Grosvenor Prints

[Bellows] Scraps & Sketches Part 3.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14").
Eight vignette drolls featuring anthropomorphic bellows. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57285] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires of bonnets on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1829.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Spotting.
Seven satires on ladies' hats, including: 'Bonnet Building', featuring four milliners, two on tall step-ladders, trimming a hat far larger than themselves with giant bows of ribbon; and 'Section of the Bonnet Carriage', depicting a carriage shaped accomodate her hat and her bustle. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57292] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Christmas - Time.
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
May 1st 1827).
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in top and bottom edge, some slight staining.
Six vignette drolls on the theme 'Christmas Time', including 'Pudding Time'. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57278] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Comfortables.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1 1830.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14") on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1830. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Six vignette drolls on the theme of 'Comfort', including 'A Batchelor's Comforts', with a man smoking before a fire. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57284] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Comforts.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tear in bottom edge.
Nine vignette drolls on the theme 'Comforts', including 'Christmas Comforts' with anthropomorphic figures of food and crockery dancing. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57275] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Odd Fish.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Sept.r 1st 1832.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tears in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Thirteen vignette drolls mostly with a fishy theme, including swordfish duelling with their bills. In the centre are two elephants, titled "Gentleman and Porters"smoking from a hookah. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57282] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Five vignette legal scenes on one sheet.] "Pleading at the Bar." or - Popular Education - a Farce. Performed every Sessions.
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"), on paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1829'. Tear in right edge, some spotting.
Four legal satires around a central realistic rendering of an Old Bailey trial, including: 'Chamber Practice', in which young lawyers carouse drunkenly; and 'Practising at the Bar', depicting a burglar using a crow-bar to jimmy open a shutter of a bar (pub) door. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57289] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Five scenes of 'Time'.]
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
May 1st 1827).
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Five vignette drolls on the theme 'Time', including 'Time Badly Employed', with a fair including a hot-air balloon, and 'Time is ~', with a man in prison, with a game of real tennis being played against a high wall. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Cruise to Covent Garden!!
[I. Cruikshank F. ?Woodward del.]
[Pub.d By T. Tegg 111 Cheapside Decr. 1. 1812.]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 255 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"); large margins left & right. Trimmed inside plate top and bottom; watermarked 'C Wilmott 1819'
Two sailors carry a sedan chair through the Covent Garden Piazza (St Pauls church is in the background). A glamorous woman topless is in the chair, while on top sits another sailor who commands 'come Messmat[e]s heave a head'.
BM Satires 10900
[Ref: 40798] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A curious Junto of Slandering Elves - or - List'ners seldom hear good of themselves.
EHL del. G. Cruikshank sculp.
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 25, Haymarket, Aug.t. 1st 1835.
Etching. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed into printed border, laid on album paper with some cockling.
An elderly women reads gloatingly from a pile of letters to three others seated at a round tea-table, one of whom uses an ear trumpet. A fifth listens in dismay from behind a curtain. First published by Hannah Humphrey in 1817.
BM Satires 12923; Cohn 1032.
[Ref: 61046] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

An Affecting Scene in the Downs.
[William Heath]
[London - Printed and Published, August, 1809, by Johnston, Cheapside.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½), set in letterpress, watermarked 1802. Trimmed within plate on three sides, letterpress trimmed at bottom, losing publication line.
Sir William Curtis leans over the stern of his yacht towards Castlereagh who is being rowed ashore by a boatman. His yacht is covered with provisions, including a turtle. Underneath the verse is a parody of Gay's 'Black-eyed Susan'. Curtis had a contract making ship's biscuit and other dry provisions for the Royal Navy during the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign, of which Castlereagh was a proponent. This satire suggests that the £8 million cost of the campaign included fine foods for the officers.
BM Satires 11357.
[Ref: 58472] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

An Affecting Scene in the Downs.
[William Heath]
London - Printed and Published, August, 1809, by Johnston, Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½), set in letterpress. Album paper pasted over left edge of image, some damage to right edge. Persons identified in old ink mss.
Sir William Curtis leans over the stern of his yacht towards Castlereagh who is being rowed ashore by a boatman. His yacht is covered with provisions, including a turtle. Underneath the verse is a parody of Gay's 'Black-eyed Susan'. Curtis had a contract making ship's biscuit and other dry provisions for the Royal Navy during the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign, of which Castlereagh was a proponent. This satire suggests that the £8 million cost of the campaign included fine foods for the officers.
BM Satires 11357.
[Ref: 58471] £320.00

The Daffy Club or a Musical Master of the Fancy.
Drawn & Engraved by R. Cruikshank.
Published March 1, 1824, by Sherwood, Jones & C.o.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The interior of the Castle Tavern, Holborn (landlord the boxer Tom Belcher) during a meeting of the 'Daffy Club', men who enjoy gin (daffy), sport and gambling. The walls are filled with portraits of boxers and other sporting paintings.
[Ref: 61306] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Dancing Lesson [set of four]
Etch.d by G Cruik_k.
Pub.d July 8th 1822 by G. Humphrey, 27 St James's St, London. [Pt 2. March 6th 1824 by Humphrey; Pts 3 & 4. March 1 1825..]
Four coloured etchings. Each sheet approx. 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper in a strip, concertinaed into a leather pouch with facsimile of Cruikshank's signature.
Four fine coloured etchings published over a period of four years, showing a dancing master instructing children while accompanying them on the violin. Etched by George Cruikshank (1792-1878). The son of a notable satirist (who died following a drinking match when George was only 19, leaving him as the family breadwinner), Cruikshank was a prolific and celebrated caricaturist from an early age. Alongside contemporaries such as Rowlandson and Gillray, he ridiculed the excesses of late Georgian Britain with devastating effectiveness (George IV eventually paid him 'not to caricature His Majesty in any immoral situation'). These prints date from the time when Cruikshank left behind political satire and moved into humorous book illustration.
BM Satires 14436 [1]; 14899 [3, in 1835 reissue only]; 14890 [4, in 1835 reissue only].
[Ref: 60675] £700.00 view all images for this item

A Second Jean d'Arc or the Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Cordé of Caen in Normandy on Sunday July 14 1793. Who, while he was Villifying some of the more moderate men in the Convention and asserting that they should lose their heads stabed him saying, Villian thy death shall precede theirs.
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pubd July 26 1793 by S W Fores No 3 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼). Trimmed into image on three sides.
In a street, a grotesque Jean-Paul Marat falls to the ground, blood pouring from a gash in his waistcoat. Above him stands a glamorous Charlotte Corday, knife in hand, saying ''Down, down, to Hell & say A Female Arm has made one bold Attempt to free her Country''. Marat was assassinated in the bath on 13th July; news reached London on 22th July, but with few details.
BM Satires 8335,
[Ref: 61886] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Syntax at Vauxhall Gardens.
[Drawn & etched by Isaac Robert Cruikshank?.]
[London, J Johnston, 1820.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Trimmed at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
The cleric, his wife and another couple dine finely in an open-air booth, as other visitors to Vauxhall Gardens walk by. From 'The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis', an imitation of the original work by William Combe. Both Thomas Rowlandson (artist of the original work) and Cruikshank have been credited with the illustrations; the BM thinks it is more likely Cruikshank.
[Ref: 53393] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Syntax Going to Richmond in the Steam Boat.
[Drawn & etched by Isaac Robert Cruikshank?.]
[London, J Johnston, 1820.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Mount burn.
The cleric is sprayed in the face by a fellow passenger opening a bottle. From 'The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis', an imitation of the original work by William Combe. Both Thomas Rowlandson (artist of the original work) and Cruikshank have been credited with the illustrations; the BM thinks it is more likely Cruikshank.
[Ref: 56868] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Train up a Child in the Way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Designed & Etched by George Cruikshank, Total Abstainer from all Intoxicating Liquors and Tobacco.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching, first proof signed in pencil by the artist. 145 x 220mm (5¾ x 8¾"), on thick paper; on verso in pencil "pledge card", very large margins Slight surface soiling.
A moralistic plate, promoting temperance and good education, the title having been lifted from Proverbs 22:6 (King James Bible). On each side are three scenes comparing the plight of the children of drunkards to those of teetotalers.
[Ref: 57557] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon Defeating the Turkish Pacha, at the Battle of Aboukir.
Engraved by George Cruikshank , from the original design of M. Denon, executed at Paris by I. Duplexi Bertaux.
Published September 22, 1824 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint, 1823 J. Whatman watermarked paper. Sheet 210 x 320mm (8¼ x 12½"). Original binding folds, trimmed within plate on three sides, as issued.
The Battle of Aboukir (25 July 1799) in which Napoleon Bonaparte's defeated Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army. From William Henry Ireland's four-volume 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte' 1823-28.
[Ref: 36008] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

An Election Ball.
G. Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1813., but later impression.]
Hand-coloured etching. 'J. Whatman 1834' watermark. Plate: 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½''), with very large margins. Paper tone.
A scene in a provincial assembly room with a musician gallery on the left, various couples dance while some guests walk from the side.
BM Satire 13432.
[Ref: 49091] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Illustr-i-ous Lover or the D, of Cumberland done Over.
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Augt 16, 1801, Pub: by S W Fores N. 50 Piccadily [sic] Folios of Caricatures Lent out.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½") very large margins.
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1771-1851), sits in an arm-chair pressing a knot of ribbon to his lips and says, "Not meet at St Giles's? D-n-n worse than a Dog you use me - not to be allowed to attend as Midwife, Nurse or Chamber maid, D-n-n must I belong to nobody - but I must not complain - I am allways blubbering I talk in my sleep, in short I act the part of a Fool - O the dear Plant, the dear the ever dear Pink cotton - my Charmer, my dearest dear, my adored my Celestial, I have invoked Cupid, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Venus, & all the Deites to Santion our heaven born love, you know I have plunged 7 times in the Hog trough over head & ears, & yet after all such sousing I cannot conquer this heaven born Passion . . . as wheat falls so my Divine affection rises . . . [&c. &c.]. Pray dont read the life of Major Hanger till I come & read it to you - O what a Dog I am." He faces a small oblong table on which is a flowering plant, which he waters from a watering-can held between his legs. Other objects on the table are books: 'Jack the Giant Killer' [a chap-book]; 'Lover Letter Tom Thumb'; 'D of Cumberland'; a print of three standing prostitutes: 'Two Penny Uprights (See Partridge, 'Slang Dict., s.v. threepenny bit.) [a similar print by Cawse has this title]; packages inscribed: 'Alcampane', lollypops', 'Sugar Candy', 'Carraway Comfits', 'Barley Sugar', 'Parmasan'. On the floor are papers: 'My Beauty without Paint'; 'My Angel'; 'My Deer Deer Dear Lovee Love Dear'; 'My Love . . . Adorable'; 'Not sufficiently Expressive of my Noble love & Devine Affection'. Beside the duke stands an open chest of 'Keepsakes', piled up with hats, bonnets, shoes, a comb, powder-puff, and a cracked chamber-pot 'often used by M. Anne'.
BM Satires 9777.
[Ref: 61873] £390.00

The Illustr^ious Lover or the D, of Cumberland done Over.
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Augt 16, 1801, Pub: by S W Fores N. 50 Piccadily [sic] Folios of Caricatures Lent out.
Etching with fine hand colour. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins. On Edmeades watermarked '1799' paper. Slight hole /tear near bottom of box.
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1771-1851), sits in an arm-chair pressing a knot of ribbon to his lips and says, "Not meet at St Giles's? D-n-n worse than a Dog you use me - not to be allowed to attend as Midwife, Nurse or Chamber maid, D-n-n must I belong to nobody - but I must not complain - I am allways blubbering I talk in my sleep, in short I act the part of a Fool - O the dear Plant, the dear the ever dear Pink cotton - my Charmer, my dearest dear, my adored my Celestial, I have invoked Cupid, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Venus, & all the Deites to Santion our heaven born love, you know I have plunged 7 times in the Hog trough over head & ears, & yet after all such sousing I cannot conquer this heaven born Passion . . . as wheat falls so my Divine affection rises . . . [&c. &c.]. Pray dont read the life of Major Hanger till I come & read it to you - O what a Dog I am." He faces a small oblong table on which is a flowering plant, which he waters from a watering-can held between his legs. Other objects on the table are books: 'Jack the Giant Killer' [a chap-book]; 'Lover Letter Tom Thumb'; 'D of Cumberland'; a print of three standing prostitutes: 'Two Penny Uprights (See Partridge, 'Slang Dict., s.v. threepenny bit.) [a similar print by Cawse has this title]; packages inscribed: 'Alcampane', lollypops', 'Sugar Candy', 'Carraway Comfits', 'Barley Sugar', 'Parmasan'. On the floor are papers: 'My Beauty without Paint'; 'My Angel'; 'My Deer Deer Dear Lovee Love Dear'; 'My Love . . . Adorable'; 'Not sufficiently Expressive of my Noble love & Devine Affection'. Beside the duke stands an open chest of 'Keepsakes', piled up with hats, bonnets, shoes, a comb, powder-puff, and a cracked chamber-pot 'often used by M. Anne'.
BM Satires 9777. See Dupl. 61873.
[Ref: 61835] £320.00

The Oppidan's Museum, or Eton Court of Claims at the Christopher.
Drawn & Engraved by R. Cruikshank.
Published March 1. 1824 by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 9"). Trimmed within plate, binding marks along bottom edge.
A view in the cellars of the Christopher Hotel in Eton, where 'Oppidans' (i.e. pupils who could afford to lodge in town rather than at the school) would stay). Curios hang from the ceiling. A drinking scene. A plate from 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle', described by Abbey as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published' because many of the people in the narrative could be recognised.
Abbey Life 325.
[Ref: 60823] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon defeating the Prussian Army, at the Battle of Eylau.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the Original Design of Swebach, Published at Paris.
Published June 6, 1825 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 300mm (8½ x 11¾"). Folded twice as issued, small split taped, album paper stuck over left edge.
The Battle of Eylau (7-8th February 1807), in which Napoleon fought a Russian army that was reinforced by Prussians late in the day. Although the French gained possession of the battlefield, they had suffered enormous losses and failed to destroy the Russian army; the following morning, Marshal Ney observed: ''Quel massacre! Et sans résultat'' (''What a massacre! And without result''). From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53360] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Fanning, Executed 26.th July 1815, on a charge of Poisoning the Family of Mr. Turner, taken from the Life in Newgate. Her Autograph Elizabeth Fanning.
I. R. Cruikshank fecit.
Publish'd August 1815, by W. Hone, 55 Fleet St.
Aquatint with some etching. Sheet: 115 x 195mm (4½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate on right and left edges.
A portrait of Elizabeth Fanning (1793-1815) who was executed for the poisoning of the family of Mr Olibar Turner with arsenic. Mrs Charlotte Turner, the wife of Olibar Turner's son described in her testimony how Fanning had poisoned them with yeast dumplings which had made the entire family violently ill.
[Ref: 41550] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or, Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in consequence of Exporting all our own to Australia!!!!
Designed & etched by George Cruikshank.
Pub.d by D. Bogue 86 Fleet St London [1851].
Etching. 180 x 430mm (7 x 17"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, binding folds as normal.
A variety of white men stand in a port, watching with dismay the landing of a group of caricatured Black women, some in tribal costume. Published in Cruikshank's 'The Comic Almanack 1851'.
[Ref: 51952] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Flannel Coats of Mail against the cold/French or the British Ladies Patriotic Presents to the Army.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pubd Novr 25 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly
Coloured etching, J. Whatman watermark; 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"), with large margins on 3 sides. Creased in centre.
Two pretty women stand on stools as they pull on the flannel breeches of a tall and handsome grenadier, who wears a bearskin cap. In the title 'French' is scored out and replaced with 'cold'.
BM Satires 8349.
[Ref: 61880] £350.00

Flannel Coats of Mail against the cold/French or the British Ladies Patriotic Presents to the Army.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pubd Novr 25 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly
Scarce coloured etching. 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate, printer's crease through title. Stained.
Two pretty women stand on stools as they pull on the flannel breeches of a tall and handsome grenadier, who wears a bearskin cap. In the title 'French' is scored out and replaced with 'cold'.
BM Satires 8349.
[Ref: 61885] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Flea Bites or The Psalm Singer. O Lord what makes the fleas to bite / I never did them harm / At first they came by twos & three's / But now how they do swarm.
[Etched by George Cruikshank after Capt. Simon Hehl.]
[n.d., 1818.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 325 x 235mm (12¾ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate.
BM Satires 13111: etched version 'of a lithograph after Capt. Hehl.'.
[Ref: 54445] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Foot Ball.
Rob.t Cruikshank Fecit. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Aquatint, early impression. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14''). Trimmed, very slight foxing, corners trimmed.
A scene showing a group of soldiers in a group, playing football, some have fallen over in the rush.
Hickman p.104.
[Ref: 50625] £480.00

The Fox & the Goose; or, Boney Broke Loose!
Designed by P. H. Esq.r. [George Cruikshank].
[Published March 17 1815 by Whittle & Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London].
Hand coloured etching. 270 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Damage to margins and significant loss to the title area and publication line. Losses in both the upper left and right corners. Marginalia in top left corner and bottom right.
A very damaged impression of this rare print showing satirical portrayal of Napoleon running from Elba to Paris as a fox with a human head and brandishing a sword. A stream of geese guided by a courier also fly from Elba to the Congress of Vienna, depicted in the inset in the top left corner as seven birds. Four of the birds have human heads, who can be identified in respective anti-clockwise order as the Alexander I of Russia, Frederick William III of Prussia, the emperor of Austria, and finally Wellington. The mounted officer atop Elba is likely Col. Neil Campbell, the British Comissioner in Elba. On either side of the land refugees can be seen desperately escaping by boat.
[Ref: 55849] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Common Garden Orator or Aut Cæsar aut Nullis.
[Isaac Cruikshank]
Pub by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly Octr 14, 1800 - Folios of Caricatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 245 x 385mm (9½ x 15¼") on paper watermarked '1793'. SW in ink on right bottom. Trimmed within plate. Very slight central crease. Right corner missing.
A satire on the dinner to Charles James Fox (1749-1806) on 10th October 1800. The actual tenor of the speech is ignored, except for Fox's contention that he had always been faithful to the principles of 1688, and his rejoicing at the success of America. Fox's inconsistency was a favourite topic (chiefly in relation to the Coalition and the Regency), as was the allegation that his supporters in Westminster were the riff-raff of the district. Fox presides at a dinner of ragamuffins. He stands at the head of the table with a paper titled 'Resolution' before him. There are also pipes, papers of tobacco, measures of Gin, tankards of ale, and one guttering candle. The guests are ruffianly vagabonds and include a chimney sweep, a man with a bludgeon, a ragged butcher with a mastiff representing the band of butchers who supported Fox at elections, possibley a sewer-man who holds an axe and a candle-end alight on the peak of his cap, and a bearded Jew is on the extreme left indicating his (former) indebtedness to Jews. A ragged man (right) fills the pot of a ruffian with a bandaged eye from a tankard inscribed 'The Kings Head C.I.F.'
BM Satires 9549.
[Ref: 58785] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles James Fox] An Old Fox caught at last!!
[by Isaac Cruikshank]
Pub. March 29 1804 by S.W. Fores, N Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), watermarked 'Stage 1798'. Narrow margins.
Fox crawls into a rectangular 'New Opposition Trap', tempted by grapes, venison, champagne & 'Carlisle Bait' (for Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle), watched by Grenville, Sheridan and Windham.
BM Satires 10234.
[Ref: 56024] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles James Fox] Discharged His Majesty's Service. The Republican Soldier!
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Published May 12. 1798, by S W Fores Nº 50 Piccadilly where Folios of Caricatures are Lent.
Rare coloured etching, 18th century watermark; 390 x 250mm (15¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at top, chips in edges, stains at top and bit messy.
Fox, in uniform, stands at attention, holding a musket with four triggers and barrels, two pistols and a dagger in his belt, two grenades in his pocket and a knapsack of combustibles on his back. A blast from his lips reads 'Inflammatory Harrangues To stir up the People to Acts of Sedition - Mutiny - Treason - Rebellion'. At his feet are two papers: 'Punctual discharge of my Duty to my Constituants [scored through and replaced by] Colleagues'; and 'Remonstrance from my Constituents for non Attendance'. A satire impling that the Opposition preached Reform as a cover for revolution.
BM: 9204.
[Ref: 61884] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Rights of Man alias French Liberty alias Entering Volunteers for the Republic.
IC [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub May 7 1791 by W S Fores N.o 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the Compleate Model of th Guilotine also the largest Collection of caracaturs in the Kingdm, also the Head & Hand of Count Streuenzee, &c. admit 1
Hand coloured etching on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Trimmed within plate. Some surface dirt. Very small loss within title.
The print was published shortly after war between Britain and France began in February 1793. The date of 1791 is an engraver's error. A satire on the unpopular recruiting law of 24 February 1793. Recruits, bound and humiliated, are led off by two grotesque French officers, a third drives them along with his sword, "Come along and share in the glory of France." Five famished-looking men have been thrown across the back of a horse, where they lie head downwards, screaming. Into the posteriors of the topmost man is thrust a vertical pole, striped like a barber's, and tricolour, which supports a cap of 'Liberté'; he says, "I wont be a Volunteer foutré". Another man says, "if this is Rights of Man & french Liberty Lord have mercy upon us". On the horse's neck sits one of the officers, pointing to his victim and saying, "Vive la Liberté". A similar soldier leads the horse by a halter, a sword in his hand; he looks back fiercely, saying, "Come along my brave Volunteers, one Sous per Day in Assignats & Plenty of Water." Other men are dragged along by ropes attached to the horse; a woman and two ragged children form a chain to pull back a ragged man who is so dragged; he says, "oh mon Dieu, my Wife & my pauvre Famille". Another ragged man has fallen to the ground. Four other men are being driven along behind the horse by the third soldier; a man on the extreme left says, cowering in terror, "O I do not wish to go to Glory so soon".
BM Satires 7853. Ex Collection of Lib Lindensiana Earl of Crawford.
[Ref: 61892] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Frost Fair] Gambols on the River Thames. Feb.y 1814.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 1814 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London.
Fine coloured etching. J. Whatman 1822 watermark, 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), with very large margins left & right. Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
A satire of the raucus frost fair held under Blackfriars Bridge, 31st January to the 5th February 1814, the last one held. Tents full of drinkers are signposted 'The Nelson' and 'Shannon'; the 'Thames Printing Office' is at work on the left; and a game of skittles is in progress in the foreground right.
BM Satires 12341.
[Ref: 61806] £680.00

[George III] The Little Farthing Rush Light.
IC [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub : Oct.r 3 [c. 1792] by S. W. Fores N.3 Piccadilly, where may be seen the largest collection of caracatures in the world. Admit.nce 1 sh.g.
Fine coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed into plate.
Five heads in night-attire surround a taper with the head of George III as the flame, each blowing at it but their puffs going wide.. The figures are (l-r) Sheridan, Fox, the Prince of Wales, Mrs Fitzherbert and Grey.
BM Satires 8283.
[Ref: 61853] £320.00

[George III] Fast Colours. Patience on a Monument smiling at Grief -or- The Royal Laundress washing Boney's Court Dresses.
GH. inv.t. G. Cruikshank fec.t
Pub.d Oct.r 2.b 1815 by W. Hone 55 Fleet S.t London.
Hand-coloured etching, scarce; Sheet: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed to printed border, paper tone and paper loss in bottom right corner.
A satirical scene showing George III, dressed in a laundresses outfit, washing a large French flag, while Napoleon, sitting upon St. Helena, looks on.
BM 12617.
[Ref: 44409] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV and Caroline of Brunswick] The Beggar's Petition. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man...
I.R. Cruikshank fecit.
London: Published by J. Dawson, Camden Town; and Sold by Every Bookseller and Newsman in the Kingdom. Entered at Stationers' Hall. Price One Shilling. Printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials [n.d., c.1819].
Rare coloured etching with letterpress, watermark T. Edmonds 1819. Sheet 410 x 260mm (16 x 10¼"). Tears entering image at top, edges with archival tape on reverse, some other wear and loss at bottom.
George as a beggar, baggage marked 'Vice' on his back, crown held out as a begging bowl, on the road from The Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park (''The Cottage'') to Brandenburg House, Hammersmith, home of his estranged wife, Caroline of Brunswick. She looks out of a window as he sings to her: ''I ling'ring fall a victim to dispair, / Scorned by the World, by Justice, and by Thee''.
Not in BM; the Bodleian 'Broadside Ballads Online' only has the letterpress.
[Ref: 55202] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Washing the Blackamoor.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
Pub. by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly London jully 24 1795.
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), on laid paper watermarked 'J Whatman'. Trimmed to plate at top, repair entering plate on left taped. Small margins on 3 sides.
Two ladies wash the face of Frances Villiers, Lady Jersey, attempting to remove her mixed-race complexion, helped by the Prince of Wales. She asks ''Does it look any whiter?'', to which the relies are ''You may as well attempt to remove the Island of Jersey to the Highest Mountain in Wales'' and "This stain will remain for ever''. Villiers remained a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline despite her affair with George until the Royal couple's separation. Cruikshank uses the fabled story of how to wash a blackamoor white to satirise Villiers' reputation.
BM Satires 8667.
[Ref: 54607] £360.00

[Prince of Wales] False Liberty Rejected or Fraternizing & Equalizing Principles Discarded. No More Coalitions. No More French Cut Throats.
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pubd March 7, 1793 by SW Fores No3 Piccadilly where may be had compleat Sets of Caricatures on the French Revolution & an Every Popular Subjects, an Exhibition and 1s In the Exhibition is a Complete Model of the Guillotine.
Fine coloured etching, 18th century watermark; 245 x 405mm (9¾ x 16"), with large margins top & bottom. Trimmed into plate on left, old ink mss in edges.
The Prince of Wales as the Prodigal Son, turning his back on Fox and Sheridan to reconcile with his father, George III. The Prince had ranged himself against the Foxites in an effusively loyal speech on the proclamation against seditious writings (May 1792). He was anxious to serve abroad, and his hopeless financial position made him wish for reconciliation with the King. After the breach in 1792 he did not again meet Fox and his friends till a dinner at Carlton House in Mar. 1797. The Prince of Wales stands (left) turning from, but looking towards, Fox and Sheridan, ragged sans-culottes, who kneel (right) on the farther side of a rail inscribed 'Hitherto shall ye go & No Further'. In the background and on the extreme left is the King. Fox and Sheridan weeping, making imploring gestures towards the Prince. From Fox's coat-pocket projects a letter with a tricolour cockade. From Sheridan's pocket issues a paper.
BM Satires 8311.
[Ref: 61882] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Prince of Wales] False Liberty Rejected or Fraternizing & Equalizing Principles Discarded. No More Coalitions. No More French Cut Throats.
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pubd March 7, 1793 by SW Fores No3 Piccadilly where may be had compleat Sets of Caricatures on the French Revolution & an Every Popular Subjects, an Exhibition and 1s In the Exhibition is a Complete Model of the Guillotine.
Hand-coloured etching. 245 x 405mm (9¾ x 16"). Trimmed, slight creasing.
The Prince of Wales as the Prodigal Son, turning his back on Fox and Sheridan to reconcile with his father, George III. The Prince had ranged himself against the Foxites in an effusively loyal speech on the proclamation against seditious writings (May 1792). He was anxious to serve abroad, and his hopeless financial position made him wish for reconciliation with the King. After the breach in 1792 he did not again meet Fox and his friends till a dinner at Carlton House in Mar. 1797. The Prince of Wales stands (left) turning from, but looking towards, Fox and Sheridan, ragged sans-culottes, who kneel (right) on the farther side of a rail inscribed 'Hitherto shall ye go & No Further'. In the background and on the extreme left is the King. Fox and Sheridan weeping, making imploring gestures towards the Prince. From Fox's coat-pocket projects a letter with a tricolour cockade. From Sheridan's pocket issues a paper.
BM Satires 8311.
[Ref: 52369] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[George, Prince of Wales] A Sketch for a Vice-Roy!! The Royal Jersey [Jasey]!!
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank].
London Published by SW Fores 50, Piccadilly, February 22, 1797. - NB Folios of Carecatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. 375 x 270mm (14¾ x 10¾"), with large margins. Stitch marks in bottom margin, small stain in image.
The Prince of Wales wearing a 'Jazey', a bob-wig. through which can be seen insects on the back of his neck. Under his arm a rolled document: 'Thoughts on a Restricted Regency'. The prince started to wear a wig when riding, to keep his head warm. The title alludes to his affair with Frances Villiers, Lady Jersey.
BM Satires 8988.
[Ref: 54610] £420.00

The Gin Shop.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
November 1st 1829.
Etching, sheet 225 x 295mm (9 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate.
The satirised interior of a gin shop, with the products in coffin-shaped containers. The red-nosed customers stand in an enormous gin-trap, one feeding gin to her baby. A skeleton with an hourglass says 'I shall have them all dead presently'. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
See reference 57280 for a coloured version.
[Ref: 61960] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Gin Shop.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
November 1st 1829.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 255 x 295mm (10 x 11½"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1829. Trimmed within plate. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
The satirised interior of a gin shop, with the products in coffin-shaped containers. The red-nosed customers stand in an enormous gin-trap, one feeding gin to her baby. A skeleton with an hourglass says 'I shall have them all dead presently'. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
See reference 61960 for uncoloured version.
[Ref: 57280] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Give a Dog an ill name, they'll Hang Him.
IC. [Isaac Cruikshank.] Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
London Pub May 10 1796 by SW Fores No 50 Piccadilly. Etching
Etching; paper watermarked Edmeads 1795. 374 x 251mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed within plate mark.
One of many indications of Pitt's unpopularity. Fox and Sheridan kneel on a rope attached to the neck of a mangy dog with the head of Pitt. The rope, inscribed 'Vox Popula' [sic], runs over a pulley attached to a gibbet, from which Pitt is suspended. The upright of the gibbet is National support, the horizontal 'Excise Office', and a cross-beam forming a triangle with the other two is 'Cross Post'. Pitt's head is much caricatured, his body is almost bare and his tail hairless; to each hind leg is tied a bottle, one: 'Sherry', labelled 'additional Duty', the other: 'Port', labelled 'New Duty'. On the ground (left) a dog with the head of Dundas, a tartan across his shoulders and a kettle inscribed 'not my Dog' tied to his tail, runs off in the direction of a signpost pointing 'To Edinburgh'. Sheridan (left), who is well dressed, says, "A good way to save the Duty". Fox wears a waistcoat with a tattered shirt and breeches, but has a neatly powdered wig. He says: "I suppose he catch'd the Mange from the Dun Dog".
BM Satires 8803.
[Ref: 52364] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Scotch Cottage of Glenburnia. Teggs Caracatures No.33.
Cruikshank del.
Pub.d by T. Tegg. 111 Cheapside Sep.r 6 1810.
Hand coloured etching. Platemark: 245 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"), with wide margins. Small tears in left and right margins, mount stain.
The interior of a cottage. Three visitors, a well-dressed man in top-boots (Mr. Stewart), a comely woman (Mrs. Mason), and a fashionably dressed young girl (Mary Mason), stand before the fire. Two box-beds are seen on the right with household items hanging over them, including twists of yarn, with a large cobweb against the wall. Small chickens peck at the contents of a large pot (a whey-pot) and plates on the floor. A cat laps from a bowl on a rough dresser above which plates and spoons are ranged. Through the doorway to the left is duck pond, beside which is a tall manure heap. An illustration to Elizabeth Hamilton's popular novel 'The Cottagers of Glenburnie', 1798.
[Ref: 38797] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Glorious First of June] Lord Howe they lun [run] or the British tars giving the Carmignols a Dressing on Memorable 1st of June 1794.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub: June 25 1794. by SW Fores No 3 Piccadilly, who has just fitted up his Exhibition in an entire novel stile admittance one shilling.
Coloured etching. 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), with large margins. Laid on album paper.
Two British tars and a bulldog defeating five French sans-coulottes in a fist fight, a satire on the Glorious First of June [or Fourth Battle of Ushant], in which Admiral Lord Howe attempted to prevent the passage of a vital French grain convoy from the United States. A boxing image.
BM Satires 8471.
[Ref: 61878] £380.00

Looking for Lodgings. 'This is all I have ma'm: I have just let the last tent on the tiles to a foreign nobleman.'
George Cruikshank.
[London: David Bogue, 1851.]
Etching. 155 x 255mm, 6 x 10".
A group of four adults, presumably "Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family", being shown to a single hammock. Illustration from Henry Mayhew's "The World's show, 1851, or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family". Early in the season the tickets for the Great Exhibition were 3 guineas (£275 today), reducing to £1, five shillings, and finally (in the height of the summer, with the wealthy escaped from London) to 1 shilling (£4.35). 4.5 million 1-shilling tickets were sold.
[Ref: 16953] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon amd his Army, Effecting the Wonderful Passage of the Alps, at Mount St Bernard.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original design of C. Vernet. executed at Paris by L. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published July 1, 1823 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, split taped, album paper stuck over left edge.
The French army crossing the Alps through the Great St Bernard Pass, into northern Italy in 1800. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53347] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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