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Best Mode of Going to Bartholomew Fair.
Designed and Etched by T. Lane.
Pub. by G. Hunt Corner of York St & Bridges St.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, tear through title, laid on album paper.
A man smoking a pipe and carrying a cudgel, his body protected by a barrel with spikes, heavy boots protrunding from the bottom. Bartholomew Fair, held on the 24th August in Smithfield, was founded as a cloth fair in 1133. It expanded over the years to include sideshows, especially prize-fighters, musicians, wire-walkers, acrobats, puppets, freaks and wild animals, as illustrated in a famous view in the 'Microcosm of London'. However it also became increasing rowdy, with fights and muggings, as satirised here, and eventually the fair was suppressed in 1855.
Hickman p.86.
[Ref: 58465] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Designed and Etched by T. Lane.
Pub. by G. Hunt Corner of York St & Bridges St.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, tear through title, laid on album paper.
A man smoking a pipe and carrying a cudgel, his body protected by a barrel with spikes, heavy boots protrunding from the bottom. Bartholomew Fair, held on the 24th August in Smithfield, was founded as a cloth fair in 1133. It expanded over the years to include sideshows, especially prize-fighters, musicians, wire-walkers, acrobats, puppets, freaks and wild animals, as illustrated in a famous view in the 'Microcosm of London'. However it also became increasing rowdy, with fights and muggings, as satirised here, and eventually the fair was suppressed in 1855.
Hickman p.86.
[Ref: 58465] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Black Brown & Fair. You tell me dear Girl, that I'm given to rove, That I sport with each lass on the green, that I join in the dance and sing sonnets of Love...
Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.
London Pub. May 6 -1807 by T.Tegg III Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Some slight staining.
A satirical songsheet with a scene at Wapping docks. The men, a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, stand on the pavement gazing up at four smiling women, one of whom is black, leaning out a window. A black sailor walks inside, his arm round the waist of another girl. The BM states there was no ‘Sir E. Bunbury’, instead suggesting it was drawn by Henry Bunbury.
BM Satires 10925.
[Ref: 58480] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.
London Pub. May 6 -1807 by T.Tegg III Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Some slight staining.
A satirical songsheet with a scene at Wapping docks. The men, a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, stand on the pavement gazing up at four smiling women, one of whom is black, leaning out a window. A black sailor walks inside, his arm round the waist of another girl. The BM states there was no ‘Sir E. Bunbury’, instead suggesting it was drawn by Henry Bunbury.
BM Satires 10925.
[Ref: 58480] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Church Militant. See M.r Pennant's literary life. P.21.
[c.1793.]
Mezzotint with etching, with hand colour. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Folded as issued. Small margins.
A man dressed half as a soldier, half as a parson, the soldier saying 'Come Jolly Bacchus God of Wine!', the parson 'Hear Me O Lord for I am poor & needy. A paper on the left is a tailor's final demand. From Pennant's autobiography (first published 1793), satirising what he calls ''the unguarded admission of persons of the most discordant professions into the sacred pale, who, urged by no other call than that of poverty, do not prove either ornamental or useful in their new character''.
[Ref: 58311] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1793.]
Mezzotint with etching, with hand colour. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Folded as issued. Small margins.
A man dressed half as a soldier, half as a parson, the soldier saying 'Come Jolly Bacchus God of Wine!', the parson 'Hear Me O Lord for I am poor & needy. A paper on the left is a tailor's final demand. From Pennant's autobiography (first published 1793), satirising what he calls ''the unguarded admission of persons of the most discordant professions into the sacred pale, who, urged by no other call than that of poverty, do not prove either ornamental or useful in their new character''.
[Ref: 58311] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Le Dames Anglaises après-Diné. Scènes Anglaises dessinées à Londres, par un français prisonnier de Guerre. No 1.
[Drawn and etched by Alphonse Roehn.]
A Paris, Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue du Coq S.t Honoré [n.d., c.1814].
Coloured etching. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 14"). Narrow margins. Two slight stains
A group of women sit in silent boredom, being served tea by a black servant. From a set of eight.
BM Satires 12350.
[Ref: 58458] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn and etched by Alphonse Roehn.]
A Paris, Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue du Coq S.t Honoré [n.d., c.1814].
Coloured etching. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 14"). Narrow margins. Two slight stains
A group of women sit in silent boredom, being served tea by a black servant. From a set of eight.
BM Satires 12350.
[Ref: 58458] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![My Mother. [&] My Father. by M. Belson.](jpegs/58499.jpg)
My Mother. [&] My Father. by M. Belson.
London, Published July 22.d 1811 [& February 17th 1812] by William Darton Jun.r 58 Holborn Hill.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each sheet c. 240 x 395mm (9½ x 15½). Trimmed, splits in centre folds, laid on album paper as issued, 'Father' with repaired tears.
Two plates with six images illustrating two odes to perfect parents by women writers. 'My Mother', a poem written by Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782–1866, daughter of the engraver Isaac Taylor), earned a parody by Lord Byron. 'My Father' was written by Mary Belson, a prolific writer of children's books who wrote under her married name of Elliott after 1819.
[Ref: 58499] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
London, Published July 22.d 1811 [& February 17th 1812] by William Darton Jun.r 58 Holborn Hill.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each sheet c. 240 x 395mm (9½ x 15½). Trimmed, splits in centre folds, laid on album paper as issued, 'Father' with repaired tears.
Two plates with six images illustrating two odes to perfect parents by women writers. 'My Mother', a poem written by Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782–1866, daughter of the engraver Isaac Taylor), earned a parody by Lord Byron. 'My Father' was written by Mary Belson, a prolific writer of children's books who wrote under her married name of Elliott after 1819.
[Ref: 58499] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
The Sailors Fleet Wedding Entertainment.
[Engraved by John June.]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament; November ye 10, 1747. Price 6d by Mary Cooper.
Scarce etching. Sheet 230 x 310mm (9 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on mountboard.
Satirical view of London life, with a riotous wedding party at the Tavern at Rederiff
BM Satires 2875.
[Ref: 58412] £450.00
[Engraved by John June.]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament; November ye 10, 1747. Price 6d by Mary Cooper.
Scarce etching. Sheet 230 x 310mm (9 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on mountboard.
Satirical view of London life, with a riotous wedding party at the Tavern at Rederiff
BM Satires 2875.
[Ref: 58412] £450.00
![[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!](jpegs/58464.jpg)
[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)