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The City 'Prentice at his Masters door.
The City 'Prentice at his Masters door. [Engrav'd for Every Man's Magazine.]
[London, 1 January 1773.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing sur-title, laid on album paper.
A young man dressed like a macaroni stands outside an arched doorway inscribed, "Young & Wife Mercers", through which can be seen a short elderly man behind a counter. Two woman, one carrying a basket of vegetables, turn to admire him. A little chimney-sweep also passes, with his brush and bag of soot.
BM Satire 5212.
[Ref: 58400]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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The Haberdasher Dandy [old ink mss.]
The Haberdasher Dandy [old ink mss.] "He! He! nothing talked of but Dandies Mem now Mem! what is the next thing I shall have the felicity to do for you Mem!!" / ''The next thing Mr Dandy is to measure that over again, and see how much you have cut Short.''
[C.Williams fec.t]
[London Pub.d by Thos Tegg No.111 Cheapside.] [n.d., c.1817.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions, mounted on album paper watermarked 1814.
The interior of a shop, with the haberdasher gossiping while cutting cloth.
BM Satires 13075.
[Ref: 58350]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Fun upon Fun, or the first and the second part of Miss Kitty Fishers / Merry thought. No Joke like a true joke. Come, who'l Fish in my Fishpond?
Fun upon Fun, or the first and the second part of Miss Kitty Fishers / Merry thought. No Joke like a true joke. Come, who'l Fish in my Fishpond? 12.
[Paul Sandby]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Framed. Trimmed to image on three sides. Unexamined out of frame.
A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing ahead. Plate 12 of 'Twelve London Cries done from the Life, Part 1st'.
Ex Collection: Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 58494]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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The Walking Stationer. Memorandum books a penny a piece of the Poor blind. God bless you pity the Blind.
The Walking Stationer. Memorandum books a penny a piece of the Poor blind. God bless you pity the Blind.
P. Sandby del.t. sculp. 1760.
Etching. Sheet 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Framed. Trimmed to image on three sides. Unexamined out of frame.
An old blind man carrying a basket full of books, being guided by a young boy. Plate 6 of 'Twelve London Cries done from the Life, Part 1st'.
Ex Collection: Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 58495]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Milliner's Shop.
The Milliner's Shop.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A busy shop interior.
Not in BM; See BM 4775.
[Ref: 58401]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sunday Morning.]
[Sunday Morning.]
[Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane. Engraved by Geo. Hunt.]
[London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 335mm (9 x 13¼"). Trimmed into image, losing all inscriptions.
The interior of a busy barber's shop, centred on a scared man being shaved with a cut-throat razor, which has nicked his face, lips and nose. On the wall behind are prints, including Egerton's caricature 'Number One or Blood for Blood', also set in a barber's shop, also engraved by the Hunts.
Hickman: p.96, first published by Hunt c.1825.
[Ref: 58241]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[White Sugar] What! d'ye think Lam going to drink that ere common brown Sugar? no! Then if you dont like it lump it.
[White Sugar] What! d'ye think Lam going to drink that ere common brown Sugar? no! Then if you dont like it lump it.
J.E.Wilson.
Alvey, lith. London R.d [n.d. c.1845.]
Coloured lithograph. 270 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½").
A street-scene of a tea-stall. On the table stands a large urn with written on it "Royal Albert early Breakfast Saloon", surrounded by saucers and cups. A satire on the introduction of white sugar cubes, first patented in 1843.
[Ref: 58415]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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