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L'Espoir d'un Heureux Jour.
L'Espoir d'un Heureux Jour.
[n.d., c.1780.]
French mezzotint. Sheet: 295 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾''). Trimmed.
A scene in a room showing a young woman, deshabille, looking through her things. She lifts up her ornate hat. The title translates as 'The hope of a good day'.
[Ref: 48843]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Hats.
Hats.
Pubd. Accorg. to Act Octr. 1. 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 245 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾".
Twelve caricature heads showing the different types of hat worn by men. A companion print to 'Wigs' (item 14113). From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 5169.
[Ref: 14112]   £420.00  
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Quadrille - Evening Fashions - Dedicated to the Heads of the Nation. La Poule.
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)
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Hope Told a Flattering Tale.
Hope Told a Flattering Tale.
[Paul Pry monogram of William Heath] Del. et sculpt.
Pub by Tho. Mclean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1827].
Fine coloured etching with hand colour. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 16¼"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1827'. Trimmed within plate.
A grotesque dandy singing, sheet music in his left hand, accompanied on the guitar by a lady with elaborate bonnet.

[Ref: 59474]   £360.00  
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A Scene in Kensington Gardens - or - Fashions and Frights of 1829.
A Scene in Kensington Gardens - or - Fashions and Frights of 1829.
Designed Etched & Publis.d by G. Cruikshank Nov.r 1st 1829.
Etching. Sheet 250 x 270mm (9¾ x 10½"). Some spotting.
Promenaders in the latest outlandish fashions. From the series 'Scraps and sketches'.
BM Satires 15981.
[Ref: 51745]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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A Scene in Kensington Gardens - or - Fashions and Frights of 1829.
A Scene in Kensington Gardens - or - Fashions and Frights of 1829.
Designed Etched & Publis.d by G. Cruikshank Nov.r 1st 1829.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 250 x 270mm (9¾ x 10½"), with Whatman Turkey Mill watermarked dated 1829. Tears in inscription area.
Promenaders in the latest outlandish fashions. From the series 'Scraps and sketches'.
BM Satires 15981.
[Ref: 57287]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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The Knightsbridge Macaroni.
The Knightsbridge Macaroni.
Publish'd according to Act Octr. 22 1772, by MDarly, 39, Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A man strides confidently in profile to the right, a tasselled cane under his right arm. His left hand rests on the end of the scabbard of his sword. His hair is in a macaroni club. His hat is low with a curved brim. He wears a ruffled shirt and cravat, striped breeches, and spurred riding-boots. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.5' upper left and '8' upper right.
BM Satires: 5044.
[Ref: 14303]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lady's Disaster. _ nil ortum tale. Hor.
The Lady's Disaster. _ nil ortum tale. Hor. ... Drawn from the Fact. Occasion'd by a Lady carelessly tossing her Hoop too high, in going to shun a little Chimney sweeper's Boy who fell down just at her Feet in an artful surprise, at ye enormous sight.
J. June fec.t.
Drawn from the Spot and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Decem.r ye 15 [1746]. Price 6.d. [Late impression.]
Engraving. 235 x 310mm (9 x 12¼"), with large margins.
A woman's hooped skirt suffers a wardrobe malfunction on the north side of the Strand. In the background is St Mary-le-Strand.
[Ref: 54335]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lady's Disaster.
The Lady's Disaster. _ mil ortum tale. Horace. [...] Drawn from the Fact. Occasion'd by a Lady carelessly tossing her Hoop too high, in going to shun a little Chimney sweeper's Boy who fell down just at her Feet in an artful surprise, at ye enormous sight.
J. June fec.t.
Published according to Act of Parliament, Decem.re 15th [1770.] Price 6d.
Engraving with large margins. 240 x 310mm (9½ x 12¼"). Paper lightly toned, mounted in album paper; later publication.
A view on the north side of the Strand, looking towards the church of St Mary-le-Strand (described here as the New Church); a lady has tossed her hoop too high and caught it on a hook, displaying her undergarments to the laughing crowd, including a chimney sweep under her feet.
Ex Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd; BM Satires undescribed; for a similar subject see ref. 31750
[Ref: 31749]   £320.00  
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The Lady's Disaster. _ nil ortum tale. Hor.
The Lady's Disaster. _ nil ortum tale. Hor. ... Drawn from the Fact. Occasion'd by a Lady carelessly tossing her Hoop too high, in going to shun a little Chimney sweeper's Boy who fell down just at her Feet in an artful surprise, at ye enormous sight.
J. June fec.t.
Drawn from the Spot and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Decem.r ye 15 [1746]. Price 6.d. [Later impression.]
Engraving. Sheet 380 x 570mm (15 x 22½"), with very large margins. Glued to backing sheet.
A woman's hooped skirt suffers a wardrobe malfunction on the north side of the Strand. In the background is St Mary-le-Strand.
Not in BM. Crace XO11. 134. See also 31749 & 54335.
[Ref: 61987]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Monr. Le Frizuer.
Monr. Le Frizuer.
Pubd. accordg. to Act of Parllt May 21th: 1771 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 150 x 105mm. 6 x 4".
A French hairdresser with fine coat and small-sword, a pair of curling-tongs in his right hand From '24 Caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists, etc.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.1' upper left and '5' upper right.
BM Satires: 4673.
[Ref: 14157]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Droll Doings No. 12.   Well, Lucy dear, how do you do dear? I'm so glad you're come dear!/  (Aside) I wish the fright was at Jericho!
Droll Doings No. 12. Well, Lucy dear, how do you do dear? I'm so glad you're come dear!/ (Aside) I wish the fright was at Jericho!
J: Leech delt. [On stone lower left.]
London: W. Spooner, 377, Strand. Printed by L.M. Lefevre. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 270mm. 14¼ x 10½". Hole upper left. Lightly soiled.
Social satire; two women greet each other, one in a bonnet. After John Leech (1817 - 1864).
[Ref: 12460]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Light Infantry.
Light Infantry. V.5. 4.
Pub - Decr - 18 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching. Plate 183 x 129mm (7¼ x 5").
An obese man in military dress marching in profile to the right. In his left hand he carries a musket with bayonet. His hat has a feather plume and he wears spatterdashes.
BM Satires: 5041.
[Ref: 38219]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Looking Glass in Disgrace.
The Looking Glass in Disgrace.
Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1805 by S.W. Fores no 50 Piccadilly.
Aquatint and etching with hand colour. 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"), watermarked 1796. Creasing in margins, slight soiling.
Despite the bottles of 'Milk of Roses', 'Olimpian Dew' and 'Circassian Bloom', an elderly woman is so unimpressed by her own reflection that she breaks her dressing room mirror with her curling tongs.
BM Satires 11660.
[Ref: 56150]   £320.00  
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My Lord Tip-Toe. Just arrived from Monkey Land.
My Lord Tip-Toe. Just arrived from Monkey Land. V.1. 22.
Pubd. according to Act of Parlt. Novr. 5th. 1771 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching. Plate 153 x 107mm (6 x 4½").
A Frenchified nobleman with a coat, wig and hair in a bag, with hat and sword.
BM Satires: 4686.
[Ref: 38242]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Miss Lovejoy.
Miss Lovejoy.
Pub accor to Act Feby. 9th 1772 by MDarly Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A prostitute with hair dressed high with tight curls at the side, wearing a fur-bordered cloak with a hood over a frilled and flounced petticoat with a looped-up train. Her hands are in a muff trimmed with frills of ribbon. A double row of pearls or beads is round her neck. A well known house of ill-repute in the Piazza, Covent Garden, was known as Lovejoy's. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '12' upper right.
BM Satires: 4995.
[Ref: 14173]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Isis Macaroni.
The Isis Macaroni.
Pub by MDarly accor to Act May 27th. (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
Social satire, an Oxford student in affected nautical costume, rowing (or punting) a canoe on the River Isis. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c designed by the greatest personages, artists &c', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '9' upper right.
BM Satires: 4705.
[Ref: 14229]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lucky Mistake or the Buck & Blood Flourishing Macaroni-playing a Solo on the Jelly Glasses.
The Lucky Mistake or the Buck & Blood Flourishing Macaroni-playing a Solo on the Jelly Glasses.
[William Austin.]
Pub.d as the Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½''). Trimmed along the top edge. Small margins.
A comic scene showing an officer with his hair in a macaroni's club ride past a man with a broken leg that he has just knocked over. Above the scene is a diagram of the macaroni's club below which is a description.
BM Satire 5121.
[Ref: 48367]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Now S.r You'r a Compleat Macaroni.
Now S.r You'r a Compleat Macaroni. 4.
Brandoin Pinx.t. Caldwell sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½") very large margins
A dapper young man with a very high pompadour doffs his hat, hand on sword hilt. He is shadowed by a barber who has to support a huge cushion of hair hanging from his queue. The barber has combs in his hair and scissors in his pocket. First published by John Smith of Cheapside and Robert Sayer, 1772. This example has had the publication line removed and a plate number added.
Not in BM
[Ref: 58289]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Macarony Brothers.
The Macarony Brothers. 3.
Brandoin Pinx.t. Caldwell sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), very large margins.
A comparison of a caricatured dandy and an old sailor, pipe in mouth, clothed monkey on his shoulders. First published by John Smith of Cheapside and Robert Sayer, 1772. This example has had the publication line removed and a plate number added.
See BM 1948,0214.471, 'published by Matthew Darly'.
[Ref: 58291]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Macaroni Haberdasher.
The Macaroni Haberdasher.
Pubd. by MDarly accor to Act (39) Strand May 7th 1772.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
A fashionably-dressed man holds an open chest full of caps and laces. In his right hand he dangles a woman's flat hat trimmed with ribbons. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c designed by the greatest personages, artists &c', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '5' faintly upper right.
BM Satires: 5007.
[Ref: 14231]   £170.00   (£204.00 incl.VAT)
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The Macaroni Mercer.
The Macaroni Mercer.
Publish'd according to Act Octr. 29 1772, by M.Darly, 39, Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
A man carries a roll of material under his left arm; in his right hand is what appears to be a yard measure. He is dressed macaroni-fashion with a large looped club, looped hat, and ruffled shirt. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.5' upper left and '7' upper right.
BM Satires: 5043.
[Ref: 14302]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Macaroni Mercer. V.5. 7.
The Macaroni Mercer. V.5. 7.
Publish'd according to Act Oct.r 29.1772, by MDarly, 39, Strand.
Etching with lage margins. Sheet 234 x 291mm. 9¼ x 11½". Some time staining.
Full-length figure looking to left carrying under his left arm a roll of material; in his right hand is what appears to be a yard measure. He is dressed macaroni-fashion with a large looped club, looped hat, and ruffled shirt. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c', an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 5043.
[Ref: 27877]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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A Macarony at a Sale of Pictures
A Macarony at a Sale of Pictures 29.
Brandoin Pinx.t. Grignion sculp.
Published by Rob.t Sayer, 53, Fleet Street, London [n.d., c.1790].
Rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½") very large margins.
A portly middle-aged man wearing riding boots, embroidered waistcoat and powdered wig peers through an eye-glass presumably at pictures offered at an auction the catalogue of which he holds with his riding crop in his left hand. First published by John Smith of Cheapside and Robert Sayer, 1771. This example has had the publication line changed and a plate number added.
BM Satire 4601.
[Ref: 58292]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Macaroni Provider.
The Macaroni Provider.
Pubd. according to Act July 21st. 1772, by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, plate 195 x 125mm (7½ x 5". Pencil caption in image. Small margins.
A man carries on his back a doll-like woman who takes the place of the exaggerated macaroni club of hair. She is swathed round in black ribbon and so attached to his shoulders in the manner of a club of hair. He leers, and carries a tasselled cane with a sharp handle set with what appears to be a snuff-box. She wears a ribbon-trimmed hat, frilled elbow-sleeves, her body is covered with the black swathing, and her clocked stockings are visible to the knees. Probably this is a portrait of some (alleged) notorious procurer; perhaps Thomas Bradshaw, a Treasury clerk who was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty on 6th May 1772. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c designed by the greatest personages, artists &c', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '23' upper right.
BM Satires: 5018.
[Ref: 56227]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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A Macaroni return'd from Riding.
A Macaroni return'd from Riding. V.4. 21.
Pubd. accorg. to Act Octr. 6, 1772 by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, paper watermarked. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5").
A man standing in profile taking a pinch of snuff from a box, with his hair in a long bag.
BM Satires: 4657.
[Ref: 38222]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Macassar Oil, an Oily Puff for Soft Heads.
Macassar Oil, an Oily Puff for Soft Heads. 265
Rowlandson Del.
[Thomas Tegg, 1814, but 1819.]
Hand-coloured etching, Plate: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾''), on paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mills 1819', with wide margins. Foxing.
A satire on the popularity of Rowland's Oil or Macassar oil, a product for conditioning hair. A barber rubs the oil into a bald man's head, on the floor beside him is a fools cap. Behind them a woman looks aghast in a mirror as her hair stands straight up on her head.
BM Satire 12405.
[Ref: 50808]   £320.00  
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La Folie pare la Décrépitude des ajustemens de la Jeunesse.
La Folie pare la Décrépitude des ajustemens de la Jeunesse.
Peint au Pastel par Ch. Coypel Gravé par L. Surugue en 1745
a Paris chez L. Surugue Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves A.P.D.R.
Engraving, platemark 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Thread margins; pinholes.
Decrepitude, assisted by Madness, dresses in an extravagant costume with outsized beauty spots; cupid with arrow overhead. Allegorical scene after Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752), son of a successful painter who enjoyed early success, inheriting his father's position of painter to Philippe II, duc d'Orléans and becoming favourite painter of Louis XV's queen, Maria Leczinska. Coypel's moralizing genre scenes such as the pastel from which this print derives, are some of his most original works.
[Ref: 40283]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Mama's Cap. [&] Grandpa's Hat.
Mama's Cap. [&] Grandpa's Hat.
R.J.H
[n.d. c.1840]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 185 x 345mm (7¼ x 13½"). Some time staining
A pair of scenes. In the first two children put their mother's hat on a dog; the second a boy puts a tricorn hat and wig on his sister and puts a walking stick in her hand. Their grandfather sits up on his chez lounge as if just woken up, watching them in amusement.
[Ref: 58417]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Pretty Mantua Maker.
The Pretty Mantua Maker.
Pub according to Act Jany. 1. 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 170 x 120mm. 6¾ x 4¾".
A young woman looking downwards over her right shoulder. Her hands are crossed in front over a bundle wrapped in check material which she is carrying. She is elegantly dressed in a hat with ribbons, a cloak, a trained skirt. A Mantua (from the French 'manteuil' ) was originally a loose gown for women which developed into an overgown or robe typically worn over stays, stomacher and a co-ordinating petticoat. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '6' upper right.
BM Satires: 4991.
[Ref: 14176]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Margate Macaroni.
The Margate Macaroni. V.5. 16.
Pub Novr 30 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand accor to Act.
Etching. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5").
Whole length caricature portrait of a man in profile. He is obese with very short fat legs. In his right hand he hold an enormous cane which rests on the ground, and in his left a lorgnette. He wears a looped macaroni club, a laced hat and coat with a sword.
BM Satires: 5049.
[Ref: 38215]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Mode du Jour  No: 6.
Mode du Jour No: 6. Les Decroteurs du Palais Egalite.
Dessine par Desrais. Grave par Florion.
A Paris chez Basset Md. d'estampes et Fabricant de Papiers peints pour Tenture. Rue St. Jacques No. 670 [n.d., c.1805]. Depose a la Bibliotheque N le
Hand-coloured engraving, rare, image 190 x 285mm. 7½ x 11¼". Lacking margin to left and right; stitching holes and vertical fold.
Boot scrapers clean the boots of two fashionably-dressed young men in their Parisian premises; two young women outside seen through a window, one of them holding "Liste des demoiselle du palais egalite". From a series of social satires on fashion and mores in Paris by Claude-Louis Desrais (1746 - 1816).
[Ref: 24289]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Front, Side View, And Back Front, of a Modern fine Gentleman.
Front, Side View, And Back Front, of a Modern fine Gentleman.
Design'd by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r.
[London Publish'd March 24th 1783 by J.R. Smith N83 opposite the Pantheon Oxford Street]
Stipple, sheet 225 x 260mm (8¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed, losing publication line. Foxing.
Three views of a slim and foppish young man demonstrating the fashion of the day. Caricature by Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Tim Clayton).
BM Satires 6342.
[Ref: 41552]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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[Front, Side View, And Back Front, of a Modern fine Gentleman.]
[Front, Side View, And Back Front, of a Modern fine Gentleman.]
[Design'd by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r.]
[London Publish'd March 24th 1783 by J.R. Smith N83 opposite the Pantheon Oxford Street]
Stipple, proof before title. Sheet 230 x 260mm (9 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, perhaps losing publication line, pencil mss. in title area.
Three views of a slim and foppish young man demonstrating the fashion of the day. Written in pencil is 'Gilbert Our Macaroni from Bow'; perhaps this is a clue to the identity of Bunbury's subject.
BM Satires 6342. See Ref: 41552 for lettered example
[Ref: 54349]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Eccentricities, Monstrosities, or Bell's and Beau's of 1799.
Eccentricities, Monstrosities, or Bell's and Beau's of 1799.
Pub.d July 1st 1799 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly, Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching, plate 250 x 390mm (9¾ x 15¼") with small margins. Slightly foxed, leftover glue stains on the back.
People dressed in latest fashions promenade in a park. A man, extravagantly dressed, looks away from two ladies, wearing eccentric clothes. In the background are three other people similarly dressed and a seat on which sit a beau and a belle.
BM Satires: 9455.
[Ref: 59090]   £360.00  
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Much Ado About Nothing!!!
Much Ado About Nothing!!!
[Paul Pry monogram, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub 1828 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Very fine etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼") Trimmed to plate.
A tiny woman with oversized hair, hat, sleeves and skirt.
BM: 1985,0119.251.
[Ref: 59478]   £390.00  
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Much Ado About Nothing!!!
Much Ado About Nothing!!!
[Monogram of Paul Pry] Esq.r Del.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 355 x 245mm (14 x 9"), with wide margins.
A woman dwarfed by her enormous hat and skirts. 'Paul Pry' was a pseudonym of William Heath (1794-1840).
BM: 1985,0119.251.
[Ref: 54580]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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My Girl.
My Girl.
F. Mercer delin.t Drawn on Stone by A. Parsey.
Published by T. Smyth and Sold by A. Parsey 10 & 11, Burlington Arcade. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph. 299 x 227mm. 11¾ x 9". Some slight creasing.
A satirical print; a tall slender woman /girl stands next to a shorter stout woman holding an umbrella and with a remarkable smile on her face as she looks up at the girl.
[Ref: 27787]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Neck or Nothing! or Quite the Kick.
Neck or Nothing! or Quite the Kick.
427 Dighton del.
London: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No 69 St Paul's Church Yard. [n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Very large margins.
A dong-haired dandy, arms crossed, smiling complacently. 'The Kick' denotes the present fashion.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32962]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Neck or Nothing! or Quite the Kick.
Neck or Nothing! or Quite the Kick.
427 Dighton del.
London: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No 69 St Paul's Church Yard. [n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate.
A dong-haired dandy, arms crossed, smiling complacently. 'The Kick' denotes the present fashion.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32963]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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A New Coat.
A New Coat. Deuce takem! It fits like a Pursers Shirt on a Hand-spike.
M.E. [Egerton] H. Pyall sc.
[London: George Hunt? c.1825.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, losing publication line?
A dandy stands at his dressing-table (left), looking over his shoulder, agonized at the deeply corrugated back and sleeves and gaping tails of his blue evening coat, which is worn over tight black pantaloons, buttoned above the ankle. Thomas Mclean reissued this plate in 1827 with his address just under the image.
See BM Satires 15482 for McLean's re-issue.
[Ref: 59445]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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A New Situation!
A New Situation!
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub March 20th 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching on watermarked paper, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1828'. Shee size: 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
A scene on a street corner where an eleborately dressed older woman (right), with an oversized hat and frilled dress with large ballooned sleeves, and a dog at her feet, looks down on a younger woman, carrying a wicker basket. The older woman asks 'Bless me Mary_is that you - where do you live now?', to which the younger woman glumly replies, 'If you please mam - I dont live no where now, I'm Married!'. By William Heath (1794/5-1840) ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. He published regularly with Thomas McLean.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 32026]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Oriental Macaroni.
The Oriental Macaroni.
Pubd accordg to Act Jany. 16th 1773, by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
A somewhat quirkily-dressed man looks through a single eye-glass held in his left hand. He wears a hat, an unusually patterned waistcoat, shirt with lace ruffles and cravat, and striped breeches. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V5' upper left and '21' upper right.
BM Satires: 5053.
[Ref: 14295]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Parisian Elegance.
Parisian Elegance.
Publish'd July 6th. 1803. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 200 x 245mm (8 x 9¼"). Trimmed.
A scene showing two women, the figure on the right wears a white dress which is very low-cut while the figure on the right wears a shawl wrapped around her.
[Ref: 43968]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Modern Peeping Tom's who deserve to be sent to Coventry!!!
Modern Peeping Tom's who deserve to be sent to Coventry!!!
[William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub by T. McLean Haymarket London. [n.d., c.1829].
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 380mm (9½ x 15''). Trimmed, tipped into album sheet. Foxing.
A scene in which dandified rakes peer closely at women who promenade on their worried looking husbands' arms. One figure, in the centre of the image, states, 'I say Bob, there's some good points about this one'. By William Heath (1794/5-1840) ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. He published regularly with Thomas McLean.
[Ref: 50806]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Porter Macaroni.
The Porter Macaroni. V.3. 2.
Pubd. by MDarly Apl. 3d. 1772 accor to Act (39) Strand.
Etching. 179 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Cut to platemark.
Standing figure of a slim man. The profile and the enormous looped queue ae caricatured. In his left hand he holds a long tasselled cane. He wears a three-cornered hat and ruffled shirt.
BM Satires: 5006.
[Ref: 38201]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Protecting Macaroni.
The Protecting Macaroni.
Pubd. accordg. to Act Octr. 9. 1772. by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A man in shirt and breeches is being laced into stays by a shorter man, a valet or perhaps tailor, who stands behind him. The taller man is knock-kneed and has some resemblance to 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. On the ground is a goblet to which a label is attached, inscribed ‘Duplicate 5. 5. 0.’ From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.4' upper left and '24' upper right.
BM Satires: 5038.
[Ref: 14235]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Now S.r You'r a Compleat Macaroni.
Now S.r You'r a Compleat Macaroni. Le Petit Maitre Partant Pour La Promenade.
[After Brandoin.]
[n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate: 260 x 180mm (10½ x 7''), with very large margins.
A satirical scene showing a barber finishing a macaroni's queue.
[Ref: 48530]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Retour de Paris or the Neice presented to her Relatives by her French Governess.
Le Retour de Paris or the Neice presented to her Relatives by her French Governess.
EHL del 1816___Etched by G Cruikshank.
Pub.d by H. Humphrey St. James's St. January 3d. 1817.
Hand-coloured etching. 274 x 380mm (10¾ x 15").
An elderly couple, plainly dressed in a very old-fashioned manner, watch with shocked dismay an over-dressed Frenchwoman who takes by the wrist an equally over-dressed girl, making her curtsey, as she does herself. Their dresses are high-waisted, flounced, and vandyked, with neck-ruffles and short puffed sleeves. Both wear huge bonnets with erect cylindrical crowns, grotesquely trimmed, long gloves, each with a reticule dangling from the arm. A French servant in livery stands chapeau-bras, a band-box slung from his arm, shrugging his shoulders to express horrified surprise. A plainly dressed young girl standing behind her aunt grins in astonishment at the visitors. A dog and cat register hostility towards a cringing lap-dog shaved in the French manner, which is attached to the servant with a string. The room is panelled and carpeted, with one side-table, and is probably a hall or ante-room in a country house.
BM Satires: 12922. Cohn: 1314.
[Ref: 30567]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Review.
The Review.
[Drawn and engraved by John June.]
London. Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard. [n.d., c.1770.]
Etching. Sheet 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed close to plate, mounted on album paper. Slight diagonal crease not visible on front.
A scene ridiculing skirt hoops while proposing 'a new Invention by your Sexe's Friend' (a skirt which can be contracted to fit through narrow spaces by pulling two cords). The woman on the left demonstrates this innovation outside Long's Warehouse in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden where a shop sign of a woman in a petticoat is being raised into position. To the right we see 'The Round Hoops condemnd': a weeping woman is tried before a magistrate's court, apparently for wearing the round hooped petticoat which is suspended above her head (drawing comparisons with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the distance). First published by John June c.1750, this later state has a different publication line and the number '76' added in the lower right.
Ex Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd; BM Satires 1991.
[Ref: 31750]   £340.00  
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