Grosvenor Prints

[George IV] Diamond Cut Diamond_Intended as a Frontispiece to the Phamplet.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Aug.t 15th 1806 by SW Fores No50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching, Whatman 1804 watermark. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), large margins.
Satire on the dispute between the Prince of Wales and jeweller Nathaniel Jefferys. The Prince was once a customer of Jefferys but was slow to pay his bills. Jefferys claimed to have lost a considerable sum of money in the settlement of his account with the Prince. In 1806 he requested 400 guineas for his son to be an articled solicitor and went on to write a pamphlet 'exposing' the Prince's conduct which went through nine editions in year this print was published. Jeffery's pamphlet started a pamphlet war, as part of which the theatrical writer Gilliland wrote 'Diamond cut Diamond' in defence of the Prince.
BM Satires: 10592, with extensive description.
[Ref: 58342] £360.00

Going on Duty.
T.A. Del.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Very rare etching. 175 x 175mm (7 x 7"), large margins. Album paper pasted over platemark on left.
A journeyman parson going on duty, riding a reluctant horse that has dug its front hooves in.
[Ref: 58299] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Good Dinners 1st Course. Vinegar. Cods Head & Shoulders with Oyster Sauce. Pepper. French Rolls. Essence of Lobster. Soup & Boulli. Melted Butter.
[William Cole?]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 340mm (9 x 13½"). Trimmed close to image.
A sheet with six satirical images titled with the name of a dish. For example, 'Cods Head' shows a boy throwing an oyster shell into the face of a fish merchant, causing him to lose control of the tray he is carrying, with a fish head landing on a passerby.
[Ref: 58282] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Greenwich Pensioner. 'Twas in the good Ship Rover. / I sail'ed the world around. / And for three years and over, / I ne'er touch'd British ground. / At last in England landed, / I left the roaring main. / Found all relations stranded. / And went to sea again...
Published 22.d May 1791 by Rob.t Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured mezzotint. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, a few creases, laid on album paper at edges.
Two pensioners, one on the left with a wooden leg, sit drinking and smoking, with one telling his story to the other while a maid listens behind; the Greenwich Hospital in the background.
[Ref: 58487] £480.00

The Haberdasher Dandy [old ink mss.] "He! He! nothing talked of but Dandies Mem now Mem! what is the next thing I shall have the felicity to do for you Mem!!" / ''The next thing Mr Dandy is to measure that over again, and see how much you have cut Short.''
[C.Williams fec.t]
[London Pub.d by Thos Tegg No.111 Cheapside.] [n.d., c.1817.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions, mounted on album paper watermarked 1814.
The interior of a shop, with the haberdasher gossiping while cutting cloth.
BM Satires 13075.
[Ref: 58350] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[George Frederic Handel] The Charming Brute. The figures odd - yest who wou'd think Within this Tun of Meat and Drink, There dwells the soul of Soft Desires, And all that Harmony inspires; Can contrast such as this be found? Upon the Globe's extensive Round; There can - you Hogshead is his Seat His sole Devotion is to Eat.
[Joseph Goupy]
[n.d. c.1754]
Fine hand coloured etching, plate 320 x 245mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, long repaired tear bottom right corner, other small tears. Some creasing within the plate mark. Surface dirt.
A verson of Joseph Goupy's caricature of George Frederic Händel (1685-1759). It depicts him as a gluttonous pig sitting on a barrel of wine at the organ surrounded by instruments, dead chickens, plus food and drink such as 'Turtle soup'. A shopping list unfurls from his pocket encompassing entirely of expensive delicacies. Handel and Goupy were good friends until they had a falling out in 1743 which caused Goupy to produce this satire.
See BM Satires: 3273 for other version.
[Ref: 58329] £2,000.00

[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 (£540.00 incl.VAT)

[William Hanger.] Lord [image of a sword]
Drawn & Pub.d by Dighton Char.g Cross. Jan.y 1808.
Hand-coloured etching. 280 x 175mm (11 x 7"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1801', very large margins. Slight spotting at top of plate. Crease top right.
A caricature of William Hanger, third Lord Coleraine, in riding dress with spurs, cane under his arm Hanger (1744-1814) was MP for East Retford 1775-8, Aldborough 1778-80 and St Michael's 1780-4. In 1794 he succeeded his elder brother John in the barony (Irish Peerage), in turn succeeded by his brother George.
BM Satires: 10154.
[Ref: 58407] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Harley?] The City Apprentice at S.t James's.
[Every Man’s Magazine, 1st February, 1772.]
Etching with engraving, sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A man in a toupet wig and an embroidered waistcoat takes a pinch from a snuffbox, indentified in BM Satires as probably Thomas Harley, third son of the third Earl of Oxford, who was the leader of the Court party in the City. On the left is a beefeater; behind are two men discussing Harley, one of which is Lord North.
BM Satires 4939.
[Ref: 58309] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[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

An Irish Union! No VI. If there be no great love in the beginning.- Yet Heaven may decrease it upon better acquatance.[vide Shakespeare]
[J. Cruikshank 30 Jan. 1799.]
[Published by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly Jan 30 1799 folios of caricatures Lent out for the Evening]
Proof. Etching. Sheet 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining and surface dirt.
A satire on the Union of England and Ireland. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) (left) reads from a folio History of Scotland, while William Pitt (1759-1806) (right) joins the reluctant hands of Paddy (left) and John Bull (right). Dundas, who wears a Scots cap, plaid, and tartan stockings, with a flask protruding from his coat pocket, stands in profile to the right, saying, "I'll read ye a little aboot the same Business in my ain country - you will find how many made the siller frae that time to this - depend upon it Paddy ye will be much happier - and mair independent than ever." Paddy, an Irish farmer, looks round at him with a suspicious scowl, saying, "Now is it Blareying you are at?" Pitt says with a primly complacent expression: "Depend upon it - what that Gentleman says is right - thus I join your hands in Friendship. & one Interest - and whom I put together - let no man put asunder". John Bull stares to the right, saying, "This may be Nation good Fun. - but dang my buttons, if I know what it is about! & Cousin Paddy dont seem quite clear in the Case neither." On the extreme left stands a man with blankets over his arm inscribed 'Tax on Income'. He says: "When you want the Wet Blankets - I have them ready". He is perhaps Joseph Smith, (1757-1822) private secretary to Pitt and crown agent.
BM Satires 9344.
[Ref: 58427] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Jealousy.
A. Crowquill Esq.r inv.t. G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d November 1st 1825 by S. Knight Sweetings Alley Ry.l X'Change.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed to printed border.
A man sits at a table, surrounded by miniature figures enacting scenes prompting him to suicide and divorce.
BM Satires 14905, with extensive description.
[Ref: 58368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Kemble] We serve a King whom we love = a God whom we Adore. Pizarro
Drawn. Etch'd & Pub.d by Dighton. Char.g Cross June. 1799.
Coloured etching. 225 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"), with large margins. Creasing
A slightly satirical portrait of John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) as Rolla the noble Peruvian in the play 'Pizarro', which opened on May 24, 1799, with Barrymore as Pizarro and Mrs Sarah Siddons as Elvira.
BM Satires 9436.
[Ref: 58314] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Gorget raising Recruits for Cox-Heath.
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 4 June 1781.
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 150 x 112mm (6 x 4¼"). Time staining.
An interior scene in which a lady, wearing a riding dress, officers coat, gorget and a large feathered hat, is seated on a settee to the right, with a cane in her left hand. She is looking towards, and addressing, three modestly dressed men who stand to the left. Through the window to the left, the tents of an army camp can be seen. Coxheath in Kent was often used as a military camp, with reviews and mock battles common there.
[Ref: 58390] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Lady in Waiting. 317.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard. Publish'd as the Act directs, 2 Sep.r 1780.
Mezzotint with hand colour. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins. Slight mount burn.
A lady, dressed in a large hat and elbow-length gloves, waits on a grassy bank under trees, the dome of St. Paul's in the distance. She looks coyly expectant.
[Ref: 58389] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Little Pickle.
J.H.J. [Charles] Hunt scul.pt.
London Published by G.S.Tregear 123 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1826.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 290 x 215mm (11½ x 8½). Trimmed into image and around inscriptions.
A very well-dressed 'road-sweeper' with an ample picnic, with mustard pot and a wine bottle with corkscrew, begging for a bit of pickle. A satire on men in reduced circumstances.
Hickman: Pg 118
[Ref: 58492] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Logicians.
Suweyns pinxit. Lambert del.t. Printed by Engelmann G. C. & Co.
London: Published by R. Ackermann, 96, Strand, May 1828.
Lithograph. Sheet 245 x 370mm (9¾ x 14½"). Tear in title area taped, some spotting.
A singerie scene, with three monkeys in Dutch dress, drinking and smoking in an inn. By Antoine Suweyns (Flemish, 1720-89).
[Ref: 58359] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Fun upon Fun, or the first and the second part of Miss Kitty Fishers / Merry thought. No Joke like a true joke. Come, who'l Fish in my Fishpond? 12.
[Paul Sandby]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Framed. Trimmed to image on three sides. Unexamined out of frame.
A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing ahead. Plate 12 of 'Twelve London Cries done from the Life, Part 1st'.
Ex Collection: Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 58494] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Walking Stationer. Memorandum books a penny a piece of the Poor blind. God bless you pity the Blind.
P. Sandby del.t. sculp. 1760.
Etching. Sheet 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Framed. Trimmed to image on three sides. Unexamined out of frame.
An old blind man carrying a basket full of books, being guided by a young boy. Plate 6 of 'Twelve London Cries done from the Life, Part 1st'.
Ex Collection: Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 58495] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Long Sermons and Long Seiges are apt to Lull the Senses.
Pub Feby 1780 by H. Humphrey Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. 165 x 152mm (6½ x 6"), with large margins. Nicks to margins. Some surface dirt.
An army officer with a wooden leg, points up to a portrait of bygone days, with a clergyman sitting opposite him falling asleep. A woman walks in carrying a cooked chicken. Map of the Battle of Dettingham on wall.
Not in BM. Grego I 107.
[Ref: 58435] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Can't You Look the Other Way Now.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq del.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily publishing, the largest collection of any house in London [n.d., etched c.1829].
Coloured etching. 365 x 280mm (14¼ x 11") very large margins.
An attractive buxom woman on a chaise longue lifts her foot to tie on her shoe, addressing the viewer.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 58295] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Take Your Time Miss Lucy. W. Follit's Satirical Sketches No 4.
Printed by W. Kohler.
London W. Follit Publisher City Repository of Arts 63 Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 240 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"). Some soiling.
A monkey tormenting a cat in the kitchen, surrounded by broken pottery.
[Ref: 58444] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

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. 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)

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)

[Gertrude Mahon] The Bird of Paradise.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 2 Jan 1781.
Mezzotint with fine hand-colouring. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, paper lightly toned and chipped in top edge, ink smear in publication line.
Gertrude Mahon, seated on a settee smiling, holding a black mask. On the cushion of the settee is a card ''Admit Mrs M_ to the Mask'd Ball''. She is attractively dressed in the fashion of the period, with a muslin apron. Her coiffure is extravagantly large, with curls on her neck, and is covered by an elaborately frilled muslin cap. Gertrude Mahon (née Tilson, 1752-c.1808) was the Dublin-born daughter of the dowager countess of Kerry. Left £3000 at the age of twelve, she became famous for her love of clothes and notorious adulteries. Needing money, she attempted to become an actress but supplemented her income by being a courtesan. She was last heard of in 1808.
[Ref: 58489] £590.00

A Ladies Maid Purchasing a Leek. 2.
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 vegetable seller sits at his basket offering a bunch of large carrots to an attractive, well-dressed young maidservant who responds by holding a leek in a suggestive manner. First published by John Smith of Cheapside and Robert Sayer, 1772. This example has had the publication line removed and a plate number added.
BM Satire 4603. See Goddard Payes: pg. 198-203
[Ref: 58287] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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)

Setting out for Margate.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
London Aug.st 29 1809. Pub.d by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), large margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame. 'Price One Shilling' erased.
A 'Cit' in old-fashioned dress complains to his fat wife about all the food he is carrying (including the two geese whose heads protrude from his pockets. Their servant announces their boat is ready.
BM Satires 11968, with date partially erased, their guess 1812. See reference 61906 for unframed one with different colouring.
[Ref: 58385] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Masquerade.
London Pub. As the act directs May 20 1822 by John Marshall 140 Fleet S.t.
Fine coloured etching, sheet 130 x 250mm (5¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Creasing on left. Laid on album sheet.
A masquerade party; people wear outlandish costumes and converse. Costumes/people include: Grimaldi/a clown, Bottom, a cat, a solider, a tight roper, a monk and a dwarf.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 58419] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Masquerading.
Rowlandson Del. Price One Shilling Coloured.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Trimmed into image top left and within plate, laid on album paper.
Tightly packed masqueraders in a rotunda, the men old and coarse, the women young and beautiful, shows Madame Catalani. First published in 1811, this example has Tegg's publication line erased.
BM Satires 11808.
[Ref: 58363] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Master Parson with a Good Living.
[Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 25 June 1782.
Mezzotint with very fine hand colour. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"), with large margins. Edges of left margin chipped. Slight marking lower centre.
A fat parson and his family feasting in an opulent residence, a servant in livery uncorking a bottle. The parson's wife wears spectacles. A pair to 'A Journeyman Parson' (BM Satires 3754).
[Ref: 58491] £780.00

The Mathew orama for 1827. or Cockney Gleanings Ain't that a good un now?
Aug.te Hervieu. A. Ducote's Litho.y.
[n.d., c.1827.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 210 x 255mm (8¼ x 10"). Split in lower centre fold.
The actor Charles Mathews (1776 - 1835) playing all 16 of the characters in a Royal Academy exhibition, for his 1827 'monodrama' entertainment, including a connoisseur looking through a box viewer. Each character is captioned below the image, with an accompanying quotation. By Thomas Howell Jones (1824 - 1848; fl.) from a series of 'Mathew-oramas'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 58398] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Measure for Measure.
Drawn by M.E. [Egerton] Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
[Either Hunt 1825/6 or Thomas McLean 1827.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 235 x 210mm (9¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
Two men meet in a grand dining room. When one man says ''I'made y'r breeches'' the other man hears 'Major Bridges'.
Hickman p.69.
[Ref: 58277] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Erostrate moderne, Ecrivant sur les Arts.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Coloured etching. 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814), blindfolded, with horns, seated in a chair marked 'Trésor des Iconoclastes', writing with a quill. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
[Ref: 58454] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Mr L'ane comme il n'y en a point. Peu m'importent les chefs d'oeuvres de tous les arts, pourvu que j'écrase, que je m'élève, et que le chardon ne me manque pas. O gens de goût, reconnaissez la bête.
Inspiré par Crémier.
[n.d., 1797.]
Etching with engraving. 240 x 265mm (9½ x 10½"), with large margins.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) as a donkey with his face, kicking over a bust of Apollo and the Transfiguration of Raphael with his hind legs, trampling the books of Descartes and Racine with his forelegs. It satirises Mercier’s opposition to the creation of a chalcographie nationale to make engravings after the paintings in the Louvre, arguing that anyone should be able to do it. ‘Cremier’ is a fake name. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
BM 1991,0615.132.
[Ref: 58459] £360.00

[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Envain contre les Arts, ce vieux Roquet s'escrime, / C'est le Serpent qui mord la lime.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"). Slight foxing of edges, old ink mss. in list of names, large margins. Creasing.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) as a pug standing upright in the dress of a clerk, quill in hand and book under his arm. He stands before a monument inscribed with a list of artists' names. At the base is a snake with a file (tool) in its mouth. The title roughly translates as 'In vain this old pug fights against the arts; it's the snake that bites the file'. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
[Ref: 58448] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Military Extinguisher!!
London Pub.d by W. Holland No 50 Oxford St April 1798.
Coloured etching. 340 x 230mm (13¼ x 9"). Trimmed to plate on three sides. Time stained.
A massive trooper lowers his bearskin over his commanding officer's head like a candle snuffer.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 58371] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Awful Moments or Monkeys of Honour!! N.o 37. How many Cowards, whose hearts are all as false, As stains of sand, wear yet upon their chins, The beards of Hercules and Frowning Mars; Who inward search'd have livers white as milk: Shakespeare.
M.arks fc.
[London Published by J.L. Marks, 17, Artillery Street, Bishopsgate] [n.d c.1824]
Etching with colour, 180 x 205mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Slight loss lower left.
A caricature of a duel fought in 1824 between Cornet William Battier (fl.1824-) and Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854), both of the 10th Hussars. With a Shakespeare (1564-1616) quote from the 'Merchant of Venice. Act III. Scene 2.' Battier, Londonberry and their seconds Lt-Col. Thomas Weston (-c.1824) and Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785-1856) are depicted as monkeys wearing military uniforms.
[Ref: 58441] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

More Scraps! No 1. I'd be a Butterfly! / Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home! [&] More Scraps! No 2. Is there a Heart that never loved. / I've been roaming. I've been roaming.
Printed by Engleman, Graf, Coindet & Co
Published by R. Ackermann, 96, Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Pair of lithographs. Each sheet 245 x 370mm (9¾ x 14½"). Some spotting.
Four satirical scenes on two sheets.
[Ref: 58358] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[John Morgan] John Doe. Pledge to Prosecute.
Pub.d by G. Humphreys, 27, St James Street [n.d., c.1820].
Scarce coloured etching. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1820'. Trimmed to printed border on three sides, old ink mss. under image, crease, laid on album paper.
According to the manuscript, this is John Morgan, a solictor of Bedford Square. He is depicted as a square-jawed old man in old fashioned clothes, a brief marked 'KB' (King's Bench) in his pocket. BM states that he is a clock/ watchmaker. The National Archives has the will of a John Morgan, a solicitor of Bedford Square, who died in 1821.
BM 14821. BM states that he is a clock/ watchmaker.
[Ref: 58298] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Concert d'Amateurs.
Se vend à Paris chez Noël, Graveur Rue des Noyes No 49 [n.d., c.1820].
Coloured etching. 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾") very large margins. Repaired tears, tape stains at bottom.
Grotesque musicians playing a cello, violin and two flutes, surround a woman pounding a piano. An atmospheric image.
[Ref: 58453] £360.00

New Years Morning, The Old One Out and the New One In.
[Drawn & Etch'd by Theodore Lane. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.]
[London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"). Trimmed into image, title excised and pasted below on album paper, no other inscriptions.
Thirteen gents drinking and smoking around a large table. Two or so drunks, one under neath table. The man in the centre has an empty punch bowl upside down on his head. A clock on the wall shows the time to be just after midnight.
Hickman: p.92, first published by Hunt c.1825.
[Ref: 58242] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Nincompoop, or Hen Peck'd Husband.
Rowlandson sc.
T. Tegg Cheapside. [n.d., 1807 but later.]
Coloured etching, sheet 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾") Trimmed within plate. Time stained.
A small ugly man trots beside his wife, a large, over-dressed, scowling termagant, on their Sunday outing. He carries her umbrella, cloak, pattens, and a bundle in a check handkerchief; she holds a fan.
BM Satires 10909.
[Ref: 58432] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Odd Fellows from Downing Street complaining to John Bull. 168.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Time stained.
A satirical scene in Birdcage Walk, Westminster, with John Bull in conversation with a group of men. 'Oddfellows' were members of a society established to join 'ordinary' people together to improve their situation. This satire suggests they had little to choose between the 'Ins' and the 'Outs', parties that were plunderers of the public when in office.
BM Satire 10988.
[Ref: 58484] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Old English Squire] Buys an Historical Picture. St. Anthony Preaching to the Fishes. Zooks! I ne'er understood that fishes could hear,/ But tis painted so lively the fact seems quite clear.
Published May 1821, by Tho.s Mc.Lean, Hay Market.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, pt Whatman watermark 160 x 225mm (6¼ x 8¾"), very large margins.
A bearded figure dressed as a monk on the sea shore addressing an audience of rather grotesque sea creatures. A satire referencing St Antony of Padua (1195 - 1231), of whom it is said that fish rose out of the water to hear him preach. From 'The Old English Squire. A jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free: a poem in ten cantos by John Careless, Esq'.
[Ref: 58413] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Old English Squire] Sees a Water Kelpy. The Kelpy it was __ he knew by its face / T'was the same their Scotch Gardiner had seen at that place.
Published May 1821, by Tho.s Mc.Lean, Hay Market.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 160 x 225mm (6¼ x 8¾") very large margins.
A monster rises from the water of a lake with a ruined building behind. In the sky is a half-moon with a sleeping face. From 'The Old English Squire. A jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free: a poem in ten cantos by John Careless, Esq'.
[Ref: 58414] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The New Fashioned Phaeton. Sic Itur ad Astra.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 22d Feb.y 1776.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Tear just entering plate at bottom repaired, mounted on album paper.
A phaeton and pair outside a town house, the body of the carriage raised on an expanding trellis-work to the level of the first-floor windows. A gentleman who holds the reins in his left hand leans forward to assist into the carriage a lady who is stepping through the window and over the low iron railing of the balcony. He wears a small hat, a looped macaroni club, laced coat, and top-boots. She is elaborately dressed in the height of the fashion with a vast pyramid of hair decorated with enormous ostrich feathers.
BM Satires 5394
[Ref: 58496] £490.00

Picking A Drum-Stick Fait Sir! And I'd be mighty sorry to be after _ taking y'e at your own Valuation!
M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
[Either published by Tho.s M.cLean or George Hunt] [n.d. c1827]
Etching hand coloured with aquatint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet. Some time staining.
A young fop admires himself in the mirror of a tavern. Another ruddy nosed man with whom he was dining picks a chicken bone clean. A butler laughs.
Hickman page 70. Not in BM.
[Ref: 58424] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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