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One of the Family.
[Isaac Cruikshank?]
Pubd Decr 20 1795 by S W Fores N° 50 Piccadilly the corner of Sackville St _ NB Folios of Caracatures Lent out for the Evening.
Scarce finely hand coloured etching on very faint 18th century watermarked paper. Plate 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"), Left corner margin creased. Some staining outside image. Taped tear top margin. Small margins.
Justice Mittimus intrudes between a couple, inviting himself to live with with them ''to see that every thing goes on pretty and smooth in the family''. A satire of the Seditious Meetings Act of 1795 which, although designed to curtail political meetings, was being used against other groups, including prayer meetings.
Not in BM Satires but see 8686.
[Ref: 61891] £280.00
[Isaac Cruikshank?]
Pubd Decr 20 1795 by S W Fores N° 50 Piccadilly the corner of Sackville St _ NB Folios of Caracatures Lent out for the Evening.
Scarce finely hand coloured etching on very faint 18th century watermarked paper. Plate 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"), Left corner margin creased. Some staining outside image. Taped tear top margin. Small margins.
Justice Mittimus intrudes between a couple, inviting himself to live with with them ''to see that every thing goes on pretty and smooth in the family''. A satire of the Seditious Meetings Act of 1795 which, although designed to curtail political meetings, was being used against other groups, including prayer meetings.
Not in BM Satires but see 8686.
[Ref: 61891] £280.00
The Mountebanks, Or Opposition Show Box.
Nathaniel NoParty Esq.r inv.t G Cruickshank Sculp.t.
Published Febury 1.st 1812 by M Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Etching, with hand-colour, watermark 1809. Sheet 205 x 485mm (8¼ x 19"). Trimmed within plate. Folds as issued. Some light surface dirt. Holes in right where previously bound.
Plate to the 'Scourge', iii, before p. 87. The show-box is a little platform with four legs that resembles a tall table and has draperies partially covering its front. Opposition members are performing on this. 'Avarice—Treason' (left) and 'Impudence Apostacy' (right) are inscribed on the front legs. A lively thoroughbred horse with the Regent's head, with enormous facial heair, was attached to the platform by means of lead strings or bands that were fastened to the legs on the right and bare the words "Restrictions." Father Time, however, has just sheared these, and the horse gallops off to the right. Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) clad in an oriental ensemble and a jewelled turban, rides the horse. He holds the reins triumphantly above his head and waves the long, knotted lash of his whip in the direction of the stage he is leaving behind. He thrusts his left leg forward to allow George Canning (1770-1827) (right) to lick his toe obediently. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845) is seated on the edge of the platform, leaning forward to cover the eyes of a startled John Bull, who is standing below with his back to Grey, with a bandage bearing the words "Catholic Emancipation." John is a countryman wearing knee-high gaiters and a short smock. There's a dagger against his breast, maybe dropped from Grey's hand. Standing behind Grey is Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815), a quack physician dressed in period attire, holding a sign that reads, "Infallible Panacea—Reform." He has medicine bottles in his coat pockets, one of which is marked, "Whitbreads intire." Behind him, a small Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863) dances a Highland fling. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) dressed like a clown, kneels on the left side of the platform. He holds a tumbler and uses a pipe to blow froth out of it, which rises as smoke with the words "Drury Lane Promises, Old Drury Promises" written on it instead of bubbles. With their 'Token of English Credulity' pouches in hand, two vulgar would-be fashionables come forward to the platform to empty their coins into Sheridan's tumbler. A box labelled "State Box" sits to the right of the platform. Papers with the words "Corruption," "Reform," "Abuses," and "Catholic Bill" are projected from beneath the lid. William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), is seated atop a pile of coins and money bags bearing the inscription "16000 Sinecure." His massive rear is marked "Modesty," and he waves a large, heavily frayed piece of swirling drapery in the direction of the departing Regent. A dog with Sir Francis Burdett’s (1770-1844) head jumps towards the horse and starts barking, "Bow woo woo woo," upending an overturned box that is lying on the ground between the platform and the horse's heels. The heads of a dog, a fox, and an ass protrude from the box on short posts. The Right Hon Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), wearing his gown bends beneath the platform to light a barrel bearing the words "Stephens's Inflammable." "Here goes! for a Complete blow up.” he declares. George Ponsonby (1755-1817) is reclining on the ground between John Bull and Perceval, clutching an upside-down bottle marked "Compassion for the Irish."
BM Satires 11846.
[Ref: 62414] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Nathaniel NoParty Esq.r inv.t G Cruickshank Sculp.t.
Published Febury 1.st 1812 by M Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Etching, with hand-colour, watermark 1809. Sheet 205 x 485mm (8¼ x 19"). Trimmed within plate. Folds as issued. Some light surface dirt. Holes in right where previously bound.
Plate to the 'Scourge', iii, before p. 87. The show-box is a little platform with four legs that resembles a tall table and has draperies partially covering its front. Opposition members are performing on this. 'Avarice—Treason' (left) and 'Impudence Apostacy' (right) are inscribed on the front legs. A lively thoroughbred horse with the Regent's head, with enormous facial heair, was attached to the platform by means of lead strings or bands that were fastened to the legs on the right and bare the words "Restrictions." Father Time, however, has just sheared these, and the horse gallops off to the right. Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) clad in an oriental ensemble and a jewelled turban, rides the horse. He holds the reins triumphantly above his head and waves the long, knotted lash of his whip in the direction of the stage he is leaving behind. He thrusts his left leg forward to allow George Canning (1770-1827) (right) to lick his toe obediently. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845) is seated on the edge of the platform, leaning forward to cover the eyes of a startled John Bull, who is standing below with his back to Grey, with a bandage bearing the words "Catholic Emancipation." John is a countryman wearing knee-high gaiters and a short smock. There's a dagger against his breast, maybe dropped from Grey's hand. Standing behind Grey is Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815), a quack physician dressed in period attire, holding a sign that reads, "Infallible Panacea—Reform." He has medicine bottles in his coat pockets, one of which is marked, "Whitbreads intire." Behind him, a small Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863) dances a Highland fling. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) dressed like a clown, kneels on the left side of the platform. He holds a tumbler and uses a pipe to blow froth out of it, which rises as smoke with the words "Drury Lane Promises, Old Drury Promises" written on it instead of bubbles. With their 'Token of English Credulity' pouches in hand, two vulgar would-be fashionables come forward to the platform to empty their coins into Sheridan's tumbler. A box labelled "State Box" sits to the right of the platform. Papers with the words "Corruption," "Reform," "Abuses," and "Catholic Bill" are projected from beneath the lid. William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), is seated atop a pile of coins and money bags bearing the inscription "16000 Sinecure." His massive rear is marked "Modesty," and he waves a large, heavily frayed piece of swirling drapery in the direction of the departing Regent. A dog with Sir Francis Burdett’s (1770-1844) head jumps towards the horse and starts barking, "Bow woo woo woo," upending an overturned box that is lying on the ground between the platform and the horse's heels. The heads of a dog, a fox, and an ass protrude from the box on short posts. The Right Hon Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), wearing his gown bends beneath the platform to light a barrel bearing the words "Stephens's Inflammable." "Here goes! for a Complete blow up.” he declares. George Ponsonby (1755-1817) is reclining on the ground between John Bull and Perceval, clutching an upside-down bottle marked "Compassion for the Irish."
BM Satires 11846.
[Ref: 62414] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Parsonic Piety. Good Precepts / do as I say. / But bad Examples / not as I do - .
IC [Isaac Cruikshank].
London Pub: Jan 20 1794 by S W Fores N3 Piccadilly where may be seen a complete model of the Guilotine, the Head and hand of Count Streuenzee & the Largest Collections of Caracaturs in the World.
Coloured etching, watermark C. Patch. Sheet 345 x 395mm (13¼ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, some staining.
Two panels contrasting the life of a young parson. On the left he stands in the pulpit, his eyes raised sanctimoniously; on the right he stumbles out of a brothel in Covent Garden, drunk and dishevelled, arm around a prostitute who has picked his pocket, removing his watch.
BM Satires 8524.
[Ref: 56042] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
IC [Isaac Cruikshank].
London Pub: Jan 20 1794 by S W Fores N3 Piccadilly where may be seen a complete model of the Guilotine, the Head and hand of Count Streuenzee & the Largest Collections of Caracaturs in the World.
Coloured etching, watermark C. Patch. Sheet 345 x 395mm (13¼ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, some staining.
Two panels contrasting the life of a young parson. On the left he stands in the pulpit, his eyes raised sanctimoniously; on the right he stumbles out of a brothel in Covent Garden, drunk and dishevelled, arm around a prostitute who has picked his pocket, removing his watch.
BM Satires 8524.
[Ref: 56042] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Parsonic Piety. Good Precepts / do as I say. / But bad Examples / not as I do - .
IC [Isaac Cruikshank].
London Pub: Jan 20 1794 by S W Fores N3 Piccadilly where may be seen a complete model of the Guilotine, the Head and hand of Count Streuenzee & the Largest Collections of Caracaturs in the World.
Finely hand coloured etching, sheet 255 x 405mm (10¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate left, right and partially top.
Two panels contrasting the life of a young parson. On the left he stands in the pulpit, his eyes raised sanctimoniously; on the right he stumbles out of a brothel in Covent Garden, drunk and dishevelled, arm around a prostitute (topless) who has picked his pocket, removing his watch.
BM Satires 8524.
[Ref: 61889] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
IC [Isaac Cruikshank].
London Pub: Jan 20 1794 by S W Fores N3 Piccadilly where may be seen a complete model of the Guilotine, the Head and hand of Count Streuenzee & the Largest Collections of Caracaturs in the World.
Finely hand coloured etching, sheet 255 x 405mm (10¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate left, right and partially top.
Two panels contrasting the life of a young parson. On the left he stands in the pulpit, his eyes raised sanctimoniously; on the right he stumbles out of a brothel in Covent Garden, drunk and dishevelled, arm around a prostitute (topless) who has picked his pocket, removing his watch.
BM Satires 8524.
[Ref: 61889] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
M.rs. Figs Card Party disturbed. 238.
Woodward del. Cruikshank s.t.
Pub by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside March 6 1807.
Finely handcoloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins. On J Whatman paper watermarked '1819'. Trimmed within plate. Creasing.
Interior scene in which a beadle and a nightwatchman burst in on a group of figures playing cards. Playing cards past midnight was an offence.
BM Satires Undescribed. BM Museum number 1948,0214.722.
[Ref: 61831] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. Cruikshank s.t.
Pub by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside March 6 1807.
Finely handcoloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins. On J Whatman paper watermarked '1819'. Trimmed within plate. Creasing.
Interior scene in which a beadle and a nightwatchman burst in on a group of figures playing cards. Playing cards past midnight was an offence.
BM Satires Undescribed. BM Museum number 1948,0214.722.
[Ref: 61831] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Phrenological Illustrations.
by George Cruikshank.
London: Published by George Cruikshank, Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and Sold by J. Robins And Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. Knights, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Street. [n.d., 1826].
Oblong folio, original printed wrapper.; text page, six etched plates, as called for, with contemporary guard leaves. Foxing and staining, with tatty extremities.
George Cruikshank's (1792 - 1878) satirical take on the theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Principal human faculties and emotions are illustrated by five humerous vignette images per plate. Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Spurzheim attended the lectures of Gall and became a disciple, accompanying him on a lecturing tour through Central Europe, and settling with him in 1807 in Paris; in 1813 he separated from Gall, and went to lecture in England with much acceptance. He wrote numerous works bearing on phrenology, education, etc. All plates inscribed 'Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank August 1st. 1826'.
[Ref: 9088] £250.00 view all images for this item
by George Cruikshank.
London: Published by George Cruikshank, Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and Sold by J. Robins And Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. Knights, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Street. [n.d., 1826].
Oblong folio, original printed wrapper.; text page, six etched plates, as called for, with contemporary guard leaves. Foxing and staining, with tatty extremities.
George Cruikshank's (1792 - 1878) satirical take on the theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Principal human faculties and emotions are illustrated by five humerous vignette images per plate. Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Spurzheim attended the lectures of Gall and became a disciple, accompanying him on a lecturing tour through Central Europe, and settling with him in 1807 in Paris; in 1813 he separated from Gall, and went to lecture in England with much acceptance. He wrote numerous works bearing on phrenology, education, etc. All plates inscribed 'Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank August 1st. 1826'.
[Ref: 9088] £250.00 view all images for this item
Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim.
by George Cruikshank.
London: Published by George Cruikshank, Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and Sold by J. Robins And Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. Knights, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Street. MDCCCXXVII [1827].
Oblong folio, disbound; etched title, 2pp text, six coloured etched plates, as called for. Title and text page foxed; two plates with single tears.
George Cruikshank's (1792 - 1878) satirical take on the theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Principal human faculties and emotions are illustrated by five humerous vignette images per plate. Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Spurzheim attended the lectures of Gall and became a disciple, accompanying him on a lecturing tour through Central Europe, and settling with him in 1807 in Paris; in 1813 he separated from Gall, and went to lecture in England with much acceptance. He wrote numerous works bearing on phrenology, education, etc. All plates inscribed 'Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank August 1st. 1826'.
[Ref: 57311] £480.00
by George Cruikshank.
London: Published by George Cruikshank, Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and Sold by J. Robins And Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. Knights, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Street. MDCCCXXVII [1827].
Oblong folio, disbound; etched title, 2pp text, six coloured etched plates, as called for. Title and text page foxed; two plates with single tears.
George Cruikshank's (1792 - 1878) satirical take on the theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Principal human faculties and emotions are illustrated by five humerous vignette images per plate. Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Spurzheim attended the lectures of Gall and became a disciple, accompanying him on a lecturing tour through Central Europe, and settling with him in 1807 in Paris; in 1813 he separated from Gall, and went to lecture in England with much acceptance. He wrote numerous works bearing on phrenology, education, etc. All plates inscribed 'Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank August 1st. 1826'.
[Ref: 57311] £480.00
Drawing. Colour. Space. Form. Order. P.3.
Designed, Etched & Published by Geo.e Cruikshank _ August 1.st 1826.
Etching. Plate 253 x 300mm (10 x 11¾").
A satire on 'Drawing' and the different components of the 'art', shows a black man smoking a cigar. From Cruikshank's series of 'Phrenological Illustrations'.
BM Satires: 15194; for the complete series in wrappers see ref. 9088.
[Ref: 30361] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Designed, Etched & Published by Geo.e Cruikshank _ August 1.st 1826.
Etching. Plate 253 x 300mm (10 x 11¾").
A satire on 'Drawing' and the different components of the 'art', shows a black man smoking a cigar. From Cruikshank's series of 'Phrenological Illustrations'.
BM Satires: 15194; for the complete series in wrappers see ref. 9088.
[Ref: 30361] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
The Royal Saloon Piccadilly.
Engraved by R. Cruikshank [after 'Bernard Blackmantle', pseudonym of Charles Malloy Westmacott].
Pub.d by Sherwood Jones & C.º Sep. 1. 1824.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 260mm (6¼ x 10¼"). Edges chipped, a few small stains.
An interior, with the floor and balcony lit by a large chandelier, with men and women eating and drinking. The Royal Saloon was 'an all-night' house, famed for the quality for its cuisine, cellar and women, who were restricted to those personally invited by the management. From Charles Molloy Westmacott's 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle'.
Abbey Life 325, ''described by Miss Prideaux as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published''', as many of the people described were easily identifyable.
[Ref: 62058] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by R. Cruikshank [after 'Bernard Blackmantle', pseudonym of Charles Malloy Westmacott].
Pub.d by Sherwood Jones & C.º Sep. 1. 1824.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 260mm (6¼ x 10¼"). Edges chipped, a few small stains.
An interior, with the floor and balcony lit by a large chandelier, with men and women eating and drinking. The Royal Saloon was 'an all-night' house, famed for the quality for its cuisine, cellar and women, who were restricted to those personally invited by the management. From Charles Molloy Westmacott's 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle'.
Abbey Life 325, ''described by Miss Prideaux as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published''', as many of the people described were easily identifyable.
[Ref: 62058] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
A Panic on both Sides or Great Men in the horrors!!
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub: No 20 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly Corner of Sackville St NB Folio Caracatures lent for the Evening.
Coloured etching. 265 x 400mm (10½ x 13½"), paper watermarked 'E & P', with publisher's ink stamp lower right. Paper toned at edges. Time stained.
The caricatured figures of William Pitt and Charles James Fox sit back to back, glaring at each other over their shoulders. Pitt sits on a chamber pot with the Royal Crest, the 'Convention Bill' (the Seditious Meetings Bill and Treasonable Practices bill) sticking out from his pocket; and Fox sits on a chair on which a bonnet-rouge hangs, a paper with 'Copenhagen meeting' (mass meetings held by the London Corresponding Society in Copenhagen Fields) in his pocket.
BM Satires 8689.
[Ref: 61881] £320.00
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub: No 20 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly Corner of Sackville St NB Folio Caracatures lent for the Evening.
Coloured etching. 265 x 400mm (10½ x 13½"), paper watermarked 'E & P', with publisher's ink stamp lower right. Paper toned at edges. Time stained.
The caricatured figures of William Pitt and Charles James Fox sit back to back, glaring at each other over their shoulders. Pitt sits on a chamber pot with the Royal Crest, the 'Convention Bill' (the Seditious Meetings Bill and Treasonable Practices bill) sticking out from his pocket; and Fox sits on a chair on which a bonnet-rouge hangs, a paper with 'Copenhagen meeting' (mass meetings held by the London Corresponding Society in Copenhagen Fields) in his pocket.
BM Satires 8689.
[Ref: 61881] £320.00
A Fouler deed was never done. Poker Tongs & Shovel or an Ironical Consultation about Murdering the Bootmakers Maid!!!
G. Cruikshank sculp.t.
Published Jan.y 1812 by George Cruikshank[?].
Rare coloured etching. 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"), large margins; J. Whatman 1809 watermark. Repaired tear entering plate at top. some creasing. Name in publication line blurred.
Two scenes: below robbers stab the maid in the throat as the bootmaker runs upstairs; upstairs three gentlemen, armed with the fire ironmongery, hold their door shut as one says ''Wait until the wound is inflicted''.
Not found in BM.
[Ref: 54441] £320.00
G. Cruikshank sculp.t.
Published Jan.y 1812 by George Cruikshank[?].
Rare coloured etching. 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"), large margins; J. Whatman 1809 watermark. Repaired tear entering plate at top. some creasing. Name in publication line blurred.
Two scenes: below robbers stab the maid in the throat as the bootmaker runs upstairs; upstairs three gentlemen, armed with the fire ironmongery, hold their door shut as one says ''Wait until the wound is inflicted''.
Not found in BM.
[Ref: 54441] £320.00
A Polite Congregation. Plate 80.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Published by Allen & C°, 15, Paternoster Row March 18, 1797.
Etching. 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed into plate left and bottom, some toning of paper.
The interior of a gothic church as the service finishes, filled with couples delayed leaving by social conventions.
BM Satire 9143.
[Ref: 54275] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Published by Allen & C°, 15, Paternoster Row March 18, 1797.
Etching. 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed into plate left and bottom, some toning of paper.
The interior of a gothic church as the service finishes, filled with couples delayed leaving by social conventions.
BM Satire 9143.
[Ref: 54275] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
The Print Room in the British Museum.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
[n.d., 1828.]
Scarce etching. 125 x 200mm (5 x 8"), very large margins.
Connoisseurs cluster around a stand.
[Ref: 62355] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
[n.d., 1828.]
Scarce etching. 125 x 200mm (5 x 8"), very large margins.
Connoisseurs cluster around a stand.
[Ref: 62355] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead in seven plates [lettered to the single sail of boat in foreground].](jpegs/20476.jpg)
The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead in seven plates [lettered to the single sail of boat in foreground].
[F. Marryat's anchor monogram.] G Cruikshank sculpt_.
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St. London 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, first state; 215 x 285mm, 8½ x 11¼". A fine impression, full margins and fresh colour. Stain on right.
The mast slants across the design backed by a sail bellying in the wind. Mr. B. sits miserably with closed eyes astride a spar, to which he has tied his right thigh. His right arm encircles the mast, and to his wrist is tied an open book inscribed 'Wilt thou upon ye high & giddy mast scale the ship (?) bays O yes & rock his brain.' Lettered below the design with 'dialogue' between our hero and a Lieutenant (on the deck below, and well out of vision). From a set of seven naval satires plus titlepage designed for George Cruikshank by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848). He served during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1825-26; his satirical prints are signed with an anchor. Marryat's design in water-colours and pen is in the B.M.; 'Mr. B' is without his book.
[Ref: 20476] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[F. Marryat's anchor monogram.] G Cruikshank sculpt_.
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St. London 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, first state; 215 x 285mm, 8½ x 11¼". A fine impression, full margins and fresh colour. Stain on right.
The mast slants across the design backed by a sail bellying in the wind. Mr. B. sits miserably with closed eyes astride a spar, to which he has tied his right thigh. His right arm encircles the mast, and to his wrist is tied an open book inscribed 'Wilt thou upon ye high & giddy mast scale the ship (?) bays O yes & rock his brain.' Lettered below the design with 'dialogue' between our hero and a Lieutenant (on the deck below, and well out of vision). From a set of seven naval satires plus titlepage designed for George Cruikshank by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848). He served during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1825-26; his satirical prints are signed with an anchor. Marryat's design in water-colours and pen is in the B.M.; 'Mr. B' is without his book.
[Ref: 20476] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Progress of Heroism!
Woodward Delin.t. I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub.d April 9th 1796 by S W. Fores No. 50 Piccadilly. Folios of caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Etching with original colour. 345 x 475mm, 13½ x 18¾". Few stains and creases; mount burn.
Eight scenes of a captain, brave on the parade-ground, less so on the battlefield, in the tradition of parodic 'progresses'. After George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809).
[Ref: 24396] £320.00
Woodward Delin.t. I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub.d April 9th 1796 by S W. Fores No. 50 Piccadilly. Folios of caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Etching with original colour. 345 x 475mm, 13½ x 18¾". Few stains and creases; mount burn.
Eight scenes of a captain, brave on the parade-ground, less so on the battlefield, in the tradition of parodic 'progresses'. After George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809).
[Ref: 24396] £320.00
Public House Politicians!!
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank.
Pub Jan.ry 2 1807 by T. Tegg Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins on 3 sides. Small hole in background.
A group of men sit round a table with candles and beer discussing public affairs.
[Ref: 50707] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank.
Pub Jan.ry 2 1807 by T. Tegg Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins on 3 sides. Small hole in background.
A group of men sit round a table with candles and beer discussing public affairs.
[Ref: 50707] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Public House Politicians!!
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank.
[Pub Jan.ry 2 1807 by T. Tegg Cheapside.]
Coloured etching, J. Whatman 1819 watermark; Sheet 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, losing publication line. Small repaired tear near 'Public' in title.
A group of men sit round a table with candles and beer discussing public affairs.
Not in BM Satires, but 1985,0119.212.
[Ref: 61856] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank.
[Pub Jan.ry 2 1807 by T. Tegg Cheapside.]
Coloured etching, J. Whatman 1819 watermark; Sheet 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, losing publication line. Small repaired tear near 'Public' in title.
A group of men sit round a table with candles and beer discussing public affairs.
Not in BM Satires, but 1985,0119.212.
[Ref: 61856] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
Stops.
[Unidentified double LL monogram] Esq. del. etchd by G. Ck.
Pub.d May 18th 1824 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St London.
Very rare etching with hand colour. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins. Faded.
A satire in six panels relating to punctuation. Human figures resemble a comma, semi-colon, full stop, exclamation mark, colon and question mark.
BM Satires 14717.
[Ref: 57869] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Unidentified double LL monogram] Esq. del. etchd by G. Ck.
Pub.d May 18th 1824 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St London.
Very rare etching with hand colour. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins. Faded.
A satire in six panels relating to punctuation. Human figures resemble a comma, semi-colon, full stop, exclamation mark, colon and question mark.
BM Satires 14717.
[Ref: 57869] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Quadrupeds or Little Boneys Last Kick.
[G. Cruikshank fec.t]
[Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1813 by W.N. Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 520mm (7 x 20½"). Trimmed to image, losing title and inscriptions, split in centre fold with toning. Loss on left margin.
Tsar Alexander, as the Russian bear, stands in the centre holding Napoleon suspended in the air by one jack-booted leg, and plying a large birch-rod. Jack Frost, a hideous goblin, tweaks Napoleon's nose. Behind an army of Russian bears drive the French into the 'Sea of Troubles'.
BM Satires 11992, with extensive description.
[Ref: 62474] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[G. Cruikshank fec.t]
[Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1813 by W.N. Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 520mm (7 x 20½"). Trimmed to image, losing title and inscriptions, split in centre fold with toning. Loss on left margin.
Tsar Alexander, as the Russian bear, stands in the centre holding Napoleon suspended in the air by one jack-booted leg, and plying a large birch-rod. Jack Frost, a hideous goblin, tweaks Napoleon's nose. Behind an army of Russian bears drive the French into the 'Sea of Troubles'.
BM Satires 11992, with extensive description.
[Ref: 62474] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
A Sailor at a Quakers Funeral.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks st.
Pub. T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside [n.d., c.1810.]
Etching with hand colour. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), 'Basted Mill' watermark.
Social satire: a Quaker stands by an open grave in a large walled graveyard, with clasped hands, eyes sanctimoniously turned up. A grave-digger leans on his spade watching him with puzzled distaste. The Quaker: ''Verily the spirit at length beginneth to move me - Alas! there is no happiness on this side of the grave''. A disgruntled sailor who stands opposite him asks: "Why then you Lubber, dont you come on this side?". After George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), etched by caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank (1764 - 1811), father of Isaac Robert and George.
BM Satires: 10902.
[Ref: 56286] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. Cruikshanks st.
Pub. T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside [n.d., c.1810.]
Etching with hand colour. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), 'Basted Mill' watermark.
Social satire: a Quaker stands by an open grave in a large walled graveyard, with clasped hands, eyes sanctimoniously turned up. A grave-digger leans on his spade watching him with puzzled distaste. The Quaker: ''Verily the spirit at length beginneth to move me - Alas! there is no happiness on this side of the grave''. A disgruntled sailor who stands opposite him asks: "Why then you Lubber, dont you come on this side?". After George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), etched by caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank (1764 - 1811), father of Isaac Robert and George.
BM Satires: 10902.
[Ref: 56286] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A New Court of Queens Bench. As It Ought To Be _ Or - The Ladies Trying a Contemptible Scoundrel for a ''Breach of Promise''.
Designed & etched by George Cruikshank. Hythe 1849.
Published Jan.y 1st 1850 by D. Bogue 86 Fleet St London..
Etching. 180 x 420mm (7 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, binding folds as normal.
A court with women judges, barristers and jury. Published in Cruikshank's 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 51953] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Designed & etched by George Cruikshank. Hythe 1849.
Published Jan.y 1st 1850 by D. Bogue 86 Fleet St London..
Etching. 180 x 420mm (7 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, binding folds as normal.
A court with women judges, barristers and jury. Published in Cruikshank's 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 51953] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The New Life Boat - Going on Swimmingly. Resignation - A Great Moral Virtue - All aground.
A Bird [William Henry Merle] inv.t. Etched by G. C.K. [George Cruikshank]
Pub.d May 11th 1827 by S. Knights Sweetings Alley Roy.l Xchang.
Hand-coloured etching. 'J Whatman' watermarked paper; Sheet: 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾). Trimmed within plate. Slight damage in bottom left corner.
Nine designs in three rows, relating to the changes in the Government of George Canning. The main image, 'The New Life Boat' taking all of the top row, shows George IV being rowed by his cabinet, including Canning, Lyndhurst and Wynn. The other eight satires, resignations, relate to Wellington, Melville, Bathurst, Elton, Scarlett, etc. Bathurst is crawling out of a barrell marked from the colonies. Australian interest.
BM Satires 15391.
[Ref: 41514] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
A Bird [William Henry Merle] inv.t. Etched by G. C.K. [George Cruikshank]
Pub.d May 11th 1827 by S. Knights Sweetings Alley Roy.l Xchang.
Hand-coloured etching. 'J Whatman' watermarked paper; Sheet: 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾). Trimmed within plate. Slight damage in bottom left corner.
Nine designs in three rows, relating to the changes in the Government of George Canning. The main image, 'The New Life Boat' taking all of the top row, shows George IV being rowed by his cabinet, including Canning, Lyndhurst and Wynn. The other eight satires, resignations, relate to Wellington, Melville, Bathurst, Elton, Scarlett, etc. Bathurst is crawling out of a barrell marked from the colonies. Australian interest.
BM Satires 15391.
[Ref: 41514] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Le Retour de Paris or the Neice presented to her Relatives by her French Governess.
EHL del 1816___Etched by G Cruikshank.
Pub.d by H. Humphrey St. James's St. January 3d. 1817.
Hand-coloured etching. 274 x 380mm (10¾ x 15").
An elderly couple, plainly dressed in a very old-fashioned manner, watch with shocked dismay an over-dressed Frenchwoman who takes by the wrist an equally over-dressed girl, making her curtsey, as she does herself. Their dresses are high-waisted, flounced, and vandyked, with neck-ruffles and short puffed sleeves. Both wear huge bonnets with erect cylindrical crowns, grotesquely trimmed, long gloves, each with a reticule dangling from the arm. A French servant in livery stands chapeau-bras, a band-box slung from his arm, shrugging his shoulders to express horrified surprise. A plainly dressed young girl standing behind her aunt grins in astonishment at the visitors. A dog and cat register hostility towards a cringing lap-dog shaved in the French manner, which is attached to the servant with a string. The room is panelled and carpeted, with one side-table, and is probably a hall or ante-room in a country house.
BM Satires: 12922. Cohn: 1314.
[Ref: 30567] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
EHL del 1816___Etched by G Cruikshank.
Pub.d by H. Humphrey St. James's St. January 3d. 1817.
Hand-coloured etching. 274 x 380mm (10¾ x 15").
An elderly couple, plainly dressed in a very old-fashioned manner, watch with shocked dismay an over-dressed Frenchwoman who takes by the wrist an equally over-dressed girl, making her curtsey, as she does herself. Their dresses are high-waisted, flounced, and vandyked, with neck-ruffles and short puffed sleeves. Both wear huge bonnets with erect cylindrical crowns, grotesquely trimmed, long gloves, each with a reticule dangling from the arm. A French servant in livery stands chapeau-bras, a band-box slung from his arm, shrugging his shoulders to express horrified surprise. A plainly dressed young girl standing behind her aunt grins in astonishment at the visitors. A dog and cat register hostility towards a cringing lap-dog shaved in the French manner, which is attached to the servant with a string. The room is panelled and carpeted, with one side-table, and is probably a hall or ante-room in a country house.
BM Satires: 12922. Cohn: 1314.
[Ref: 30567] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Rights of Women or the Effects of Female Enfranchisement. The Comic Almanack for 1859.
Designed & Etched by George Cruikshank.
Pub.d by D Bogue 86 Fleet Street London. [1859]
Etching. 180 x 420mm (7 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, binding folds as normal.
A scene ridiculing the idea of woman's suffrage. The Ladies Candidate is the handsome Charles Darling: his supporters hold signs 'Vote for Darling and Parliamentary Balls Once a Week' and 'Do not Vote for Ugly Old Stingy'. Published in Cruikshank's 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 51954] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Designed & Etched by George Cruikshank.
Pub.d by D Bogue 86 Fleet Street London. [1859]
Etching. 180 x 420mm (7 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, binding folds as normal.
A scene ridiculing the idea of woman's suffrage. The Ladies Candidate is the handsome Charles Darling: his supporters hold signs 'Vote for Darling and Parliamentary Balls Once a Week' and 'Do not Vote for Ugly Old Stingy'. Published in Cruikshank's 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 51954] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Rovereto] Napoleon & Massena Defeating the Austrian Army, at the Terrible Battle of Roveredo.](jpegs/53343.jpg)
[Rovereto] Napoleon & Massena Defeating the Austrian Army, at the Terrible Battle of Roveredo.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original drawn from Nature by C. Vernet executed at Paris by L. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published August 1, 1823 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, split taped, creasing, album paper stuck over left edge.
The Battle of Rovereto (also Battle of Roveredo), fought 4th September 1796 east of Lake Guardia in northern Italy, at which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrians who were trying to raise the Seige of Mantova. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53343] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original drawn from Nature by C. Vernet executed at Paris by L. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published August 1, 1823 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, split taped, creasing, album paper stuck over left edge.
The Battle of Rovereto (also Battle of Roveredo), fought 4th September 1796 east of Lake Guardia in northern Italy, at which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrians who were trying to raise the Seige of Mantova. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53343] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Royal Amusement or Nature will Prevail.!! 130.
Woodward del. IC.k sc.p.
London Published 1. by Tho.S Tegg Cheapside Price one Shilling. [n.d., 1807 but c.1817.]
Finely hand-coloured etching, plate 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½''), with large margins. On paper watermarked 'C. Willmot 1819'.
A couple sit by a table in a kitchen remarking on a newspaper, dicussing what the countryman would do if he were king.
BM Satires 10903.
[Ref: 61839] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. IC.k sc.p.
London Published 1. by Tho.S Tegg Cheapside Price one Shilling. [n.d., 1807 but c.1817.]
Finely hand-coloured etching, plate 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½''), with large margins. On paper watermarked 'C. Willmot 1819'.
A couple sit by a table in a kitchen remarking on a newspaper, dicussing what the countryman would do if he were king.
BM Satires 10903.
[Ref: 61839] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Russian Colossus after Making the Tour of Italy, France & carrying home a few Presents for the Empress.
IC. Folios of Caricatures sent.
Published July 15 1799 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Very rare etching. 395 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"). Damaged. Trimmed.
Suvóroff (Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, 1729-1800; Russian military commander), holding a French army in each crooked elbow, his right foot planted on Paris (left), a fortified town, is about to put his left foot on 'Peters[burg]. His appearance and dress, though caricatured, are less grotesquely untrue to life than in earlier prints. In his cartouche box, inscribed 'Les Directoire', are the five Directors; he removes a long pipe from his mouth to emit a blast of smoke at them, saying, "There now, be quiet will you". They say: "This Monster will be the Destruction of us all". In his right arm is 'Moreau's Army'; in his left, 'Macdonalds Army' (men, horses, flags, cannon, and bayonets). Through his legs is seen 'Turin'. On the extreme left 'Spain', at which he emits a blast from his posteriors. From Petersburg issue the words: 'here he comes - here he comes got them all in his knapsack.'
BM Satires 9408.
[Ref: 52251] £360.00
IC. Folios of Caricatures sent.
Published July 15 1799 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Very rare etching. 395 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"). Damaged. Trimmed.
Suvóroff (Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, 1729-1800; Russian military commander), holding a French army in each crooked elbow, his right foot planted on Paris (left), a fortified town, is about to put his left foot on 'Peters[burg]. His appearance and dress, though caricatured, are less grotesquely untrue to life than in earlier prints. In his cartouche box, inscribed 'Les Directoire', are the five Directors; he removes a long pipe from his mouth to emit a blast of smoke at them, saying, "There now, be quiet will you". They say: "This Monster will be the Destruction of us all". In his right arm is 'Moreau's Army'; in his left, 'Macdonalds Army' (men, horses, flags, cannon, and bayonets). Through his legs is seen 'Turin'. On the extreme left 'Spain', at which he emits a blast from his posteriors. From Petersburg issue the words: 'here he comes - here he comes got them all in his knapsack.'
BM Satires 9408.
[Ref: 52251] £360.00
The Return of a Sailing Party.
A. Crowquill - Esq.r del.t Etched by G. C-k.
London. Pub.d August 14 1826 by S. Knights Sweetings Alley Royal Exchange.
Coloured etching. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"). Tear in margin, some creasing.
A group of seasick urbanites disembarking from a small boat onto a beach under chalk cliffs, etched by George Cruikshank.
[Ref: 33939] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A. Crowquill - Esq.r del.t Etched by G. C-k.
London. Pub.d August 14 1826 by S. Knights Sweetings Alley Royal Exchange.
Coloured etching. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"). Tear in margin, some creasing.
A group of seasick urbanites disembarking from a small boat onto a beach under chalk cliffs, etched by George Cruikshank.
[Ref: 33939] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A Sailor at a Quakers Funeral.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sp.
[London: T. Tegg, c.1810.]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 220 x 320mm. 8¾ x 12½". Trimmed into plate, to image on three sides.
Social satire: a Quaker stands by an open grave in a large walled graveyard, with clasped hands, eyes sanctimoniously turned up. A grave-digger leans on his spade watching him with puzzled distaste. The Quaker: "Verily the spirit at length beginneth to move me - Alas! there is no happiness on this side of the grave." A disgruntled sailor who stands opposite him asks: "Why then you Lubber, dont you come on this side?" A second Quaker stands behind the first, hands clasped, looking down. On the extreme left a woman in a Quaker's bonnet weeps, puting her handkerchief to her eyes. Behind the sailor and on the extreme right is another mourner, also puzzled and unsympathetic. A skull lies beside the open grave, grinning up at the Quaker. After George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), etched by caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank (1764 - 1811), father of Isaac Robert and George.
BM Satires: 10902. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18477] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sp.
[London: T. Tegg, c.1810.]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 220 x 320mm. 8¾ x 12½". Trimmed into plate, to image on three sides.
Social satire: a Quaker stands by an open grave in a large walled graveyard, with clasped hands, eyes sanctimoniously turned up. A grave-digger leans on his spade watching him with puzzled distaste. The Quaker: "Verily the spirit at length beginneth to move me - Alas! there is no happiness on this side of the grave." A disgruntled sailor who stands opposite him asks: "Why then you Lubber, dont you come on this side?" A second Quaker stands behind the first, hands clasped, looking down. On the extreme left a woman in a Quaker's bonnet weeps, puting her handkerchief to her eyes. Behind the sailor and on the extreme right is another mourner, also puzzled and unsympathetic. A skull lies beside the open grave, grinning up at the Quaker. After George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), etched by caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank (1764 - 1811), father of Isaac Robert and George.
BM Satires: 10902. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18477] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Sam Snatch; or, The Fashionable Bailiff. My name's Sam Snatch---a grab, d'ye see, Never was a bolder / Vith high and low I can make free, And tap 'em on the shoulder [...]
Cruikshank
Printed and published by R. Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap
Etching with hand-colouring and letterpress, sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Tears top left and bottom. Damaged.
A bailiff grips a terrified dandy by the shoulders while others flee; song text beneath.
[Ref: 41572] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Cruikshank
Printed and published by R. Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap
Etching with hand-colouring and letterpress, sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Tears top left and bottom. Damaged.
A bailiff grips a terrified dandy by the shoulders while others flee; song text beneath.
[Ref: 41572] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[San Giorgio] Napoleon & Augereau, in the Heat of the Tremendous Battle of St George.](jpegs/53344.jpg)
[San Giorgio] Napoleon & Augereau, in the Heat of the Tremendous Battle of St George.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original design of C. Vernet, executed at Paris by L. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published June 2, 1823 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint, watermark 1820's?. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, split taped, creasing, album paper stuck over left edge.
The Battle of San Giorgio, fought 14-15th September 1796, at which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrian army commanded by Field Marshal Würmser, who was trying to raise the Seige of Mantova. The remnants of Würmser's army had to seek safety in Mantova, putting pressure on the city's supplies. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53344] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original design of C. Vernet, executed at Paris by L. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published June 2, 1823 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint, watermark 1820's?. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, split taped, creasing, album paper stuck over left edge.
The Battle of San Giorgio, fought 14-15th September 1796, at which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrian army commanded by Field Marshal Würmser, who was trying to raise the Seige of Mantova. The remnants of Würmser's army had to seek safety in Mantova, putting pressure on the city's supplies. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53344] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Sea Pie Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. ''Now, Massa, Sea-Pie ready.''
P.Cruik sc.
[Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, and to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. W. Eden, Printer, 11, Queen Street, Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1842]
Etching. Sheet (at most) 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed as scrap, losing publication line.
A black cook stands at a stove.
[Ref: 62247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
P.Cruik sc.
[Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, and to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. W. Eden, Printer, 11, Queen Street, Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1842]
Etching. Sheet (at most) 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed as scrap, losing publication line.
A black cook stands at a stove.
[Ref: 62247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Shakespeare's Prophecy, the Last Act by One in the Tempest, or the Jack Daws in borrowed Feathers.
IC. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub Feby, 19 1795 by SW Ford No 3 Piccadilly who has lately fitted up his Caracature Exhibition on an entire Novel Stile admittance one shilling. NB Folios Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. 284 x 443mm (11¼ x 17½"). Trimmed. Slight creasing
A satire on the plight of Fox, deserted by most of his party. Thurlow, Fox, and Sheridan as 'Caliban', 'Trinculo', and 'Stephano' in their stolen finery are driven off by ministerial hounds set on by 'Ariel' (Pitt) and 'Prospero' (George III). Thurlow (left) in Chancellor's wig and gown, holding up the mace, the purse of the Great Seal under his arm, runs first. He is worried by a dog, wearing legal wig and bands, who is Loughborough (his successor). Fox follows, wearing royal robes and holding the orb and sceptre, he looks over his left shoulder. Behind him, with a terrified expression, runs Sheridan wearing a long gown. Though not named, he is Stephano, the drunken butler. They are followed by three hounds with the heads of Mansfield, Windham, and Portland. [Mansfield is identified by E. Hawkins as Grenville, Portland as Dundas. The heads suggest the identifications in the text, which are consistent with an apparent intention to make the hounds converts from the Opposition.] Pitt and the King stand outside the door of the 'Treasury', an archway in a stone building. The King (right) as Prospero has a beard and belted robe with a hunting-cap; he holds a wand. Ariel (Pitt) hovers on the King's right, a lean naked figure with small wings and a wisp of drapery.
BM Satires 8618.
[Ref: 52366] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
IC. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub Feby, 19 1795 by SW Ford No 3 Piccadilly who has lately fitted up his Caracature Exhibition on an entire Novel Stile admittance one shilling. NB Folios Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. 284 x 443mm (11¼ x 17½"). Trimmed. Slight creasing
A satire on the plight of Fox, deserted by most of his party. Thurlow, Fox, and Sheridan as 'Caliban', 'Trinculo', and 'Stephano' in their stolen finery are driven off by ministerial hounds set on by 'Ariel' (Pitt) and 'Prospero' (George III). Thurlow (left) in Chancellor's wig and gown, holding up the mace, the purse of the Great Seal under his arm, runs first. He is worried by a dog, wearing legal wig and bands, who is Loughborough (his successor). Fox follows, wearing royal robes and holding the orb and sceptre, he looks over his left shoulder. Behind him, with a terrified expression, runs Sheridan wearing a long gown. Though not named, he is Stephano, the drunken butler. They are followed by three hounds with the heads of Mansfield, Windham, and Portland. [Mansfield is identified by E. Hawkins as Grenville, Portland as Dundas. The heads suggest the identifications in the text, which are consistent with an apparent intention to make the hounds converts from the Opposition.] Pitt and the King stand outside the door of the 'Treasury', an archway in a stone building. The King (right) as Prospero has a beard and belted robe with a hunting-cap; he holds a wand. Ariel (Pitt) hovers on the King's right, a lean naked figure with small wings and a wisp of drapery.
BM Satires 8618.
[Ref: 52366] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Indian Rubber.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank. Myddleton Terrace Pentonville - August 1st 1834.
Etching on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11".
Four Indian figures playing cards at a table surrounded by sketches of black people, including a 'negro driver'. Also a wry observation on the recent Slavery Abolition Act 1833 upper centre, a plump black slave-master with a whip supervising four white slaves as they hoe a field. A satirical print from 'My Sketch Book' by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878).
[Ref: 12019] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank. Myddleton Terrace Pentonville - August 1st 1834.
Etching on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11".
Four Indian figures playing cards at a table surrounded by sketches of black people, including a 'negro driver'. Also a wry observation on the recent Slavery Abolition Act 1833 upper centre, a plump black slave-master with a whip supervising four white slaves as they hoe a field. A satirical print from 'My Sketch Book' by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878).
[Ref: 12019] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
The Solicitor General for the French Republic.
IC. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub. Febr.y 18. 1793 by SW Fores No.3 Piccadilly.
Fine hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked. 362 x 272mm (14¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed to platemark. Slight crease centre.
Fox opposed the war with France (12 Feb.) in a speech defending himself against 'the imputation of being the abettor of France . . .', but maintaining that the French decrees and actions were not grounds for war; he accused the Ministry of acting aggressively towards France. Fox, wearing the rags of a sans-culotte under a long legal gown, stands directed to the left, looking down and to the right with an expression of sly meditation. He wears bands and a large legal wig, with tattered stockings on his otherwise bare legs. Across his corpulent figure stretches a tricolour belt inscribed 'Republicanism'. He stands on a floor of black and white squares. An owl looks down upon him from a perch. In his right hand is a scroll, the brief of the Republic.
BM Satires 8305.
[Ref: 52368] £320.00
IC. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub. Febr.y 18. 1793 by SW Fores No.3 Piccadilly.
Fine hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked. 362 x 272mm (14¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed to platemark. Slight crease centre.
Fox opposed the war with France (12 Feb.) in a speech defending himself against 'the imputation of being the abettor of France . . .', but maintaining that the French decrees and actions were not grounds for war; he accused the Ministry of acting aggressively towards France. Fox, wearing the rags of a sans-culotte under a long legal gown, stands directed to the left, looking down and to the right with an expression of sly meditation. He wears bands and a large legal wig, with tattered stockings on his otherwise bare legs. Across his corpulent figure stretches a tricolour belt inscribed 'Republicanism'. He stands on a floor of black and white squares. An owl looks down upon him from a perch. In his right hand is a scroll, the brief of the Republic.
BM Satires 8305.
[Ref: 52368] £320.00
Splendid Jem, once a dashing hero in the Metropolis, recognized by Tom amongst the Convicts, in the Dock Yard at Chatham.
Drawn & Eng.d by Rob.t Cruikshank.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 145 x 220mm (5¾ x 8¾").
Jem, one of a gang of convicts kept on hulks on the River Medway prior to gaol transportation, lifts his cap to Tom. Australian interest. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London".
[Ref: 55724] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Eng.d by Rob.t Cruikshank.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 145 x 220mm (5¾ x 8¾").
Jem, one of a gang of convicts kept on hulks on the River Medway prior to gaol transportation, lifts his cap to Tom. Australian interest. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London".
[Ref: 55724] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Staffordshire Courtship!!.
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank st-.
T Tegg 111 Cheapside - NB Folios of Caractures Lent.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, damp stain on left.
A rustic couple in a cottage interior: a woman leans towards the man's dog and exclaims, ''Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got''; the man replies, "No Miss it beant a Dog - it be one of your own sex".
[Ref: 59218] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank st-.
T Tegg 111 Cheapside - NB Folios of Caractures Lent.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, damp stain on left.
A rustic couple in a cottage interior: a woman leans towards the man's dog and exclaims, ''Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got''; the man replies, "No Miss it beant a Dog - it be one of your own sex".
[Ref: 59218] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Staffordshire Courtship!!.
Woodward del. [Issac] Cruikshank st-.
T Tegg 111 Cheapside - NB Folios of Caractures Lent.
Coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
A rustic couple in a cottage interior: a woman leans towards the man's dog and exclaims, ''Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got''; the man replies, "No Miss it beant a Dog - it be one of your own sex".
[Ref: 61858] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. [Issac] Cruikshank st-.
T Tegg 111 Cheapside - NB Folios of Caractures Lent.
Coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
A rustic couple in a cottage interior: a woman leans towards the man's dog and exclaims, ''Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got''; the man replies, "No Miss it beant a Dog - it be one of your own sex".
[Ref: 61858] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Behold at Brooks's Step-nay! I'll be bound to say A figure such as this you'll see there every day-.
Drawn by an Amateur. Etchd. By G. Cruikshank.
Pubd. June 15th 1815 by H, Humphrey St. James's Street.
Coloured etching. 217 x 275mm. Extreme lower left corner of paper missing.
Sir Thomas Stepney standing under the porch of Brooks's Club in St. James's Street. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York.
BM 12629.
[Ref: 1429] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by an Amateur. Etchd. By G. Cruikshank.
Pubd. June 15th 1815 by H, Humphrey St. James's Street.
Coloured etching. 217 x 275mm. Extreme lower left corner of paper missing.
Sir Thomas Stepney standing under the porch of Brooks's Club in St. James's Street. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York.
BM 12629.
[Ref: 1429] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[Alexander Suvorov-Rymniksky] General Swarrow, towing the French Directory into Russia!!](jpegs/61883.jpg)
[Alexander Suvorov-Rymniksky] General Swarrow, towing the French Directory into Russia!!
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub by S W Fores N. 50 Piccadilly May 16, 1799 Folios of Caricatures Lent out.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, into image at sides.
An ogre-like caricature of Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky (c.1729-1800), Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, considered to be one of the greatest military commanders in Russian history. In 1799 he was given command of the Austro-Russian army and sent to drive France's forces out of Italy.
BM Satires 9387.
[Ref: 61883] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub by S W Fores N. 50 Piccadilly May 16, 1799 Folios of Caricatures Lent out.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, into image at sides.
An ogre-like caricature of Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky (c.1729-1800), Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, considered to be one of the greatest military commanders in Russian history. In 1799 he was given command of the Austro-Russian army and sent to drive France's forces out of Italy.
BM Satires 9387.
[Ref: 61883] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Quartiere con. mobili_or_ Hints on taking Lodgings.
Drawn by WP. Etch'd by G.C.
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, Aug.t 1.st 1835.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 9''). Fragments of paper glued in plate.
A comic print showing the difficulty of noisy neighbours shown in two scenes representing two floors of a building. In the lower floor a man sits at his desk dispairing while in the floor above a man dances accompanied by a second man playing the violin.
[Ref: 50991] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by WP. Etch'd by G.C.
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, Aug.t 1.st 1835.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 9''). Fragments of paper glued in plate.
A comic print showing the difficulty of noisy neighbours shown in two scenes representing two floors of a building. In the lower floor a man sits at his desk dispairing while in the floor above a man dances accompanied by a second man playing the violin.
[Ref: 50991] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A Tale of Terror!!!
Woodward del. Cruikshank F.
Pubd. By T. Tegg Cheapside. [n.d., c.1822.]
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"0, very large margins. Creasing.
A terrified man relates his encounter with the 'devil' while inebriated. First published 10th January, 1807 by Tegg, this state has the date removed.
[Ref: 50700] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. Cruikshank F.
Pubd. By T. Tegg Cheapside. [n.d., c.1822.]
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"0, very large margins. Creasing.
A terrified man relates his encounter with the 'devil' while inebriated. First published 10th January, 1807 by Tegg, this state has the date removed.
[Ref: 50700] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
A Tale of Terror!!!
Woodward del. Cruikshank F.
London Published 10 Jan.ry 1807 by Thomas Tegg Cheapside.
Finely hand-coloured etching. Plate 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Repaired tear in title near 'Terror'.. Creasing and nick to top margin.
A terrified man relates his encounter with the 'devil' while inebriated.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 61909] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. Cruikshank F.
London Published 10 Jan.ry 1807 by Thomas Tegg Cheapside.
Finely hand-coloured etching. Plate 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Repaired tear in title near 'Terror'.. Creasing and nick to top margin.
A terrified man relates his encounter with the 'devil' while inebriated.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 61909] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
The Ale House and The Home.
[Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Sept.r 1st ] 1832.
Etching. Sheet 140 x 380mm (5½ x 15"). Trimmed, losing most of inscription.
Two scenes contrasting the life of the man spent in an ale house, and his wife left behind in a dank room. From a sheet with four drolls published in the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57811] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Sept.r 1st ] 1832.
Etching. Sheet 140 x 380mm (5½ x 15"). Trimmed, losing most of inscription.
Two scenes contrasting the life of the man spent in an ale house, and his wife left behind in a dank room. From a sheet with four drolls published in the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57811] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
A Ward of Chancery.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub Feb 8 1792 by S W Fores 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the Greatest Collection of Caricatures in Europe Admitance 1 Shilling.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed just within plate. small nick in top edge.
A young lady elopes on the back of a stag with a human head and cocked hat, pursued by judges including her father Edward Thurlow (1731-1806), who was Lord Chancellor before he was sacked by William Pitt in 1792, the year of this caricature. This satirises the elopement of one of his three illegitimate daughters, drawing attention to his own long-term attachment to a young woman in the bar at Nando's coffee-house.
BM 8164.
[Ref: 36357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub Feb 8 1792 by S W Fores 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the Greatest Collection of Caricatures in Europe Admitance 1 Shilling.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed just within plate. small nick in top edge.
A young lady elopes on the back of a stag with a human head and cocked hat, pursued by judges including her father Edward Thurlow (1731-1806), who was Lord Chancellor before he was sacked by William Pitt in 1792, the year of this caricature. This satirises the elopement of one of his three illegitimate daughters, drawing attention to his own long-term attachment to a young woman in the bar at Nando's coffee-house.
BM 8164.
[Ref: 36357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Illustrations of Time by George Cruikshank.
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Oblong folio, original printed wrappers; etched pictorial title and six plates, complete, interleaved with tissue; with 4pp. list of publications by Robins. Wrappers chipped and worn, some spotting of plates,
Each plate has multiple satires relating to time.
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 51767] £320.00 view all images for this item
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Oblong folio, original printed wrappers; etched pictorial title and six plates, complete, interleaved with tissue; with 4pp. list of publications by Robins. Wrappers chipped and worn, some spotting of plates,
Each plate has multiple satires relating to time.
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 51767] £320.00 view all images for this item
Illustrations of Time by George Cruikshank.
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Etched title page. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
The decorative titlepage with a central vignette of a winged figure of 'Time' dining on artifacts of the world, including an elephant!. The titlepage of a set of six plates with multiple images of time (see Stock 51767).
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 60359] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Etched title page. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
The decorative titlepage with a central vignette of a winged figure of 'Time' dining on artifacts of the world, including an elephant!. The titlepage of a set of six plates with multiple images of time (see Stock 51767).
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 60359] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
The Tomb of Napoleon.
Sketched Etched & Published by G. Cruikshank.
[n.d. c.1830 but later.]
Etching. 204 x 254mm (8 x 10").
A collection of vaguely satrical images surround the central image of Saint Helena. The pictures depict Napoleon I on his steed, a successful stance holding the French standard, two eagles, and an image of Josephine holding her sceptre.
See BM: 1891,1117.438 [for original drawing of the study of the rocks.]
[Ref: 16770] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Sketched Etched & Published by G. Cruikshank.
[n.d. c.1830 but later.]
Etching. 204 x 254mm (8 x 10").
A collection of vaguely satrical images surround the central image of Saint Helena. The pictures depict Napoleon I on his steed, a successful stance holding the French standard, two eagles, and an image of Josephine holding her sceptre.
See BM: 1891,1117.438 [for original drawing of the study of the rocks.]
[Ref: 16770] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Tom, Jerry and Logic, backing Tommy, the Sweep, at the Royal Cockpit.
Drawn & Eng.d by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub.d by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, April 1821.
Fine hand-coloured etching and aquatint. 146 x 230mm. 5¾ x 9". Small rust spot lower right outside title area.
The Royal Cockpit was an early theatre in London, located at the rear of the Palace of Whitehall. It was originally built by Henry VIII, and it was used as a cockpit for cockfighting. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London". Spectators surround the pit with the 'feeders' in the arena, each behind his bird; Tom makes a bet, signalling across the pit.
BM Satires: 14343.
[Ref: 19662] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Eng.d by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub.d by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, April 1821.
Fine hand-coloured etching and aquatint. 146 x 230mm. 5¾ x 9". Small rust spot lower right outside title area.
The Royal Cockpit was an early theatre in London, located at the rear of the Palace of Whitehall. It was originally built by Henry VIII, and it was used as a cockpit for cockfighting. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London". Spectators surround the pit with the 'feeders' in the arena, each behind his bird; Tom makes a bet, signalling across the pit.
BM Satires: 14343.
[Ref: 19662] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Drawing for Twelfthcake at S.t Annes Hill!!
[Isaac Cruikshank]
Pub.d by S W Fores. 50 Piccadilly. Jan.ry 16. 1799. Folios of Caricatures Let out.
Finely hand coloured etching, sheet 260 x 405mm (10¼ x 16"). On paper watermarked '1797.' Trimmed within plate. Some surface dirt. Repaired tears.
Satire on the supposed Jacobin sentiments of the Opposition. The host of the Twelfth Night celebration, Charles James Fox (1749-1806), stands behind a table on which is a large Twelfth-cake decorated with trees of Liberty and crowned by a bonnet-rouge. He and all his guests are inspecting the tickets they have drawn from a bonnet-rouge full of papers which lies on the corner of the table opposite Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). Fox delightedly holds out his ticket, 'Perpetual Dictator'. The others are: George Tierney (1761-1830), his ticket 'A Nabob'; then Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira (1754-1826), 'The Irish Hoaxter'; Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), seated, 'Collector of Taxes', Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746-1815), on Fox's right, 'Perpetual Toast Master'; Right Hon Michael Angelo Taylor (1757-1834), very small and wearing a bonnet-rouge, his ticket inscribed 'Go to Roost'; Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750-1823), on Fox's right, 'Soliciter General'; Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (1770-1844), 'Keeper of the Prison in Cold Bath Fields', Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), seated, 'First Lord of the Treasury', and who is thought to be George Byng (1764-1847) M.P. for Middlesex, looking nearsightedly at 'Bastile Jervise'. On the wall is a placard: 'Rules to be observed at this Meeting 1 That the Cake be decorate with appropriate insignia 2 That the tickets be deposited in a Bonnet Rouge and drawn in Rotation 3 That the Old Fashioned Game of King and Queen be exploded & Catch as Catch can Substituted in its stead.'
BM Satires 9340.
[Ref: 61888] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Isaac Cruikshank]
Pub.d by S W Fores. 50 Piccadilly. Jan.ry 16. 1799. Folios of Caricatures Let out.
Finely hand coloured etching, sheet 260 x 405mm (10¼ x 16"). On paper watermarked '1797.' Trimmed within plate. Some surface dirt. Repaired tears.
Satire on the supposed Jacobin sentiments of the Opposition. The host of the Twelfth Night celebration, Charles James Fox (1749-1806), stands behind a table on which is a large Twelfth-cake decorated with trees of Liberty and crowned by a bonnet-rouge. He and all his guests are inspecting the tickets they have drawn from a bonnet-rouge full of papers which lies on the corner of the table opposite Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). Fox delightedly holds out his ticket, 'Perpetual Dictator'. The others are: George Tierney (1761-1830), his ticket 'A Nabob'; then Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira (1754-1826), 'The Irish Hoaxter'; Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), seated, 'Collector of Taxes', Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746-1815), on Fox's right, 'Perpetual Toast Master'; Right Hon Michael Angelo Taylor (1757-1834), very small and wearing a bonnet-rouge, his ticket inscribed 'Go to Roost'; Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750-1823), on Fox's right, 'Soliciter General'; Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (1770-1844), 'Keeper of the Prison in Cold Bath Fields', Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), seated, 'First Lord of the Treasury', and who is thought to be George Byng (1764-1847) M.P. for Middlesex, looking nearsightedly at 'Bastile Jervise'. On the wall is a placard: 'Rules to be observed at this Meeting 1 That the Cake be decorate with appropriate insignia 2 That the tickets be deposited in a Bonnet Rouge and drawn in Rotation 3 That the Old Fashioned Game of King and Queen be exploded & Catch as Catch can Substituted in its stead.'
BM Satires 9340.
[Ref: 61888] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)