Grosvenor Prints

Bully Dawson in the Bilboes. Vol. II. p.219.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed close to image on right.
Dawson, described in the text as 'Noble Captain and Commander in Chief of all the Cowards in Christendom', is manhandled into the stocks. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
The full text can be found on Google Books.
[Ref: 60878] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Joe Haynes's Mountebanks Speech. Vol. II. p.167.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed close to image on right.
The quack doctor 'Seignior Giusippe Hanesio, High-German Doctor and Astrologer in Brandinopolis' stands on a stage, haranguing an audience. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
The full text can be found on Google Books.
[Ref: 60877] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mark Anthony teaching ye Dogs to Dance. Oliver Cromwell turn'd Rat-Catcher. Vol. II. p.9.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed close to image on right.
Mark Antony dressed as a soldier, teaching dogs to do acrobatic tricks. To the right a man carries a 'Raree Show' on his back. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
The full text can be found on Google Books. Property of Nigel C. Talbot.
[Ref: 60869] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Mitred Hog and Ladys. Vol. II. p.130.
E Kirkall Sculp.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate.
A priest addresses three women in a boudoir. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
[Ref: 60867] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Second Vol. of T. Brown's Works.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. 145 x 80mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Narrow right margin. Time stained.
The frontispiece to 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. In the foreground Charon ferrys a group of gentlemen across the River Styx, watched by three men on the far bank, the author and the recently-dead comic actors Joe Haines and James Nokes. Above a demon flies by on a monster. Thomas Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
BM Satires 1390.
[Ref: 60866] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[A woman confronted by a ghostly samurai]
Max Brunning [pencil signature].
[German, n.d., c.1935.]
Rare etching, printed in colours, on chine collé. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), very large margins.
A young woman in her scanty night attire raises her candle to see a snarling samurai, his katana unsheathed, towering above her. Max Brunning (1888-1968) published mainly erotica, but also a portraits of Adolf Hitler and a pair of a Hitler Youth boy & Bund Deutsche Mädel girl.
[Ref: 51808] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tregear's Flights of Humour No.42. Business. My Master is the Man for Business there's none of your coming twice fot erh Money No! No! he settles at once for he tells you you'll Never Get It!!!
London Pub.d by G.S. Tregear 123 Cheapside [n.d., c.1835].
Very fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 290 x 185mm (11½ x 7¼"). Laid on album paper. Trimmed.
A man in an apron, carrying a bottle basket, writing in a notebook. Published in a series of social satires by Gabriel Shire Tregear (1828 - 1840; fl.).
[Ref: 57695] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Information for the Million. "Mr. Scrag, can you tell me how they kill the Pigs in China?" [/] "They dos'nt kill them at all Mum, they feeds 'em untill they burstis!" [/] "Gracious goodness!!!"
Pub by A.Park, 41 Leonard Street, Finsbury, London. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8½").
A smiling, rotund butcher stands beside a shocked elderly woman, with a pig's head and other meat behind.
[Ref: 39041] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

I'd be a Butterfly / Born in a bower.
Drawn by Joe Lisle.
Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant, London.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate on three sides.
An old soldier selling ballads in a heavy storm, singing a song, written by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839). One of his crutches is a broom.
See BM 1993,1107.43 for an example published by Gans in 1830.
[Ref: 59451] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

To Calais.
[Anchor monogram of Frederick Marryat] etched by G.C. [George Cruikshank].
London Pub.d June 5th 1824 by G. Humphrey 24 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 145 x 200mm (5¾ x 8"). Trimmed within printed border, laid on album paper.
The cockneyfied passengers of a small ferry, depicted with a sailor's contempt, hang over the rail in misery or walk on deck.
BM Satires 14719.
[Ref: 58304] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Calf's Pluck.
H. Bunbury del. [Rowlandson f.]
[n.d. c.1807. Pub. Tegg.]
Hand-coloured etching. 132 x 171mm. 5¼ x 6¾".
A butcher is pulled to the ground as young calf runs off trying to get away. A rather amused woman looks on the scene from a window.
See BM Satires: 10922.
[Ref: 16079] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Call Again Tomorrow. Written by Mr. C. Dibden; Composed by Mr. Reeve; and sung by Mr Smith, with unbounded Applause, in the ''Magic Minstrel,'' at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers' Wells. 499.
Publish'd Nov. 1. 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching set in letterpress, sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"). Laid on album sheet, some red ruling.
A debtor telling his creditor through a window to come back tomorrow, while thinking of ways to raise money without working.
[Ref: 54368] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Call Again Tomorrow. Sung by Mr. Smith, at Sadler's Wells. 16
[by George Cruikshank?]
Printed and published by R. Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap [n.d., c.1820).
Coloured etching, set in letterpress. Sheet 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"), very large margins. Some creasing.
A debtor telling his creditor through a window to come back tomorrow, while thinking of ways to raise money without working. A song from the ''Magic Minstrel'', libretto by C. Dibden, music by Mr. Reeve, and sung by Mr Smith at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers' Wells.
[Ref: 58395] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Canonical Beau, or Mars in the Dumps. Engraved after an Original Picture of Mr John Collett, in the Possession of Mr. Bradford.
J. Collett pinx.t. J. Goldar sculps.t.
Published by T.Bradford, No.132 Fleet Street, & H.Parker, No 82 Cornhill, as the Act directs, 25th Oct.r 1768.
Engraving with etching, fine impression. 335 x 375mm (13½ x 14¾"). Folds around image within platemark.
Three young ladies, two elderly women and a pug dog are clustered fawning around a clergyman, to the dismay of a young ex-soldier with a wooden leg who sits disgruntled at the other end of the sofa with the head of a hound in his lap. An open book is titled 'The Church triumphant'.
BM 1954,1103.397.
[Ref: 56162] £360.00

A Capital Joke [&] No Effect.
London Pub Sept. 1823(?) by J. Dickinson 114 New Bond St.
Scarce pair of social satires, fine coloured lithographs on J. Whatman wove paper watermarked 1825. Each sheet c.155 x 240mm. 6 x 9½". First print with faint water stain upper right; in fresh contemporary hand colour.
The first composition shows a group of gentleman arranged around a dinner table with their wine glasses charged laughing uproariously; in the second a young bachelor with a broad grin is evidently not entertaining three young ladies and their mother or governess with his conversation.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 20663] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A Card Party Pl.t 8.
[Henry Heath.]
Published Nov.r 15 1824 by S.W.Fores, 41 Picadilly, London Jan.y. 1.st 1825.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½''), with large margins.
A scene in a parlour showing a group of four people at cards, an elderly woman has a monkey sitting on the chair behind her.
[Ref: 50835] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Card Party.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 205 x 315mm (8 x 12½"). Trimmed to image. Small tear taped.
Two women, one using an eye-glass, the other holding a fan, hold up a large scroll on which is a scene of a card party.
[Ref: 51933] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Caricature Magazine by G.M. Woodward, Esq.r. Vol. 4. Ever Changing. Ever Now. Vive la Magatelle.
Woodward del. Rowlandson fc.
London Published by T. Tegg III Cheapside 1809.
Etching with wonderful hand-colour. Sheet: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½''). Small bottom margin. Some surface dirt. Creased and damaged.
A frontispiece showing two figures seated on either side of the image reading through earlier volumes of Woodward's Caricature Magazine. Above the figure on the left hangs a painting of a masquerade while on the other side hangs and painting of a country dance.
[Ref: 62640] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Title Page] Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror, By Thomas Rowlandson, Esq.r Vol. II.
[After Woodward]
Published by T. Tegg N.o 111 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1807]
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 250 x 405mm (10 x 15¾"). On paper watermarked '1816', with large margins left & right. Trimmed to plate at top & bottom. Some staining.
The title is engraved across the centre of the page. Comic Mirror' is inscribed on a half-length figure of a jester wearing a fool's cap, strung from two ribbon festoons that are centred by a bow. A ribbon loop with the words "To hold as t'were the Mirror up to Nature" is engraved beneath it. Shakespeare. Half-length figures scrutinising bound numbers (or volumes) of the Magazine are supported by one festoon with the inscription 'Country Observations on the Caricature Magazine'. A attractive woman approaches John and says, "Come on, let me look, don't keep it all to yourself." "Don't be in a hurry well these things be the drollest things ever sent into our Country," and "There is one exactly like our Exciseman," are said by two oafish men while holding an open book. As he looks through a volume, a third man remarks, "I wonder how they think of all these things." The second festoon, "Town Observations on the Caricature Magazine," features two men and two ladies (three-quarter length), who appear unattractive but rather stylish, as they enthusiastically examine the bound images. They respond with: "It is certainly very amuseing" ; "Pray Sir have they commenced the second Volume" ; "Just got the first number Ma'am from Mr Teggs." Two processions surround the sides and lower portion of the motif. 'Whimsical Characters climbing to the Temple of Fame' are located on the left. Back view of men and women ascending, perspective regressing to a circular temple where Fame sounds his horn. A chubby parson, a flirtatious military officer with a large cocked hat, and a plump 'cit' walking hand in hand with a slender woman are the people in the foreground. They see a Highlander walking ahead of them. "A Grotesque Deputation from the Temple of Momus-returning thanks for past favors and soliciting future patronage" is the text on the left. These are Lilliputian figures, with large grotesque heads of men and women, all smiling, descending from a temple that straddles Momus."The Genius of Caricature opening the Second Volume" is positioned between the two processions and forms a tail-piece. Perhaps a fantastic representation of Tegg, the man has a large smile on his face, faun's ears, and butterfly wings. He is sprawled on the ground with an open volume in his hands, which is "Caricature Magazine Vol 2d." He has "Caricature Magazine, Vol. 1" resting on his elbow. Next to him are documents with the following inscriptions: 'Bulls,' 'Anecdotes,' 'Jests,' 'Puns,' 'Bon Mot[s]', and distinct prints.
BM Satires 10917.
[Ref: 61921] £360.00

[Title Page] The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror. By G.M. Woodward. Esq.r. Author of Eccentric Excursions. Vol. I.
Woodward Del.t Cruickshanks Sculp.t.
Published by Thomas Tegg N.o 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching, plate 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), with large margins left & right. Thread margins top and bottom. Nicks to bottom margin. Paper toned and surface dirt in margins.
The title is written on a traditional curtain that is symmetrically placed throughout the design, with a John Bull-style smiling mask in the centre. The design features an ugly and aged man and woman sitting and smiling, holding a print that appears to be a mirror reflection of their heads and shoulders. Caricature heads are shown densely clustered together, as though they are in a theatre gallery, while the curtain descends on either side of the central mask. Liliputian figures are below.
BM Satires 10889.
[Ref: 61920] £360.00

[The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature Magazine.] Ladies and Gentlemen, having compleated the final volume of the Caricature Magazine, I am desired in the name of the Proprietors, Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large _ long, and small headed Bretheren to return to you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced...
Woodward Inv.t and Delin; [etched by Charles Williams.]
London, Published 1st Sept.r 1807, by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), large margins on 2 sides. Trimmed into plate at bottom, small tear entering plate but not image at top,
A group of 'Lilliputians' stand on a stage surrounded by a curtain festooned with satire prints.
BM Satires 10916, with extensive description of the prints illustrated.
[Ref: 58268] £380.00

A Cat in Pattens.
Rowlandson inv 1812.
Coloured etching, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Watermarked 1809, very large margins. Creasing.
A woman in oversized muff, accompanied by a negro page and a poodle, ignores a ragged beggar. She wears pattens (protective blocks) tied to her shoes to raise them out of the mud. A black page carries an umbrella and a skewer of 'Cat's Meat'.
BM Satires 11973.
[Ref: 50791] £320.00

Celia Retiring. 298.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene showing an old woman, bald without her wig, preparing for bed, aided by a pretty chambermaid. Originally published by the engraver, Piercy Roberts.
Not in BM Satires. BM 1872.1012.5084.
[Ref: 61907] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Celia Retiring. 298.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
Pub'd Decr 29 [c.1805] by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London. London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle-row Holborn.
Hand-coloured etching. 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14"). Date scratched out. Narrow margin to left and right.
A scene showing an old woman, bald without her wig, preparing for bed, aided by a pretty chambermaid. Originally published by the engraver, Piercy Roberts.
[Ref: 51871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

le Chapitre des illusions. No.10. Cher enfant accuse moi reception des deux cents francs que je t’ai envoyés. Ménage toi, je connais ton ardeur pour le travail ce qui me fait toujours craindre une fièvre cérébrale il faut prendre de la distraction...
Bouchot [in plate.]
á Paris, chez Dupin et C.ie Editeurs, Passage Colbert. Lith: Cabuche & C.ie Pass. Saulnier, 19. [n.d. c.1838.]
Lithograph. 361 x 272mm. 14¼ x 10¾".
After a hearty dinner and the consumption of two bottles of alcohol, the husband slumps back into a chair smoking a pipe with his wife reading to him and the male guest, who smokes a cigar. From 'Le Charivari', the illustrated newspaper published in Paris, from 1832 to 1937. After 1835, when the government banned political caricature, Le Charivari began publishing satires of everyday life.
[Ref: 22876] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Characteristics, or England, Ireland, and Scotland. I say_there's a __ fine Girl! Let's go in & ask if Mr Thomson lives there? & have a Chat with her. / Och _by my Soul but we'll buy Something of the dare Cratur_ Oh the Swate little Jewel! / Hoo't a'wa Mon. Dunn'a throw awa the Siller! we'll jost gang in & a'ask for twa & Sixpence for ha'alfa Croon.
Drawn by M.E. Esq,r. Eng.d by Geo.Hunt.
London, Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket 1827.
Coloured aquatint. On trimmed paper J. Whatman paper watermarked 1827. Sheet 200 x 200mm (8 x 8"). Pinholes in three corners. Brown spots in title and publishing line.
Three dandies ogling a shop girl through a window, showing their lechery in different ways.
BM Satires 14995; Hickman p.63.
[Ref: 53531] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Living Made Easy. Charity Tubes, to covey the Smell from the Tables of the Rich, for the benefit of Poor Operatives. Particularly recommended to the Philanthropy of those who have made large fortunes by Machinery.
London, Pub.d by T.McLean, 26, Haymarket. Jan 1. 1830.
Coloured etching. Sheet 155 xs 230mm, 6¼ x 9". Trimmed.
Emaciated and impoverished men breathe the fumes from the tables of rich diners. A satire on the indifference of the nouveau riche of industry to the plight of the craftsmen their machines have replaced.
[Ref: 17494] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cheese Monger] Highty, tighty! Mr Witey, / Don't you think my question hard: / I want to know the price per pound / Of your own bladder of lard!
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured woodcut. Writing sheet; Sheet 165 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾").
An egg-headed man scoops out a dollop from a barrel marked 'Fat' and slaps it on a scale, to a customer's disgust. 'Highty, tighty' is an obsolete variant of 'hoity-toity'.
[Ref: 53169] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Muff. Dont you think I am very genteel? _ Vastly so, Brother.
Williams fect.
Printed and Published by W. Belch, 256, High Street, Borough, London. [n.d., c.1810.]
Hand coloured etching with aquatint, sheet 240 x 190mm. 9½ x 7½". Trimmed to plate. Some soiling/staining.
Social satire; two chimney sweeps, their faces blackened with soot, enjoy the feel of a lady's muff, a domestic servant behind.
[Ref: 11627] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A Bull in a China-Shop; [Written by Mr C. Dibdin; composed by Mr Reeve; and sung by Mr Grimaldi with unbounded Applause, in the New Comic Patomime [sic], called ''Harlequin Highflyer, or Off she Goes'', at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers Wells.]
Cruikshank Del.
[Publish'd Sept. 5. 1808. by Laurie & Whittle, 53. Fleet Street, London].
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into letterpress title at bottom.
A bull rampages among broken crockery in a China Warehouse, tossing the proprietor, John Mug, through the shattered window, to land on a scavenger's cart.
BM Satires 11206.
[Ref: 60778] £320.00

[Chinese Magician] Subaleechee kooloolookah jumjum jowrah jikeekah chumchum chulah chowchee phf.
[Edward (Ned) Hull]
[n.d., c.1820]
Rare & scarce etching. 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on right, a few spots, small tear in margin taped.
Early surrealist image of a Chinaman, with trailing moustache and pigtail and wearing a conical hat, cuts into a cake decorated with more Chinese figures, which fills a round table with serpentine legs. A miniscule figure of Harlequin stands on a cushion on the cake, reinforcing the theatrical theme. Etching from a fascinating series of 12 Columbinichee prints. The work of the artist printmaker and drawing teacher Edward Hull who lived at 1 Poplar Grove, Oval, South London.
[Ref: 54564] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Chip of the Old Block.
Published by W. Dudley, 20, Apollo buildings, Gloucester-st, Lambeth [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured woodcut. In ink at top "reform of nature & shiver my timbers carried by one its a brave one!" Sheet 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
A midwife holds up the the new-born son of an old sailor, remarking on the child's resemblance to its father, which includes a hook hand, wooden leg and sailor's queue.
[Ref: 54505] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

The Choice. Well Malony! What will you have, Some Whisky_ or Rum_ or Brandy? Och Plaise y'ur honor_ and I'll take a little Whisky now_ and a little Rum while the Brandy's getting ready.
M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Published by Tho.s M.cLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Etching hand coloured with aquatint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet. Some time staining.
A man in a chair offers a Scotsman who's just come back from a hunt, a drink giving three choices. The Scotsman takes all three choices.
Hickman page 64: II of II. Not in BM.
[Ref: 58423] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Choice. Well Malony! What will you have, Some Whisky_ or Rum_ or Brandy? Och Plaise y'ur honor_ and I'll take a little Whisky now_ and a little Rum while the Brandy's getting ready.
M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
Pub.d by G Hunt, 18, Tavistock St.t Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1827].
Etching hand coloured with aquatint. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman Torkey Mill 1824'. Plate 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), with large margins. Holes in top left, right and bottom centre margins where previously pinned. A tiny bit of creasing.
A man in a chair offers a Scotsman who's just come back from a hunt a drink giving three choices. The Scottsman takes all three choices.
Hickman page 64: I of II.
[Ref: 58421] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year in London. [&] The Same to you_Sir,_ & Many of E'm._
M.E. Esq.r [M. Egerton] del. G.Hunt, sc.
London, Published by Thos. M.c.Lean, 26 Haymarket, 1827.
Pair of hand-coloured aquatints with etching. 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9¼"), with good margins. 'A Merry Christmas..' on paper watemarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1824'. The Same To You_Sir,_ & Many Of 'Em paper slightly toned.
A pair of English satirical prints: a man and women, both carrying umbrellas, fighting their way through a blizzard on the streets of London.
Hickman p.60. BM: 14999.
[Ref: 60696] £850.00 view all images for this item

A Christmas Box.
S.K. inv.t. G.Ck. fec.t.
[London, S. Knight?, c.1826.]
Etching. At top of sheet an envelope front signed by Daniel O' Connell. Sheet 160 x 125mm (6¼ x 5"). Laid on album sheet with printed strips 'G. Cruikshank's Holiday Scenes' pasted above and below.
Theatre box crammed with excited children. A playbill reads 'During the Xmas Holidays- Pantomime of Harlequin- Clown by Mr G [Joseph Grimaldi]'. A related drawing is in the V & A Museum. It was etched by George Cruikshank and originally published by S. Knight (also the artist?) in 1826.
See BM Satires 15190 for one with Knight's publication line.
[Ref: 43908] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christmas Carols.
H.H.
Published 1835, by O. Hodgson. Fleet Street London.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 315 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to image, tear in left edge.
A comic scene in which a battered young beggar selling songsheets informs a shopper that a pair of pickpockets have stolen her purse.
[Ref: 46890] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Merry Christmas Day, in the Watch House, for Milling the Charles. No Bail come yet, Sir,_you must be locked up till morning_now Sir,_walk in.
Designed & Engraved by Theodore Lane.
[n.d. c.1820] London, Pubd. by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket.
Coloured etching. 349 x 254mm. 13¾" x 10".
Theodore Lane (1800-1828), was apprenticed to the miniature painter John Barrow, with whom he studied watercolour portraits and miniatures, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1819. His real talent, however, lay in his depiction of humorous subjects; a series of thirty-six subjects designed and etched by him, entitled The Life of an Actor, was published in 1825. Lane also etched a number of sets of satirical and comic prints of sporting and social life, and he became well-known for his caricatures of George IV and Queen Caroline. He turned to oil painting in 1825, and within two years was exhibiting work at the Royal Academy. Lane died at the young age of twenty-eight when he fell through a skylight.
Listed in BM undescribed.
[Ref: 14261] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Church in Danger, or a very uncommon Parish Dinner. The Churchwarden's got a wide mouth / And his Grinders are like a Sledge Hammer.
London, Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26. Haymarket. [n.d., c.1830].
Hand coloured etching. Platemark: 260 x 370mm. [10¼ x 14½"). Some staining to the top of sheet.
A satirical scene showing an announcment from a pulpit in a church, requesting the wardens to meet to consider eating the church.
[Ref: 31501] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The City 'Prentice at his Masters door. [Engrav'd for Every Man's Magazine.]
[London, 1 January 1773.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing sur-title, laid on album paper.
A young man dressed like a macaroni stands outside an arched doorway inscribed, "Young & Wife Mercers", through which can be seen a short elderly man behind a counter. Two woman, one carrying a basket of vegetables, turn to admire him. A little chimney-sweep also passes, with his brush and bag of soot.
BM Satire 5212.
[Ref: 58400] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Posting in Scotland. Hald your Haund Mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun: e'n gin you na mind yoursel, youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels.
C. Loraine Smith Esq.r _ pinxt. [but James Gillray.]
Publish'd May 25th by H. Humphrey St. James's Street.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 320 x 395mm (12½ x 15½"). Trimmed close to printed border, two tears taped top left corner and centre bottom.
A scene by James Gillray satirising the coaching prints of Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835). A post-chaise breaks apart as it descends a mountain road onto a bare moor. All four kilted Scotsmen are bare-footed and show their bare posteriors.
BM Satires 10479.
[Ref: 61777] £650.00

Posting in Ireland. Forward immediately your Honour; But sure a'nt I waiting for the Girl with the Poker just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, 'tis just to make her start your Honour.
C. Loraine Smith Esq.r _ pinxt. [but James Gillray.]
Publish'd April 8th 1805 by H. Humphrey St. James's Street.
Fine coloured etching, pt. Turkey Mill watermark Sheet 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 16"). Trimmed close to printed border, tear lower right, very small hole lower left.
A scene by James Gillray satirising the coaching prints of Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835). A dilapidated post-chaise with a thatched roof stands outside a ramshackle inn. The emaciated horses refuse to move despite being whipped. A boy raises a pitchfork to strike the beasts and a bare-footed woman approaches with a huge red-hot poker.
BM: 10478.
[Ref: 61778] £720.00

Sauntering down Bond Street, in the evening, to "Lose & neglect the creeping hours of time," espied an acquaintance on the opposite side of the way; ever alive to the chance of a supper, darted across, when a heedless "Knight of the Whip," passing with his crazy vehicle, laid me senseless; thus convey'd to the shop of an Apothecary, was stript to ascertain where I was injured. _"When sorrows come, they come not singly handed, but in battalions.".had the moritifcation of being sufficiently sensible to be aware of the exposure of my wardrobe, without the power to prevent it, lost my supper, but gained a few bruises.
London, Published by W. Egerton, 1821.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 215 x 274mm. 8½ x 10¾". Water staining to the left.
Satirical scene with in a regency Apothecary or Pharmacy with the treatment of a man who collapsed after being run down by a coach and driver. The driver stands to the right offering an explantation as to how the accident happened. Four men attend to the injured man while witnesses spy in at the window.
[Ref: 21565] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Cobbler and Poet. Sung with great Applause by Mr. Fawcett, in Mr. Allingham's New Farce, called "Who Wins, or the Widow's Choice".
I. Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image.
A scene in Grubb Street in which the short figure of a cobbler, his tools in the background, and a tall poet meet in the middle of the street.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 46156] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Innocent Amusements. Coo'Biddy Coo'Biddy Coo'Biddy! Cock a doodle Doo!!
Ego. Del.t
Hand coloured etching sheet 275 x 185mm (10¾ x 7¼). Cut and tipped into backing sheet. Slightly time stained.
A woman incites a man to crow while holding onto some grapes. The man has bird like features and stands on his tiptoes on a chair, his hands reach behind his back puffing out the tails of his coat to look like plumage and crows like a cockerel for the woman. Ego is the pseudonym of amateur M Egerton (1821 - 1827; fl.) based on a pun of his initialls M.E.
[Ref: 56545] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe. Vednesday was a veek, my Vife & I vent to Vest-Vycombe, vhether it vas the Vind, or vhether it vas the Veather, - or Vat it vas! - ve vhip'd & vhip'd - & vhip'd! - & could not get off a Valk!
[James Gillray]
Published June 10th 1805 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching with aquatint. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1808 W Balston'. Colour slightly faded, stain in top margin.
A smartly dress couple in a gig drawn by a horse so emaciated and decrepit that it attracts carrion crows.
BM Satires 10471
[Ref: 56152] £480.00

A Cold Season.
I.Cruikshank delin.t.
Pub.d 12th Feb.y 1799 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 245mm, 8 x 9¾".
A street scene in snow. A cook's boy has fallen, and the dishes from the tray on his head (a sucking-pig, &c.) slide to the ground. A man with skates muffled in great-coat and two ladies holding muffs to their faces hasten towards the spectator; others hurry along in back view. The nearest house is a 'Lottery office', a man comes out holding a ticket '5000 ... Blank'. In the background two men shovel snow from the roof of a high house onto passers by; one flees, another is prostrate.
BM Satires 9496.
[Ref: 12099] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

The Young Sweep in Love, or the House-Maid's Conquest.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard London. Publish'd 29 May 1773.
Mezzotint with etching and hand-colouring, sheet 145 x 115mm (5¾ x 4½"). Trimmed to image, losing publication line.
A chimney-sweep reaches up to kiss a tall housemaid while another servant, hiding under the mantelshelf, watches on. Behind, fireplace with bellows hanging, pestle and mortar and candles on a shelf, and 'A New Love Song' stuck to the wall. Reduced version of an earlier print itself derived from a different print, 'The Unfortunate Discovery', after John Collet (c.1725-80), painter and prolific designer of humorous scenes for publishers to make prints of.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; see BM Satires 4589 for larger version.
[Ref: 32374] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus Breaking the Egg.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick [n.d., c.1815].
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼'').
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
After BM Satire 3192.
[Ref: 54535] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus Breaking the Egg.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼''). Trimmed to plate at top.
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
After BM Satire 3192.
[Ref: 55382] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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