Grosvenor Prints

Garibaldi
G. le Gray [c.1865]
Photo signed in plate as normal, approx 280 x 200mm (11 x 8") Image and text cut out separately and attached to backing sheet.
The Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Portrait by French photographer Gustave le Gray (1820-84), who arrived in Sicily in 1860 when Garibaldi was in the midst of liberating it from Bourbon rule. Le Gray's portrait of Garibaldi was widely distributed in engraved form, thus publicising Garibaldi's enterprise.
[Ref: 43210] £450.00

The Jersey Smuggler detected; - or - Good cause for Discontent [Seperation]. _ ''Marriage vows, are false as Dicers oaths.''
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d May 24th 1796 by H. Humphrey N 18. New Bond St.
Coloured etching. 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Small margins. A few spots.
Caroline of Brunswick discovers the Prince of Wales in bed with Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey. She gestures through a door to a crib with Princess Charlotte asleep. Above the Princess's head hangs a 'Map of the Road back to Brunswick'. Jersey's part in the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales was well known, gaining sympathy of Caroline and distain for Jersey. The quote is from Hamlet.
BM Satires 8806.
[Ref: 54606] £680.00

The York-Minuet.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Dec.r 14th 1791. by H. Humphrey No 18 Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 225 x 280mm (9 x 11") very large margins Crease in top left corner, stains.
George, Prince of Wales, dances with Frederica, Duchess of York, who shows not only her famously small feet but also an immodest amount of leg.
BM Satires 7933.
[Ref: 54603] £520.00

[George, Prince of Wales] The Grand-Signior retiring.
J.s G.y d. et f. [James Gillray]
Pub.d May 25th. 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Small margins. Stitch holes in left edge, a few spots.
A fat and pompous Prince of Wales leaves his bedroom and walks towards that of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey. Her husband, George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, dressed in his nightclothes, lights the way with a candle and raises his night-cap deferentially, although George brushes him off. A torn map of the back of a door is titled 'A Map of the Road into the Harbour of Jersey'. Lady Jersey, a 40-year-old mother of ten and grandmother, replaced Maria Fitzherbert as George's principal mistress in 1794.
BM Satires 8807.
[Ref: 54604] £680.00

Thomas Gill.
T.Murray Pix: I.Smith fec: et [ex:]
[Published by Smith, c.1694.]
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm. Repairs in lower corners.
Son of the physician of the same name, shown with bow and arrow.
CS: 108.
[Ref: 15677] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Un Diplomatique, settling affairs at Stevens's. Comte Haslang [ms in lower margin]
Pubd June 9th 1797 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Square.
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 340 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; slight crease.
Count Haslang sits in Stevens's, the fashionable Bond Street coffee-house, holding a wine-glass as if gesticulating in response to some person (not pictured) at whom he looks sourly. Haslang, Bavarian envoy to London, had long the subject of ridicule for both his love affairs and lack of money.
BM Satires 9067.
[Ref: 50337] £480.00

[Charming - well again.]
[After James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Staining.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. After a scene from James Gillray's series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires.
After BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 49946] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to printed border, long tear taped. Damaged.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 59505] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J. Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 61791] £360.00

Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 61792] £320.00

Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear taped top left.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 59502] £380.00

Breathing a vein.
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 59503] £380.00

Breathing a vein.
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 61790] £360.00

Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jany. 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½").
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 59504] £380.00

Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 61793] £320.00

[Yachting]
Gray [in image]. Joseph Gray [in pencil].
1924.
Etching signed by the artist, 150 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild. Time staining.
A scene in a marina, with people waving off a racing yacht. Joseph Gray (1890-1962) was a painter and etcher of landscapes, architectural subjects and battlefield scenes (WWI).
[Ref: 62622] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Greyhound.]
H. Rayner. Henry Rayner [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1939.]
Drypoint etching. Platemark: 145 x 125mm (5¾ x 5"), with very large margins.
A portrait of a Greyhound. Limited to 15 pulls. Rayner (1902-1957) worked in the Antipodes before studying at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Sickert.
[Ref: 40130] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Sienna Dog [pencil]. [Griffon Bruxellois]
H.Rayner.
[n.d., c.1942.]
Drypoint etching, printed in brown, signed in pencil. 180 x 140mm.
Also known as 'Alfie'. Rayner (1902-1957) worked in the Antipodes before studying at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Sickert.
[Ref: 10719] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Alfie [pencil]. [Griffon Bruxellois]
H.Rayner.
[n.d., c.1942]
Drypoint etching, printed in sanguine, signed in pencil. 180 x 140mm.
Also known as 'The Sienna Dog'. Rayner (1902-1957) worked in the Antipodes before studying at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Sickert.
[Ref: 10718] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Edmundus Halleius. Astronomus Regius Geometriæ Professor Savilianus.
T. Murray pinx. 1712. John Faber Fecit 1722.
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No 69 St Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d., but watermarked 1817.]
Mezzotint with very large margins. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), astronomer, the first to calculate a comet's orbit. At the University of Oxford his studies of the theories of Sir Isaac Newton inspired him to write his own 'Principles', which he published with his own money in 1687. In 1721 he was made Astronomer Royal and began an 18 year study of the moon's complete revolution through its ascending and descending nodes. He also wrote another important treatise called Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis (Synopsis on Cometary Astronomy), which he started in 1682 and published in 1705. In this he mathematically demonstrated that comets move in a elliptic orbits around the sun and how over time they would pass the same point. His accurate prediction of the return of what is now Halley's Comet in 1758 validated his theory.
CS:173, this late state not listed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome Library no. 3948i.
[Ref: 34139] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Edmundus Halleius, Astronomus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus.
T. Murray pinx 1712. John Faber Fecit 1722
Sold by Faber in fountain Court near ye Fountain Taverne in the Strande
Mezzotint with very large margins on 3 sides, 1817 watermark; sheet 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), astronomer. He went to the University of Oxford, where he studied the theories of Sir Isaac Newton. Because he was so intrigued with these theories, it inspired him to write the Principle which he published with his own money in 1687. In 1721 he was made Astronomer Royal and began an 18 year study of the moon's complete revolution through its ascending and descending nodes. During his life he also wrote another important treatise called Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis (Synopsis on Cometary Astronomy). It was started in 1682 and published in 1705. In this he mathematically demonstrated that comets move in a elliptic orbits around the sun and how over time they would pass the same point. He had such an accurate prediction that when the comet (now Halley's Comet) returned in 1758, it validated his theory. Engraved from a portrait by Thomas Murray (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford). Murray's painting shows Halley pointing to a globe with buildings behind him, although the composition has been reduced and the background removed here.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS II of III; for first state see ref. 34102.
[Ref: 34112] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Edmundus Halleius, Astronomus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus.
T. Murray pinx 1712. John Faber Fecit 1722
Sold by Faber in fountain Court near ye Fountain Taverne in the Strande
Mezzotint, sheet 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Repaired damage upper right; rare in this state.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), astronomer. He went to the University of Oxford, where he studied the theories of Sir Isaac Newton. Because he was so intrigued with these theories, it inspired him to write the Principle which he published with his own money in 1687. In 1721 he was made Astronomer Royal and began an 18 year study of the moon's complete revolution through its ascending and descending nodes. During his life he also wrote another important treatise called Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis (Synopsis on Cometary Astronomy). It was started in 1682 and published in 1705. In this he mathematically demonstrated that comets move in a elliptic orbits around the sun and how over time they would pass the same point. He had such an accurate prediction that when the comet (now Halley's Comet) returned in 1758, it validated his theory. Engraved from a portrait by Thomas Murray (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford). Murray's painting shows Halley pointing to a globe with buildings behind him, although the composition has been reduced and the background removed here.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS i/iii ('one known')
[Ref: 34102] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[James Gillray.]
[Pub.d Nov.r 23.d 1796, by H. Humphrey] New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"). Trimmed close to plate on three sides, around title at bottom, losing part of publication line.
A caricature of George Hanger riding a pony past the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', in Grosvenor Street, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. Hanger (1751-1824) had served with Banastre Tarleton's Legion as a major during the American Revolutionary War, commanding it at the defeat at the Battle of Charlotte of 1780, in which he was wounded. Returning to England he became a friend of the Prince of Wales and Charles James Fox, becoming known as an eccentric. In 1814 he inherited the barony of Coleraine from his brother but declined to assume the title. In his autobiography ('The life, adventures and opinions of Col. George Hanger', 1801) he predicted that one day the northern and southern states of America ''will fight as vigorously against each other as they both have united to do against the British''.
BM Satires: 8889. See Ref: 58356.
[Ref: 61760] £480.00

[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 23.d 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"). Slight central crease. Trimmed to plate top and left, laid on album paper.
A caricature of George Hanger riding a pony past the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', in Grosvenor Street, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. Hanger (1751-1824) had served with Banastre Tarleton's Legion as a major during the American Revolutionary War, commanding it at the defeat at the Battle of Charlotte of 1780, in which he was wounded. Returning to England he became a friend of the Prince of Wales and Charles James Fox, becoming known as an eccentric. In 1814 he inherited the barony of Coleraine from his brother but declined to assume the title. In his autobiography ('The life, adventures and opinions of Col. George Hanger', 1801) he predicted that one day the northern and southern states of America ''will fight as vigorously against each other as they both have united to do against the British''.
BM Satires: 8889.
[Ref: 58356] £450.00

[Warren Hastings] Market Day. ''Every Man has his Price''. Sir R.t Walpole. Sic itur ad astra.
[by James Gillray.]
Pubd May 2.d 1788. by S. W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly.
Scarce etching, Sheet 320 x 445mm (12½ x 17½"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, three small tears taped.
A satire of the House of Lords as cattle at Smithfield Market, the majority wanting to follow Warren Hastings, who is dressed as a butcher but wearing a turban, riding a nag (the horse of Hanover) and carrying off a calf with the head of George III, its forelegs tied together. Pitt and Dundas sit on a balcony unconcerned, drinking and smoking; Fox, Burke, and Sheridan, dressed as watchmen, topple off a watchman's box on which they have climbed to evade the cattle. At the front stands Edward Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, a fervent Hastings supporter. The suggestion is that the Lords were supporting Hastings in his impeachment trial for financial gain.
BM Satires 7310; Clayton 'Gillray', p56-7.
[Ref: 61038] £480.00

[Albina Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire.] Enter Cowslip, with a bowl of Cream. _ Vide Brandenburg Theatricals.
J.s G.y des.n et fec.t.
Pub.d June 13th 1795 by H. Humphrey No 37 New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. Stuck on verso in ink, a description of an oak tree from Bassaleg Monmouth, 10' in width and 470' high, cut down 1810; Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"). Trimmed to printed border. Some toning.
A caricature of Albina Hobart (c.1737-1816., Countess of Buckinghamshire, almost spherical, holding a bowl. Albinia was famed for her society parties at Hobart House in Ham, which involved illegal high stake gambling on the faro card game. She also performed at the private theatre of the Margravine of Anspach at Brandenburg House, Hammersmith. Her size, lifestyle and love of extravagant fashion aimed at her daughters' generation made her a target for caricatures: over 50 satirical prints of her were made. A rare Gillray image.
BM Satires 8721. From the Collection of Miss Harriet Robinson.
[Ref: 58405] £420.00

[John Horne Tooke] French Habits. No 5. Président d'Administration Municipale.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
John Horne Tooke wearing a black suit with a sash, his round hat with small tricolour scarf and tricolour feather on the table beside him. One of a set of twelve. Originally this was a satire of Richard Brinsley Sheridan but after being on sale for only two days, Gillray re-engraved the plate to show Horne Tooke after George Canning intervened.
BM Satires 9200.
[Ref: 59145] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[John Horne Tooke] Political Amusements for Young Gentlemen; - or, -The Old Brentford Shuttlecock, between Old-Sarum, & the Temple of St. Steevens.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Publish'd March 15.th 1801. by H. Humphrey, 27, St James's Street/
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾").
Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head of John Horne Tooke. A satire on Horne Tooke's return to parliament after a by-election for the pocket borough of Old Sarum, at which Temple tried to exclude him on the grounds that he had taken orders in the Church of England.
BM Satires 9716.
[Ref: 63379] £460.00

"Two Pair of Portraits;"_presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain," by John Horne Tooke.
Js. Gillray, invt. & fect.
Publishd December 1s.1798.by J.Wright Piccadilly for y.e Anti Jacobin Review.
Rare extract. 4pp. letterpress with folded etching. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½").
John Horne Tooke sits at an easel, on which are portraits of Fox and Pitt. Sitting on the floor are portraits of Lord Holland and Chatham. Horne Tooke asks "Which two of them will you chuse to hang up in your Cabinets; the Pitts, or the Foxes?''. On the wall is a bust of Machiavelli. The text is a transcript of Horne Tooke's pamphlet with the same title.
BM Satires: 9270.
[Ref: 60225] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Political Amusements for Young Gentlemen; - or, -The Old Brentford Shuttlecock, between Old-Sarum, & the Temple of St. Steevens. No. III.
[after James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1805.]
Coloured etching. 180 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"), large margins. Original binding folds.
Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head of John Horne Tooke. A reduced copy of James Gillray's satire on Horne Tooke's return to parliament after a by-election for the pocket borough of Old Sarum, at which Temple tried to exclude him on the grounds that he had taken orders in the Church of England.
See BM Satires 9716 for Gillray's original.
[Ref: 61006] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk; William Petty, Marquess of Lansdowne; Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton] French Habits. No 2. Les Membres du Conseil des Anciens.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins.
Lansdowne, Norfolk and Grafton stand together wearing the dress of the Conseil des Anciens, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). They stand, wearing robes, caps and cloaks, talking conspiritorially. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9197.
[Ref: 59140] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Two-Penny Whist.
J. Gillray ad viv.m fec.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 11th 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"). Trimmed to printed border.
A game at whist at a round card-table at Hannah Humphrey's house in New Bond Street, shortly before the move to St James's Street. The servant 'Betty' is holding out the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick, a triumphant grin on her face. the bespectacled Hannah Humprhrey sits to her left; then a man identified as either Mortimer, picture-dealer and restorer or Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert); and finally Tholdal, a German. An intimate scene of the domestic arrangements of Gillray & Humphrey, who lived together for many years. A reversed version is visible in her shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808.
BM Satires 8885.
[Ref: 61789] £480.00

[Hunting Dog lying on leopard skin]
C.O. Murray del.t & aaft.
Rare etching. India paper proof with publishers' stamp, Plate 274 x 355mm. 10¾ x 14".
A dog lying, with one eye open looking at viewer, on a leopard skin rug. On the dresser behind him is a violin, bow, book, jug, landscape painting and rifle.
[Ref: 19366] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

End of the Irish Invasion; _ or _ the Destruction of the French Armada.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] inv et f.
Pub.d Jany [illegible] 1799 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street. Pub.d Jan.y 20.th 1797, by H. Humphrey, New bond Street.
Coloured etchinbg. Sheet 265 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Trimmed to image on two sides, to printed border on left, into plate at bottom.
A satire of the attempted French invasion of Ireland in 1796. The French ships, one with the figurehead of Fox, are floundering in rough seas whipped up by windheads with the faces of Pitt, Dundas, Grenville, and Windham.
BM Satires 8979.
[Ref: 64703] £460.00

[John Bull's Progress] John Bull Going to War.
[by John Gillray.]
[Pub.d June 3.d 1793. by H. Humphrey N 18 Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 145 x 190mm (5¾ z 7½"). Trimmed from a four-panel satire.
One panel of a four panel anti-war satire, showing John Bull proudly signing up as an infantryman, but his family in tears. The sequence of the four scenes is: a stout John Bull lazing by his hearth; Bull marching away; Bull's family approach the stone gateway of the Treasury, the three balls of a pawnbroker above it and the inscription 'Money Lent by Authority', carrying their possessions; and Bull's return, one-eyed and one-legged, to his emaciated family in a bare hovel.
BM Satires 8328.
[Ref: 56039] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Keeshond]
H.Rayner.
[n.d., c.1939]
Drypoint etching, signed in pencil. 175 x 130mm.
Rayner (1902-1957) worked in the Antipodes before studying at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Sickert.
[Ref: 4790] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Kettle hooting the Porridge-Pot.
[J. Gillray.]
Pubd. July 23d 1782 by P. J. Leatherhead.
Etching with colour, added by hand, but later, Sheet 240 x 330mm, 9½ x 13". Trimmed.
Political satire: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737 - 1805) (left), as the proverbial kettle, looks at Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806) (right), the (porridge) pot, who is running away down a road in a landscape. Shelburne has a complacent smile and holds out his hands, pointing towards Fox; his left foot is on the neck of a goose, which lies on its back on the ground. He is saying, 'Oh do but look how black his Arse is!' Fox (right) with the head of a fox, his body a large circular pot, blackened underneath, is running away with an alarmed expression, his hands held up, his tongue hanging out. In the centre of the design, between the two figures is a signpost, its arm, pointing to the right, forms into a human hand holding a die in its fingers, pointing in the direction in which Fox is running. The arm of the post is inscribed 'TO BROOKS'S'; from it hangs a rope with a noose at the end of it. On the post hangs a sign inscribed 'To be Lett- either as a Gibbet or Direction Post'. Fox, destitute on leaving office, is running off to his gambling associates at Brooks's club in St. James's Street for his support, while, politically speaking, Shelburne is depicted as equally black. Fox's geese, in caricature, usually represents the electors of Westminster. By James Gillray (1756 - 1815). George suggests that the publisher 'Leatherhead' is fictitious. This is the only satire in the BM catalogue on which that name appears.
BM Satires 6013.
[Ref: 22467] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Guil. Lancaster S.T.P. Archidiac. Middlesex. S.ti Martini in Agris Wesmonast. Vicar. Coll. Regin. Oxon. Praepos. Nec Non Acad. Eiusdem Vice Can. Obijt. 4.to Februarii 1716. Williamsoni Munificientia, et Sua.
T. Murray Pinxit. Geo. Vertue sculpsit. 1718.
Engraving. Plate 387 x 266mm. 15¼ x 10½". Repaired tear into lower edge, crease.
Portrait of William Lancaster, half-length to right, facing front; wearing a wig and ecclesiastical robes and bands; in an oval frame with ribbon and trumpet on top, placed on a draped table, on which lie two upright books and an open book, scroll of paper, and a plan of the façade of a building lettered "Coll. Regin. Oxon conspectus Australis." William Lancaster (1650-1717), the English clergyman and academic who was provost of Queen's College, Oxford; rector of St Martin's-in-the-Fields, and archdeacon of Middlesex.
NPG: D31521. Alexander: 260.
[Ref: 27270] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland] Maecenas, in pursuit of the Fine Arts; _ Scene, Pall Mall; a Frosty Morning.
J.s Gillray ad vivam fec.t.
Publish'd May 9th 1808 by H. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. J. Whatman 1811 watermark. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to printed border.
A caricature of George Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), the Marquis of Stafford, shown walking along with his shoulders pushed forward. On a pillar is a Christie's picture sale catalogue at the entrance to Christie's. Leveson-Gower was the wealthiest man in Britain and spent hugely on his art collection and was one of the first collectors in London to open his collection to the public. He married Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, in 1785, and the pair became infamous for the Highland Clearances of the early 19th century. He become Duke of Sutherland five months before his death.
BM Satires 11076.
[Ref: 61775] £650.00

[General Robert Manners.] '' - Gentle manners, with affections mild, in wit a man, simplicity a child''.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 4th 1798. by H Humphrey. St James's Street.
Etching. 260 x 180mm (10¼ x 7") very large margins.
Probably Robert Manners (1758-1832), grandson of the 2nd Duke of Rutland, MP for Cambridge 1791, gazetted Major-General 3 May 1796, full general in 1813.
BM 9288; the original water-colour, by an amateur (closely followed by Gillray), is in the Print Room.
[Ref: 43268] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[William Markham, Archbishop of York] The Church Militant.
[James Gillray]
Sold by Humphrey, N.º 227 Strand [n.d., 1779].
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Very large margins on 3 sides.
Archbishop Markham, on a prancing horse, leads an army of bishops and clergy under a banner tied to a crozier, 'To Arms O Israel'. A satire of the Church's support of George III's warlike policy against the American colonies. This example has a scratched publication line without date and no aquatint. The BM has a state with a more emphatic publication line of 5th September 1779 and added aquatint, described as 'the first print to which Gillray added aquatint tone'.
BM Satires 6610. Clayton, James Gillray, p.20.
[Ref: 63637] £350.00

A Military Sketch, of a Gilt Stick, or Poker Emblazoned.
[James Gillray.]
Pubd June 11th 1800. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Major-General Lord Cathcart stands stiffly in profile to the left. He wears court dress with a military cast, heavily gold laced, and a long pigtail. His right hand rests on the head of a gold-headed cane. A figured carpet and bare wall complete the design.
BM Satires 9564.
[Ref: 35184] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Man of Importance. 99. "Nee' may his Whiskers loose their hue, "Chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! "But still......."new Grace adorn his figure; "More stiff his boots more black his stock, "His hat assume a prouder cock, "Like Pistol's (would 'twere bigger!) vide Anti Jacobin.
[After James Gillray by Williams.]
[Published by Tegg. n.d. c.1799.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 280 x 215mm. 11 x 8½". Trimmed to plate along left-hand edge.
Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Francis Rawson Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira (1754-1826) was a British politician and army officer.
BM Satires: [copy of] 9386.
[Ref: 24168] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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Pas Noble dul.er ballet (M.r Montjoie) Dans la Lampe merveilleuse, Opera, (Acad.e R.le de musicque.) N.o8.
G.A. [within stone] [Auguste Garneray]. Lith. de G: Engelmann.
[Chez Martinet n.d., c.1822]
Fine hand watercoloured lithograph, sheet 230 x 160mm (9 x 6½"). Some foxing, trimmed.
A portrait of dancer Louis-Stanislas Montjoie (1789 - 1865) in costume in an operatic version of Aladdin. From 'Recueil des Costumes de Tours les Ouvrages Dramatiques représentés avec succès sur les grands théâtres de Paris.' Each issue contained 5 to 20 plates, lithographed by G. Engelmann after A. Garneray, A. Vizentini, A. Faure, H. Lecomte, Leprince, Albert, Fauconnier, Grandville, etc., depicting actors in costumes from plays, operas and ballets for the years 1819-1825.
[Ref: 58233] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Bannister.
T.Murray Pinx. I.Smith ex.
[n.d., c.1700. Published by R.Williams.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of John Banister (1630 - 1679), English musical composer and violinist. He is said to be the first Englishman to distinguish himself on the violin.
CS: 4: ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65424] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Bannister.
T.Murray Pinx. I.Smith ex.
[n.d., c.1700. Published by R.Williams.]
Mezzotint on 18th century watermarked paper. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), large margins. Some foxing.
Portrait of John Banister (1630 - 1679), English musical composer and violinist. He is said to be the first Englishman to distinguish himself on the violin.
CS: 4: ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65426] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon in Spain.
Courtray del. A.H. Payne sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving, sheet 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Tipped into album sheet.
Napoleon peers into the distance on a rock in Spain with a telescope. Next to him a native of the country points and appears to show him the way.
[Ref: 55841] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[John Nicholls] French Habits No. 10. Juge de Paix.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.t.
Pub.d May 15st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', date lost. Narrow margins.
John Nicholls (c.1745-1832), MP for Tregony, in the dress of the French Republican Juge de Paix., as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). Notoriously ugly, Nicholls is shown with his left eye closed, a projecting lower jaw and his upper lip drawn up in a permanent snarl. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9211.
[Ref: 59153] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Natural Crop; - alias - A Norfolk dumpling.
Pubd. Sepr. 21st. 1791. by H. Humphrey N.18 Old Bond Street.
Etching in sepia, 185 x 145mm. 7¼ x 5¾". Uncut sheet.
A satirical portrait of the Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth Duke of Norfolk (1765 - 1842), by James Gillray (1756 - 1815). In his left hand is the baton of Earl Marshal. He wears top-boots, a slouched hat, and his hair is closely cropped. The fashion for cropped hair began in 1791. Earlier caricatures show the Duke wearing his own hair without powder, hanging on his neck.
BM Satires: 8000.
[Ref: 8920] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Palemon and Lavinia. ''He saw her charming; - but he saw not half / The Charms her downcast Modesty conceal'd.''
J. C. Esq.r del.t.
London Publishd Jan.y 23d 1805-by H. Humphrey No 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"), very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1807'. Colour faded.
A yokel, holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile. The verse is Thomson's 'Seasons, Autumn'.
BM Satires 10480.
[Ref: 56157] £380.00

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