Grosvenor Prints

[A Dancing Bear.]
Mr Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.
Publish'd 1st April 1774.
Etching with drypoint part 18th century watermark; 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). With small margins.
A showman pointing with a staff at the chained muzzle of a standing bear, while another man plays on a horn and a third watches.
[Ref: 54333] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A set of 8 plates featuring elaborate rebuses or hieroglyphics from 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762'.]
Publish'd according to Act by Darly & Edwards. [1756 - 1759.]
8 etchings. Platemarks: 110 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼") each. Chips to left edges of sheets.
A set of 8 plates featuring elaborate rebuses or hieroglyphics from 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762', a volume of political and social caricatures covering a pivotal period in the history of Great Britain and the Americas. For the full volume (less two plates) see item ref: 38739. Plate 16; 'Oliver Crom(well)s S(peach) (toe) the (Ass) & (Fox) 1756, featuring the profile heads of Oliver Cromwell, as if in conversation with Mr. Fox and the Duke of Newcastle. Plate 19; 'Poor Robin's Prophecy', showing the meeting between Sir Robert Walpole and the Duke of Newcastle. Plate 33; '(Toe) the Authot of a late Lett(ear) 2 the Merch(ants) of London.' Plate 32; 'Britons Strike Home', two lines of music with the words, 'Britons strike home Revenge Revenge, Your Country's Wrongs', between which a hand holds an axe, threatening a large salmon with the head of the Duke of Newcastle. Plate 47; '(King) of Prussias S(peach) (toe) (Britannia) 1756.' Plate 49; 'Killgrew (toe) Mr. (Pitt)', ironically referencing the appointment of Mr. Pitt as secretary of state. Plate 91; 'The Sussex (Serpent)s a (Letter) to his Friend (Knight) Upon his (Grate) Conduct in Ger(man) (Eye), anno Dom.i 1759', referencing the alleged misconduct of Lord George Sackville at the Battle of Minden, 1759. Plate 92; Gen(ear) (awl) (pump) a (door)'s prayer for a Spe(die) Court Part (eye) (awl). Plate 93; A reply to plates 91 and 92, '(Knight) Answer to the Sussex (Serent).
[Ref: 54617] £320.00 view all images for this item

A Perspective and Political View of the Timber-Yard at the L-e [Limehouse]. The Saw Mill.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"), with margins.
A satirical scene showing a lawyer sawing through the 'Magna Carta' and 'Bill of Rights' in front of a saw mill while John Wilkes looks on from the left. Charles Dingley, a speculator and mechanic, stood against Wilkes in the 1769 election. He patented a sawmill, built in Limehouse, which rioting sawyers pulled down in 1768, after which an Act was 'for punishing persons destroying mills' was passed.
BM Satires 4278.
[Ref: 54383] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dismal Dandies, _ or _ General Mourning & Crape.
C.W. [Charles Williams] fecit.
Published by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London [n.d., c.1820].
Coloured etching. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on card.
A finely-dressed soldier, with black crèpe adorning his uniform, addresses another: ''Adieu Col! Crape! I’m for Court that’s the place, For exhibiting trappings, and making a Face!!''. Crape, also with black crèpe armband, responds ''And I to Parade! that with my humour chimes For Parade and Paradeing’s the Ton of the Times''. Possibly published for the death of George III in 1820.
[Ref: 54416] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Distrest Poet.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼).
A man sits in a poorly furnished room penning verses at a table. A bed rests against the wall at right, with a chamberpot visible beside it; a broken chair stands at left, and a coat and hat, shelf of books, and framed picture of Fame atop Parnassus all hang on the back wall. William Davison of Alnwick (1780-1858), print publisher and pharmacist, produced a number of naive popular prints between 1812 and 1817, usually based on other prints.
[Ref: 54525] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

D.r Dawdle in a hurry.
M.r Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.
1st March 1782.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 225 x 260mm (8¾ x 10¼"). Narrow margins.
An elderly doctor on a wretched cob, threatening it with a whip.
BM Satires 6142.
[Ref: 54591] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Jeremy Snob. Written by J.G. Maxwell.
Published 4th October 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etched songsheet. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with margins. Tear entering image at top, split in folding creases.
A satire of a cobbler who is also a quack doctor, with a pregnant woman visiting his workshop. According to the lyrics his results are either death or recovery.
BM Satires 9334.
[Ref: 54496] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Oh! Quelle Douleur [Oh! What Pain][&] Ah! Quel Plaisir. [Ah! What Pleasure.] Oh! The Sciagura. [Oh! the misfortune]./ Oh! the Piacere. [Oh! the Pleasure].
Sicardi pinx. [Copia sculp?]
Scarce pair of stipples. 410 x 315mm (16¼ x 12½"). Cut to image on 3 sides.
A man burns himself cooking for his family, his wife laughs and his son looks nonplussed as he blows on his food to cool it down. The same man in the other print serves a masked man and looks on at his decadent meal with envy. A man behind watches the scene unfold with an amused smile while taking a bite out of something.
[Ref: 54533] £650.00 view all images for this item

Dove-Tailing.
Drawn by M.E. [Egerton]. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1827.
Very fine coloured aquatint. 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8").
A woman shows a tradesman a receipt proving she has paid his bill. He says ''I'm very sorry I did not recollect it!'', to which she replies ''no doubt you are very sorry you didn't Re-collect it!!!''. This satire was first published by George Hunt c.1825.
Hickman p.65.
[Ref: 54609] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

An Easy Reply. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl. 6.
G M Woodward delt.
Pub,d Jan,y 1,st 1804 by S W Fores N°50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"). Losses at corners.
A dishevelled young man is restrained by two companions as he invokes Hamlet when addressing a burly watchman. One of a set of six satires.
BM Satires 10329.
[Ref: 54276] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

A Naval Enquiry with a Naught-ical Explanation.
[by Charles Williams]
Pub,d March 25th 1805 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") with wide margins.
Henry Dundas (Viscount Melville) and Alexander Trotter (Paymaster of the Navy), both in kilts to highlight their Scottishness, being grilled about how Navy money ended up in Trotter's bank account at Coutts.
BM Satires 10377.
[Ref: 54472] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Casting Vote or the Independent Speaker.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub.d April 24.th 1805 by S.W.Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caricatures let out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½''). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper to edges.
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons, decides in favour of Fox, who shouts ''An Abbot D------n me he shall be a Pope''. Pitt supports a fainting Melville. A satire on the controversy regarding the actions of Hendry Dundas (Viscount Melville, as treasurer of the Royal Navy, which led to his resignation and his impeachment trial, the last to be held in the House of Lords).
BM Satire 10391.
[Ref: 54468] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Eccentricities No XIV,
Lodon: Published by W. Spooner, 377 Strand. Printed by W.Kohler 22 Denmark St Soho [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾"). Soiled.
A clergyman exchanges repartee with a countryman who is eating off a knife: ''I'll tell you what fellow you'r better fed that taught!''; ''Ah that be loikley Doctor, cos you teaches me, & I feeds mysel''.
[Ref: 54507] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Eccentrics, or Fine Singing. ''A Good Voice _ My Dear fellow you sho'd say a very fine Voice, but I am rather hoarsse just now _ I have such powers I can turn by Voice into any thing" _ "Can you indeed, then I wou'd advise you to turn it into a Pair of Breeches."
Publish'd Aug.t. 15, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9½"), with wide margins. Small area of paper thinness.
A group of men singing and smoking around a punch bowl.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 54479] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Economy.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. Sheet 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
A man and his son walk barefoot towards an inn. The man carries a stick with his belongings tied to it. The son carries a small sack on his back. By William Davison (1780 - 1858), publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. Peter Isaac suggests that the majority date to about 1816.
Not in BM Satires but 1948,0214.893.
[Ref: 54519] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Great and Glorious days of Queen Bess.
Agnes T_n. [Townshend?]
Pub.d 30th June 1781 by H.Humphrey, No 18 New Bond Street.
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satire on Elizabethan dress, probably a companion print to one satirising the fashion of 1781. It has been suggested that the artist was Agnes Townshend, a noted courtesan.
BM: 5937 (and see 5936).
[Ref: 54354] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The English Lion Dismember'd. Or the Voice of the Public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca- with Ad.l B--g's plea before his Examiners.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Sold by the Printsellers of London & Westminster. [1757 bit later, watermarked 1828.]
Coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾''), with wide margins. Tears in margins.
A satire on ineffective military campaigns during the Seven Years War. In the centre a lion, representing Great Britain, stands with his paw, labelled Minorca, cut off. Behind the lion two Hanoverin mercenaries are surrounded by Englishmen who complain about the lack of a local militia. On the right Aldermen petition for a trial of Admiral Byng; on the left Byng, in fetters, addresses his court martial.
BM Satire 3547.
[Ref: 54462] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Englishman at Paris. 1767.
Mr. Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.
Publish'd 23d Feb.y 1782.
Etching, with partial hand colour. 330 x 410mm (13 x 16"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom, tear entering image at top.
A satire contrasting English and French styles of dress. A stout middle-aged Englishman wears a heavy coat and three-cornered hat and carrying a stick, amusing the passers-by with his lack of elegance. These include: a hairdresser wearing his hair in a large queue, carring a parasol'; a grinning fat monk; and an elegant man driving a cabriolet, with his footman dressed in furs.
BM Satires 4185.
[Ref: 54323] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The ejection of James Eyre as Recorder of the City of London] A Caricatura.
Design'd & Engrav'd for the Political Register
[n.d., 1770].
Etching with engraving. 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed to plate on left.
Sir James Eyre (1734-99) refusal to voice the remonstrances of the corporation against the exclusion of Wilkes from Parliament lost him his job as Recorder, but earned him the gratitude of the goverment. Promoted, he eventually became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
BM Satires 4409.
[Ref: 54362] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Fair-Lawn View - or the Portsmouth Journey. ''He that is robb'd not wanting / ''What is stolen, let him not know it, / ''And he's not robb'd at all.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub,d Jan.y 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly.
Rare coloured etching, watermark 1818. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), large margins. Time stained.
A scene at Fairlawn house at Acton Green: a man (probably James Capy, Lord Portsmouth's valet) recoils at seeing Lady Portsmouth asleep in the arms of another man, while Lord Portsmouth sleeps on the farther side of the large bed. John Charles Wallop (1767-1853), 3rd Earl of Portsmouth, had an unsound mind from an early age. After the death of his first wife in 1813, John Hanson, his solicitor, quickly arranged the marriage of the earl and his own daughter, Mary Anne, intending to have the earl declared insane six months later. This failed (thanks to Lord Byron, who had given the bride away), so Mary Anne began an adulterous affair with William Alder, even having intercourse in the same bed with the Earl, fathering three children on her. Eventually it was discovered that the Earl was being badly mistreated by his new wife and her lover. He was adjudged to have been insane since 1809. In 1828 marriage was annulled, Mary Anne's children declared bastards and a judgment for the £40,000 cost of the trial was issued against her. She fled abroad.
BM Satires 14546.
[Ref: 54436] £320.00

The Fall of the Knight by the breach of the Vote. The Knigh converted the Kings gifts, / Top pious frauds and holy Shifts, / And Settled all ye other shares, / Upon my Lady & her Heirs, Held all he claim'd as fortfeit Lands, Diliver'd up into his hands, / Impeac'd his Foe as Reprobate, / That had no Title to Estate, / And founds his Arguement on Reason, / Deduc'd from Treachery and Treason. / Hudibras.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Coloured etching. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13½"). Tears, worm hole, creasing, laid on card.
A scene illustrating a verse from Samuel Butler's Hudibras.
Not found in BM.
[Ref: 54442] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Female Orators. Engraved from an Original Picture Painted by Mr John Collet.
M. Rennoldson sculp.
Printed for Jn.o Smith No. 35 Cheapside, & Rob.t Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs Nov.r 20, 1768.
Rare engraving with etching. 225 x 365mm (8¾ x 14½"), with wide margins on 3 sides. Repaired tear , surface abrasion at top of image. Very slight loss & crease top left.
A confrontation between two market women in Covent Garden. A man taps her shoulder and points with amusement at a bill on a wall above, reading ''Theatre Royal Covent Garden Epicoene or the Silent Woman''. A gentleman exits a sedan with a hands over his ear.
BM: 1948,0214.497.
[Ref: 54572] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Accomodation- or a Hint to Country Gentlemen how to save their Fences.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Oct.r 1827 by M.cLean Hay Market [but later].
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins.
Three peasants taking pailings for firewood from a fence around woodland, under a sign from the landowner to leave the fence and take the wood. The gate has been left open ''for their Accomodation''. The man holds a billhook.
BM Satires 15489.
[Ref: 54491] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton] The Contrast. Or a Court Character that Appear'd at the King of Denmark's Masquerade
[Oxford Magazine, 10 October 1768.]
Engraving. 185 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼") large margins.
A caricature portrait of Prime Minister Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, dressed in an brocade coat, ram's horns with the words 'The Just Reward' protruding from under a crown. In one hand is a book, 'A Modest Essay on Pregnancy and Good-Breeding'; in the other a playbill for 'A Wife to be Let'; and in his pocket is 'A Bill to procure a Divorce, &c, for Inconvenience'. This engraving was published in 'The Oxford Magazine' opposite a text claiming that the image does not represent 'any particular person; it is a sort of general character at the west-end of town'. However the figure certainly is Grafton, who shortly after divorced his wife on account of her adultery.
BM Satires 4214.
[Ref: 54381] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton] [The Balance Master. Design'd & Engrav'd for the Political Register.] His Wit all Seesaw, between that & this; / And He Himself one vile Antithesis. / Pope.
[n.d., November, 1768.]
Etching. 115 x 190mm (4½ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate at top, losing title.
A satire of Grafton's domineering political style as Prime Minister. He stands on a seesaw with Britannia on her knees as the fulcrum, a heavy weight lettered “National Debt” hanging around her neck. His cabinet and other politicians sit on either side of the seesaw, over the flames of hell. The devil holds up a “Letter of Thanks” and says “Write Another Letter my Lord” referring to Barrington’s letter supporting the intervention of the army at the riots in St George’s Fields.
[Ref: 54393] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The History of the Flagellants, Or The Advantages of Discipline; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary On the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, &c. By Somebody who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne [John Lewis Delolme].
London: Printed for Fielding & Walker, No. 20, Paternoster-Row. MDCCLXXVII [1777].
First Edition, second issue. 4to, in fine 19th century full morocco gilt binding, t.e.g., by F. Bedford; pp. (vi), including half title, title, list of illustration and contents, + 340; 4 engraved plates & four engraved vignettes, as called for. Occasional spotting.
A fine example of Delolme’s provocative English adaptation of Abbé Boileau’s highly controversial history of flagellation, first published 1700. It traces the practice throughout history and literature, with its uses as punishment, religious self-discipline, private atonement or erotic practice. The illustrations include devils whipping men, Henry II's penitance for the death of Thomas Becket, and Bernadine of Sienna whipping a bare-breasted woman to extinguish her ardour. This scarce second issue has an errata on page 332.
With bookplate of George Clive on front pastedown.
[Ref: 54483] £580.00 view all images for this item

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)

A Fleet Wedding. Between a brisk young Sailor & his Landlady's Daughter at Rederiff. Scarce had the Coach discharg'd it's Trusty Fare, / But gaping Crowds surround th'amorous Pair; / The busy Plyers make a mighty Stir! / And whispering cry d'ye want the Parson Sir?...
J. June sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament; October ye 20th, 1747 [but later]. Price 6d.
Engraving. 230 x 310mm (8 x 12¼").
The print depicts the Stock Market in the City of London in 1747.
BM Satires 2874.
[Ref: 54403] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Patent Wigg. No fit you Zir, perhaps you got de paine in you Head, make you tink so, dis wigg will fit any Loyal subject. give but an Eye to it zir as I hold it.
Wetherell.
Pub, Aug.t. 1. 1793 by S. Fores. No. 3, Picadilly.
Coloured etching, part 18th century watermark. 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7"). Tear at top right entering plate taped.
A bald Charles James Fox stands in a barber shop, with George III as a barber, holding up a wig. A satire on Fox's Whigs being influenced by Thomas Paine's republican ideas.
BM Satire 8338.
[Ref: 54452] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Provincial Deputy's Maiden Speech to the National Assembly. Just Published (Engraved in a superior Stile.) Chesterfield's Principles of Politeness Exemplified, in 20 figures pr. 10/6.
SC [monogram of Samuel Collings.]
Published Feb. 16 1791 by S.W. Fores 3 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). With narrow margins.
A deputy stands on a tribune in profile to the left, poised on one toe and leaning on the railing; he shouts with his ugly head thrown back, a blast issuing from his mouth. From his pocket protrudes a document inscribed 'L'Art de la Rhétorique'. A satire on 'Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world' by Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.
BM Satires 7695, their example trimmed and without attribution.
[Ref: 54340] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Frenchman at Market. Intended as a Companion to the Frenchman in London, by Collett. Engraved for the Oxford Magazine.
Adam Smith Inv.t et Sculp.t.
[1770.]
Etching. 115 x 185mm (4½ x 7¼"), with margins. Worm holes in sur-title.
Satire on French elegance and Scots miserliness accompanying a letter in the Oxford Magazine, 1770. A butcher punches a French valet who has bumped into him, as a chimney sweep's boy drops a mouse into the Frenchman's bag-wig. A Scot takes the chance to steal a leg of mutton.
BM Satires 4476.
[Ref: 54385] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Fruitseller] La Petit Fruitiers.
Designed & Drawn on Stone by J.J. Chalon.
London. Published by Rodwell & Martin New Bond St. May 1 1820. C. Hullmandel's Lithography.
Lithograph with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"), with wide margins.
A fruit seller with a stall in a Parisian street. From the 'Costumes of Paris', a series of 24 plates by Swiss painter John James Chalon (1778-1854).
Abbey 108.
[Ref: 54515] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

I........'m, rather Gapish! [&] S.......o, am I!
[London Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery Street, Bishopsgate.] [n.d., c.1830.]
Pair of coloured aquatints. Each sheet c. 145 x 170mm (5¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed, losing publisher's address, laid on album sheets.
A couple stretching and yawning.
BM 1948,0214.762 & 1985,0119.329.
[Ref: 54327] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Geography, or the Use of the Globes _ A Practical Lesson. Shewing the Face of the Earth.
W. Heath Del et Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A red-faced teacher hurls a desk globe into the face of a mischievious pupil. One from a series of satires on educational subjects.
[Ref: 54312] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[George III] Nimrod.
[after A. Aldbery.]
Pub.d August 15 1787 by S.W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly.
Etching. 215 x 265mm (8½ x 10½"). Creasing.
A portrait of George III riding. A later copy of A. Aldbery's 1787 print, with the addition of Windsor Castle in the background and two dogs, one rolling on its back.
[Ref: 54590] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Sale of Fox Hounds.
Pub.d March 17th 1812 by W.m Holland No.11 Cockspur Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate.
A satire of the Prince of Wales as an auctioneer knocking down a pack of hounds with the human faces of the cabinet, held by Sheridan, while a 'Grey' horse (held by John MacMahon, who had just become keeper of the privy purse and private secretary to the Prince Regent) neighs in opposition.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 54309] £230.00 (£276.00 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

Pray Remember Us Poor Childreen.
IC [Isaac Cruikshank].
London Pub July 12 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadily.
Coloured etching. 280 x 335mm (11 x 13¼"). Small margins. Tears in edges taped, right edge soiled.
Three sons of George III, the Prince of Wales and the Dukes of York and Clarence, dressed as blue-coat schoolboys, hold out begging bowls to the members of the House of Commons. At the centre is Lord Addington; on the right is Fox; on the left is Pitt with the Devil pointing at him. The Duke of Clarence (later William IV) is a chamber pot representing his mistress, Mrs Jordan ('jordan' being slang for a chamber pot).
BM Satires 8666.
[Ref: 54612] £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

[Marriage of the Prince Regent & Mrs Fitzherbert.] The Follies of a Day or the Marriage of Figaro.
[Fitz delin.t. Herbert fecit.]
[Published March 13th 1786, by S. W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse N° 3 Piccadilly.]
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 265 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Bit messy. Trimmed to image and around title, losing joke artist/engraver.
The Prince Regent's clandestine marriage, officiated by Louis Weltje, with the bride being given away by George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine, dressed as a major in the Prussian service.
BM Satires 6924, 'Attributed to James Wicksteed', according to Angerlo.
[Ref: 54477] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Prince Regent & Poet Laureate.] Rival Candidates for the Vacant Bays.
JC [monogram, possibly CJ] fecit.
London Publish'd Octr 1 1813 by N. Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Coloured etching, 215 x 540mm (8½ x 21¼"). Trimmed losing part of monogram. Slight time staining.
The Regent as Apollo, his head irradiated, eyes tipsily closed, sits on one knee of the Duke of Norfolk as Bacchus, who sits on a cask. He is assailed by candidates for the laureateship, made vacant by the death of Henry Pye. These include George Byron, Lumley Skeffington, Tom Moore, Matthew Lewis and Walter Scott (in armour)
NM Satires 12082
[Ref: 54471] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Admiralty Inspection; or, Great Men Looking at Little Things.
[n.d., c.1814.]
Rare coloured etching with letterpress. Sheet 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). Trimmed to image, two nicks in text with loss, staining in text
Through an eye-glass a rotund Prince Regent watches a miniature naval battle held on the Serpentine River in Hyde Park, one of the events held to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic Wars (prior to the Hundred Days). Behind a group of sailors generate wind by pumping a giant bellows and puffing their cheeks. The text trivialises the spectacle, describing an explosion that could be heard 'at the amazing distance of twenty-five feet five inches', and explaining that rock salt was thrown into the lake and shells scattered around, so the water was ''as stong and good as any at Margate''. We have been unable to trace another example of this satire.
[Ref: 54361] £230.00 (£276.00 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 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

[George, Prince of Wales, and Mrs. Fitzherbert] The Union Club Masquerade.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub.d June 7th 1802 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. 'Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
A burlesque of the magnificent masquerade given by the Union Club in honour of the Peace of Amiens. In the centre is the Prince of Wales as Henry VIII, Mrs. Fitzherbert as a stout and middle-aged Anne Boleyn, and Pitt, winged and poised on one toe, as Fame, with two trumpets. On the left is the Duke of Norfolk, believed to be a crypto-Catholic who had conformed in order to sit in Parliament, as a fat monk with rosary and scourge hanging from his girdle.
BM Satires 9871.
[Ref: 54438] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Gin-Retailers (if there's any) Who can by a Licence get a penny...
[after Egbert van Heemskerck the younger.]
[London, John Bowles, c.1760 but later impression on wove paper.]
Coloured engraving with etching. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 10"), with large margins.
A satire on gin drinking: all the male figures have been given the heads of monkeys and the women those of cats. A reversed copy of a plate by William Henry Toms, one in a set of eight anthropomorphic scenes.
[Ref: 54434] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Gladstone and the Mahdist war] Practice versus Preaching.
Published by Reynolds & Co 32 St James' St S.W. [c.1885.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 440 x 570mm (17¼ x 22½"). Tears in title, laid on card.
General Charles Gordon stands over a pile of dead and dying bodies, mown down by the modern weapons of the British Army, including a Gardner machine gun. At his side is a Sikh soldier. Above the scene is a vision of William Ewart Gladstone preaching Christian values from a lectern, surrounded by winged heads. The battle was probably Abu Klea, in which 1,100 Mahdists died in less that 15 minutes. Casualties for the British were nine officers and 65 other ranks killed and over a hundred wounded.
[Ref: 54544] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Millers Maid Grinding Old Men Young. The Miller Grinding of Old Women Young.
Printed Colour'd & Sold by Sam.l Lyne at the Globe in Newgate Street [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Sheet 475 x 365mm (18¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed into decorative border. Damaged at edges with losses at corners, nicks.
Two scenes, each with 24 lines of verse and a decorative frame-like border top and bottom. The upper image shows old men climbing a ladder, taking it in turns to climb into a funnel that feeds them to a mincer driven by a woman, but coming out as young men and being met by admiring women. In the lower scene the sexes are reversed. The verses both tell of the pains of ageing and the desire to be young again. Sayer has squeezed his inscription in on both halves, suggesting he bought the plates from another publisher. Extremely rare: we have been unable to trace other examples of this version, although Sayer had smaller versions engraved, and a similar pair appeared in John Bowles's catalogue of 1753. The British Museum has an anonymous version of 'The miller grinding of old women young', with the same scene but with plain borders.
See BM 1999,0926.4 for variant and 45191 for a reversed version, republished by Sayer.
[Ref: 54301] £550.00

[Henry IV] The Parting of Hotspur and Lady Percy. [&] Henry and Emma. To Lady Williams Wynne, This Print after an Original Drawing by H. Bunbury Esq.r is with the greatest respect Dedicated by her Ladyships most obedient humble Servant W. Dickinson.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Excudit.
London, Publish'd June 26th, 1784 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No 158 New Bond Street.
Scarce pair of stipples, printed in sepia. Sheets 580 x 460mm (22¾ x 18"). Trimmed to platemarks, laid on album paper at corners.
A pair of scenes of parting couples. The first shows Sir Henry Percy (1364-1403) leaving to meet his end at the Battle of Shrewsbury, as narrated by Shakespeare. The second is apparently a scene from Sir Henry Bate Dudley's 'Henry and Emma, a new poetical interlude: altered from Prior's Nut brown maid'.
[Ref: 54539] £680.00 view all images for this item

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