Grosvenor Prints

R_l Advice.
Lewis Marks del.
Pub.d by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside, June 6. 1814.
Hand-coloured etching, J. Whatman & W. Balston watermark. Sheet: 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½"). Damaged.
A satirical scene shows an ugly woman sitting on the throne dipping her hand in a box of snuff while the Prince Regent enquires after his wife. A commentary on the arrival of the allied sovereigns who exploited the Regent's bad relationship with his wife.
BM Satires 12278.
[Ref: 46474] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule.
[by Charles Williams]
Pubd April 1st 1801 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"). 18th century watermark. Trimmed to platemark.
The titular April Fool (possibly John James Hamilton, first marquis of Abercorn) stands with his arms around two women, wearing handbands labelled 'Ridicule' and 'Infamy'. On the right a third woman gestures towards the scene, proclaiming 'I have made him a fixed figure for the hand of Scorn to point her slow-moving finger at'. Etching by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830, fl.), prolific etcher of satires from his own designs and those of other artists (especially Woodward). Almost all his plates are anonymous and little work has been done to establish for certain which prints he made. As a result Williams is little-known in comparison with contemporaries such as Rowlandson and Gillray in spite of the comparable quality of some of his work.
BM Satires 9776.
[Ref: 46558] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Barber of Seville.
Publish'd Mar 15. 1808 by Lauire & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8½ "). Trimmed, losing letterpress song, with foxing.
An illustration to a ten-verse poem (not present) satirising Gioachino Rossini's 'Barber of Seville. A woman with cross-eyes and a hairy chin sits under a grape-trellis and an orange-tree; a barber kneels at her feet. In the song the amour promises to shave her every morning if she will marry him.
BM Satire 11195.
[Ref: 46482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Baron * Doner-Dronk-Dickdorf and Miss Quoltz.]
Published 20th March, 1810 by Laurie & Whittle, No.53 Fleet Street London.
Hand-etching. Sheet: 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9"). Trimmed and stained.
An illustration to a song sung by Mr Fawcett the popular Drama, called "The Free Knights, or the Edict of Charlemagne''. A little man sits upon a mantlepiece, held up by a woman while a footman brings in food.
BM Satire 11699.
[Ref: 46478] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Boxers of Bangor or Messengers of Peace.
Pub.d Aug.t 6. 1796 by S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caricatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman 1794 watermark; S.W.F. ink stamp on right. Plate: 255 x 395mm (10 x 15½"). Stain in small margins. Very slight printer's crease.
A satirical scene showing the Bishop of Bangor leading a riot to remove Samuel Grindley from a building attached to the Cathedral. Kneeling at the Bishop's feet are two young women, one of which is Mrs Elizabeth Warren who succeeded in calming the mob.
BM Satire 8882.
[Ref: 46736] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Caudles Illustrated Curtain Lectures No.4 "You to go to Greenwich Fair, and race up and down the hill, If I were you I should hide my head under the clothes, and be ashamed of it!"
Published by Preston, 31 Burlington Arcade [c.1850]
Lithograph printed in brown ink with hand-colouring and gum arabic. Sheet 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½").
Mrs Caudle was the most famous creation of the playwright and journalist Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857). 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialized in 'Punch' in 1845, and Thackeray wrote that ‘Almost all the events and perplexities of Cockney domestic economy pass before her’, wrote Thackeray of the character, ‘and … a student in the twentieth century may get out of her lectures as accurate pictures of London life as we can get out of the pictures of Hogarth’ (W. M. Thackeray, Contributions to the ‘Morning Chronicle’, ed. G. N. Ray, 1955, 94). This print is probably a separately-issued copy sold at Burlington Arcade, which runs alongside Burlington House between Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens.
[Ref: 46590] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The City Combat, or the Desperate Attack at the English Baron, an Easter Tale.
Pub.d May 3d 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: C. Patch. Plate: 250 x 395mm (9¾ x 15¾"), with large margins.
A satirical scene in which the Mayor of London fights off a crowd desperate to join him for dinner. At the table behind the Mayor sits the Prince of Wales who sits opposite a fashionably dressed woman and a man who is perhaps the Duke of Cumberland.
BM Satires 9862.
[Ref: 46631] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Disappointment. D-n me she's a Black one.
[Monogram of Paul Pry] Esq.r Del et Sculp.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, paper tone and laid on card. Bit messy.
A dandy lifts the veil of a fashionably-dressed woman asleep under a tree, realising she is black. 'Paul Pry' was a pseudonym of William Heath (1794-1840).
[Ref: 46437] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Adventures of Mr. Percival Dobbs. Gratis with No.1 of the New Work. The Boys Book of Romance, 1d Weekly.
G.H. Bartlett Steam Printing Works. 53A Aldersgate St London & Paris.
Woodcut, rare. Sheet: 285 x 445mm (11¼ x 17½"). Repaired tear, creasing.
A series of vignettes telling the adventures of Mr Dobbs once he becomes a policeman. Dobbs is abused by children, has a gun pointed at him as he walks his beat in all weather. A supplement to the weekly publication 'The Boys Book of Romance'.
[Ref: 46445] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Acute Pain. No. 10. The curious observer of the Passion, has only to get a careless Servant to pour some hot water on his foor, in a case of the Gout, & he will soon know the nature of Acute Pain.
Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub: 21 Jan. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Binding holes in left edge. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Acute Pain is portrayed by a man who suffers with gout crying out because his servant has poured tea on his foot. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46596] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Admiration. No.3. Various are the ways this Passion might be depicted in this Delineation the subjects chosen are simple_a Hungry Boy_and a Plumb Pudding.
Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub.d Jan.y 20. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 290 x 235mm (11½ x 9¼"). Hole in left edge, some paper tone. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. This scene portraying admiratation shows a hungry young man staring through a window at a large plum pudding. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46593] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Admiration. No.3. Various are the ways this Passion might be depicted in this Delineation the subjects chosen are simple_a Hungry Boy_and a Plumb Pudding.
Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub.d Jan.y 20. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 295 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"). Two holes in left edge, some paper tone. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. This scene portraying admiratation shows a hungry young man staring through a window at a large plum pudding. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46594] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Anger. No.18. This unruly Passion shews itself in a forcible degree in a termagant Mistress, scolding her Maid servant.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin, creasing. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Anger is portrayed by a mistress being cross with a maid. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46603] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Simple Bodily Pain. No.11. A termagent Wife- a hen-peck'd Husband & a Cudgel are three principal ingredients for bringing forward the Passion of Simple Bodily Pain, as many an unfortunate sufferer can witness.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. The emotion of 'Simple Bodily Pain' is shown by an angry woman attacking her husband. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46597] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Compassion. No. 14. He whose misfortunes can draw two-pence from the purse of a Miser, is certainly an object of Compassion, & the most capable of giving that passion its full force.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Compassion is portrayed in a scene in which a miser gives a penny to a beggar. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46600] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Hatred or Jealousy. No. 19. Mons le Brun in his delineation of the Passions, makes a Man jealous, without assigning a cause why or wherefore_If the connoisseurs will give himself the trouble to look behind the curtain in the above sketch, he will find sufficient reason for the excitement of the Passion.
[Woodward. Rowlandson.]
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin, creasing and paper tone. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Hatred is portrayed by the response of a husband walking in on his wife with another man. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46604] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Horror. No.16. It is impossible to account for Antipithies in this instance Horror is excited by the appearance of a harmless Mouse.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Horror is portrayed by a woman scared of a mouse carried by a young boy. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46601] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Joy with Tranquility. No. 8. This passion is represented by a Philosophical Brewer, who having gained a considerable Prize in the Lottery, receives it with the most perfect composure- a useful lesson for those persons who are too apt to be over elated at an unexpected change of Fortune.
Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21 Jan: 1800. at R. Ackermann's Respository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Binding holes in left edge. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. A brewer, having won five thousand pounds in the lottery receives his prize with composure. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46595] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Terror or Fright. This Passion is frequently exited by dressing up firghtful objects to represent Sprites, Apparitions &c: frequently practiced with success in Country Villages, as delineated in the above sketch of the Countryman & the Ghost.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Terror is portrayed by a countryman being terrified by a person dressed up as a ghost. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46602] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Weeping. No. 13. As Laughter is often exited by the most simple causes, so frequently is Weeping in this instance the hard & obourate features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. 'Weeping' is portrayed by two figures crying at a sad ballad. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46598] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Weeping. No. 13. As Laughter is often exited by the most simple causes, so frequently is Weeping in this instance the hard & obourate features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. 'Weeping' is portrayed by two figures crying at a sad ballad. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46599] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Falling of the Stocks. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
Published by W & J. Stratford No. 112 Holborn Hill, March 1793
Engraving with accompanying letterpress, platemark 175 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Print published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', where it accompanied a dialogue between a man who had recently lost a large amount of money on the stock market, and his maid. Here the man rages, kicking a table and scattering its contents, while a cat and dog fight. On the wall are pictures of a stormy sea with a lighthouse, and a pair of pictures bearing the text 'Such Things Are Much Ado About Nothing'. The print may be a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the 'Carlton House Magazine'.
[Ref: 45854] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Peep at a City Feast [&] A Sketch of Lord Mayor's Day. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
Etch.d by Barlow
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Two engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Two satirical prints which, together, show a frenetic feast taking place at the Mansion House, with figures such as Charles Cornwallis visible. Published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', although possibly a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the magazine.
[Ref: 45861] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Finding of Arms or A Midnight Domiciliary Visit to the Boarding School.
[by Charles Williams]
No.111 Cheapside
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 250 x 380mm (9¾ x 15"), with large margins. Paper watermarked 'G. Wilmott / 1819'
Satire on the Search for Arms Act, brought in December 1819. This print, in which a police-officer with a warrant searches the dormitory of a female boarding school during the night, responds specifically to protests against searches being conducted during the night on account that they would subject women to 'insult and indignity'. Etching by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830, fl.), prolific etcher of satires from his own designs and those of other artists (especially Woodward). Almost all his plates are anonymous and little work has been done to establish for certain which prints he made. As a result Williams is little-known in comparison with contemporaries such as Rowlandson and Gillray in spite of the comparable quality of some of his work.
BM Satires 13291.
[Ref: 46560] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV] The Slap Up Swell wot Drives when Hever He Likes.
[William Heath] Esq. Del.
Pub April 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed and mounted into album sheet.
A caricature of George IV, showing him in a position of authority. 'Slap up' dates, as northern slang, from c.1823 (BM Satires via Partridge's 'Slang Dictionary').
BM Satires 15732.
[Ref: 46656] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or The Disapointed Dido still in Despair.
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman watermark. Sheet: 265 x 335mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged, a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 46621] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Funny Ideas-No. 1. A Fine Growing Shower! Oh Lord, Here's a Move! But I know How its Happened [/] I Got Drunk Last Night, Coming from Chapel, and Laid Down in a [/] Market Garden...
Printed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn.
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet St.
A fine hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
A comic scene in which a comic figure looks suprised at the fact that vegetables have suddenly sprouted on his umbrella and he reckons it is because he fell asleep in a market garden.
[Ref: 46635] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Quadrille - Evening Fashions - Dedicated to the Heads of the Nation. La Poule.
[Monogram of Paul Pry.][William Heath.]
London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket 1827.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: J.Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Sheet size: 245 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed and mounted in album sheet.
Two couples with exaggerated, absurd hairstyles and fashionable dress, dancing. Drawn and etched by satirical printmaker, William Heath (1794 - 1840).
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 46644] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

An irish Pilot or Steering by Chance.
[Charles Williams.]
[Pub.d, August 1812 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside.]
A fine hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
A naval scene in which an Irish pilot seems to be confused as to where the boat is sailing while two capable sailors look on disparagingly.
BM Satire 11977.
[Ref: 46615] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The very Wise Aldermen of Gotham, Scratching for a Mayor.
[Anon., 1773.]
Etching, sheet 195 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼") with 2pp. accompanying letterpress. Glued to backing sheet.
Etching and the 'Letter from a Gentleman in London' which it accompanied in the 'Sentimental Magazine' for October 1773. The text notes that 'by the annexed cooper-plate, representing the court of aldermen of London scratching for a lord-mayor, the leading features, or characteristics of the greater part of them, may be easily distinguished'. These include Frederick Bull, with a bull's head, writing with a pen in his cloven hoof in the centre; John Wilkes (1725 - 1797) on the right, Sir Watkin Lewes behind them; and Thomas Harley (1730 - 1804) as an ape wearing spurred boots entering from the right. In this election Bull was chosen by the aldermen, although the print was reissued on the same occasion the following year, when Wilkes became mayor.
BM Satires: 5235; for 1774 reissue see ref. 13858.
[Ref: 46561] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

A Long Headed Minuet No. 12.
Woodward del. Cruikshank sp.
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside Feb.ry 13 1807.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Diagonal crease in top left corner.
A comic scene showing a room full of people with large heads, in the foreground a couple dance a minuet. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep.
[Ref: 46622] £360.00

A Long Headed Minuet. 243.
Woodward del. Cruikshank sp.
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside Febr.y 13 1807.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13¾"), 1819 watermark.
A comic scene showing a room full of people with large heads, in the foreground a couple dance a minuet. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep.
[Ref: 46623] £360.00

Long Heads upon Change, or the return of L.d Lauderdale.
Woodward del. Cruikshank s.t.
Published by T. Tegg Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1806.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
A comic scene showing men with very large heads buying, selling and discussing stock in the courtyard of the Royal Exchange. The scene comments on Lord Lauderdale's fruitless peace negotiations with France. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep.
BM Satire 10604.
[Ref: 46624] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lunnun is the Devil.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 145 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½"). Trimmed.
A comic scene illustrating a verse from a song 'Lunnun is the Devil' which describes a countryman's visit to London.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 46330] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Manning the Navy [&] Ancient Modes of Manning the Navy Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), 1794]
Two engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Small margins.
Two prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', reissuing (in two parts) a print first published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1790 (see BM Satires 7753), showing a press-gang at work on Tower Hill (the Tower of London and ships on the Thames can be seen in the background). Press warrants were issued in May 1790 on account of naval preparations against Spain.
BM Satires 8447 (Manning the Navy); 8501 (Ancient Modes).
[Ref: 45863] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Night Mayor_or Magistratical Vigilance.
Pub.d Nov.r 9.th 1816 by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark 1816. Plate: 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾").
A satirical scene set in a cellar, the Mayor, Sir Matthew Wood, followed by two constables descend the stairs to the alarm of many of the occupants of the room. A watchman, who hasn't noticed the constables lifts his glass of gin in a toast.
BM Satire 12816.
[Ref: 46612] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

On. Guard. Off. Guard. Guarded.
[Paul Pry Monogram.][William Heath.]
Pub by Tho. McLean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"). Trimmed and mounted into album sheet.
Three scenes showing the demise of a soldier, on the left the soldier stands proud and on guard, the centre image shows the soldier drunk and leaning on a lamp post and the final image shows him in prison having been court martialled.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 46642] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Paddy Shannon Courting the Widow Wilkins.
[Publish'd June 24. 1808. by LAURIE & WHITTLE. 53. Fleet Street, London]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8½ "). Trimmed, title excised and glued to bottom of image.
Heading to a song 'Written by an Amateur, expressly for Mr. Johnstone, and sung by him at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with unbounded Applause, in Mr. Cumberland's New Opera of "The Jew of Moga-dore"'. An Irishman on a rough horse addresses an ugly old woman who leans from a bow-window directly above him.
BM Satire11201.
[Ref: 46487] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch of a row in Parliament Street. [&] Termination of the Row in Parliament Street. Plate 2.d.
[William Heath ]Paul Pry Esqr. Signature.
Pub. April 1829, by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where Caricatures are daily Publishing.
A pair of hand-coloured etching. The first with J. Whatman 1828 watermark; Each plate: 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½").
A pair of satirical scenes showing Eldon and Wellington as brawling market women oppose each other on the Catholic Relief Bill. The first plate shows the pair preparing to fight, the second shows Eldon lying on the floor having been knocked down by Wellington.
BM Satires 15721 & 15723.
[Ref: 46650] £450.00 view all images for this item

Error in Judgement or John Bull taking advantage of a Precedent.
Pub.d Jan.y 15. 1806 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed. Slight discolouration near Pitt.
A satirical print showing the obese figure of John Bull scowling at a bowing William Pitt, Bull reprimands Pitt for his error in judgement. Pitt had made an alliance with Russia which was blamed for the defeat of the allied forces at Austerlitz during the French Revolutionary Wars.
BM Satire 10517.
[Ref: 46627] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Billy in the Dumps or how to Manage Affairs on the Next Meeting of Parliament.
Pub Jan.y 10 1794 by S. Alken No. 14 Castle Street Leicester Square.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Portal & Bridges. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Slight crease.
A satirical scene in which George III and Queen Charlotte walk into a room where a exasperated William Pitt attempts to deal with money and politics. On the desk are three bags labelled 'subscription money' and Pitt holds two documents, one titled 'The Loss of Tolon' and 'A plan for Raising a sum to Enable His Majesty to Carry on the War'. Behind Pitt a black devil leaps above a map of France saying 'Work the Public Billy'.
BM Satires 8434.
[Ref: 46629] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Portugal Catch for three Voices.
Pub.d Oct.r 1808 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russel & Co. 1806. Sheet: 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A satirical scene, showing an army officer, Sir Hew Dalrymple and a figure in Portuguese dress, sitting around a round table drinking port. The print refers to the Convention of Cintra which allowed the return of the French troops back to France, transported in British ships, following their defeat by the Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808. The convention was seen as an embarassment, with the French essentially being allowed to escape back to France.
BM Satire 11042.
[Ref: 46628] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Sailor's Will and his Power; or; a Picture of Portsmouth Point.
[Laurie & Whittle.][n.d., c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8½"). Trimmed.
Heading to printed verses: 'Sung with unbounded Applause by Mr. Emery, at the Harmonic and other Societies'. A sailor consoles his girl, weeping at their parting in Portsmouth; she is holding his will!
BM Satire 11204.
[Ref: 46480] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Scales of Marriage] True love, God wat, is quite & clean forlorn / When Parents Daughters in the ballance weigh [...]
[Nicolaes Braeu after Karel van Mander, c.1600]
Engraving, sheet 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed. Few ink stains on right.
Second plate from a set of six engravings by Nicolaes Braeu after Karel van Mander illustrating proverbs. The set was issued c.1592; this is a later reissue with the Dutch text replaced by text in English and Latin, and the plate number 2 in the lower left corner effaced. A preparatory drawing by van Mander is in the Albertina, Vienna.
[Ref: 46502] £380.00

Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock so Green.
Paxton inv.t.
Publish'd Oct.r 20. 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 170 x 220mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed. Losses in title & borders
An illustration to a song sung by Mr Johnstone at Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. A scene at Donny-Brook Fair in which one man brandishes a shillelah and the other a pipe.
BM Satire 10952.
[Ref: 46477] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[St Martins-in-the-Fields] St Martins in an Uproar.
[by Charles Williams]
Pubd Octr 1 1801 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 240 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Hole upper centre (in church railing). Stamp of S.W. Fores lower right.
Scene outside the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, with clergymen chasing a parson out of the church, while couples on the right assail him. In 1801 Thomas Scott Smith introduced himself to the Curate of St Martins as the nephew of Lord Eldon, and acquired a position at the church. For a month he officiated at marriages, baptisms and burials, before he was discovered, found guilty of forgery and sentenced to death. Etched by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830, fl.), prolific etcher of satires from his own designs and those of other artists (especially Woodward). Almost all his plates are anonymous and little work has been done to establish for certain which prints he made. As a result Williams is little-known in comparison with contemporaries such as Rowlandson and Gillray in spite of the comparable quality of some of his work. This impression bears the 'S.W.F.' stamp of the publisher S.W. Fores, also found on impressions of Fores prints in the British Museum and the Hermitage, St Petersburg.
BM Satires 9779; L.2384.
[Ref: 46557] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Come Old Fellow Dont Be Stingy,_Give Us A Light? Funny Characters No.23.
Printed by I.M. Lefevre.
London W. Spooner 377 Strand. [n.d., c.1835.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Slight foxing.
A comic scene in which a man, with closed eyes puts his pipe underneath a spout asking it to light his pipe.
[Ref: 46634] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Three engravings published in the Carlton House Magazine] Sunday Work which ought to be prohibited [&] The Bakers Sunday Triumph [&] The Rev.d G.H.J. Esq.r
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Three engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Three prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine'. 'The Bakers Sunday Triumph' shows bakers rejoicing while the Albion Mills (a steam-powered flour mill in Southwark, inspiration for William Blake's ''dark satanic mills''; the fire is illustrated in Ackermann's Microcosm of London) burns behind them, in celebration of George III's act forbidding the baking of bread on Sundays. This plate was a reissue of a print by Barlow after Collings titled 'Conflagration! Or the Merry Mealmongers', published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791. It is likely that the other two plates were also reissues.
BM Satires 8482 (Bakers Sunday Triumph)
[Ref: 45862] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Suspension. Lord Port farewell! Dundas adieu! [/] Ill no longer trust to you; [/] Standing thus on Portland Stone [/] I'm head, and Ill secure my own.
Pub.d August 21 1794 by S. Alken. 11 14 Castle S.t Leicester Sq.r.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Staining in left margins. Cut to platemark on 3 sides.
A satirical portrait of William Pitt, shown standing on a precariously positioned block of Portland stone, above his head an axe labelled 'habias corpus' hangs above his head held up by a rope labelled 'Public Opinion'. Pitt had replaced William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland, as Prime Minister in December 1793, but made him Home Secretary in July 1794. He made Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Secretary of War at the same time.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 46626] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Tooth Ache. From an Original Picture by Edward Bristowe in the Possession of W.A. West Esq,r of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards.
Drawn on Stone by Louis Haghe. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London, Published by T. Flint, 28 Burlington Arcade and Rittner Boulevard Montmatre, Paris, 1st February 1828.
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). A few repaired tears, published blind stamp in title.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed in human clothes. One has a bandage around his jaw, visiting a dentist.
[Ref: 45763] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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