Grosvenor Prints

Great Pagoda, at Congeveram.
J. Wathen del.t. J. Clark direx.t.
London Published by Black, Parry & Co, and Nichols & Co, 1814.
Hand coloured aquatint, printed area 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed.
From James Wathen's 'Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena' 1814.
Abbey Travel 517.
[Ref: 63745] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Cornfield.]
[Engraved by David Lucas after John Constable.]
[1834.]
Mezzotint, finished progress proof before all letters, signed in pencil lower right "David Lucas 27 Westbourne Street, Pimlico". 695 x 520mm (27½ x 20½"), housed in a magnificient Vicars Bros. frame c. 1900's, with large margins. Unexamined out of frame.
A boy lies down to drink from a pond beside a path on which a sheepdog is herding a flock; in the background harvesting is in progress. The painting is now in the National Gallery (NG130).
Shirley 36.
[Ref: 63652] £1,500.00

[Dedham Vale.]
Painted by John Constable, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
[1834.]
Mezzotint, progress proof before letters. Housed in a magnificent Vicars Bros. frame c. 1900, sight size 670 x 545mm (26¼ x 21½"). Slight cockling of paper on right. Few old minor repairs. Unexamined out of frame.
Extremely rare and unique view looking through trees to a river winding through fields to a town with a church tower in the distance.
Shirley 40.
[Ref: 63654] £2,500.00

[The Lock.]
Painted by John Constable, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
[1834.]
Mezzotint, published state before dedication. 695 x 520mm (27½ x 20½"), housed in a magnificent Vicars Bros. frame c. 1900, very large margins. Repaired tear, some spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
A bargee opening a lock gate with a barge on the water behind.
Shirley 35. II of IV
[Ref: 63653] £1,250.00

[Elizabeth Conyngham] The Guard Wot Looks Arter the Sovereign.
[Monogram of Paul Pry (William Heath)] Esq. Del.
Pub April 28 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. Carricature daily pub.
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), large margins. Some spotting.
Elizabeth, Lady Conyngham (1769-1861), caricatured as immensely fat, dressed as a coachman and carrying a blunderbuss, post horns hanging from her bag. She was mistress of the Prince Regent from 1819 until his death in 1830. She also had a fling with the Tsarevitch of Russia (later Nicholas I) during his visit to London in 1816.
BM 15733.
[Ref: 63647] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Abrhamus Cowleius Anglorum Pinarus Flaccus Maro Defieiæ, Decus, Desiderium Ævi sui. Nobillissimo D.no D.no Henrico Hero Baroni de Coleraine, Scientiarum Artiumque Patrono Dignissimo, hanc Tabulam D.D.D. G. Vertue.
P. Lely p. G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d, c.1720.] [Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 370 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾"), large margins.
Abraham Cowley (1618-67), poet and essayist.
Alexander 601. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63876] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[George Cranstoun in the basket & Capt: Mingay]
K [John Kay] fec.t
[n.d., 1786.]
Etching. 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾"), with large margins.
A caricature of George 'Geordie' Cranstown, a dwarf soldier, singer and beggar, being carried in a basket behind Captain Mingay.
[Ref: 63715] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[George Cranstoun & Samuel Macdonald] Sam. A Soldier I am for a Lady, what Beau was ere arm'd compleater &c
Kay del et Sculp 1789. [but later]
Aquatint with etching. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½").
Three soldiers, one of whom is very short (George Cranston dwarf soldier, singer and beggar), looks up at another, who is very tall and broad (Samuel McDonald, who was 6ft 10"), watched by the third, who stands to attention behind to right. Print made by British printmaker John Kay (1742 - 1826).
[Ref: 63716] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Cribb. The Champion of England 1811.
De Wilde Del.t. Warren Sculpt.
Publish'd Jany.. 1st,, 1812 by J. K. Nettleship 39 Arundel Street Strand.
Etching with engraving. 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to platemark, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of English bare-knuckle boxer of Tom Cribb (1781-1848), On 10th December 1810, Cribb fought an American, former slave Tom Molineaux, at Shenington Hollow in Oxfordshire. Cribb beat Molineaux in 35 rounds and became World champion.
[Ref: 63771] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[M.r Frank Crisp]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. May 31, 1890]
Chromolithograph proof, wit text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of English lawyer and microscopist, Frank Crisp (1843-1919), looking through a miscroscope.
[Ref: 63693] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. E Collectione W.m Powlet, Gen:
Peter Lely pinx.t 1653. I. Faber fecit 1740.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Mezzotint. 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Thread margins.
Bust portrait in oval of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), in armour with loose hair curling to shoulders and a plain white collar, directed to left, looking over left shoulder. Published as the frontispiece to Peck's 'Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell'.
CS 97.
[Ref: 63617] £320.00

Mademoiselle de Beaumont, Chevalier D'Eon.
[n.d., 1807.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed into printed border, mounted in album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728 - 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Eon, in miltary costume, within a masonry frame. A French diplomat, soldier and Freemason who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. Living in England in 1785, he lost his pension after the French Revolution and had to sell his library. In 1792 he sent a letter to the French National Assembly, offering to lead a division of women soldiers against Austria, but the offer was rebuffed. He participated in fencing tournaments until he was seriously wounded, in 1796. After a trial in 1777 about his actual sex he wore female attire until his death. Surgical examination proved him male.
[Ref: 63580] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Dandy Club.
Drawn Etchd by Richd Dighton. Dec.r 29, 1818.
Pub.d by T McLean Haymarket [n.d., c.1824].
Etching. 200 x 300mm (7¾ x 11¾"), with very large margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1824'. Stains.
Twenty-three caricature portraits of men crowded together, all shock-haired and high-collared. One man offers his box of 'Dandy Mixture' snuff; on a table is a bottle of 'Best Dandy'.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63802] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Delarom.] The Fair Circassian. N.º 5.
Lady's Magazine, _ 1819.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Delarom, the favourite companion of the Persian ambassador during his visit to London in 1819. She is shown seated on a mat and cushions, in oriental dress. Her nickname, 'The Fair Circassian', came from Samuel Jackson Pratt's 1781 tragedy.
[Ref: 63773] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Devils Doings or the Cruel Radical Harpies destroying A Feast. "now by St Paul's the work goes bravely on --
[Paul Pry] Esq De. They seem to be Introding here
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are Daily brough out [n.d. c.April 1828.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Plate 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
Satire on disputes in the parish of St Paul's, Covent Garden. The Devil stands on a rooftop, overturning a dinner-table and upsetting the guests who fall on clouds of dust. The guests are also assailed by harpies (winged men whose bodies terminate in barbed and scaly tails). One of these is James Corder, holding a long bill for various dinners. He attacks 'the Grand Carver mounted on his Cockroach' (Roach) and holds out a paper inscribed 'Majority 7'. The dust forms a background, and is inscribed Dust for the Eyes of the Parishioners; looming through it is the façade of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. In April 1828 Corder was elected Vestry Clerk for St Paul's, Covent Garden, beating Roach by a majority of seven.
BM Satires: 15529.
[Ref: 63724] £320.00

The Divine Macaroni.
Pub accor to Act Feby. 4th. 1772 by MDarly Strand.
Etching. 255 x 175mm (10 x 7") very large margins. Trimmed into plate on right.
A rather pious looking parson standing humbly with hands clasped and hat tucked under right arm. Possibly Rev. William Dodd, hanged at Tyburn for forgery.
[Ref: 63575] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Dominican Republic] The Bay of Samana, St. Domingo, Lately Purchased by the United States.
The Illustrated London News. Feb. 8, 1868.
Wood engraving. Sheet 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"). Trimmed from larger sheet, text incomplete.
Despite the title, the USA didn't acquire Samana Bay.
[Ref: 63762] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Plan and Survey of Doncaster Race Course; in the West Riding of Yorkshire; including the Rises and Fall; with Notes Referring to an Appendix; by W.m Kemp. To The Mayor and Corporation of The Town of Doncaster; This Plate, being No.5, of a Series of Surveys, of the Principal Race Courses in England; is most Respectfully Dedicated by Their most obed.t and very humble Servant, W.m Kemp [facsimile signature.]
Davies sculp. 34 Compton St. Brunsw.k Sq.
London, Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co. Paternoster Row. [n.d., 1824.]
Engraved map with hand colour, J. Whatman 1824 watermark; 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"). Trimmed within plate, two vertical binding folds, as normal..
Doncaster Racecourse, South Yorkshire. It is one of the oldest establised centres for horse racing in Great Britain, with records of regular racing meetings going back to the 16th Century.
[Ref: 63729] £95.00

["sensational art"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Sep.r 15 1877]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of French artist, Paul Gustave Dore (1832-1883).
[Ref: 63681] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Eight doves.]
F. Barlow delin. W.m Hollar fec.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Etching. 135 x 195mm (5¼ x 7¾"), with large margins. Stitch holes in left margin
Doves in a farmyard, a cot in the background, an untitled plate from the series 'Diversae avium species'.
Pennington 2125, first state of two.
[Ref: 63596] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Newspaper Nº 16. Wanted. ''Lor, Mrs Lush, here's summit'll suit you, ''Wanted a sober, steady, young woman as Wet Nurse''. May this here be my pison if I Don't go arter that ere you know.
London W. Spooner 259 Regent St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Small tears in edges taped.
One servant reads a 'situation vacant' advert to her drunken friend.
[Ref: 63644] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

John Dryden, whose tunefull Muse affords The sweetest numbers, and the fittest Words. Addison. Nat 1632 denat Aetat 68. Praenobili Dno. Dno. Edoardo Comiti Oxoniae &c. ad Archetypu Museo Harleyano asservatum Quâ par est Ovservantiâ D.D. Vertue Sculpt.r.
G. Kneller eques pinxit. Geo: Vertue London Sculpsit 1730.
[Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"), large margins.
John Dryden (1631-1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his age. He established the heroic couplet as the standard meter of English poetry, by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays in it; he also introduced the alexandrine and triplet into the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet-Auden referred to him as "the master of the middle style"-that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century. The considerable loss felt by the English literary community at his death was evident from the elegies which it inspired.
Alexander 606. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63875] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Nine Ducks.]
Barlow inv. Hollar fec.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 145 x 195mm (5¾ x 7¾"), with large margins. Stitch holes in left margin.
Five ducks in a pool, two standing and one lying on the bank, and one in the air. An untitled plate from the series 'Diversae avium species'.
Pennington 2143, first state of two.
[Ref: 63609] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Col. Patrick Duff, of the Hon.ble East India Company's Artillery.
Painted by G. Romney Esq: Engraved by C:H:Hodges.
Publish'd by C.H. Hodges No.17, Lambeth Road_Feb.y 3.d. 1791.
Mezzotint. 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), very large margins. Framed. Stain in title.
Half-length portrait of Patrick Duff (d.1803), holding a sword in military uniform, facing forward.
Horne: 27, ii/ii. CS 12.
[Ref: 63663] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[His Majesty the King]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
[Vanity Fair 19th June 1902]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 400 x 270mm (15¾ x 10½"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of King Edward VII (1841-1910) in formal military dress.
[Ref: 63672] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Plan and Survey of Egham Race Course; in the County of Surrey; with Notes Referring to an Appendix; by Wm. Kemp. To His Royal Highness The Duke of York; This Plate, being No.6 of a Series of Surveys, of the Principal Race Courses in England; is most Respectfully Dedicated, by His most obedient, and very humble Servant, [facsimile signature:] Wm. Kemp.
Davies sc. 34 Compton St. Brunsw.k Sq.re.
London, Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co. Paternoster Row. [n.d. c.1825.]
Engraved map with hand colour, 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10½). Two vertical folds as published
Egham Racecourse was situated in Runnymede Meadows from 1734-1884 before the racing was moved to Kempton Park, due to large gangs of London pickpockets invading the Egham meetings.
[Ref: 63730] £80.00

[Dutch Sam and William Knowlesworthy] The Baker Kneading Sammy's Dough.
I.R. Cruikshank.
[Pub.d Dec.r 1814 by S. Knight] [but later impression with the publication line removed c. 1880.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Mounted in album paper.
A bare-knuckle fight between Jewish boxer Samuel Elias and Devonshire baker William Knowlesworthy (or Nosworthy), 8th December 1814. Nearly forty, Elias was persuaded into the ring again to fight a much against a much younger man. Despite the support of the East London Jewish community (whose wagers made Elias 4-1 favourite), he lost badly. This plate was found in an album compiled c.1880.
BM Satires 12339, with George Cruikshank's name in mss.
[Ref: 63768] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Elm, in Hyde Park.
[first word illegible] & on Zinc by Edward Hassell. Printed by C. Chabot, Zincographer, 7, Thavies Inn, Holborn.
Published by Pigot & Co Fleet St. London [n.d., c.1845].
Rare zincograph. Sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Mounted in album paper.
An illustration of an ancient elm with a hollow trunk. Zincography is the same technique as lithography but using zinc rather than limestone.
[Ref: 63622] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr W Farren as Sir Peter Teazle.
Drawn Etchd [---] by Richd. Dighton.
Pub.d by T McLean H [***][n.d., c.1824].
Etching. 300 x 195mm (11¾ x 7¾"), large margins. Several small tears in right margin, publication line weakly inked.
A full-length, slightly satirical portrait of the actor William Farren making his first London appearance as Sir Peter Teazle (in Sheridan's The School for Scandal), at Covent Garden in 1818.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63805] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Carlo Ferrara. The Poor Italian Boy.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by the Rev.d T. Kilby. Printed by T. Skelton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph on tinted india paper. Printed area 255 x 225mm (10 x 8¾"), with large margins. Foxing in borders.
A boy with a box and puppets, with a tortoise sitting on the box. A street urchin, he was murdered in 1831 by Bishop and Williams, who tried to sell his body to the Medical School at King's College, London. Caught, the pair became known as the 'London Burkers' (after the more notorious Burke and Hare of Edinburgh) and confessed to sixty murders prior to their execution. Bishop's corpse was put on display at King's College anatomy theatre. It is believed that the case was a prime inspiration for Charles Dickens's 'Oliver Twist', which he began five years later.
[Ref: 63765] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Stephen Fox] A Flaw in the Ice or Stephens Dream of the Macaroni Bucks and Does Turn'd Topsy Turvy.
[William Austin].
Pubd as the Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 295 x 380mm (11¾ x 15"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A group of people crash through the ice. The central figure is Stephen Fox (1723-74), brother of Charles James Fox. Stephen inherited the title 2nd Baron Holland the year after this caricature was published but died five months later.
[Ref: 63565] £350.00

Joannes Fletcher Episcopi Lond. Fili 9. Honoratiss Dno. Dno. Johanni Vicecomiti Percival &c. Hanc Tabulam ad Archetypum expressam.
Geo: Vertue Sculp. 1729. Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
[Early issue]
Engraving. 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"), large margins.
John Fletcher (1579-1625), a Jacobean playwright who followed Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men. He was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivaled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
Alexander 583. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Govaert Flinck's Wife (so-called)] gravé d'apres le Tableau orig.le dans la Gallerie de Düsseldorff.
Rembrandt f. 1642 [but Ferdinand Bol]. Hess fecit aqua forti.
[n.d., c.1778.]
Etching. 205 x 170mm (8 x 6¾"). Trimmed into plate at top, narrow margins elsewhere, tear in inscription area.
Half-length portrait of a woman, said to be Sophie van der Houven, wife of painter Govert Flinck (1615-60), a pupil of Rembrandt.
[Ref: 63698] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Florence from the Ponte Alla Carraia.
Drawn by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. from a finished sketch by James Hakewill. Engraved by S. Rawle.
Published as the Act directs Dec.r 1. 1818, by John Murray, Albermarle Street, London.
Etching on chine collé. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12").
A view of Ponte Santa Trinita and Poente Vecchio, with buildings of Signoria on the left bank. From Hakewill's 'A Picturesque Tour of Italy' (London: 1818-1820).
Rawlinson 157, first published state.
[Ref: 63779] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Funeral Procession of His late Royal Highness the Duke of York, leaving S.t James's Palace, at 8 o'clock on the morning of Jan.ry 20.th 1827.
Drawn & Etch'd by Jos.h Nash.
Published Jan.y 26 1827 by R. Ackermann 101 Strand.
Etching. Sheet 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
After his lying in state at the Chapel Royal, Frederick cortege is shown leaving the North Gate of St James's Place, proceeding up St James's Street on route to his funeral in St George's Chapel, Windsor.
[Ref: 63601] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vier geheim verborgene Silhouetten von auserordentlicher Aehnlichkeit des unglücklichen Königs und der Königin von Frankreich nebst dem König und der Königin von England.
[after Michel Hennin.]
[Frehling Sc. et exc.] [n.d., c.1793.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 90 x 125mm (3½ x 5"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A puzzle print commemorating the executions of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette. The design on the left incorporates profile portraits of the ''unfortunate King & Queen of France''; the right design had George III and Queen Charlotte.
Stanford University: Images of the French Revolution 693265200.
[Ref: 63570] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Gallant Rescue off the Bachelor Rocks. Punch's Pocket book for 1871.
C.K. [monogram of charles Keene]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1871.]
Coloured etching, 120 x 305mm (4¾ x 12"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
An illustration in which women are depicted in boats, waving flags. With their nets and lassos they rescue struggling men from the rocks and the water, pulling them into their boats. One of a series of coloured etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1843–81, published by Bradbury Evans & Co.
[Ref: 63847] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[George III] Secret influence directing the new P-L-T.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d by W. Humphrey. N.º 227 Strand London [n.d., c.1784].
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), with large margins.
George III, seated on a throne says, ''I trust we have got such a House of Commons as we Wanted''. Thurlow, with the body of a bird of prey; says ''Damn the Commons, the Lords shall Rule''. Bute, in Highland dress, says to Thurlow, ''Very Gude, Very Gude Damn the Commons''. A head on a serpent's body is probably Willim Pitt the Elder. To the right Britannia sits asleep. A man wearing a ribbon, probably George, Prince of Wales, says, ''Thieves! Thieves! Zounds awake Madam or you'll have your Throat Cut''.
BM Satires 6587.
[Ref: 63639] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[An] Exact Representation of an Attempt Made by Marg.t Nicholson to Stab his Majesty on Wednesday Aug.t 2 1786.
[Pub]d Aug.t 5 1786 by W. S. Fores at the Caracature Ware-house N°3 Piccadilly.
Scarce etching. Sheet 235 x 295mm (5¼ x 11¾"), on 18th century watermarked 'C Patch'. Trimmed into image top and left (affecting title and publication line), tip of bottom left corner lost.
A sketched scene of George III taking a petition from Margaret Nicholson as she holds a knige against his chest. A Beefeater rushes foward. Margaret Nicholson (c.1750-1828) was judged insane for her half-hearted attack (in which she used an ivory-handled dessert knife) and was committed to Bedlam, where she died 42 years later.
BM Satires 6973.
[Ref: 63587] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[George, Prince of Wales & the Duchess of Gordon] A Racket at a Rout or Billingsgate Removed to the West.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d June 9th 1803 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching watermark J. Ruse 1802. 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, mounted in album paper at edges.
Jane, Duchess of Gordon (c.1748-1812, a patron of Robert Burns), argues with the Prince of Wales at a function, to the embarrassment of the attendees. During the Peace of Amiens Jane visited Napoleon in Paris and bought a painted portrait (presumably the miniature around her neck here), leading to a row with the Prince. She then sent a message to the King and Queen that she would not attend the Birthday, but went and was ignored.
BM Satires 10007.
[Ref: 63571] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Ghost or the Closet Scene in Hamlet.
IC [Isaak Cruikshank.]
Pub by S W Fores N 50 Piccadilly May 14 1799. Folios of Caricatures Lent.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. 255 x 360mm (19 x 14¼"), large margins. Some staining.
The Prince of Wales as Hamlet, staggering back at the appearance of the Duke of Cumberland. Behind the Prince stands Honor Gubbins, a 'Bath Beauty' who begs him to ''hast to the Crescent, their shall Love & Harmony delight soul to such an Extacy that Bladduds streams shall never Quench''. On the right is the profiles of George III, who says ''What - what, what is he going at now who's who's that William? Send him to Ireland send him to Ireland''.
BM Satires 9383.
[Ref: 63869] £360.00

"Our Sailor Prince"
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair May 24 1890.
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert (later George V) (1865-1936) in formal naval dress.
[Ref: 63674] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Hawarden Wood Block Estate Company Limited, or The Coloured Cousins at Work. There are still Coloured descendents of "the Gladstone family in Demerara," Extract from letter Published in St. Stephen's Revier, 14th. Jan, 1888. St. Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon, Feb.y 4th. 1888.
Tom Merry. Del et Lith.
Coloured lithograph. 374 x 545mm (14¾ x 21½"). Vertical fold down the middle, as issued. A few small tears to edges
An attack on Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98, Liberal Prime Minister but here Leader of the Opposition), whose father, Sir John Gladstone, had been one of the largest slave owners in the British Empire. Earlier in his career he was an opponent of the abolition of slavery, saying that emancipation should only happen after the moral education of the slaves. Here the suggestion is that the morals of the Gladstone family also needed attention, with the black workers on Gladstone's estates having a family resemblence. Tom Merry's wicked caricature published in 4 February 1888, of the Hawarden Wood Block Estate Company, where Gladstone sets his ‘Demarara cousins’ to work. William Mecham (1853-1902) had a music hall act in which he drew caricatures at lighning speed. 'St Stephen's Review', a Conservative weekly magazine, ran from 1883 to 1892.
[Ref: 63741] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Oliver Goldsmith] [Goldsmith.] From the Original Picture in the Possession of Her Grace the Duchess of Dorset.]
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. Robert Newton sculpsit.
[London. Pub.d June 4th 1817 by W. Cribb, Tavistock Street.]
Engraving, proof before title, printed on chine collé. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), with large margins.
The famous portrait of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), half-length, wearing a fur-lined cloak, his right hand holding a book to his chest with forefinger in between the pages. The plate was begun by John Summerfield (c.1773-1817), a former apprentice of Francesco Bartolozzi, and completed by Newton after his death.
[Ref: 63592] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

D.r Goldsmith.
[After Sir Joshua Reynolds]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins
Oval portrait of Anglo-Irish writer, poet and physician Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). Directed, facing and looking to the right, wearing a fur-lined cloak; within circle frame topped with laurel hanging down.
[Ref: 63600] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Gordon Riots] The Mob destroying & setting Fire to the Kings Bench Prison & House of Correction in S.t Georges Fields.
[London: Fielding & Walker, n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 190 x 315mm (7½ x 12½"). Trimmed, mounted in album paper, original fold.
A satirical scene of the mob rampaging in the street, with the building behind ablaze. One man carries a flag 'No Popery'.
See Ref: 63615
[Ref: 63772] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Gordon Riots] St. James, Westminster. Upon the present Tumults and riotous Assemblies, you are requested immediately to repair to the Standard in St. James's Square, on which the Name of the Street where you reside is painted, to assist your Neighbours, who are duly sworn Special Constables. to quell and disperse the same, and to preserve the Peace.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Letterpress. Sheet 90 x 155mm (3½ x 6¼"). Etching with engraving. Sheet 150 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½"). Paper distressed, mounted in album paper. Etching trimmed within plate, losing publication line, close to image at top, folded, mounted in album paper.
A rare mobilisation notice, calling the Volunteers to report for service. A scarce survivor. Sold with 'View of the late Encampment in St. James's Park, August 1780', etched by James Fittler after Paul Sandby, and published in 'The Virtuosi's Museum: containing select views, in England, Scotland and Ireland drawn by P. Sandby' (Kearsley, 1781).
[Ref: 63615] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

"Surgical Diagnosis." Sir Alfred Pearce Gould. "Vanity Fair" Supplement. Men Of The Day, No. 1298.
WH. [Wallace Hester]. The Grout Engraving Compy., London.
[27th Sept. 1911]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of surgeon, Sir Alfred Pearce Gould (1852-1922). His book ‘Elements of Surgical Diagnosis’ was first published in 1884 and went through ten editions.
[Ref: 63691] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[The Grand Jubilee of 1814] The Illuminated Temple of Concord, Erected in the Park to celebrate the glorious Peace of 1814.
Published & Sold, Aug.t 12.th 1814, by Edw.d Orme, Bond St. London.
Rare aquatint. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Mounted in album paper.
A view of a building in Green Park designed by Sir William Congreve to transform from a 'Temple of Discorde' to a 'Temple of Concorde' during the course of a fireworks display. It created for the triple celebration of the 100th anniversary of the accession of George I, the 16th anniversary of Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile and the recent signing of the Treaty of Paris, bringing a short pause in the Napoleonic Wars. The print was published in a souvenir publication only two weeks after the event.
[Ref: 63610] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Grand Jubilee of 1814.] The Chinese Bridge on Fire, Erected in the Park to celebrate the glorious Peace of 1814.
Published & Sold, Aug.t 12.th 1814, by Edw.d Orme Bond St. London.
Rare aquatint, pt Whatman watermark. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Mounted in album paper with another engraving of the bridge.
A Chinese-style bridge and pagoda built across the canal in St James's Park, designed by John Nash for the triple celebration of the 100th anniversary of the accession of George I, the 16th anniversary of Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile and the recent signing of the Treaty of Paris, bringing a short pause in the Napoleonic Wars. On the night of the Jubilee, 1st August, fireworks caused the bridge to catch fire, killing a man. The print was published in a souvenir publication only two weeks after the event.
[Ref: 63611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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