Grosvenor Prints

[Paul I of Russia] The Magnanimous Ally. Painted at St Petersburg 1799.
[by James Gillray.]
Published September 17th 1799 by H. Humphrey No 27 St James's Street London.
Etching. Sheet 320 x 245mm (12½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to printed border, creased.
A caricature portrait of Tsar Paul I (1754-1801), shown in full ceremonial uniform including two Crosses of the Order of the Knights of St John, standing on a French revolutionary standard. Although the Russians joined with the British to invade the Batavian Republic in August 1799 to neutralise its navy, there was a general dislike of both Paul and the coalition.
BM: 9415.
[Ref: 39009] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Pekingese.]
H.Rayner. Drypoint Study [pencil].
[n.d., c.1939]
Drypoint etching, printed in sanguine, signed in pencil. 180 x 140mm.
Rayner (1902-1957) worked in the Antipodes before studying at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Sickert.
[Ref: 4792] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[John Penn] Pen-etration. NB: This Title has no affinity to Pen, as connected with the Goose-Quill; _ nor has it any allusion to Penguin, a stupid creature between a Fish & a Fowl; _ the word is simply derived from Pen, as the Instrument used to express the deep researches of the mind; _ see the St James's Street chit-chat _ respecting a Keen Pen; _ a Witty Pen; _ & a Pen, often Cut, but never mended.
J.s Gillray des. & f.t.
Pubd Aug.t 6th 1799 by H. Humphrey N 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"), with large margins.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Penn (1760-1834), with a gaping, fish-like mouth and receding chin, standing with feet splayed, a vacant expression on his face. The grandson of William Penn, he inherited 75% of the proprietorship of the province of Pennsylvania in 1775, aged fifteen, only to be dispossessed the same year by the Revolution. The new United States Government give him £130,000 compensation for his family's 26 million acres in Pennsylvania.
BM Satires 9441.
[Ref: 64707] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

George Petty.
T. Murray Pinx. R. Williams fec, et ex.
[n.d. c.1685]
Mezzotint, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Repairs.
A three-quarter length portrait of a young boy standing and facing forward. He has long hair, with his right hand placed inside his coat, which features large buttons, and his left hand resting on his hip. A hat is tucked under his arm.
CS 44 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65484] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

George Petty.
T. Murray Pinx. R. Williams fec, et ex.
[n.d. c.1685]
Mezzotint, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Small margins. Glued to backing sheet
A three-quarter length portrait of a young boy standing and facing forward. He has long hair, with his right hand placed inside his coat, which features large buttons, and his left hand resting on his hip. A hat is tucked under his arm.
CS 44 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65486] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

George Petty.
T. Murray Pinx. R. Williams fec, et ex.
[n.d. c.1685]
Mezzotint, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Collectors stamp of Queen Victoria. Trimmed to plate and glued to backing sheet. Small margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of a young boy standing and facing forward. He has long hair, with his right hand placed inside his coat, which features large buttons, and his left hand resting on his hip. A hat is tucked under his arm.
CS 44 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65487] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[John Petty, Earl Wycombe] ''Elegance Democratique''. _ a Sketch found near High Wycombe. '' _ whenever I wish to form a proper estimate of a mans Mind, I observe his Manners & his Dress." _ Lord Chesterfield.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Pub.d July 8.th 1799 by H. Humphrey, 27 S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"), paper watermarked ''Russell & Co''. Slight crease.
A caricature portrait of John Petty (1765-1809, later 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne), full-length in very casual dress, with a rustic walking stick. The son of Whig Prime Minister Lord Shelbourne, Petty found himself with a political career he didn't want, taking over his father's seat at Chipping Wycombe. Travelling often to avoid his father's control, visiting America and Revolutionary France, where he picked up Republican ideals that influenced his view of Ireland.
BM Satires 9438.
[Ref: 63376] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[A sow suckling piglets.]
Henry Rayner [signed in plate and in pencil to margin.]
Copyright 1940 [pencil, lower margin.]
Drypoint etching, 110 x 135mm. 4¼ x 5¼". A fine impression, wide margins.
Captioned 'Study' in pencil, apparently in the artist's hand, below the plate. Henry Hewitt Redstone Rayner (1902 - 1957). Australian-born, he worked in the Antipodes before studying at the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Sickert.
[Ref: 22527] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[French invasion threat] Opening of the Budget; _ or _ John Bull giving his Breeches to save his Bacon.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] inv. et fec.t.
Pub.d Nov.r 17th 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Etching. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins.
William Pitt the Younger holds open a bag called 'Requisition Budget', warning John Bull that the 'the Cannibal French - They're a coming!'. As John Bull puts his breeches, pockets bulging with gold, into the sack, Dundas, Grenville, and Burke grope into a split seam to pull out guineas. To the left Fox, appalled by the money grab, calls on the French to hurry.
BM Satires 8836.
[Ref: 63627] £320.00

Posting in Ireland, - 'Forward immediately your honour: But sure a'nt I waiting for the 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 Esqr. _ pinxt. [but James Gillray.]
Publish'd April 8th 1805. by H. Humphrey St. James's Street.
Coloured aquatint. 305 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"). Three small marginal tears. One effecting wash border and title lower right, another effecting upper wash border.
A scene by James Gillray satirising a Charles Loraine Smith coaching scene.
BM: 10478.
[Ref: 50339] £680.00

Hanging. Drowning. Fatal Effects of the French Defeat.
[By James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1795. by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate at top, mounted in album paper at edges. Slight foxing at corners.
Two scenes about the news that the French army on the Rhine had been defeated by the Austrians: on the left the pro-revolution Charles James Fox tries to hang himself; on the right William Pitt the Younger and Henry Dundas celebrate, sloshing wine everywhere. Behind Fox is a portrait of General Jean-Charles Pichegru who, it later transpired, was a secret royalist and had caused the French defeat by betraying the French strategy. In 1803 he plotted a coup against Napoleon, was discovered and was found strangled in his prison cell.
BM Satire 8683.
[Ref: 52916] £950.00

[Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford] French Habits. No 4. Membre du Directoire Exécutif.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins.
Francis Russell wearing the uniform of a Director, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). His head has ostrich feathers and he wears a cloak over a tunic, with a sabre. Behind a curtain marked 'Egalite' half-covers the Bedfors arms and motto of 'Che sara sara'. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9199.
[Ref: 59144] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Generae of Patriotism, _ or _ The Bloomsbury Farmer, planting Bedfordshire Wheat.
J.s G.y des et fec.r.
Pub.d Feb.y 3.d 1796 by H Humphrey New Bond Street.
Etching with aquatint, sheet 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14") Trimmed within plate/to plate on three sides.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765 – 1802), as a farmer, scatters guineas from a pouch slung to his shoulder. As he sows the tips of bonnets-rouges and spikes sprout up; behind him they progressively emerge more completely, and appear as little Jacobins, a raised dagger in each hand, crowding in close ranks towards the horizon, where they hail (or are smitten by) thunderbolts which dart from clouds in the upper left corner of the design and explode on reaching the ground. The soil is prepared by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) and James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839): a bull (John Bull) is harnessed to a plough which is guided by Sheridan wearing a bonnet-rouge and Lauderdale raises a whip to flog the weary bull.. Fox's smiling face is the centre of a sun which issues from clouds and shines on Bedford. Bedford was an ardent supporter of Fox and a friend of Lauderdale; for his lavish expenditure for party purposes. Bedford was a great agriculturist and an original member of the Board of Agriculture
BM Satires 8783.
[Ref: 58780] £650.00

Sawney in the Bog-House. 'Tis a bra' bonny seat, o' my saul, Sawney cries, / I never beheld sic before with me Eyes, Such a place in aw' Scotland I never could meet, For the High and the Low ease themselves in the Street.
[James Gillray.]
Published 4th June 1779, by M.rs Holt, No 111. Oxford Street London [but H.G. Bohn, 1851].
Coloured etching. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") very large margins.
A caricature of a Scot misunderstanding the use of a privy, with his kilt around his waist and his legs down different holes. The thistle and the crown suggests that he is a Jacobite. This example comes from Henry George Bohn's collected edition of Gillray's satires. This is one of the 'Suppressed Plates', which are particularly hard to find in their original printings.
See BM Satires 5539.
[Ref: 58366] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Scottish Terrier]
Henry Rayner. [signed in pencil below image.]
[n.d., c.1939]
Drypoint etching. Plate: 145 x 185mm (5¾ x 7¼").
A portrait of a Scottish Terrier by Australian artist Henry Rayner (1902-1957).
[Ref: 40925] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Satire on Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.] ''Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt''. Designed for the Shakespeare Gallery.
[James Gillray.]
Pub.d March 20th 1791 by H. Humphrey No 18. Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 195 x 195mm (7¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, to printed border at sides. Bit messy.
A corpulent man kneels before an equally fat woman, paying court. A parody of Hamlet's soliloquy in Act 1 (''too too sullied flesh''), which Gillray is suggesting that he is submitting to John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. The print appears in Humphrey's shop-window in Gillray's 'Very Slippery Weather' Publisher John Boydell commissioned paintings based on Shakespeare from prominent artists, which he intended to for an illustrated edition of the plays. The huge cost of the series contributed to the collapse of his business.
BM Satires 8013.
[Ref: 61783] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Ann Sheridan] S.t Cecilia.
[By James Gillray.]
Pub.d April 24th 1782, by H.Humphrey, New Bond Street.
Etching on Whatman paper watermarked 1813. 225 x 165mm.
A burlesque of Reynolds's painting of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'. She sits at the organ in profile to the right, on a low stool, her face ht by rays which descend through clouds. The place of the two angels in Reynolds's picture is taken by two squalling cats, who sit on the player's left, a book of music propped up in front of them.
[Ref: 7189] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[George Shuckburgh-Evelyn] French Habits No. 8. Membre de la Haute Cour de Justice.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.
Pub.d May 15th 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', date lost. Narrow margins.
Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1751-1804), M.P. for Warwickshire, in the white cap and robe with tricolour border (not obvious in this uncoloured impression) of a Judge of the High Court. The cushioned bench behind indicates the setting as the House of Commons. He never took part in debates, but by voting in the minority against the 'Assessed Taxes Bill' of 1798 (introduced by Pitt to pay for the Napoleonic War) earned this caricature: he is shown in the costume of a High Court judge, for which he obviously does not have the stature.
BM Satires 9209.
[Ref: 59149] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Elements of Skating. The Consequence of going before the Wind. [&] Attitude! _ttitude is every thing. [&] Making the Most of a Passing Friend in a case of Emergency. [&] A Fundamental Error in the Art of Skaiting.
[after James Gillray?]
[c.1809.]
Set of four etchings with fine colour. 274 x 406mm (10¾ x 16"), paper watermarked 1809.
An elderly man, holding his umbrella in front of him to form a sail, cannonades into another skater, who falls, the apex of the umbrella entering his mouth, while his foot strikes the stomach of the aggressor. The ice cracks beneath them. The latter wears wrinkled ankle-boots. In the background, a man falls forward, his umbrella and hat torn from him by a gust, whose strength is indicated by a wind-swept. [&] Two skaters strike attitudes in the foreground. One, with hands on hips, describes a curve with one foot, the other foot being held out stiffly. He looks aggressively towards the other, a younger man who bends his knees, arms extended, and grins at his rival. The former wears a spencer over a short coat, the latter a tail coat; both wear Hessian boots, but those of the latter, who is more fashionably dressed, reach to the knee and are tasselled. Both hold sticks. In the background, a pair of men with folded arms skate back to back in doing a figure of eight; a third skates forward fast with hands on hips. The scene is a lake in a snow-covered landscape. [&] A man who is falling through the ice clutches desperately at the leg of a passing skater so as to drag him towards the hole he has made. [&] One man falls violently, arms and legs in the air; he brings the ferrule of his stick heavily down on the eye of a neighbour who has just landed on his posterior, his legs and arms extended. In the background three other skaters have fallen, and lie or sit, legs in the air.
BM Satires 10475A; 10474A; 10477A; 10476A.
[Ref: 52335] £690.00 view all images for this item

Elements of Skateing. Attitude! _Attitude is every thing. [&] The Consequence of going before the Wind. [&] Making the Most of a Passing Friend in a case of Emergency. [&] A Fundamental Error in the Art of Skaiting.
[by James Gillray]
London Publishd. November 24th. 1805. by H. Humphrey 27. St. James's Street.
Set of four etchings with some aquatint, with very fine hand colour. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), two watermarked 'J Whatman'. Thread margins.
Four caricatures of skaters: the first shows two posing successfully but the other three show disasters.
BM Satires 10474-10477.
[Ref: 61801] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

[Lumley Skeffinton] Half Natural.
[James Gillray.]
Pub.d August 1st 1799. by H. Humphrey No 27 St James's Street.
Etching. Sheet 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
A caricature of Sir Lumley St George Skeffington (1771-1850), 2nd Baronet, shown from behind, with exaggerated shoulders, looking towards a gibbet, smiling. A fop and playwright whose 'The Sleeping Beauty' was presented at Drury Lane in May 1805, he was consulted on dress and style by the Prince Regent. He invented the colour Skeffington brown.
BM Satire 9440.
[Ref: 58321] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Reverend Richard Smalbroke D.D. Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
T. Murray pinx. Geo. Vertue Sculpsit 1733.
Engraving. Plate: 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed to plate. Thread margins.
A portrait of Richard Smalbroke (1672-1749) who served as Bishop of Lichfield.
Alexander: 649.
[Ref: 46825] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Smoking Club.
Ja.s Gillray del.t 1793.
[George Humphrey, c.1822.]
Coloured etching, watermark J. Whatman 1822. Sheet 200 x 225mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
The Speaker Henry Addington sits above Pitt, Fox, Dundas and Sheridan, sitting at a table with tankard and punch bowl, all smoking long pipes. A burlesque of the House of Commons as a smoking-club, a plebeian gathering of quarrelsome members puffing smoke at each other.
BM Satires 8303.
[Ref: 54574] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[William Smyth] A Petty-Professor of Modern-History, brought to the light.
Cambridge del.t. London Sculp.t [James Gillray].
Publishd March 20th. 1810. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A caricature of William Smyth (1765-1849), a poet and historian who became Regius Professor at Cambridge in 1807. He is shown lecturing to sleeping or yawning students.
BM Satires 11590.
[Ref: 59375] £750.00

[Charles Stanhope; Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby; James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale; Michael Angelo Taylor; and Charles Grey] French Habits. No 3. Les Membres du Conseil des des Cinq Cents.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins, stain in background on right.
Stanhope, Derby, Lauderdale, Taylor and Grey wearing the dress of the Council of Five Hundred, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9198.
[Ref: 59143] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl of Harrington] Inspecting a Volunteer Corps, in Hyde Park.
Js Gillray, del & ft.
Pub.d Dec.r 4th 1803. by H. Humphrey 27-St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, edge worn; creased, a few stains.
General Charles Stanhope (1753-1829), 3rd Earl of Harrington, sits erect on horseback in profile to the left., his leg awkwardly thrust out. He wears a huge cocked hat, long and thick queue, and full-skirted coat.
BM: 10165
[Ref: 56048] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway] An Old Encore, at the Opera.
I.L.R. pinx [James Gillray].
Pub.d April 1st 1803 by H. Humphrey, 27, St. James's Street.
Scarce coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Trimmed into printed border.
Galloway (1736-1806) 'was long remarkable for his attendance at the Opera, where he was generally to be found... in the pit, close to the orchestra, loud in applause of any favourite performer' (Gentleman's Magazine, 1806 p.1086). Robert Burns attacked Galloway, a Tory peer, in his poem 'On the Earl of Galloway'; James Boswell wrote that he had "a petulant forwardness that cannot fail to disgust people of sense and delicacy".
BM Satires 10159. Grego p.307.
[Ref: 61794] £450.00

[John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway] a Scotch Poney, - commonly called a Galloway.
[James Gillray]
Publish'd June 4th 1803. by H. Humphrey, 27, St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"), watermarked 180*. Tear entering image taped bottom left.
A caricature portrait of Lord Galloway (1736-1806), short, bulky, and ugly, riding a horse.
BM Satires 10161.
[Ref: 64222] £390.00

The Storm Rising; _ or _ the Republican Flotilla in danger.
J.s. G.y inv. & f.
Pub.d Feb.y 1.st 1798, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Scarce coloured etching. 265 x 680mm (10½ x 27"). Repaired tear, laid on archival paper.
A scene on the English Channel, with a windlass being turned by Charles James Fox, Francis Russell, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and George Tierney, all Whig politicians who initially supported the French Revolution. They are winching towards England a raft with a tricolour flag inscribed 'Liberty', laden with an invasion force. Above, in the clouds, is a wind head of William Pitt the Younger, blowing huge waves to swamp the raft before it can reach shore.
BM 9167.
[Ref: 62226] £1,800.00

[Untitled map of Surrey and Sussex.]
[engraved by William Hole?]
[n.d., c.1612.]
Engraved map. 260 x 335mm (10¼ x 13½"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, tear with loss of print bottom centre, laid on album sheet.
An extraordinary map of Surrey and Sussex, published not as a political map but as an illustration in Michael Drayton’s topographical poem describing England and Wales. Thus it ignores boundaries to focus on natural features, with hills and rivers represented by anthropomorphic figures. Major towns are marked: London; Westminster; Hampton Court; Richmond; Arundel; Chichester; Hastings and part of the Weald are shown as well as the Rivers Thames, Arun, Rother and Mole.
[Ref: 61742] £390.00

Tea Just Over or the Game of Consequences Just Begun.
[Monogram of a compass rose with fleur-de-lis] Esq.r del.t [James Gillray].
Pub,d May 11th 1801 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St. Folios of Caractatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13½"). Framed. Unexamined out of the frame.
A laughing man knocks his neighbour's cup, causing a chain reaction of accidents. Behind a four play cards.
BM Satires 9822.
[Ref: 51855] £350.00

[George Tierney] French Habits. No 6. Le Boureau.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
George Tierney, Radical MP for Southwark and supporter of Fox, caricatured as an executioner, standing by a guillotine with blood dripping from the blade. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9201.
[Ref: 59146] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Tower of London [pencil, lower left.]
WMurray [signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.d., c.1930s.]
Etching, 155 x 205mm. 6 x 8". Some mount staining.
The Tower of London, a tug boat towing a barge passing on the Thames in the foreground.
By W. Murray.
[Ref: 10688] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honble. Sr. Thomas Trevor Knt. Lord Chief Justice of his Maties. Court of Comon Pleas.
P. Murray pinxit. R. White Sculpsit 1702.
Printed and Sold by John King at the Globe against the Church in the Poultry.
Engraving. Mounted on an album page. Image 377 x 267mm. 14¾ x 10½". Cut and laid on sheet. Some glue staining to the corners.
Sir Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC (1658-1730), was knighted in 1692 as Solicitor General and in 1695 became Attorney-General. In 1701 he was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, and in 1712 he was created a peer as Baron Trevor of Bromham. On the accession of George I in 1714 he was deprived of the justice-ship, but from 1726 to 1730 he was Lord Privy Seal. Three of his sons succeeded in turn to his barony, and a fourth son, Richard Trevor (1707-1771), was bishop of St David's from 1744 to 1752, and then bishop of Durham.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12892] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones] Independence.
J.s Gillray ad vavam fec.t.
Pub.d June 9.th 1799. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate, two tears taped. Made up top right corner.
A full-length portrait of Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones (1765-1811), M.P. for Denbigh (1796-1802), caricatured as a John Bull stereotype, making a speech to empty benches in the House of Commons, a long, blustering speech above his head.
BM Satires 9401.
[Ref: 64708] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Virgin and child]. Le Dessin original se trouve a la Bibliotheque J. et R. de Vienne.
R. LaFage. inv: / A: Bartsch sc: 1783 / N.o 7.
Vienna, 1783.
Etching. 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"), with wide margins on 3 sides. Toning around upper left and some foxing in left and lower margins.
A depiction of the virgin Mary and Christ as a child with St. Anne, Mary's mother. A facsimile of a drawing by Raymond La Fage and part of the Hofbibliothek zu Wein series.
[Ref: 54010] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Oh! Listen to the Voice of Love.
Ja.s Gillray del.t.
[n.d., c.1799.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 215 x 185mm (8½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A interior scene in which an ugly man kneels before a plain woman holding a fan.
Copy of BM Satire 9450.
[Ref: 43648] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Voltaire.] Dedié à Belle et Bonne fille adoptive de Voltaire.
Peint par Garnerey. Gravé par P.M. Alix.
[n.d., 1791 or 1803.]
Aquatint, printed in colours, very fine impression. Sheet 185 x 230mm (11¼ x 9"). Trimmed, corners snipped, some abrasion around letters.
An oval bust portrait of the philosopher Voltaire born in November 1694, wearing a wig and blue jacket with a fur collar. From the series of portraits 'Collection des Grands Hommes'.
[Ref: 58064] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Very Slippy-Weather. [&] Dreadful-Hot Weather. [&] Sad Sloppy Weather. [&] Raw-Weather. [&] Fine Bracing Weather. [&] Windy Weather. [&] Delicious Weather.
Etch'd by J.s Gillray.
London. Published February 10.th 1808. by H. Humphrey N.º 27 S.t James's Street.
Set of seven etchings with very fine hand colour. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to border.
The complete set of seven etchings, showing men affected by the weather. The most famous is 'Very Slippy-Weather', which shows a man slipping on the icy pavement outside Hannah Humphry's shop on St James's Street, the window full of Gillray satires.
BM Satires 11094-11100.
[Ref: 61759] £2,800.00 view all images for this item

Wide-Awake.
[after James Gillray]
[n.d., c.1806.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 225 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Trimmed.
A comic scene in which an old man is startled awake from a nap by two howling cats.
Copy of BM Satire 10645.
[Ref: 43650] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland, ~ Done from an Original Painting in the Possession of the Honourable Lieut.t. General Onslow, To whom This Plate is most Humbly Dedicated, by His Honour's most Obedient Servant T.Burford.
Murray Pinxit. T.Burford Fecit 1747.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm. Trimmed to plate, remargined. Repaired tear.
Engraved the year after Culloden, the battle that won him the name 'Butcher' Cumberland.
CS: 4. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4347] £420.00

[Prince William of Gloucester] Patern-Staff. Weymouth, 1797.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1797 by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Street.
Etching. 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
A rear view of a small, thin officer, wearing a bicorn hat, face obscured, believed to be William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester (1776-1834), Field Marshal. Gillray produced three satires relating to George III's summer holiday in Weymouth in 1797, when cavalry and infantry camps were erected nearby.
BM 9070.
[Ref: 43267] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[William IV when Duke of Clarence] Nauticus. ''Those Lips were made for Kissing Ladies!''.
[by James Gillray.]
London - Pub.d Oct.r 11the 1791. by H. Humphrey, No 18 Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 185 x 160mm (7¼ x 6¼"). Mounted in album paper.
A caricature portrait of William, Duke of Clarence, smiling with bulbous lips, hair is shaggy and uncurled under a large round hat, wearing his naval uniform with star. It was published the year he started his long affair with actress Mrs Jordan.
BM Satires 7964.
[Ref: 43899] £420.00

[William IV when Duke of Clarence] Nauticus. ''Those Lips were made for Kissing Ladies!''.
[by James Gillray.]
London - Pub.d Oct.r 11the 1791. by H. Humphrey, No 18 Old Bond Street.
Etching. 185 x 160mm (7¼ x 6¼"). Thread margins, notch in right edge.
A caricature portrait of William, Duke of Clarence, smiling with bulbous lips, hair is shaggy and uncurled under a large round hat, wearing his naval uniform with star. It was published the year he started his long affair with actress Mrs Jordan.
BM Satires 7964.
[Ref: 64180] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn] A Welch Tandem.
J.s Gillray ad vivam fec.t.
London Publishd June 21.st 1801- by H. Humphrey. No 27. S.t James's Street.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A caricature of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (5th Baronet, 1772-1840) and his brothers, Charles Watkin (1775-1850) and Henry Watkin, squeezed together in a small rustic phaeton drawn (left to right) by three prancing goats (one breaking wind), heading to Wynnstay. Williams-Wynn was the largest landowner in North Wales: because he controlled many parliamentary seats he referred to himself as the 'Prince in Wales'.
BM Satires 9760.
[Ref: 61776] £650.00

Henry Worster
T Murrey pinx: J. Smith fc: & ex: [c.1690]
Mezzotint, platemark 325 x 235mm (12¾ x 8¾") small margins.
Portrait after Thomas Murray (1663-1735), a popular portrait painter whose sitters included Queen Ann. Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 282
[Ref: 40238] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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