Grosvenor Prints

A Correct Representation of Her Majesty Queen Caroline Returning From the House of Lords, 1820
I.R. Cruikshank fecit. R W ad vivam del.t.
Pub.d by G. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street, London [n.d., c.1820].
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 205 x 410mm (8 x 16"). Trimmed to printed border, small tears in bottom left corner.
Caroline of Brunswick in an open coach with six horses and liveried footmen, being cheered by crowds in New Palace Yard.
[Ref: 62121] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Correct Representation of Her Majesty Queen Caroline Returning From the House of Lords, 1820
I.R. Cruikshank fecit. R W ad vivam del.t.
Pub.d by G. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street, London [n.d., c.1820].
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 215 x 410mm (8½ x 16"). Trimmed into printed border at sides
Caroline of Brunswick in an open coach with six horses and liveried footmen, being cheered by crowds in New Palace Yard.
[Ref: 62136] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Adams. Executed at Tyburn the 18th day of Jan.y 1737 for robbing (in Company with Tho.s Carr) Mr W.m Quarrington in the Angel Tavern Temple-bar.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1737].
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Creased. Small margins.
Elizabeth Adams and her partner, Thomas Carr (the vestry clerk of the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden) stole ninety-three guineas and a diamond ring from William Quarrington. At Tyburn the pair kissed and held hands as the cart moved away from under their feet.
See Item 53146 for the matching portrait of Thomas Carr.
[Ref: 62246] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cart Horse, Now in the possession of C. Blake, Esq.r Aged 31 Years.
Painted by S. Alken. Engraved by T. Sutherland.
London, Published Jan.y 1.st 1821 by J. Hudson, 85, Cheapside.
Scarce coloured aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 265 x 290mm (10½ x 11½"). Trimmed.
An elderly horse in its tackle, in a stable.
[Ref: 62337] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Cary] Effigies Praenobilis Henrici Baronis Cary Vicecomitus Falklandiae. The Right honorable Henrie lord Carÿe Vicount Falkland Comptroller of his Majesties moost ho.ble houshold, lord Deputie of Ireland and of his Majesties jo.ble privie Counsell in England and Ireland.
Paulus va~ Somer pinx. Joan Barra Sculp.
[n.d., c.1625.]
Engraving. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Small margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait in an oval frame of Henry Cary (c.1575-1633), first Viscount Falkland, wearing falling ruff and holding a wand.
[Ref: 62069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus Stuart, Koningk van Engelandt, Schotlandt, En Irlandt, Gebooren Ao.1600. Binnen Londen onthast, Ao. 1649. in't 24, Iaer zyner Regeeringe.
Ant: van Dyck pinxit. S. Savery fecit.
Joost Hartgers excud [n.d. c.1649].
Etching. Sheet 150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Charles I (1600-49), wearing a broad rimmed black hat, with Westminster and St James's Palace in the background.
[Ref: 62082] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Chinese dress] Habitus e China regno pretiose elegantie et rerun omnium affluentissimum Habitus Abissinorum quibus logo S. Baptismatis frons nutiritur.
AvLinschoten. Johannes à Doetechum fecit.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Hole in image, some spotting and toning.
Four Chinese figures. The title notes that China was the richest kingdom of them all. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62370] £350.00

An Attempt to Ascertain the Resemblance which some Ornaments now used in China, Bear to those of the Most Polished Times of Grecian Sculpture and Architecture.
[by James Christie.]
London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland Row, St James's [n.d., c.1810].
Folio, 4pp. letterpress with loose plate engraved by P. Sansom, text watermarked 'J Whatman 1810', the plate 'Budgen'.
An examination of a Chinese cup belonging to Dorothea Banks, wife of the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks. The text suggests that the Chinese lotus pattern of the cup derived from the Greek palmette motif. A scarce item. According to the 'Catalogue of the Library of John Dent, Esq.r.' (1825), the author was James Christie (1773-1831), a noted antiquary and scholar, who took over his father's auctioneer business in 1803.
See V&A 28109 for the plate.
[Ref: 62367] £680.00 view all images for this item

[Cinderella]. Cinderilla, or The Little Glass Slipper. When she had done her work [...] [&] Cinderilla, or The Little Glass Slipper. Cinderilla laughted to herself whn she saw her Slipper [...]
Drawn & Engraved by Henry Richter.
[Published Feb.y 1799 by J & H Richter 26 Newman Street Oxford Street.]
Pair of coloured stipples, fine colour. Sheets 260 x 275mm (10¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed to images on three sides, into plate at bottom, losing publications lines; slight scuffing of print area on second plate.
Two scenes of the fairytale 'Cinderella', as told by Charles Perrault in his 'Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre' (the version used by Disney): in the first she kneels at a fireplace, her sisters looking down on her with contempt; in the second the prince's herald fits the slipper on her foot as the sisters glower.
[Ref: 62364] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Mary Anne Clarke] A Private Examination.
[Samuel De Wilde]
Publised for the March. 1.st 1809. by S Tipper 37 Leadenhall Street.
Etching with aquatint, sheet 205 x 340mm (8¼ x 13½"). Folds as issued. Fold second from right split and repaired with tape. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
Plate from the Satirist, iv. 209. Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852) lies back on a little table, "How much longer need I LIE", she asks. A long garter with the inscription "Si qua [word illegible] meliora putat" protrudes from beneath her petticoats. William Cobbett (1763-1835) and his proteges stand by her side, while John Fuller (1757-1834) attacks her from the left, firing a blast from a massive pair of bellows inscribed "Rose Hill Bellows." Standing next to him is the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), wearing the Chancellor of the Exchequer's robe and pointing his mirror of truth at her. "I Perceive all," he says. "I'll blast her no Forging here you baggage. And still I blew a Fuller blast . And gave a lustier cheer," declares Fuller. Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (1770-1844) kneels next to her and tries to protect her from the light of truth by holding up a little barrel of Whitbread's Entire Hogshead, which has the head of Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815) on it. "Cobbett stands by me and I'll support you," declares Lord Folkestone (William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779–1869), endorsing him. There are notes marked "Notes for Cobbett" in his pocket. Talk of Portland Stone I say there's nothing like Folke Stone," asserts the considerably larger and heavier Cobbett as he holds him up. Under Mrs. Clarke's table lies Col Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle (c.1761-1833), with 'Ravish'd Letters,' looking up at her with a sly grin. On the wall is a picture inscribed 'Distant View of Newgate & Pillory.'
BM Satires 11234
[Ref: 62373] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Cleopatra stung by an Adder.
Clark Pin.t & Sculp.t.
Publish'd March 25, 1796, by John & Josiah Boydell, N.º 90 Cheapside.
Stipple. 365 x 280mm (14¼ x 11), large margins.
An oval portrait of Egyptian queen Cleopatra with the snake biting her arm.
Rare: the only reference to the print we can find is in the 1803 Boydell catalogue.
[Ref: 62360] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cleopatra.
Drawn by V.D. Riviere. Engraved by W. Woodley.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple, printed in colours. 320 x 365mm (12½ x 14½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A portrait of Cleopatra holding a cup and a pearl earring, after Daniel Valentine Riviere (1780-1854).
Rare: not in BM; Woodley is not listed in Alexander's Dictionary.
[Ref: 62357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo Bridge] [No.5]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Plate 140 x 195mm. (5½ x 7¾"), with very large margins.
View along the Embankment with Cleopatra's Needle in the Foreground against the backdrop of Waterloo Bridge and Somerset House.
[Ref: 62215] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[William Cobbett] The Porcupine's Den.
[Samuel De Wilde]
Published for the Satirist Nov.r 1.st 1808 by S. Tipper 37 Leadenhall Street.
Etching, sheet 205 x 360mm (8 x 14"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Holes in right margin where previously bound. Folds as issued. Small tears in folds.
Plate from the Satirist, iii. 337. Crouching on the floor of his cave is William Cobbett (1763-1835), a monster whose bare trunk ends in two scaly snake tails. Spikes sprout from behind his head and shoulders, meant for a porcupine's quills. A few of them dart toward a cave opening where Cobbett is exposed to sunlight through a sun-inscribed "Monthly Meteor." Holding up a quill, he flinches in fear and raises a "Veil of Infamy" with his left hand. Above an open book, the words "Memoranda of Infamy" are suspended. The quills take off in the direction of the "Monthly Meteor," but they fall back when they get to the cave's opening. The words "Rage," "Lies," "Vulgar," "Abuse," "Envy," "Lies," "Disappointment," and "Malice" are inscribed on them. John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) and Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (1770-1844) are the two other monsters on the right side of the cave. They are slender, nude animals with webbed wings, a tail, and talons. They have an open book with the words "Cobbetts Register 1802 - Sr F Burdett a Seditious Demagogue, Mr Pitt a God, Horne Tooke a Devil, Loyalty, England Happy" written on it, and they are pushing it over a large bonnet rouge that reads "Jacobin's Extinguisher." Rays from the "Monthly Meteor" strike Burdett. Two open books stand in front of Cobbett: 'Cobbetts Register 1807 - Sr F Burdett a God. Mr Pitt a Devil. Horne Tooke an Angel. Sedition England at her last Gasp.' and 'Instructions from Lord Edward Fitzgerald.'
BM Satires 11049.
[Ref: 62417] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Henry Cole] Men of the Day, No. 29. ''King Cole.'' No. 146.
Vanity Fair. Aug. 19, 1871.
Chromolithograph. Sheet 355 x 230mm (14 x 9").
Sir Henry Cole (1808-82), FRSA, a civil servant who, as an assistant to Rowland Hill, played a key role in the introduction of the Penny Post and is sometimes credited with the design of the Penny Black. He is also credited with devising the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas, introducing the world's first commercial Christmas card in 1843. Later he pushed to make the Great Exhibition of 1851 an international event and to spend the profits on the museums of South Kensington, becoming the first director of what became the Victorian and Albert Museum in 1857.
[Ref: 62315] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Stephen College.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Ink and wash. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Stephen College (also Colledge, c.1635-81), with a skull in the background. A joiner by trade, he aided the fabricated Popish Plot by writing ballads and polemics against catholics and lawyers. He was tried and executed for high treason in Oxford in 1681. An adapted copy of a contemporary mezzotint.
[Ref: 62113] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Columbiad: a Poem.] [Cruelty Presiding over the Prison Ship.]
R. Smirke R.A. pinx.t. J. Neagle Sculp.
[Philadelphia: A. Conrad and Co., 1807.]
Stipple with engraving, scratched letter progress proof, with guidelines for the elaborate title border. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate, small hole in unprinted area.
An illustration from Joel Barlow's epic poem about America, 'The Columbiad', with the winged figure of (British) Cruelty ignoring the pleas from American prisoners of war reaching through the hatch of a prison ship. 'The Columbiad' is a philosophical epic poem, enlarged from Joel Barlow's earlier work 'The Vision of Columbus' (1787). Intended as a national epic, it was initially popular but quickly fell out of favour: 'The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature' describes it as 'a tedious and turgid work modeled on Milton'.
[Ref: 62291] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Columbus and the Egg.]
Design'd & etched by W.m Hogarth Decem 1. 1753.
[18th century impression.]
Etching. 165 x 195mm (6½ x 7¾")
Christopher Columbus cracking an egg on a table to make it stand, demonstrating that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. This plate was originally published in 1752 as the subscription ticket for the 'Analysis of Beauty', with etched text underneath. For this second state the plate was cut down, leaving two sworls of the letters of the text.
Paulson 194, state ii of ii. BM Satires 3192.
[Ref: 62065] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Lady at Confession.
Millar inv.t et pinx.t. Rob.t Laurie fecit.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 20 May 1772.
Mezzotint. 395 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom, laid on album paper.
A young lady at confession, holding a rosary, heard by a Jesuit monk, who looks lecherously at her. Before them are various symbols of mortality, and a paper lettered ''From fornication and all other deadly Sins Libera nos Domine! 'Tis better to Marry than burn''.
[Ref: 62359] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

J.W.H. Conradi.
L.E. Grimm fec. ad vivum Cassel 1826.
Etching. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"), with very large margins. Mounted in album paper at sides.
Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi (1780-1861), German doctor, author of medical books and professor of medicine at Heidelburg then Göttingen.
Wellcome 661-6
[Ref: 62198] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Honb.le Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, &c, &c, &c, L.d Lieu.t & Custos Rot.m of the County of Warwicj, One of the Lords of His Majestys most Hon.ble Privy Council & Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. John Watts Sculp.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 28, 1786, by Jn.o Watts No 34 Red Lyon Street Holborn & W.m Dickenson, No 158, New Bond Street.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 370 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾"). Crease in inscription area, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of Francis Seymour Conway (1743-1822), 2nd Marquess of Hertford, wear a jacket with a fur collar.
CS: 4; Hamilton: pg 37 iii of iii.
[Ref: 62087] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

James Cook the Murderer of Mr Paas at Leicester. Vivant.
W. Wadsworth 7 Vinegar Yard, Dury Lane.
Etching. Sheet 265 x 165mm (10½ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, notched in top left edge.
A full-length portrait of murderer James Cook (1811-32), standing looking down with a horrified expression, holding a hat with both hands, wearing short open double-breasted jacket, waistcoat and neckerchief tied in a bow. Cook, a 21-year old bookbinder, owed John Pass (originally Paas), an engraver and bookbinders' toolmaker, money. When Pass called to collect, Cook killed him and attempted to hide the crime by dismembering Pass and trying to burn the limbs. Cook was hung and gibbetted in Leicester: so many visitors came to view the body that the Home Office intervened, ordering it removed. This was the last recorded gibbeting in England.
[Ref: 62110] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolas Copernic. Dedie a Monsieur De Sartine...
Dessine et Grave par N. Dandeleau.
Se Vend a Paris Chez Mr. Fallery Horloger... Et Chez l'Auteur Rue du Four, pres de la Croix Rouge, Chez un Boulanger No.73 [n.d., c.1790].
Very rare engraving. 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Some time staining.
Oval bust portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), mathematician and the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. By Nicolas Dandeleau (b.1749); from the portrait which is part of the collection held in the Museum of Thorn, Poland.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 62427] £450.00

William Corder. From a Drawing Made at the Time of his Trial.
M. Gauci lithog. Rackstraw del.t.
Bury: Published Aug. 16, 1828, by T.C. Newby, & R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, London.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 150 x 135mm (6 x 5¼"). Slight time staining.
William Corder (1803-28), convicted for the 'Red Barn Murder' of 1827. Corder, a fraudster and ladies' man, made a rendezvous with his girlfriend Maria Marten at the barn on the pretext of eloping. Instead he killed her, stuffed her body in a sack and buried her. Corder disappeared but wrote home pretending the two were together, but her body was discovered and a hunt for Corder started. He was discovered, arrested, tried and convicted, and sentenced to be hung and dissected. The hanging attracted a huge crowd; the dissection was performed before an audience of Cambridge students. A battery was connected to his limbs to demostrate muscle contraction; Corder's skin was tanned by the surgeon George Creed and used to bind an account of the murder; and his skeleton was put on display in the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons.
[Ref: 62411] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Charles, Earl Cornwallis. Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces, &c. &c. &c.
Painted by H.D. Hamilton. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
[London. Publish'd March 15th. 1781, for Watson & Dickinson No. 158, New Bond Street.]
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 130 x 115mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Oval portrait of Charles Cornwallis (1738- 1805), one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.
De Vesme 793, state iii of iv. See Ref: 18233 for a proof printed in red ink.
[Ref: 62073] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Explanation of the Cosmorama.
[Printed Dec.r 1.st 1821, for La Belle Assembleé N.º 155.]
Aquatint. Sheet 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on album paper.
A diagram of the viewing room of the Cosmorama, an indoor peepshow at 29 St James's Street (later 207-209 Regent Street). The viewer would look through a confex lens at a small painting, which would look much larger and more distant.
[Ref: 62309] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Council.
Publishd as ye Act Directs for ye Proprietor by W Humphrey Feby 9 1780 N 227 Strand or N.o 18 Bond Street.
Framed scarce etching, sight size 240 x 235mm (9½ x 13¼"). Frame size 420 x 515mm (16½ x 20¼"). Unexamined outside of frame. Loss top right corner and made up repair bottom right.
Three men seated in a latrine: Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792) (centre), William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) (left) in judge's wig and gown, and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792) (right), Boreas, Caen Wood (Mansfield's house near Hampstead), and "Jemmy Twitcher" being inscribed over their respective heads. On the wall "the State of the Nation". North is looking at Mansfield with a satisfied expression on his face. He has a large piece of torn paper in his right hand that reads, "National Debt 206,000 000 00 60 000 £ for Razors, Jews Harps," (probably implying that the Jewish men were making large profits in taking up loans and were shaving their beards on becoming wealthy). A piece of paper with the inscription "Improvements in Bushy 1780" is clutched by him in his right hand, suggesting that he is using the Exchequer to fund improvements to his own home. A big piece of torn paper with the words "Protestant Association Lord G. Gordon President" is under his feet. De Castro, 'Gordon Riots'. North turned down Lord George Gordon's request, made on January 5, 1780, for him to present the Protestant Association's petition for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act, which Gordon had presented on June 2 with disastrous results. Turning around, Mansfield tears pieces from "Magna Chart[a]" that is affixed to the wall behind him. Sandwich is seen tearing an ensign flag with a triumphant expression on his face, suggesting that he is playing havoc with the Navy. A torn paper with the words "Petition... County of Huntingdon" is under his foot. Three prints are pasted on the wall: "The State of the Nation”, "Poor Old England," and "The Family of ye Wrong Heads". Over the head of Sandwich a piece of paper with the following writing is on the wall: "Neglecting faithfid Worth for Fawning Slaves; Whose Councels weak & Wicked, easy rous'd To Paltry Scheems of Absolute Command, To seek their Splendour in their sure Disgrace, And in a broken ruin'd Peoples Wealth: When such o'ercast the State, no Bond of Love, No Heart, no Soul, no Unity, no Nerve, Combines the loose disjointed Publick, lost To Fame abroad, to Happiness at Home. Vide Thompson, Liberty Book y 4."
BM Satires 5633.
[Ref: 62301] £480.00

John Bull In The Council Chamber.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d July 1.st 1813 by W N Jones N.o5 Newgate Street.
Etching with hand colour, Whatman 1811 watermark; sheet 210 x 495mm (8¼ x 19½"). Trimmed within plate. Folds as issued. Some small tears in the folds. Right side ragged. Large repaired tear on left.
Plate from the 'Scourge', vi, frontispiece. In the center of the design, a caricatured Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) sits enthroned beneath a canopy. Her knees are spread wide, and she has one slender foot elevated on a cushioned stool, a coffer holding the "Hastings Diamond"; in her left hand she holds a sceptre topped with an eagle, and her left elbow rests on a bolster bearing the name "German Sausage," which is perched atop a large mound of greenery inside a receptacle labeled "Sauer Kraut." Perched on her feathered cap is a small crown. A lean, hideous courtier (left) kneels and offers her a box labelled 'Strasbu[rgh],' from which she takes snuff; another (right) stands with her knees bent and holds another box bearing the same inscription. Both sport feminine mob-caps, quasi-military attire with epaulets, and have grotesque comic profiles. Behind the first, a third, capless, holds out a jar of 'Strasbu[rgh]' snuff. Three small, hideous demons sprint forward from the left, each holding a box on their head that reads "Real Strasburg," "Princes Mixture," and "Irish Blaguard." A fourth moves forward from the right, carrying a massive jar of "Royal Strasburgh" atop his head. The Queen's festooned canopy is held up by terminal pillars topped with half-length representations of repulsive, nude hags resting their arms on a cluster of money bags bearing the words "1000" or "... 00." A serpent with fangs and fiery jaws is entwined around each, projecting the words "Pride Corruption" on the left and "Malice Hatered" on the right. "Am I not the Q—n?" she asks. I refuse to give up even the slightest bit of my authority—more Strasburgh there—present the reports to me." Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828) is depicted on the left, his body covered in scales, his tail barbed, small horns growing from his forehead, cloven hooves, and an incorrectly placed star on his breast. He is holding out a paper with the words "Secret Inquiry" written on it and is making an exclamatory gesture with his extended arms. " May it please your — The precious Ore resists every Chemical attempt at deterioration— so the Virtue of injured Woman repels the touch of Slander & rises superior to its malevolence. I take Shame to myself at discomfiture—but the Princess is declared "Innocen!" Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750-1818) is seen behind Liverpool on the left, wearing a wig and a gown, and facing right with her fists clenched. "By Hell, I thought to shame the Rogues, but the d—d Brewer [Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815), the Princess's champion] was too much for me," he says with a frown. "May it please your M—g—ty the Reports of the Physicians is admirably confused & equivocating & well calculated to meet the public eye!" bows Sir Henry Halford (1766-1844), who is positioned on the extreme left and has a huge, hooked nose. He holds a paper with the title "Medical monthly Report." The Regent (1762-1830) is pictured on the far right, sleeping in a cradle with the motto "Ich Dein" and three unkempt ostrich feathers on top. A decanter of "Curacoa" rests between his legs, and he is holding a doll meant for Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford (1760-1834) that has enormous breasts and a spikey crown. A ragged Irishman is seen in profile to the right, kneeling before the cradle and holding out a piece of paper titled "Catholic Claims." Wearing the Chancellor's wig and gown, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838) kneels beside the cradle, offering the child his arms in defense against the Irishman. "Pat, take it easy or you'll wake up the Royal Conscience, who is currently sound asleep." he says. "By St. Patrick, but there's no risk of upsetting it as long as your Lordship is its Keeper," Pat responds. John Bull is standing behind Pat, his hands up in shock and his legs arched. He looks to the left and cries, " Mercy on me what have we hear, Conscience asleep! on the one hand & the Manufacture of Reports on the other— Is this the way I am bubbled?!" As though he is standing in the opening of a cave, rocks surround him.
BM Satires 12066.
[Ref: 62415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Georgii Croke Equitis Aurati et Utriusqu Banci Iusticiar: Ut Vulturs hominum, Ita Sumulacra vultus quae Marmore, aut aere finguntur Imbecilla, ac mortalia sunt: Forma mentis aeterna: quam tenera, et exprimere non per alienam maeriam, et artem, sed tuis ipse moribus possis. Tac: in vita Iulÿ Agric: Socri Sui.
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., 1657.]
Etching, with Collector's Mark. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Trimmed close to plate, mounted in album sheet at edges.
Portrait of George Croke (c.1560 – 1642), bust in an oval, wearing skull-cap, ruff, and robes, and holding a scroll; coat of arms below, with a row of books. Frontispiece to 'The Reports of Sir George Croke' (1560-1642), judge and law-reporter.
[Ref: 62071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Cutler]. Mechi. 4 Leadenhall Street.
[n.d., c. 1850.]
Wood-engraving, printed in black and green. Sheet 75 x 105mm (3 x 4¼"). Edges trimmed, corners clipped, laid on album paper.
An image of the outside of John Joseph Mechi's (1802–1880) cutlery shop in Leadenhall Street, used in his catalogue. He moved to Leadenhall Street in 1830; the business name changed to Mechi & Bazin in 1859; and the shop closed, with the business moving to Regent Street in 1865.
[Ref: 62237] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Cymon and Iphegenia. The Fool of Nature, stood with stupid Eyes...]
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. W.W. Ryland Fecit.
[Publish'd Jan.y ye 15;th 1782 by W. W. Ryland N.º 159 Strand, London.]
Circular stipple, scratch-letter proof before title, printed in reddish-brown. 365 x 315mm (14¼ x 12½").
Cymon, resting on his walking stick, stares down at Iphegenia, sleeping with her companions, struck by her beauty. Kauffman's painting of this scene from Giovanni Boccaccio's 'Decameron' is now in the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.
Alexander 120.
[Ref: 62361] £360.00

[Dandelion Clocks]
MFW. F H Whittington. M.J. Whittington [pencil signatures].
[n.d., c.1950.]
Wood engraving printed in colours. Sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½").
A red-headed woman in a hooped skirt stands between a spider's web and dandelions. A collaboration between Francis Herbert Whittington (1876-1973) and his wife, Marjory Florence Whittington (née Hood, 1888-1970)
[Ref: 62314] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Eigentliche Abbildung des Frankosisch-gewesenen Obristen De la Brosse.
[n.d., c.1677.]
Rare engraving, pt 17th century watermark. Sheet 165 x 135mm (6½ x 5¼"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper.
A caricature portrait of Captain De la Brosse, a French soldier nicknamed 'L’incendiaire' (arsonist) for setting fire to Haguenau (then a German city) on 10th February 1677, during the Franco-Dutch War (1672-78). De La Brosse was killed in a melée with Imperial troops soon after, his body stripped and left. In this satire, by Johann Chrisoph Sartorius, he is depicted with long hair, wearing a hat and lace cravat, sash and jacket, his face seemingly blackened. The letterpress mocks his appearance.
See also reference 49450.
[Ref: 62200] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Antoine-François Desrues, Rompu et Brûle vif, par Arrêt du Parlement, à Paris le 6 Mai, 1777, âgé de 32 ans et demi.
[n.d., c.1777.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 175mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Antoine François Desrues (1744-77) poisoned Madame de la Motte and her teenaged son, then forged a receipt for the purchase of her country estate. Convicted and still maintaining his innocence, he was tortured in an attempt to get his to admit his guilt, before being broken with an iron bar and burned alive.
[Ref: 62097] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Pickpocket] Jenny Diver.
[n.d., c.1741.]
Engraving Sheet 190 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Jenny Diver (née Mary Young, c.1700-41), with a watch and purse in her hands. She was a skilled pickpocker, capable of mixing in high society, and said to sometimes use fake arms so she could steal with her hands apparently in her lap. Twice she was arrested but, by using false names, was sentenced to transportation to Virginia as a first offender. Both times she bribed her way back to London. On her third arrest she was recognised and sentenced to death: as a famous criminal, she was taken to her execution in a mourning carriage.
[Ref: 62095] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossing] London at Morning.
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Letterpress poem between two blind-embossed decorations, Sheet (at most) 90 x 230mm (3½ x 9"). Trimmed irregularly as scrap.
William Wordsworth's 1802 poem, now known as 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', between two urns with fruit and leaves. Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62342] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed scene of street musicians.]
Dobbs.
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing with Dobbs stamp. Oval sheet, 40 x 60mm (1½ x 2½"), edges scalloped.
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62349] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed scene of cherubs sacrificing at an altar.]
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing. Sheet 55 x 65mm (2¼ x 2½").
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62350] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed scene of a monkey with a straight-edge razor and mirror.]
Dobbs.
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing with Dobbs stamp. Oval, sheet 65mm (2½ x 3½"), edges scalloped and perforated.
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62351] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed greyhound.]
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing, with Dobbs stamp. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62344] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed stag.]
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing, with Dobbs stamp. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62347] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed lion.]
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing with Dobbs stamp. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62348] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed horse.]
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing, with Dobbs stamp. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed Newfoundland dog.]
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing, with Dobbs stamp. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62345] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Embossed leopard.]
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Blind-embossing, with Dobbs stamp. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62346] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[William Dodd, forger] Der Ehrwürdige Doctor Dodd.
Berndt sculpsit
[n.d., c.1780.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed within plate, affecting engraver's signature.
The Rev. William Dodd (1729 - 1777), parson and author who was hanged for forgery. Known as the "Macaroni Parson". In February 1777 he offered a bond for £4,200 in the name of Lord Chesterfield to a stockbroker named Robertson. Robertson procured the money, for which, according to Dodd, Chesterfield would pay an annuity of £700. Dodd then brought the bond apparently signed by the earl. The bond was transferred to the lender's solicitor, who noticed some blots on the document, had it rewritten and presented to Chesterfield for signing. The fraud was discovered and warrants for the arrest of Dodd and Robertson were issued. Despite attempts to obtain a pardon, especially by Dr. Johnson, who composed several papers for him, Dodd was sentenced on 26 May and hanged in June.
[Ref: 62098] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Sylvester Douglas.
T. Lawrence R.A. pinx.t. E. Harding sculp.
Pub.d June 4, 1794 by E & S Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple with etching, title in open letters. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Sylvester Douglas (1743-1823), Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, leaning against the arm of his chair and with his right hand raised to his cravat; the table beside at left with inkstand and papers, pillar and curtain behind. After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830).
NPG D11004.
[Ref: 62187] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch Peasants] Ni pateat fundus, nova massica non tibi fundo, / In funde cordis namque profunda latent.
A. Ostaden pinxit. J. Suyderhoef sculpsit.
F. de Wit excudit [n.d., c.1670].
Engraving. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Trimmed close to plate, small tear repaired.
A peasant couple seated at a table, the man holding a jug and about to fill the woman's wine-glass, nuts and smoking accessories on the table. Originally published by Clement de Jonghe.
[Ref: 62225] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vivitur Parvo Bene.
AV Ostade pinxit. Corn. Visscher fecit.
Clemendt de Jonghe excudit [n.d., c.1655].
Engraving with etching. 260 x 220mm (10¼ x 8¾"). Mounted in album paper at sides.
The topers: two boors and an elderly woman drink together, one man clutching a large clay jug and the woman raising her glass.
[Ref: 62253] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

['Ectypa' of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel] Viro Amplissimo Nobilissimo, Jonæ Witsenio Icto, civium Amstelædamensium Patri Consuliq. Vigilantissimo...
Inventor Cornelius Ploos van Amstel. D. 1 Febr. 1765.
Etching, printed in brown, with beige plate-tone; touched with white paint. Sheet 245 x 230mm (9½ x 9"), with Ploos van Amstel's coat of arms printed on the verso as proof of authenticity. Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
A crayon-manner etching of a monument, the frontispiece to a series of forty-six facsimiles off drawings of Dutch and Flemish artists, published 1765-87.
[Ref: 62274] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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