-like black figure. In one hand he holds a scroll that reads "Kill-Devil forever" and in the other a tankard of beer, from which ailments radiate 'apoplexy, palsy, consumption, debility, colic, stupor, dropsy, scurvy, dysentery, haemorrhoid, hydrophobie, idiotism.' The depiction of Bacchus, the classical god of winemaking, fertility and religious ecstasy, as a black figure is based on pseudoscientific notions of the physical and moral inferiority of black Africans. In England at the time, it was widely believed that black people were subject to unbridled sensuality and impulses, and this belief was used to justify their slavery. The group is preceded on horseback by the three leading ministers of the time, pockets full of gold, who formed a coalition known as the Ministry of Talent. From left to right they are: Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister; and Charles Fox, then Foreign Secretary.
BM Satires 10574.
[Ref: 63378] £480.00

'Bridge'. 1."May I Play To Hearts?"[&] 2."I Double Hearts." [&] 3."Chicane."
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature].
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Three of four chromolithographs. Sheets 510 x 630mm (20 x 24¾.
Three of a set of four plates illustrating a game of bridge, with a young couple, clergyman and retired army officer around the table. This issue was a printed black border around the image with vignettes of the cards in each player's hand and the titles in white. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
See Ref: 7836 for a complete signed set.
[Ref: 59231] £650.00 view all images for this item

'Bridge'. 1."May I Play To Hearts?"[&] 2."I Double Hearts." [&] 3."Chicane." [&] 4."Ruffing A Black Suit"
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature in plate & signed in pencil lower left.]
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Set of four chromolithographs on india laid paper, with vignettes of playing cards in the margin and etched remarques lower left. Images 291 x 410mm, sheets 475 x 608mm. Unfaded impressions, full sheets, with occasional spotting, on board.
A fine example of one of the most highly regarded sets of bridge prints. A young couple, clergyman and retired army officer are around the table, and, with the exception of the last, these same characters feature in a charming sub-narrative in the remarques. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
[Ref: 7836] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

Buckingham Palace [pencil, lower left.]
JHWiley [signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.d., c.1910.]
Soft ground etching, 155 x 205mm. 6 x 8". Some mount staining.
Buckingham Palace, with a guardsman and figures in the foreground.
[Ref: 10689] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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)

[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.
Coloured etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802', very large margins.
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: 64705] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[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)

[Edmund Burke.] The Chancellor of the Inquisition marking the Incorrigibles.
J.s G.y des.n et fec.t pro bono publico.
Pubd March 19th 1793, by H. Humphrey N 18, Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), Whatman watermark.
Edmund Burke at the door of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern, wearing a skull-cap and long legal robe with a bag like that of the Great Seal, but with a skull at each corner. He writes ''Beware of N_rf_k!'' on his 'Black List' (Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk). A satire on the split in the Whig party on pro- and anti-revolutionary lines. The 'anti' 'Association for preserving Liberty and Property' was known as the Crown and Anchor Society because its head-quarters were in that building.
BM Satires 8316.
[Ref: 63374] £420.00

[Edmund Burke.] The Chancellor of the Inquisition marking the Incorrigibles.
J.s G.y des.n et fec.t pro bono publico.
Pubd March 19th 1793, by H. Humphrey N 18, Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins.
Edmund Burke at the door of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern, wearing a skull-cap and long legal robe with a bag like that of the Great Seal, but with a skull at each corner. He writes ''Beware of N_rf_k!'' on his 'Black List' (Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk). A satire on the split in the Whig party on pro- and anti-revolutionary lines. The 'anti' 'Association for preserving Liberty and Property' was known as the Crown and Anchor Society because its head-quarters were in that building.
BM Satires 8316.
[Ref: 63373] £420.00

Cheetah [pencil]
H. Rayner. Henry Rayner [pencil signature].
1940 [pencil].
Drypoint etching, titled and signed by the artist. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½") Small margins.
A reclining cheetah by Australian artist Henry Rayner (1902-1957).
[Ref: 64048] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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

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

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

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

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

Vue de Calvi prise à l'est de la baye.
L. Garneray pinx.t et sculp.t.
Déposé à la Direction. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand-finished, rare with large margins. 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½").
A view of the town and citadel of Calvi, Corsica.
Property of Nigel C. Talbot
[Ref: 32042] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[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)

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

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

William Dampier.
[n.d. c.1785].
Engraving. Sheet: 130 x 215mm (5¼ x 8½"). Large messy margins.
William Dampier (1651 - 1715), circumnavigator and hydrographer. He aimed 'to see all countries and observe the works of nature' but although he was an excellent hydrographer and scientist, he was a poor sea captain and several later expeditions failed. This engraving for an 18th century magazine taken from the painting of c.1698 by Thomas Murray.
[Ref: 40060] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Fontenelle.
Peint pas Garnerey. Gravé par P.M. Alix.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Colour-printed French mezzotint. Sheet: 310 x 230mm (12 x 9''). Trimmed.
A portrait of French writer Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) who contributed to the Age of Enlightenment in France.
[Ref: 48905] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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

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

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

[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

[Robert Eglesfield] Proepositio & Scholaribus Coll: Reg: Oxon: hanc Roberti Eglesfeld Pientissimi Fundatoris Effigiem.
T. Murray pinx D.D.J. Faber
Sold by J. Faber at ye Golden head ye South Side of Bloomsbury Square [c.1720]
Mezzotint, rare, sheet 415 x 260mm (16¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Robert Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), founder of Queen's College, Oxford. The hall was founded in 1341, on a site purchased by Eglesfield from his own funds. Queen Philippa (whose chaplain Eglesfield was) was closely associated with the foundation.
[Ref: 44072] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon in Egypt] ''Praetor-Urbanus:'' _ Inauguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune.
Etched by J.s Gillray, from the Original Intercepted Drawing.
Pub.d March 12.th 1799 by H. Humphrey, 27. S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"), with large margins. A few small spots, catalogue description pasted on reverse.
A Coptic Egyptian wearing a French military uniform, with breeches and plumed hat, his naked belly protruding from his coat, sits on an ass being led by another Copt, naked except for French hat and tricolour sash. At the back of the procession a French soldier goads the ass with his bayonet. A satire of Napoleon's introduction of a new civil authority in Egypt after his ciobquest of the country. Being Christian, the Copts were outsiders in their own country.
BM Satires 9358.
[Ref: 63377] £550.00

[Elizabeth Farren & the Earl of Derby] The Marriage of Cupid & Psyche.
J.s Gillray fec.t from y.e Antique.
Pub.d May 3d 1797 by H. Humphrey, 27 S.t. James's Street [but much later].
Etching with engraving. Plate 133 x 178mm. (5¼ x 7"), large margins.
A satire on the marriage of actress Elizabeth Farren (1759-1829) to Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, by whom she had a son and two daughters. A pastiche of the Marlborough Gem, it shows three cherubs escorting the couple, the tall actress towering over a balding, obese cherubic earl, whose coronet is held over his head by one of the attendents.
BM Satires 9076.
[Ref: 63383] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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

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)

[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

[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

[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)

[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)

[Charles James Fox] A Bear and his Leader. _ ''what tho' I am Obligated to Dance a Bear, a Man may be a Gentleman for all that. My Bear ever dances to the Genteelest of Tunes''.
J.s Gillray fec.t.
Pub.d May 19th 1806, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½").
Fox caricatured as a muzzled bear with a bonnet rouge in its paws, its chain held by William Wyndham Grenville, who carries a 'Cudgel for Disobedient Bears'. Lord Henry Petty, depicted as an ape in the gown of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pulls the bear's tail. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, as a ragged fiddler. Greville says ''don't be afraid of my Bear, Ladies & Gentlemen! I have tamed & muzzled him, & reformed his Habits''. Fox was in fact virtual head of the Coalition Ministry under the nominal leader ship of Grenville, and was conducting peace negotiations with France.
BM Satires 10566.
[Ref: 63380] £480.00

[Charles James Fox] A Bear and his Leader. _ ''what tho' I am Obligated to Dance a Bear, a Man may be a Gentleman for all that. My Bear ever dances to the Genteelest of Tunes''.
J.s Gillray fec.t.
Pub.d May 19th 1806, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed to plate, long tear taped on left, mounted on album paper.
Fox caricatured as a muzzled bear with a bonnet rouge in its paws, its chain held by William Wyndham Grenville, who carries a 'Cudgel for Disobedient Bears'. Lord Henry Petty, depicted as an ape in the gown of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pulls the bear's tail. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, as a ragged fiddler. Greville says ''don't be afraid of my Bear, Ladies & Gentlemen! I have tamed & muzzled him, & reformed his Habits''. Fox was in fact virtual head of the Coalition Ministry under the nominal leader ship of Grenville, and was conducting peace negotiations with France.
BM Satires 10566.
[Ref: 63381] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles James Fox.] le Diable-Boiteux, _ or _ The Devil upon Two Sticks, conveying John Bull to the Land of Promise. _ Vide le Sage.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Publishd Feb.y 8t.h 1806 - by H. Humphrey - 27 St James s Street London.
Coloured etching. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Tear taped, staining.
Charles James Fox is depicted as the Devil, with wings marked 'Honesty' and 'Humility', cloven hoofs, crutches with the heads of Sidmouth and Grenville, a bonnet rouge with the Prince of Wales' feathers and a cape marked 'Loyalty, Independence and Public-Good'. He propels himself over the skyline of London towards a Carleton House (home of the Prince) in the clouds. In front of the house are three scenes: 'Liberty', with Sheridan and the Prince gambling with dice; 'Chastity', with the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert embracing on a sofa; and 'Temperance', with men drinking to excess. A fat 'cit' John Bull hitches a ride, clutching fox's cape. A satire on the allegation that the new Ministry was subservient to the Prince of Wales, not the King.
BM Satires 10525.
[Ref: 63382] £380.00

[Charles James Fox] Morning Preparation. [&] Evening Consolation.
[James Gillray]
Pub.d Feb.y 25th [& Ap.l 25.th] by W. Humphrey Nº 225 Strand.
Pair of aquatints with etching. Each 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"), with large margins, 18th century watermark.
A satire on the desperate plight of the Opposition. 'Morning': in a poverty-stricken room are Fox, practicing his speech in a mirror; North, seated in a low arm-chair, yawning; and Burke, seated on a three-legged stool mending his breeches. 'Evening': the trio have returned, with Fox looking disconsolately at a copy of 'Pitt's Speech'; Burke flagellating himself with a birch-rod; and North kissing a young woman in tattered garments.
BM Satires 6790 & 6791.
[Ref: 63628] £550.00 view all images for this item

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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