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[Couples Dancing]
[Couples Dancing]
E. Hull inv.t et fecit 1.st May 1816.
Etching. Plate: 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with large margins.
Three couples with animal heads dance together while two figures play wind instruments behind them.
[Ref: 42752]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Dancing]
[Dancing]
E. Hull inv.t et fecit 1.st May 1816.
Etching. J. Whatman watermark 1816. Plate: 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with large margins.
Several figures with strange heads, some animals some distorted dance in a group while smaller creatures dance before them.
[Ref: 42753]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Anthropomorphic Party.]
[Anthropomorphic Party.]
E. Hull inv.t et fecit 1.st May 1816.
Etching. Plate: 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾") with large margins.
A figure with a fish head asks a woman with a dog's head to dance while musicians play behind and couples look on. By Edward Hull (1815 - 1829; fl.), lithographer and drawing master who worked in London
See Ref: 42752, 42753
[Ref: 42751]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Dancing and Musicians.]
[Dancing and Musicians.]
E. Hull inv.t et fecit 1.st May 1816.
Etching. J. Whatman watermark 1816. Plate: 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with large margins.
Figures with animal heads dance in a circle while a group of musicians play to the left of them, one sitting in a tree. By Edward Hull (1815 - 1829; fl.), lithographer and drawing master who worked in London
See Ref: 42751, 42753
[Ref: 42754]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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A Little Musick!!!
A Little Musick!!! What softer sounds are these salute the ear,_As if the center of all sweets met here? Ben Johnson.
[William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Cut within plate, damage to left edge and paper tone.
A comical scene in four monkeys in human dress take part in a concert. Manuscript addition in speech bubbles from three monkeys on the left.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43631]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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La Musique.
La Musique.
Decamps [...] Z Prévost
A Paris au Bureau de l'Artiste Rue des Filles St Thomas No 9 Place de la Bourse Et Rittner et Goupil, Boulevard Montmartre, 15 Imprimé par Chardon ainé
Etching and aquatint?, platemark 315 x 360mm (12½ x 14"), with very large margins. Blindstamp of Rittner and Goupil. Uncut.
Two monkeys play a violin duet. One of a number of singerie subjects after Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (1803-60).
[Ref: 46747]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The New Boy.
The New Boy.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Ink drawing. Sheet: 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"). Trimmed, two vertical folds.
A comic scene in which a monkey, dressed as a schoolmaster parades before some young monkeys, on the left one boy stands alone while three sit on a bench.
[Ref: 46146]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Real Polka.
The Real Polka. As Dance by Signor Jacko-na-ni and Mad.lle Puss-i-a-ni.
London William Follit City Repository of Arts 63 Fleet Street. Printed by W. Köhler. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 300 x 235mm (11¾ x 9¼''). Trimmed, shows remains of album sheet.
A scene showing a cat and monkey in Russian costume.
[Ref: 51086]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Pugilists.
The Pugilists. The first knock down blow.
[n.d., c.1830.]
A fine and rare lithograph. Printed area: 290 x 325mm (11½ x 12¾"), with very large margins. Creasing in corners. Uncut.
A comic boxing scene in a tavern in which two monkeys are in the midst of a fight, one stands on the left with his fists raised while one lies on the ground. A group of monkeys stand watching, in the background a female monkey enters the room with a broom raised in the air.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46802]   £350.00  
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Pythagorean Fancies, No 10.
Pythagorean Fancies, No 10. Love and Liquor; or every one to his Taste.
[Anon., c.1829.]
Lithograph, sheet 155 x 240mm. 6 x 9½". Some spotting.
Two bulls in human rustic costume drinking ale at a table, one smoking a pipe; behind are a nanny goat and a ram dancing and canoodling. From a whimsical series of anthropomorphic animals.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18495]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Pythagorean Fancies, No 9.
Pythagorean Fancies, No 9. The Green Eyed Monster. ''I say it's a Fowl attack, you coxcomb, on the honor of my Lady''.
[illegible] Spencer, 27 Lamb'd Conduit St.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 325 x 185mm (12½ x 7½").
Two anthopomorphic scenes. Above a cat wife berates her sheep husband, as a dog(?) maid wipes tears from her eyes. Below a soldier cockerel raises his fists at another in civilian dress, a hen looking on nervously. From a whimsical series of anthropomorphic animals.
[Ref: 54597]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Revue des Théâtres de Campagne.
Revue des Théâtres de Campagne. Ah! Quel plaisir..... ah! quel plaisir. Ah quel plaisir d'ête Soldat. (Dame Blanche.)
Lith. de Gobert et C.ie.
A Paris, chez Genty, Editeur, rue St Jacques No 33. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 270 x 355mm (10½ x 14").
A cockerel, monkey and cat dressed in 'Scottish Highland' dress for a production of the opera 'La Dame Blanche', based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels Guy Mannering (1815), The Monastery (1820), and The Abbot (1820). First performed in 1825, an English production was staged as 'The White Lady' at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1826 and the U.S.A. the following year.
[Ref: 54319]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Romeo and Juliet. O Speak Again, bright Angel.
Romeo and Juliet. O Speak Again, bright Angel. [&] Othello. Kill me to-morrow, let me live to-night.
[by William Heath.]
[London pub.d by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly Sept. 1827.]
Pair of coloured etchings. Sheets 165 x 105mm (6½ x 4¼") & 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border and around title.
A anthropomorphic satires: a monkey playing Romeo serenading another as Juliet on the balcony; and a scene from Othello, with a dog Moor smothering a cat Desdemona.
[Ref: 41800]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
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Seven We Together Make, /~ Count Us and Don't Mistake. /
Seven We Together Make, /~ Count Us and Don't Mistake. / Welcome Brother, view us well, / And which you must resemble tell: / Our looks Relationship betray, / So you may either Grin or Bray.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Coloured woodblock, rare. Sheet 160 x 245mm (6¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Three grinning monkeys, dressed in clothes with feathered hats, each astride a mule. The viewer is the seventh person in the title.
[Ref: 32957]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Don't Speak to Poor People Now.
Don't Speak to Poor People Now.
[Dean &] Co Threadneedle St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 105 x 130mm (4¼ x 5"). Trimmed, losing publication details.
A singerie satire: two smartly-dressed monkeys ignore a beggar.
[Ref: 41796]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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Welcome brother, view us well, / and which you most resemble tell, /
Welcome brother, view us well, / and which you most resemble tell, / Seven We together make, / Count us and dont mistake/ Our looks relationship betray, / so you may either grin or bray.
[n.d., c. 1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 365mm (10¼ x 14½").
A singerie satire: three monkeys dressed in riding habits, mounted on asses. The viewer is the seventh person in the title.
[Ref: 41836]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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La Cuisine.
La Cuisine.
Decamps P.t. Tavernier sc.
Imprimé par Chardon Jeune.
Mezzotint. Plate: 305 x 355mm (12 x 14"), with very large margins.
A comical scene in a kitchen in which monkeys are the chefs.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47359]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Dit spel behaegt haer ook, de Boomen in het Wout Syn tot een tydverdryf: voor de Aapen wilt en Stout.
Dit spel behaegt haer ook, de Boomen in het Wout Syn tot een tydverdryf: voor de Aapen wilt en Stout.
M. Pool exc. [n.d. c.1730.]
Etching, rare. 165 x 196mm. 6½ x 7¾". Cut.
Landscape with two monkeys dressed in clothes seated on a tree branch and pointing at other undressed monkeys, a third dressed monkey onlooking in lower right. After David Teniers the Younger. From an unspecified set of plates showing singeries.
In the BM.
[Ref: 24147]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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L'origine des singes ne perira jamais, on Les Voit en touts Lieux Jusqye dans les palais. Hier telen d'Apen, men kan 't Apenspel niet derven, Des Zalme noit 't geslacht des Apen uyt Zien sterven.
L'origine des singes ne perira jamais, on Les Voit en touts Lieux Jusqye dans les palais. Hier telen d'Apen, men kan 't Apenspel niet derven, Des Zalme noit 't geslacht des Apen uyt Zien sterven. I.
M: Pool Exc: Amsterdam. Op de Leise Graftbyde Heeren Graft. [n.d. c.1730.]
Etching. 165 x 202mm. 6½ x 8". Some creasing and damage, cut.
The interior of a bed chamber with clothed monkeys; to the left, on stands smoking next to a fireplace, another seated in a wicker basket holding a baby, behind a chambermaid dresses another. Three further chambermaids tidy at the back; in the foreground a child plays on the floor, a chambermaid appears on the right. From an unspecified set of plates showing singeries.
[Ref: 24149]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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regardez ces magots, et leurstrane hants Gouteaux, tuant coehons et beufs, ma foi Cela est beau. Het zwyn en Horenbeest ontvlugten 't doots gevaar, En d'aap 'steekt binnenspoots zyn Varken door het haar.
regardez ces magots, et leurstrane hants Gouteaux, tuant coehons et beufs, ma foi Cela est beau. Het zwyn en Horenbeest ontvlugten 't doots gevaar, En d'aap 'steekt binnenspoots zyn Varken door het haar. 6.
M: Pool Exc: Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1730.]
Etching. 165 x 210mm. 6½ x 8¼". Cut, some damage.
Chaos in the streets with clothed monkeys; in the background a group try to catch a bull, one has the tail in his hand, accompanied by three dogs; in the foreground a group has caught two boars, and are cutting them open; a third boar runs to the right. From an unspecified set of plates showing singeries.
[Ref: 24151]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Singerie] The Smuggler.
[Singerie] The Smuggler.
Drawn & etched by H. Heath.
Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet St, May 1828.
Etching, printed in sepia. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"), large margins.
A monkey dressed as a smuggler, guarding a cave full of contraband.
[Ref: 56021]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Spirited Subjects No.4.
Spirited Subjects No.4. Vell wot are you flaring up about? Vy yer only a couple o'Shampains arter all!
[London: W Spooner, n.d. c.1835.]
Lithograph with fine hand-colour. 255 x 222mm (10 x 8¾"). Cut.
Two snooty champagne flutes, with cigar and cane, in conversation with a humble jug; an illustrated pun, the vessels given human characteristics and faces. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
[Ref: 52355]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Spirited Subjects No 4.
Spirited Subjects No 4. Vell wot are you flaring up about? Vy yer only a couple o'Shampains arter all!
London W Spooner 259 Regent Street Oxford St. [n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 270 x 220mm. 10½ x 8¾".
Two snooty champagne flutes, with cigar and cane, in conversation with a humble jug; an illustrated pun, the vessels given human characteristics and faces. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
[Ref: 16258]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Spirited Subjects No 1.
Spirited Subjects No 1. I say, Old Rummer, stand up or some of us will get cracked directly.
London W Spooner 259 Regent St: [n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 275 x 220mm. 10¾ x 8¾".
Three different types of drinking glass, given human characteristics and faces, walk arm-in-arm uncertainly as if drunk; an illustrated pun, with a corked wine bottle behind. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
[Ref: 16257]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Spirited Subjects No5.
Spirited Subjects No5. Screw as I am, I could pretty soon draw your Cork, old Belly-wengence!
[London: W Spooner, n.d. c.1835.]
Scarce lithograph with fine hand-colour. Sheet 265 x 225mm (10½ x 9"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A corkscrew with human face and legs squares up to a similar bottle labelled 'Gooseberry'. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
See Ref: 52355
[Ref: 60625]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Steeple Chase Cracks. Une Course au Clocher.
Steeple Chase Cracks. Une Course au Clocher.
D'Orschwiller Pinx. Régnier, Bettannier, Morlon lith.
New York_Pub.d by W. Schaus, 749 Broadway. Paris, François Delarue, rue JJ. Rousseau 18. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860, by W. Shaus in the clerk's Office of the district Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York. Imp. F.ois Delarue, Paris.
Coloured lithograph. 528 x 856mm. 20¾ x 33¾".
A satire on horse-racing: jockey monkeys riding dogs in a race.
[Ref: 20677]   £520.00  
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The Tea Party.
The Tea Party. From the collection of the comical creatures from Wurtemberg _ By H. Ploucquet.
Engraved by G. Greatbach, from a Drawing by Mason.
[n.d., c.1840s.]
Steel engraving, sheet 135 x 210mm. 5¼ x 8¼".
Four cats take tea around a table.
[Ref: 11807]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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The Tooth Ache.
The Tooth Ache. From an Original Picture by Edward Bristowe in the Possession of W.A. West Esq,r of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards.
Drawn on Stone by Louis Haghe. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London, Published by T. Flint, 28 Burlington Arcade and Rittner Boulevard Montmatre, Paris, 1st February 1828.
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). A few repaired tears, published blind stamp in title.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed in human clothes. One has a bandage around his jaw, visiting a dentist.
[Ref: 45763]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Tooth Ache.
The Tooth Ache. [From an Original Picture by Edward Bristowe in the Possession of W.A. West Esq,r of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards.]
[Drawn on Stone by Louis Haghe. Printed by C. Hullmandel.]
[London, Published by T. Flint, 28 Burlington Arcade and Rittner Boulevard Montmatre, Paris, 1st February 1828.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 220 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed around title, losing inscriptions.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed in human clothes. One has a bandage around his jaw, visiting a dentist.
[Ref: 33357]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Trooper.
The Trooper.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 190 x 158mm. 7½ x 6¼". Cut and laid on album sheet.
A monkey in full military uniform brandishing a rifle as he charges forward into battle astride a white dog. Damage can be seen as he lunges towards a cannon aimed directly at him. The monkey's tail is wrapped firmly around the base of the dog's tail.
[Ref: 16297]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Turkey choir
[Turkey choir "Choeur de Dindons"]
Schenck.
[Paris: Goupil, c.1880.]
Mixed method engraving, printed in colours. Image 295 x 500mm (11½ x 19¾"), very large margins. Uncut.
A Christmas image showing a choir of ten turkeys singing from a music sheet.
[Ref: 59716]   £350.00  
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A Piece of Antiquity Painted on the Wall adjoining to the Kitchen of Winchester College.
A Piece of Antiquity Painted on the Wall adjoining to the Kitchen of Winchester College. A Trusty Servant's Portrait would you see. / This Emblematic Figure will Survey [...]
Published by W. Savage, Fancy Needlework Warehouse & Extribition No. 12, Square, Winchester [c.1820]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 415 x 265mm (16¼ x 10½"). Laid on linen.
A Berlin type design showing The Arms of Winchester School. Partly human figure of a boar rendered in a grid pattern for needlework. The print and verses are copied from a print published in 1749.
See BM Satires 3045 for source print.
[Ref: 46926]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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You're another!
You're another!
Sold by J. Knight, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. Standidge & Lemon, Litho, 77 Cornhill, London.
Pen lithograph 241 x 191mm. 9½ x 7½". Trimmed into plate at bottom.
Two monkeys arguing dressed like people.
[Ref: 16044]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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You're Another!
You're Another!
Standidge & Lemon, Litho. 77. Cornhill. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Printed area: 210 x 200mm (8¼ x 8"), with very large margins.
A comic scene showing two monkeys having a discussion.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46800]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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