Grosvenor Prints

Old Grill Among the Paddies. [Political Drama No. 61.]
[Charles Jameson Grant.]
[G. Drake.][n.d., c.1833.]
Wood engraving. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14¼''). Trimmed.
A satirical print on William Cobbett showing an English politician being carried on a grill by a crowd of Irish men and women made to look poor and uncivilised. By Charles Jameson Grant (fl. 1830-1852).
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50150] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Bait for John Bull. [The Political Drama. No.66.]
[Charles Jameson Grant.]
[G. Drake, n.d., c.1835.]
Wood engraving. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14¼'') Trimmed
A political satire showing John Bull staring into a large cage, at the end is a bill saying 'Reform in Church & State Correction of All Abuses'. Hiding behind the cage are William IV and Adelaide and Tory politicians. By Charles Jameson Grant (fl. 1830-1852).
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50200] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Politician.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick [n.d., c.1815].
Etching, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½"). Crease lower right.
A politician sits at his desk, reading by candlelight; maps of France, Spain and Germany, and North and South America. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
[Ref: 45887] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Politicians Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[Anon.]
Published by W. & J. Stratfords, No. 112 Holborn Hill, Dec. 1 1792
Engraving, sheet 165 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet. Rare.
Two politicians disputing, probably in a coffee-house. Newspapers on the table (the 'Oracle' and 'Argus'); tattered and highly inaccurate map of Europe hung from the wall, alongside portrait of a man. Illustration to the 'Carlton House Magazine'.
[Ref: 34831] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Pope's Infernal Machine. Shall it Undermine our National and Religious Liberty?
Gegeëf 10.2.74.
London: Published by E. Appleyard 88 Farringdon St: E.C.
Lithograph. Sheet 280 x 420mm (11 x 16½"). Creases and small tears.
An anti-catholic broadside, specifically attacking the confessional.
[Ref: 51776] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Port in an Uproar or Who Comes off at the Worst.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce hand-coloured etching. Plate: 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11''), with large margins. Creasing.
A amateurish print showing a woman heading a Scottish crowd chasing after a gentleman.
BM Satire Undescribed. Ex: Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 50990] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Pressing Invitation.
Design'd and Etch'd by D.T.Edgerton [sic].
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1824.
Coloured aquatint. 215 x 270mm, 8½ x 9¾".
A debt collector accosts a man getting into a carriage to go to Epsom racecourse. A scene from 'Fashionable Bores or Coolers in High Life by Peter Quiz', with plates by Daniel Thomas Egerton.
Abbey: Life, 287.
[Ref: 12118] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Extra Duty_or, The Priest taking proper Care of his Legacy.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 18th century watermark; Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼'').
A sccene in a bedroom, a priest holds a crucifix over a woman lying in her deathbed while her husband cries facing away from the scene. Behind them three other monks empty a cupboard into sacks and take them away.
BM Satire 3783 (reduced version).
[Ref: 48834] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Prim-Roses.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph with hand-colour. Sheet: 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8").
Two young women stand in a garden, one holds a book and the other some primroses.
[Ref: 43799] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

O! leed os ikke udi Fristelse.
[n.d. c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching, small margins; paper watermarked Orbolin. Plate 260 x 195mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Creasing.
"O lead us not into temptation".
[Ref: 26609] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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)

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)

Punch Turned out of France.
[Anon., c.1845]
Pen and ink, sheet 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Very small hole top left.
Amateur copy of a satire published in 'Punch, or the London Charivari' for 1841. The caption below the published satire read: "I have this moment, in a half-tempest, arrived from Boulogne- thrust from the port by the point of the sword. Yes; it is true- Punch is no longer to be admitted into France."
[Ref: 43840] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Punch's Opera with the Humours of Little Ben the Sailor. These Figures Gem'men & Ladaes are the Richest & Largest in Europe. I Challenge all the World to shew the like [...]
Publish'd according to Act Oct. 15 1756 by Edwards & Darly at ye. Acorn facing Hungerford Strand.
Etching, platemark 80 x 110mm (3 x 4¼") large margins.
Political satire published in 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757', a volume of seventy-five satirical prints with short descriptions. The description of this print read 'Every one of these Figures are very striking, and be easily known to those who have the least Penetration in Politicks'.
For 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757' see ref. 38743.
[Ref: 43816] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Purity in Danger, or First Temptation.
J.J. [James Jenkins]
London, Published by J. J. March, 1819, at 48, Strand.
Rare coloured stipple. 215 x 240 (8½ x 9½") very large margins.
Caricature of an elderly lady in a loud dress caressing the head of a young cleric.
[Ref: 42008] £140.00 (£168.00 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)

[The Rake's Progress, Plates 1 & 2, 4-8.]
[after William Hogarth.]
Publish'd w.th ye consent of M.rs Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill, March 25, 1768.
Seven [of 8] etchings with engraving, printed from two plates, totals c. 270 x 370mm (10¾ x 14½"). Plates 1 & 6 trimmed to plate at bottom.
Reversed and reduced copies of the first states of Hogarth's famous series, originally published 'with the consent of Mr William Hogarth' by Thomas Bakewell in 1735, the same year as Hogarth's original publication. Hogarth gave permission for this set to counter cheap plagaries: Bakewell sold his set for 2s. 6d, significantly cheaper than the two guineas for the originals. This posthumous edition (now with the consent of Hogarth's widow, Jane) are overprinted with decorative borders at the sides. The missing plate is 3, 'Revelling with Harlots'.
BM Satires 2159, 2174, 2203, 2212, 2224, 2237, 2247. Paulson p.90.
[Ref: 57643] £850.00 view all images for this item

[No. 16. The Rake's Progress. Set of six.]
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth. [J. June sc. ?]
[London: Robert Sayer, 1768.]
Set of 6 engravings. Each c. 175 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with wide margins. Paper toned.
Set of six prints from Hogarth's celebrated paintings of the decline of the young heir Tom Rakewell. The paintings are in the Soane Museum. Soon after the death of William Hogarth in 1764, his widow Jane gave the London publisher Robert Sayer permission to publish a collection of her husband's work. Although engraved in a smaller format, Sayer's versions retain all the detail of the original plates.
[Ref: 31468] £360.00 view all images for this item

Ohé! Moricaud...
J. Platier.
Chez Aubert gal Véro-Dodat. Imp d'Aubert & Cie.
Lithograph. Sheet: 335 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½"). Tears in bottom edge and light foxing.
A French satirical print showing a group of aprentices shouting racist things at a smartly dressed black man.
[Ref: 42493] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Refusal. Engraved after an Original Picture of Mr John Collett, in the Possession of Mr. Bradford.
J. Collett pinxit. J. Goldar sculpsit.
Published by T.Bradford, No.132 Fleet Street, London: 1st Feb.y 1768, as the Act Directs.
Engraving. 335 x 370mm (13¼ x 14½"), with large margins. Repaired tear bottom right.
An oval interior scene, within a window in a stone wall, with a young man sitting with his arms folded, looking at a prostitute who leans across the round table in front of him, on which are empty glasses and a bottle of wine, putting one arm on his shoulder persuasively. An elderly woman can be seen standing behind her on the left, drinking from a punch bowl.
BM Satires 4256.
[Ref: 61439] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Humours of Life in London or the Regents Birth Day.
[Anon. c.1810]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½"). Trimmed around image and title.
Four vignettes of disorder taking place in London on the birthday of the Prince Regent (the future George IV).
[Ref: 43844] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Retort Humorous.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6½"). Foxing on right.
A scene in a room in which Frederick the Great sits at a table with two men sat either side while a man stands sheepishly before him.
[Ref: 43964] £50.00 (£60.00 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)

[Illustrated music sheet] The Riot Night occasion'd by the Burning of the Meeting Houses.
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1740.]
Music sheet, hand-coloured etching above engraved lettering and music, watermarked laid paper; four watchmen surrounding a drunken man on the street at night. 320 x 195mm, 12½ x 7¾". Some slight creasing; left margin slightly tatty and chipped.
'XXIII' inscribed above image. Music and four verses beginning, "As tipling John was jogging on...", four other verses and a line of music 'for the flute' at bottom. The reference appears to be to the burning of Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting house in Carey Street, Lincolns Inn, on 1 March 1710, and the song was first published at about that time. The BM attribute this version to George Bickham the Younger (c.1706 - 1771) on stylistic grounds.
BM Satires undescribed. BM 1982,U.2055.
[Ref: 21063] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

O The Roast Beef of Old England &c.
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth. [Engraved by J. June?]
[n.d, c.1770.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 275mm, 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed within plate.
Or 'The Calais Gate', Hogarth's characteristic response to an unhappy visit to France. The painting is now in Tate Britain. From a reduced edition of Hogarth's collected works, with other plates signed by J. June.
[Ref: 27151] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Does the Harp of Rosa Slumber Sleep gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse_
['Paul Pry', monogram of William Heath.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1829.]
Hand-coloured etching. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Margins a little grubby and tatty.
An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The print takes its title from a popular ballad of the time.
BM Satires undescribed.
[Ref: 27493] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Unloading A Waggon. 214.
Rowlandson inv.
Pub.d September 12. 1813 by Tho.s Tegg No.111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed to image and around title. Pinholes in top corners.
A lively scene depicting a variety of characters descending from a covered wagon, to the left, into a coaching inn to the right, the 'Flying Waggon Inn'. A sign above the door reads, 'Entertainment For Man and Horse'. By renowned English artist and caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827).
[Ref: 58820] £260.00 (£312.00 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)

Freedom. Rule Britannia Britannia rules the waves [/] Britons never shall be Slaves.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Engraving. Sheet: 185 x 225mm (7¼ x 9"). Trimmed and laid on an album sheet.
A scene in a blacksmiths in which several smiths work hard at their various tasks while a large man in a hat shouts at them from the left.
BM Satire 8497.
[Ref: 43966] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Running away with an Heiress.
Giles Grinagain inv.t et fec.t.
Pub.d by S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly Jan.y 2.d 1804.
Coloured etching; 18th century watermark; bottom right stamped in ink S.W.F.. 200 x 230mm (8 x 9"). Trimmed to plate at bottom with slight loss to right.
A fat middle-aged woman, lightly clad in indoor dress, sits on the shoulders of a man smaller and older than herself, who runs in profile to the right. He bends under his burden, using a stick, and saying, 'I think I have got a great Prize at last! 40,000 £ in Bank Stock is a weighty Consideration'. She says: 'How I do long for the Blacksmith! When shall we get to Gretna Green!". Behind them is a short ladder leading from a ground-floor window. 'Giles Grinagain' (fl. 1801-7) made a series of prints published by Samuel Howitt in 1801-2, so is probably a pseudonym for Howitt himself. Some were re-issued by S W Fores in 1804, and in 1807 he is listed as a publisher at 7 Artillery Street, of a print by Rowlandson.
BM Satires 10337.
[Ref: 40615] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Sailor's Will and his Power; or; a Picture of Portsmouth Point.
[Laurie & Whittle.][n.d., c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8½"). Trimmed.
Heading to printed verses: 'Sung with unbounded Applause by Mr. Emery, at the Harmonic and other Societies'. A sailor consoles his girl, weeping at their parting in Portsmouth; she is holding his will!
BM Satire 11204.
[Ref: 46480] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

North & South of Great Britain.
Will.m Hogarth delin. F.B_ Sculp.
Published June the 11th, 1781 at the Ancient & Modern Print Warehouse No. 28 in the Hay Market by A. Torre and J. Thane.
Etching, proof? 150 x 185mm (6 x 7¼"); in ink verso "It is almost certain that this is an Imposition"; very large margins. Some soiling.
A satire on the perennial north-south divide, comparing an emaciated Scot dressed in rags in front of Edinburgh Castle with a portly Londoner with St Paul's Cathedral behind. A later state, with the same publication date but with added aquatint, has Paul Sandby's name instead of Hogarth's. This is the more likely attribution: certainly this print is not listed in Paulson's bibliography of Hogarth. The BM posits that the engraver might be Francesco Bartolozzi, but it most likely to be the work of Sandby as well. Anthony Torre and John Thane worked together only 1781-82, before handing over their business at the Ancient and Modern Print Warehouse to Paul Colnaghi.
See BM Satires 3799 for a state with Hogarth's name but without the engraver's initials, and the same number for the finished version.
[Ref: 40349] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

a Riddle expounded or the Dignity of a Parsons Horse.
Woodward del.t.
London Pub.d [July 6th. 1807] by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside. Price 1sh Collored.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 335mm
A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing addressing a fat elderly parson on horseback. He asks "Ha! Ha - the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, - Canst thee tell me - why - a Parsons Horse be like a King?" The parson answers with a grin: "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a Minister." Etched by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830; active) after George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809).
BM Satires: 11617.
[Ref: 52098] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Scales of Marriage] True love, God wat, is quite & clean forlorn / When Parents Daughters in the ballance weigh [...]
[Nicolaes Braeu after Karel van Mander, c.1600]
Engraving, sheet 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed. Few ink stains on right.
Second plate from a set of six engravings by Nicolaes Braeu after Karel van Mander illustrating proverbs. The set was issued c.1592; this is a later reissue with the Dutch text replaced by text in English and Latin, and the plate number 2 in the lower left corner effaced. A preparatory drawing by van Mander is in the Albertina, Vienna.
[Ref: 46502] £380.00

The School of Eloquence.
A. Robertson fecit.
[c.1800, first published 1780]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), 'Ivy Mill' watermark, wide margins. Repaired tears, tatty;
'The interior of a fashionable debating society of the period; the members are the quality of both sexes' (Grego). One member uses an ear trumpet; another takes snuff. Social satire after an early drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, first published by Archibald Robertson in 1780. This later state has the publication line effaced.
Grego vol. 1, p.98; an early impression is in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
[Ref: 38625] £390.00

The School of Eloquence.
A. Robertson fecit [after Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching with hand-colouring, 18th century watermark 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), very large margins. Small repaired tear in title, creases.
'The interior of a fashionable debating society of the period; the members are the quality of both sexes' (Grego). One member uses an ear trumpet; another takes snuff. Social satire after an early drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, first published by Archibald Robertson in 1780. This later state has the publication line effaced.
Grego vol. 1, p.98; an early impression is in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
[Ref: 56612] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Ganging to the Kirk. Sketches of Scotch Character.
[William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d., c.1830.]
Etching with fine hand-colour. Plate: 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"), with very large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
A scene set in Scotland in which two well-dressed women wash their dirty feet in a puddle before going to church. William Heath's monogram of Paul Pry states 'Lord love you this may be seen every Sunday in Glasgow'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43630] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Three Scotsmen.]
K. [John Kay.]
[n.d., c. 1790.] An early issue.
Etching. Plate: 85 x 105mm (3½ x 4¼") large margins
A group portrait of three scottish men, two in military uniform, two figures look at each other while the third holds a large staff with a head carved on to the top.
[Ref: 46212] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Self Accusation. No. 28. -Please to bestow your charity / - Friend I have it Not
Pickering sc [c.1820]
Wood engraving, sheet 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Small margins.
A Quaker outside a meeting house refuses charity to an amputee.
[Ref: 41483] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Pleasures of the Turf. Birds of a Feather will flock together, Like to Like, as the Devil said to the Collier.
Publish' d according to Act Oct 27th 1756, by Edwards & Darly facing Hungerford in the Strand.
Etching. 85 x 115mm (3¼ x 4½"), very large margins. Worm hole in right margin.
Two gentlemen, one wearing a fool's cap, drive four turkeys and four geese along the London road. Apparently some noblemen had organised a race to prove whether geese or turkeys could run faster, which upset the general public who were more concerned with the uncertain progress at the start of the Seven Years' War. Plate 24 of ''A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1756 and 1757''.
BM 3407.
[Ref: 56465] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

It was lucky I got shelter at all. __
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry', a man holding an umbrella.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub.
Hand coloured etching, 375 x 260mm. 14¾ x 10¼". A very fine and scarce impression in good colour.
A (rather dim) traveller and his dog 'shelter' from angry skies, lightning and lashing rain beside a pathetic stump of a tree that has lost most of its branches (to lightning); Stonehenge on the horizon beyond, and a crow or raven on the tree above looking down. Irish interest. By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole, that became a tag used for any very inquisitive person) with the emblem of a small man holding a walking stick in a lower corner of his plates. This figure was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), and so from 1828 Heath began to sign his plates with his full name. He published regularly with Thomas McLean.
[Ref: 16153] £320.00

The Looking Glass. Fashionable intelligence 1830. Slave trade 1. Slave trade 2. A sketch of that curious little architect sitting on his (egg). New system of heraldry. 1730 Dress of the guards. 1830. Gallop-hard- Trials Old Bailey. Change of linen. Sheriffs-officers .
[by William Heath]
[Published January 1st. 1830 - by T. Mc.Lean 26 Haymarket London.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Edges chipped. Tears into image on right.
10 vignettes on one sheet, the largest being a fashion satire. Of most interest are the two scenes relating to the Slave Trade: the first shows 'Slaves in bondage', with a happy family on a plantation; the second, 'In full enjoyment of Liberty', shows the effects of thoughtless emancipation, with a family left in dire poverty, with Wilberforce's name, suggesting it was his fault.
[Ref: 54600] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Politician.
Pub by MDarly Strand. [n.d., c.1775.]
Etching, early unnumbered state, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A caricature politician in a chair asleep at his desk, which is covered by books and newspapers (one inscribed 'The London Chronicle'); he wears a coat, wig and spectacles. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 14498] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Small Beer and Porter!
London Published by J.L. Marks 17 Artillery Street, Bishopsgate [c.1820]
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, paper watermarked 'John All'; sheet 170 x 170mm (6¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
Contast between drinking habits of the rich and poor. Print published by (and probably engraved by) J. Lewis Marks (c.1796-1855). A tradecard describes Marks as 'Engraver & Printer in General' and promises 'Aquatinting Tastefully Executed'. In keeping with the subject of this print, Marks in later life was also landlord of the Portland Arms pub in Long Lane, London.
[Ref: 41476] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Speaker.
P. Brown Delin. Peake sculp.
[Published according to Act of Parliament April 18, 1765.]
A rare engraving. Sheet: 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed.
A scene in which a man stands to speak from behind a bench or pew, a woman and a man sit on either side of him. A satire on the members of the Society of Friends.
BM Satire 4129.
[Ref: 44693] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Speaker.
P. Brown Delin. Peake sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament April 18, 1765. [Later impression.]
A rare engraving. Plate: 205 x 230mm (8 x 9'') very large margins. Foxing.
A scene in which a man stands to speak from behind a bench or pew, a woman and a man sit on either side of him. A satire on the members of the Society of Friends.
BM Satire 4129.
[Ref: 49034] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Spital Fields Phæton.
Pub. accord. to Act by M.Darly 39 Strand Jan.y 5. 1773.
Etching, 175 x 270mm, 7 x 10½".
A large man in a carriage. A one-legged man rides the horse and a footman stands at the back. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14558] £320.00

A Stew.
[by Theodore Lane.]
London Published by G. Humphrey 27 St James's Street Jun 30th 1822.
Coloured etching. 305 x 225mm (12 x 9"). Tears in margins.
A man being pursued by two policemen, one carrying handcuffs. From a series of satires with a food theme, some of the others being 'A Broil', 'A Fry' & 'A Roast'.
BM Satire 14452, and see 14450-3 for others.
[Ref: 41785] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Three engravings published in the Carlton House Magazine] Sunday Work which ought to be prohibited [&] The Bakers Sunday Triumph [&] The Rev.d G.H.J. Esq.r
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Three engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Three prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine'. 'The Bakers Sunday Triumph' shows bakers rejoicing while the Albion Mills (a steam-powered flour mill in Southwark, inspiration for William Blake's ''dark satanic mills''; the fire is illustrated in Ackermann's Microcosm of London) burns behind them, in celebration of George III's act forbidding the baking of bread on Sundays. This plate was a reissue of a print by Barlow after Collings titled 'Conflagration! Or the Merry Mealmongers', published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791. It is likely that the other two plates were also reissues.
BM Satires 8482 (Bakers Sunday Triumph)
[Ref: 45862] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sweet Poll of Plymouth.
H. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. G. Shepheard scilp.t.
Published Jan.y 1 1809 by J. Deeley 95, Berwick St Soho.
Stipple, watermark 1811. 300 x 220mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Large hole in image, trimmed within plates at sides. Damaged.
A fat prostitute enjoys the attention of two sailors and a soldier. Originally Poll of Plymouth was a character in a romantic poem but became the comic figure of a prostitute working the docks.
[Ref: 51939] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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