Grosvenor Prints

Mr John Anderson, Falconer, at Barrowchaw, Renfrewshire, as he appear'd at the Coronation of His Majesty George the 4th, July 19th 1821.
Drawn & Engraved by I.R. Cruikshank.
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 27 St James's St. London, Aug. 16th 1821.
Rare coloured aquatint. 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 9"). Paper lightly toned.
John Anderson (c 1750-1833). falconer to Malcolm Fleming of Barochan, the Earl of Morton and Sir Alexander Donne of Ochiltree. At the coronation Anderson presented the king a pair of falcons on behalf of the 4th Duke of Atholl, Governor of the Isle of Man, accounting for the Manx triskelion on his sleeve.
[Ref: 41430] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Pleasures Of Angling. to face Page 158.
Designed and Etched by J.R Cruikshank.
Published by Thomas Boys, Ludgate Hill London, Dec 1.1819.
Bit messy.
Isaac Robert Cruikshank was the brother of fellow caricaturist, George Cruikshank.
[Ref: 56113] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Archery, - Tom, Jerry and the "Fat Knight" trying their skill to the Bulls Eye.
Drawn & Eng.d by R. Cruikshank.
Published May 1, 1829 by Geo. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Coloured aquatint. 152 x 248mm. 6 x 9¾". Trimmed.
A pavilion and tents set up for spectators to view some archery; in the left foreground women are attended to by a butler with a tray of wine and a man showing them his trophies; a castle and landscape in the background.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 20077] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Prince Augustus Frederick] The Protestants Champion!!
R. Cruickshank fecit.
Pub.d August 1825 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"). Trimmed.
A satirical portrait of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), 6th son of George III.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 46605] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Going to a Fight.]
Isaac Robert Cruikshank.
Sherwood & co [n.d. September 1st 1819.]
Etching and aquatint. 60 x 495mm (2¼ x 19½"). Some creasing and staining with nicks and holes in the margins.
The seventh strip in Cruikshank's 'Going to a Fight' series, which measured roughly four feet in total. When altogether the strips were rolled tightly into a container with a printed inscription reading '[Illustra]ting the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.' In this strip parts 27-34 are labelled from right to left. The central scene depicts a popular boxing match, with large semi-circular crowd and a 'betting stand' at the back.
F. Siltzer: 325.
[Ref: 56766] £480.00

A Correct Representation of Her Majesty Queen Caroline Returning From the House of Lords, 1820
I.R. Cruikshank fecit. R W ad vivam del.t.
Pub.d by G. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street, London [n.d., c.1820].
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 205 x 410mm (8 x 16"). Trimmed to printed border, small tears in bottom left corner.
Caroline of Brunswick in an open coach with six horses and liveried footmen, being cheered by crowds in New Palace Yard.
[Ref: 62121] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Caroline of Brunswick] A late Arrival at Mother Wood's.
[George Cruikshank.]
Pub.d June 19 1820 by G. Humphrey 27 St James Street.
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 390mm (10¼ x 15¾"), with very large margins. Uncut. Slight staining, mostly in margins on left, repaired tear in margin on left.
Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony at Alderman Sir Matthew Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Wood (1768-1843), a Whig politician, persuaded Caroline not to be paid off by Brougham's mission to France and to return to England to confront her husband, George IV.
BM Satires 13734.
[Ref: 61866] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Correct Representation of Her Majesty Queen Caroline Returning From the House of Lords, 1820
I.R. Cruikshank fecit. R W ad vivam del.t.
Pub.d by G. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street, London [n.d., c.1820].
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 215 x 410mm (8½ x 16"). Trimmed into printed border at sides
Caroline of Brunswick in an open coach with six horses and liveried footmen, being cheered by crowds in New Palace Yard.
[Ref: 62136] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Daffy Club or a Musical Master of the Fancy.
Drawn & Engraved by R. Cruikshank.
Published March 1, 1824, by Sherwood, Jones & C.o.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The interior of the Castle Tavern, Holborn (landlord the boxer Tom Belcher) during a meeting of the 'Daffy Club', men who enjoy gin (daffy), sport and gambling. The walls are filled with portraits of boxers and other sporting paintings.
[Ref: 61306] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Syntax Going to Richmond in the Steam Boat.
[Drawn & etched by Isaac Robert Cruikshank?.]
[London, J Johnston, 1820.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Mount burn.
The cleric is sprayed in the face by a fellow passenger opening a bottle. From 'The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis', an imitation of the original work by William Combe. Both Thomas Rowlandson (artist of the original work) and Cruikshank have been credited with the illustrations; the BM thinks it is more likely Cruikshank.
[Ref: 56868] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Syntax at Vauxhall Gardens.
[Drawn & etched by Isaac Robert Cruikshank?.]
[London, J Johnston, 1820.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Trimmed at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
The cleric, his wife and another couple dine finely in an open-air booth, as other visitors to Vauxhall Gardens walk by. From 'The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis', an imitation of the original work by William Combe. Both Thomas Rowlandson (artist of the original work) and Cruikshank have been credited with the illustrations; the BM thinks it is more likely Cruikshank.
[Ref: 53393] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Oppidan's Museum, or Eton Court of Claims at the Christopher.
Drawn & Engraved by R. Cruikshank.
Published March 1. 1824 by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 9"). Trimmed within plate, binding marks along bottom edge.
A view in the cellars of the Christopher Hotel in Eton, where 'Oppidans' (i.e. pupils who could afford to lodge in town rather than at the school) would stay). Curios hang from the ceiling. A drinking scene. A plate from 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle', described by Abbey as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published' because many of the people in the narrative could be recognised.
Abbey Life 325.
[Ref: 60823] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Foot Ball.
Rob.t Cruikshank Fecit. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Aquatint, early impression. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14''). Trimmed, very slight foxing, corners trimmed.
A scene showing a group of soldiers in a group, playing football, some have fallen over in the rush.
Hickman p.104.
[Ref: 50625] £480.00

[George IV and Caroline of Brunswick] The Beggar's Petition. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man...
I.R. Cruikshank fecit.
London: Published by J. Dawson, Camden Town; and Sold by Every Bookseller and Newsman in the Kingdom. Entered at Stationers' Hall. Price One Shilling. Printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials [n.d., c.1819].
Rare coloured etching with letterpress, watermark T. Edmonds 1819. Sheet 410 x 260mm (16 x 10¼"). Tears entering image at top, edges with archival tape on reverse, some other wear and loss at bottom.
George as a beggar, baggage marked 'Vice' on his back, crown held out as a begging bowl, on the road from The Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park (''The Cottage'') to Brandenburg House, Hammersmith, home of his estranged wife, Caroline of Brunswick. She looks out of a window as he sings to her: ''I ling'ring fall a victim to dispair, / Scorned by the World, by Justice, and by Thee''.
Not in BM; the Bodleian 'Broadside Ballads Online' only has the letterpress.
[Ref: 55202] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

I'll be Commander in Chief!_ Mr. Keeley as Nichodamus Crowquill. Vide Peter Wilkins, as performed at Covent Garden Theatre.
Rob.t Cruikshank fecit. Proof.
Publish'd London, May 8.th 1827 by W Kenneth at his Dramatic Repository Corner of Bow Street Covent Garden.
Soft ground etching, large margins. Plate 266 x 210mm. 10½ x 8¼".
Robert Keeley (1793-1869) was an actor-manager, comedian and female impersonator of the nineteenth century.
[Ref: 20951] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Tom, Jerry, Logic, and the ''uncommonly big gentleman'' among the ''Shew Folks'' at Bartholomew Fair. One man in his time plays many parts.
Drawn & Eng.d by R. Cruikshank.
Published by Geo. Virtue Oct. 1 1828, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet 145 x 240mm (5¾ x 9½"). Some surface dirt in the margins.
The trio attend a Shakespearean-style play with a ghost, presented in a tent theatre. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis".
[Ref: 53378] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Saloon Piccadilly.
Engraved by R. Cruikshank [after 'Bernard Blackmantle', pseudonym of Charles Malloy Westmacott].
Pub.d by Sherwood Jones & C.º Sep. 1. 1824.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 260mm (6¼ x 10¼"). Edges chipped, a few small stains.
An interior, with the floor and balcony lit by a large chandelier, with men and women eating and drinking. The Royal Saloon was 'an all-night' house, famed for the quality for its cuisine, cellar and women, who were restricted to those personally invited by the management. From Charles Molloy Westmacott's 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle'.
Abbey Life 325, ''described by Miss Prideaux as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published''', as many of the people described were easily identifyable.
[Ref: 62058] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Sam Snatch; or, The Fashionable Bailiff. My name's Sam Snatch---a grab, d'ye see, Never was a bolder / Vith high and low I can make free, And tap 'em on the shoulder [...]
Cruikshank
Printed and published by R. Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap
Etching with hand-colouring and letterpress, sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Tears top left and bottom. Damaged.
A bailiff grips a terrified dandy by the shoulders while others flee; song text beneath.
[Ref: 41572] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Splendid Jem, once a dashing hero in the Metropolis, recognized by Tom amongst the Convicts, in the Dock Yard at Chatham.
Drawn & Eng.d by Rob.t Cruikshank.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 145 x 220mm (5¾ x 8¾").
Jem, one of a gang of convicts kept on hulks on the River Medway prior to gaol transportation, lifts his cap to Tom. Australian interest. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London".
[Ref: 55724] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] A Vision of Judgment!!!
[by Robert Cruikshank]
Pub.d by Tregear Cheapside [n.d, c.1829].
Etching with fine hand colour. 255 x 350mm (10 x 11¾"), with very large margins.
A haggard Wellington lying on a sofa is startled by a vision of Charon on the River Styx, which features Canning, holding up a banner inscribed 'Turkey Portugal Russia', Percival in a blood-stained robe and Castlereagh with a slit throat. At Wellington's feet are a crown, mitre and a skull marked 'Memento [Mori]'. Behind George IV sleeps, a bottle of brandy on the table before him. An attack on Wellington aiming for sovereign power, his non-intervention in Portugal and failure in actions in the Russia-Turkey dispute.
BM Satires 16049.
[Ref: 55397] £380.00

Westminster Election.
I.R. Cruikshank. del & fec.t.
London Pu.d by J.J. Stockdale, 41 Pall Mall, 16th July 1818.
Coloured etching. 220 x 260mm (8¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom.
A view of the hustings erected in front of St Paul's Church, with Henry Hunt haranguing the crowd. Frontispiece to 'The Poll Book, for electing Two Representatives in Parliament for ... Westminster'. John James Stockdate was the publisher who tried to blackmail the Duke of Wellington with the ''Memoirs of Harriette Wilson'', receiving the reply 'Publish and be damned'.
BM Satires 13003.
[Ref: 51686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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