Grosvenor Prints

[Lord Amherst.] 7.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 6 April 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), wearing his uniform and his ribbon of the Bath. Amherst was responsible for a series of sweeping victories against the French, 1758-60, during the Seven Years War, leading to the conquest of Canada.
BM Satires 6053.
[Ref: 60069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Colonel Barré.] 18.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Isaac Barré (1726-1802), shown holding his hat in his right hand, his left thrust into his waistcoat. Barré was an Irish soldier and MP who earned distinction during the Seven Years War and supported William Pitt during his time in Parliament.
BM Satires 6066.
[Ref: 60064] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Female Intrepidity, or the Battle of the Belles, on ye Election of a King of Bath. Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[11th April, 1769.]
Etching. 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed top and bottom.
A satire on a scuffle, between both men and women, that occurred in the Bath Assembly Rooms, between the supporters of the two candidates for the Master of Ceremonies, causing the Riot Act to be read.
BM 4283.
[Ref: 59969] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl Bathurst.] 19.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins, repaired tear going into image.
Caricature of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714 - 1794). His hands are thrust into his waistcoat; he wears a tie-wig and sword. He has an almost imbecile expression. Known as the Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, Bathurst was Lord Chancellor from 1771 to 1778.
BM Satires 6070. NPG D9622.
[Ref: 60081] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Dr Tom Bentley.
Cavr. Ghezzi. del. [Engraved by Arthur Pond.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, sheet 345 x 230mm (13¾ x 9¼"). False margins added.
A caricature of Thomas Bentley LLD (1693 - 1742), classical scholar, probably on his grand tour 1725-6. After Pierleone Ghezzi (1674 - 1755), caricaturist and etcher who worked in Rome. It was used by Hogarth for his plate 'Characters and Caricaturas' to exemplify the difference (as Hogarth saw it) between the caricature of Ghezzi, Leonardo et al, and his own delineation of character.
BM: 1873,0712.643. See Martin Myrone & Tim Batchelor, 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art'; Bindman: Hogarth and his Times; Hake:80.
[Ref: 60018] £180.00 (£216.00 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... [R2]
Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.
London Pub. May 6 -1807 [but later] by T.Tegg III Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), watermarked 1817. Extremely fine colour. Very slight offsetting near title left.
A fine example of this 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: 59957] £480.00

[Colonel Boden.] 39.
JS [James Sayers.]
Published 4.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Colonel George Boden, wearing his tricorne hat and with his hand in the pocket of a long coat. He was renowned for his large size.
BM Satires 6064.
[Ref: 60078] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Burdett] Read - Compare - and - Judge. Or the Freedom of Election Exemplified.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Aug.t 13th 1804 by SW Fores No 50 Piccadilly _ Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate.
A satire in support of Sir Francis Burdett (1770 –1844) in the 1804 Middlesex election against George Boulton Mainwaring (c.1773-1822). Although Burdett won, his return was declared void.
BM Satires 10265.
[Ref: 60092] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[General Burgoyne.] 23.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of John Burgoyne (1722-1792), holding out a paper in his right hand as if making a speech and wearing his general's uniform. Burgoyne was a politician and playwright, notable for his service in the Seven Years War and American Revolutionary War. The surrender of his army in 1777 at Saragota was a turning point in the war.
BM Satires 6068.
[Ref: 60072] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Consultation of Surgeons.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾").
A group of surgeons debate the death of George Clarke: one says 'Gold is good evidence and carries great weight'', as the chairman decides 'This convinces me that Cl-k did not dye of the Wound he received at Br-d [Brentford]'. Two Irish chairmen, said to have been employed by Sir William Proctor, Wilkes's opponent in the election, were found guilty of the murder of George Clarke on 14 January 1769, but were pardoned after the College of Surgeons had been consulted. According to the Oxford Magazine, in which this satire was published, the consultation, or 'Chirurgical Examination' was held in secret. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1769, p.136, gave the names of those present as Benjamin Cowell, William Bromfield, Stafford Crane, John Ranby, Caesar Hawkins, David Middleton, Christopner Fullager, Robert Young, Percival Pott and Mr Gregory.
BM Satires 4271.
[Ref: 59964] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Viscount Beauchamp.] 31.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Small nick and tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Francis Seymour Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford (1743 - 1822), M.P. for Orford, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford. He stands looking slightly over his left shoulder, his head in profile to the left, holding a document in his right hand, his left hand in his hip pocket. He was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Beauchamp.
BM Satires 6643. NPG D9798.
[Ref: 60074] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Order, Order, pray Order. [Charles Wolfran Cornwall.] 27.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature of Charles Wolfran Cornwall (1735 - 1789), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1780-89, in his Speaker's wig and robes. His chair and a raised dais are indicated behind him. He looks to the right, holding out his hat in his left hand. Beneath his feet are the words 'Order, Order, pray Order'.
BM Satires 6064. NPG D9691.
[Ref: 60071] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Chevalier D'_n producing his evidence against certain persons.
[Oxford Magazine, 12th Auguest, 1769.]
Etching. 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7").
An ape-faced Chevalier d'Eon kneels on a platform, vomiting over Bute and other members of the Grafton admininstration. Joining the attack are Horne Tooke, Beckford and an American Indian, who draws his bow and aims at Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the North American Colonies. Behind the Chevalier is Dr Musgrave, who holds a clyster pipe and says 'If the Etetic does not operate sufficiently Chevalier, I have this Ready'. Having acted as minister-plenipotentiary for France in London, the Chevalier d'Eon refused to be recalled, publishing libels against the French embassy members. When Musgrave accused the Grafton administration and the Princess of Wales of taking bribes to sway the settlement of the Treaty of Paris in the favour of the French, he attempted to get the Chevalier to back up his claims, which D'Eon refused to do.
BM 4308.
[Ref: 59973] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective and Political View of the Timber-Yard at the L-e [Limehouse]. The Saw Mill.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"), with margins.
A satirical scene showing a lawyer sawing through the 'Magna Carta' and 'Bill of Rights' in front of a saw mill while John Wilkes looks on from the left. Charles Dingley, a speculator and mechanic, stood against Wilkes in the 1769 election. He patented a sawmill, built in Limehouse, which rioting sawyers pulled down in 1768, after which an Act was 'for punishing persons destroying mills' was passed.
BM Satires 4278.
[Ref: 59971] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

33. Engel Gran Pittore D'Animali e Bestie.
Matthaeus Oesterreich sculpsit 1750 adimi Marzo [engraved in reverse]. [after Pier Leone Ghezzi?]
Scarce etching. Sheet 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A caricature of a German painter as a dwarf, holding a pen and sheet with a sketch of a horse's head with a title as above. Matthaeus Oesterreich (1716-1778) engraved many caricatures in this style after Pier Leone Ghezzi.
[Ref: 60091] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir James Erskine.] 36.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by James Bretherton 31.st March 1788.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837), resting both hands on the table of the House of Commons. Erskine was a Scottish soldier, politician, and Acting Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, on behalf of King George IV.
BM Satires 7293
[Ref: 59982] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

La Fete au Village. The Feast of the Village.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Six coloured wood engravings, trimmed as scraps (from the same sheet?) and laid on album sheet with title pasted underneath. Sheet 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), on another backing sheet.
A rare set of six slightly caricatures scenes, each titled in French and English.
[Ref: 59775] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton] The Contrast. Or a Court Character that Appear'd at the King of Denmark's Masquerade
[10 October 1768.]
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
A caricature portrait of Prime Minister Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), dressed in an brocade coat, cuckold's horns with the words 'The Just Reward' protruding from under a coronet. In one hand is a book, 'A Modest Essay on Pregnancy and Good-Breeding'; in the other a playbill for 'A Wife to be Let'; and in his pocket is 'A Bill to procure a Divorce, &c, for Inconvenience'. This engraving was published in 'The Oxford Magazine' opposite a text claiming that the image does not represent 'any particular person; it is a sort of general character at the west-end of town'. However the figure certainly is Grafton, who shortly after divorced his wife on account of her adultery.
BM Satires 4214.
[Ref: 59986] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus FitzRoy] The great Duke of Grafton mortally wounded before the Walls of Cork.
S,, Wale delin. C, Grignion sculp.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 90 x 110mm (3½ x 4¼").
A satire comparing the condition of Prime Minister Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke (1735-1811), with that of great-grandfather, the first duke (Henry FitzRoy (1663 –90)). He resigned in January the following year.
BM 4331.
[Ref: 59975] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus FitzRoy, Duke of Grafton] The Political Machine that goes without Horses
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 180 x 125mm (7 x 5").
Prime Minister Augustus FitzRoy driving a carriage to the Gates of Hell, drawn by Bute and Beford, with the Devil acting as footman. The wheels have run over the prostrate figure of Britannia. Grafton sits on a chest 'Treasure taken from the Nabobs'. In 1769 AMr. Moore invented a carriage to travel without horses.
BM 4319.
[Ref: 59977] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Grafton.] 13.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811). Grafton became Prime Minister in 1768, and led an unstable Government for two years from 1768 to 1770, and a prominent figure in the period of the American Revolutionary War.
BM Satires 6060.
[Ref: 60001] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A New Flying Machine upon D.r Musgrave's Plan, that moves with ye same Rapidity as Mr. Moore's machine without Horses.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A satirical engraving, with Lord Bute in a flying machine cranked by a devil, surrounded by money bags. He says 'waft me to Bareges, or any where but to Tower Hill', to which the devil replies 'Now I've got you, Head & all; I was afraid I should have had only the Trunk'. On the Princess Augusta clasps her hands saying ''And art thou fled, so is my Happiness''. Samuel Musgrave (1732-80) lived in Paris when the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War. He believed British representatives (including Bute) had sold out to the French, allowing a treaty unfavourable to British interests (for example allowing the return of the Newfoundland fisheries). In 1769 Musgrave published a pamphlet in Devon, suggesting that France had bribed them. The following year the House of Commons decided that the charges were unsubstantiated.
BM Satire: 4212.
[Ref: 59965] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland.] Renard Stating his Accounts.
[Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.]
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½'').
Henry Fox, with a fox's face, with his accounts books, with Bute, Norton, Barrington, Grafton and Mansfield offering their support. Charles James Fox is shown as a cub. Lord Holland was the subject of allegations of financial irregularities when Paymaster General.
BM Satire 4299.
[Ref: 59990] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Bamber Gascoyne.] 5.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 6.th April 1782 C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Bamber Gascoyne (1727-1791), depicted as a stout, plainly dressed man wearing a hat and a buttoned-up coat. Gascoyne was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons of between 1761 and 1786.
BM Satires 6056.
[Ref: 59980] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[George III & Bute] Claudius pouring Poison into the King's Ear, as he is Sleeping in the Garden.
Engraved for the Oxford Magazine.
[1769.]
Etching and engraving. 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 4½"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
The scene from Hamlet, but with the Earl of Bute (1713 –92) pouring poison into the ear of George III (1738 –1820), attended by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales (1719–72), with whom it was rumoured that he was having an affair. The BM suggests the setting is Kew.
BM 8329
[Ref: 59970] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[George III] The Assembly of Beasts.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
George III as a blindfolded lion, surrounded by members of the Grafton Admininistration, including Grafton as a panther and Bute as ram.
BM 4303.
[Ref: 59989] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Grown Citizens learning to Dance.
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[n.d., c.1769.]
Engraving. 110 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½'').
A rare satirical print showing the Duke of Grafton as a dancing master standing on ''Petitions of the Mile end Rioters''. In the centre is Thomas Harley who, as Lord Mayor of London, was a partisan of the Grafton administration.
BM Satire 4276.
[Ref: 59966] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Frederick] The Duke of Cumberland refusing to treat with the Rebels.
S,, Wale delin. C,, Grignion sculp.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 90 x 110mm (3½ x 4¼").
A satire comparing the conduct of Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, with that of his uncle, 'Butcher' Cumberland. In 1769 Henry Frederick was sued by Lord Grosvenor for 'criminal conversation' (that is, adultery) after the Duke and Lady Grosvenor were discovered in the act.
BM 4333.
[Ref: 59974] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

An Election Entertainment at Brentford.
[London Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7).
A satire on the use of bribery in Brentford during the Middlesex by-election in December 1768. A group of men, including John Horne, feast and drink copiously. To the left one man slips a money purse into the hand of another.
BM 4226.
[Ref: 59985] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Howard] 10.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins. Crease top right.
Caricature portrait of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746-1815), holding a stick in his right hand, with his hat under his left arm and his left hand in his breeches pocket. Active in Whig politics, Howard spent a considerable amount of his money rebuilding and refurbishing Arundel Castle after inheriting his title and lands.
BM Satires 6058.
[Ref: 60082] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl of Effingham.]
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, watermark 1808, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Nicks and tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham (1747-1791), holding a long slender staff in his right hand and a short staff in the left, the two staffs of office for which he was known as 'the Devil on two sticks'. He died while serving as Governor of Jamaica (1790-1).
BM Satires 6061.
[Ref: 60017] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Inflexible Porter. a Tragedy.
Design'd by H.W. Bunbury Esqr.
London Publish'd Mar.h 24th. 1783 by J.R. Smith N83 opposite ye Pantheon Oxford Street.
Stipple. 260 x 280mm (10¼ x 11¼ "). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet.
A porter denies two visitors access to his master.
BM: Satires 6343. D'Oench 215.
[Ref: 60063] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[William Jackson] A Jack in Office.
R Dighton del.t.
Pub. Jan.y 4.th 1793.
Hand-coloured etching, plate: 200 x 150mm (8 x 6''), with very large margins. On paper watermarked 1816.
A caricature portrait of exciseman William Jackson shown with his excise book in his pocket and a poodle urinating on his legs.
BM Satire 8395. For another version of this print see 50997.
[Ref: 60039] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John Lee.] 28.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by Ja.s Bretherton 14.th July 1784.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Attorney-General John Lee (1733-1793), standing with his arms folded. Known at the bar as "Honest Jack Lee", he was distinguished for his integrity.
BM Satires 6641.
[Ref: 59981] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Richmond.] 26.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 3.d July 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1735-1806), standing in profile to the left holding his cockaded hat in his right hand. Lennox was a soldier, diplomat, politician and art patron. He was a leading Whig statesman who advocated parliamentary reform and supported the aspirations of the American colonists for greater independence. His motion in the House of Lords in 1778 for the withdrawal of British troops from America was opposed by Chatham who collapsed the ensuing debate.
BM Satires 6077.
[Ref: 60020] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition. The Humble Petition of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex.
[Oxford Magazine 1769.]
Etching with letterpress, sheet 345 x 210 (13¾ x 8¼"). Creased where previously folded.
A broadside on the electorate of John Wilkes (1726-97), presenting a petition signed by 1565 freeholders to King George III (1738-1820) on 24 May 1769; with an etching showing the King seated on his throne, attended by two courtiers, in front of him a man presents a scroll, on the left a group of six men stand; with engraved title, and letterpress title and text in three columns. Wilkes had been re-elected MP for Middlesex in February, March and April 1769, but on all three occasions the election was overturned by Parliament. After the last election his opponent Henry Lawes Luttrell (1743–1821) was declared elected. Supporters of Wilkes formed the Bill of Rights Society, which tried to force Parliament to accept the will of the Middlesex electorate (the society aimed also at parliamentary reforms). According to BM Satires, an impression of this print faces p.209 of the Oxford Magazine (1769). The print was published with the June number of the Magazine.
BM Satires 4289.
[Ref: 60010] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Molyneux and Mr. Quarme.] 20. 21.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (1738–1812), and Robert Quarme, Yeoman Usher (fl. 1782-1806), both officers of the House of Lords. Sir Francis Molyneux, tall and broad, stands full-face looking down at Robert Quarme, a very small man, standing in profile to the left. Both wear bag-wigs, ruffles, and swords.
BM Satires 6074.
[Ref: 60084] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[William Philip Molyneux] Lord Dashalong bent on driving.
Dighton. Ad. Viv.m Del.t.
Pub.d Nov.r 1801. by Dighton Char.g Cross.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate. Some time staining to edges. Holes left and top right.
Caricature portrait of William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton (1772-1838) seated on a high box-seat, driving; he leans slightly forward, his head in profile to the left, a bunch of reins in the left hand, a long whip in the right. Sefton acquired the nickname 'Lord Dashalong' because of his fondness for racing through the streets of London in a carriage with four horses
BM 9743.
[Ref: 60016] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Conference.
[Oxford Mag. Feb. 1769.]
Etching with letterpress, 18th century watermark, sheet 315 x 205mm (12½ x 8¼"). Creased where previously folded. Some time staining.
Satire from the Oxford Magazine 1769 concerning the clash of political interest between Thomas Harley (1730-1804) and William Beckford (1709-70), both MPs for the City of London. Standing on the left, Beckford, dressed in a mayor's robe, facing Harley and saying “Receive Instruction & not Silver” he holds a paper lettered “They have a Right to give us Instructions”. Harley, a Merchant Taylor, holds a tailor’s goose, a soldier’s coat and shears, and responds “Teach us our Lesson! Are we then School Boys? Rather cut asunder my Thread of Life”. The figures are enclosed by a frame with pillars surmounted by the heads of putti. On the side by Beckford is a small English rose; on Harley’s side is a Scottish thistle to indicate his support for Bute. Below that are instructions given to Sir Robert Ladbroke (1713-73), Beckford, Harley and Barlow Trecothick (1718-75) Representatives of the City of London: By their Constituents. And two columns of fourteen articles largely designed to oppose current government policy and alleged practices. These are signed Charles Clavey (fl. 1769) Chairman of the Common Hall. Guildhall, Feb. 10, 1769. On 10th February 1769, the Common Council of the City of London met, elected Clavier as leader, and drew up these instructions for members of Parliament. Harley is said to have received a lucrative uniform commission as a reward for his role in quelling anti-government riots in the city during his tenure as mayor in 1767-68. Beckford was an ardent supporter of William Pitt, Lord Chatham, against the Duke of Grafton's government; he was mayor in 1762-63 and would become mayor again in 1769-70.
BM Satires 4269.
[Ref: 60009] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Viscount Stormont.] 33.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by Ja.s Bretherton 14.th July 1784.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (1727 - 1796), diplomat and statesman; right hand on hip, left thrust into his waistcoat. He wears the ribbon of the Thistle and a Sword (Knight of the Thistle). Ambassador to Vienna and then to France in the early years of the American War of Independence.
BM Satires 6637.
[Ref: 60073] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

D.r Musgrave prescribing for Brittania, who is in a deep Consumption.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7").
Dr Musgrave attends Britannia, who sits with a crutch under her arm. Behind are John Wilkes and the Duke of Bedford. Samuel Musgrave (1732-80) lived in Paris when the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War. He believed British representatives (including Bute) had sold out to the French, allowing a treaty unfavourable to British interests (for example allowing the return of the Newfoundland fisheries). In 1769 Musgrave published a pamphlet in Devon, suggesting that France had bribed them. The following year the House of Commons decided that the charges were unsubstantiated.
BM Satire: 4307.
[Ref: 59988] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Naturel Genius. Teggs Caricatures - No. 28.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d July 1818 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching, collector's mark. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate at top. Slight mount stain.
An elegant schoolmistress in a neat parlour discusses needlework with two visitors, a fat and over-dressed farmer's wife with a daughter of about fifteen. When the schoolmistress suggests ''Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter'' as a subject, the mother hears ''Charlotte at the Tub of Water''. The daughter responds that she can ''make Water as natural as Life''.
BM Satires 11649.
[Ref: 60093] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Grantley.] 22.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley (1716-1789), standing in profile to the left. Norton was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1782
BM Satires 6071.
[Ref: 60075] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl Nugent.] 11.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Robert Craggs Nugent (1702-1788), his right hand extended, his hat in his left hand as if speaking in the House of Commons, where he was noted for speeches in a rich brogue and for his support of every Ministry in turn. He was nicknamed 'Squire Gawkey' and was also called 'the old rat of the Constitution'.
BM Satires 6059.
[Ref: 60008] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Game. [Colonel George Onslow.] 14.
[JS.] [James Sayers.]
Published 7.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½") with large margins. Nicks and tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Colonel George Onslow (1731-1792) as a cock-fighter. He wears a plain hat and coat, top-boots with spurs like those attached to the legs of gamecocks, holding a riding-whip in his right hand. In the foreground stands a spurred gamecock. Onslow was a British politician and army officer, nicknamed ‘cocking George’ because of his fondness for cock fighting.
BM Satires 6065.
[Ref: 59979] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Passions Delineated.] Avarice & Dissipation.
[John Collier as 'Tim Bobbin'.]
Pub. June 4 1810 by Edw.d Orme, London.
Coloured stipple. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate, stains in top corners.
A spendthrift son hands a wad of bills to his miserly father. From 'The Passions, humorously Delineated, by Timothy Bobbin, Esq' by John Collier (1708-86), using the pseudonym Tim Bobbin, first published 1773.
SP Lohia Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection 718.
[Ref: 59963] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Passions Delineated.] Poverty. Plenty.
[John Collier as 'Tim Bobbin'.]
Pub. June 4 1810 by Edw.d Orme, London.
Coloured stipple. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Tear taped.
A ragged beggar looks on in disgust as a fat man laughs, holding his extended belly. From 'The Passions, humorously Delineated, by Timothy Bobbin, Esq' by John Collier (1708-86), using the pseudonym Tim Bobbin, first published 1773.
SP Lohia Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection 718.
[Ref: 59962] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Treaty of Paris] A Prophecy. The Coach Overturn'd: or, the fall of Mortimer.
H: Tucker Sculp.t [after Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale].
[n.d., c.1762.]
Etching. 160 x 135mm (6¼ x 5¼"). Creases and folds as normal.
A satire on the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Year's War. A coach carrying the George III and Queen Charlotte (depicted as lions) crashes into a rock, after Lord Bute (the driver) has lost control having been blinded by 'Havana Snuff'. The horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Lord Bute was accused of taking bribes to ease the negotiations in France's favour. This is a copy of a satire published by John Williams, lacking 16 lines of verse underneath.
See BM 3966 for the original.
[Ref: 60100] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl of Shelburne.] 9.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, watermark 1809, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), standing, facing three-quarters left, his right hand thrust under his Garter ribbon. He wears a bag-wig and ruffles, and has the sly, complacent smile and half-closed eyes which are conspicuous in satires of Shelburne at this time. He was prime minister (1782-1783) during the reign of George III.
BM Satires 6062.
[Ref: 60012] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[William Pitt the Younger] Talk of an Ostrich! an Ostrich is nothing to him; Johnny Bull will swallow any thing!!
Pub.d Decem.r 13 1795 by S W Fores N° 50 Piccadilly the corner of Sockville St, NB folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Etching, collector's mark D.K. Sheet 390 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate, corners damaged, paper lightly toned.
William Pitt the Younger (1759 –1806) uses the butt of a musket to ram a document inscribed 'Conven[tion]' down John Bull's throat. A satire on the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills (1775).
BM 8703.S
[Ref: 60101] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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