Grosvenor Prints

A Tax Payer. We do want Reform _ at any rate a change _ things cannot be worse.
London, July 1831. Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet St.
Etching. Sheet 285 x 190mm (11¼ x 7½"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A ragged man stands in a delapidated room.
[Ref: 62276] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Pay Rent and Taxes Indeed! And no Wote. I Wish They May Get It.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Trimmed, corners snipped, laid on album paper.
A satirical portrait of a tinker, a bag of household items over his shoulder, and a bellows and chair under his arm.
[Ref: 57796] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[White Sugar] What! d'ye think I am going to drink that ere common brown Sugar? no! Then if you dont like it lump it. Comic Album No.4
J.E.Wilson.
Alvey, lith. London R.d [n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph. 272 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½").
A street-scene of a tea-stall. On the table stands a large urn with written on it "Royal Albert early Breakfast Saloon", surrounded by saucers and cups. A satire on the introduction of white sugar cubes, first patented in 1843.
[Ref: 17422] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Teague's Ramble at Charing Cross. So rambling Teague, with Vacant Visage Joggs, / Afar from his Barren wilds and Native boggs. / A link boy points the Thoughtless Oaf his Way, / So Will O'th Wisp of leads the Kern Astray; / A nymph and Baw'd, his wand'ring footsteps Wait,/ And leave his pockets empty as his pate; / The raving rakeshell finds to late his Loss, / Then curses night intrigues and Charing Cross.
J. McArdell fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t Aug 26 1747. Sold by T.Jefferys at the Corner of St Martins Lane Charing Cross and W.Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Cut to image. Creasing.
A drunken Irishman on the tiles in London, suggested by a character in Sir Robert Howard's comic play, 'The Committee'. Whitman suggests that McArdell drew the picture; Chaloner Smith states that it was probably one of the engraver's fellow pupils.
CS: 210; Whitman: 199. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34575] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Four anti-Teetotalism lithographs]
H.J. [c.1830]
Four lithographs with tintstone, scarce, each sheet approx. 225 x 265mm (8¾ x 10½"). Each trimmed to image and text, with lower corners cut. Some staining at corners.
Four satirical prints of wealthy and impoverished men and women all rejecting teetotalism in favour of drinking alcohol. In Victorian Britian the temperance movement attracted large numbers of people, one of the most famous was the leading graphic satirist George Cruikshank, who became teetotal in the 1840s and thereafter devoted much of his time to producing work for the temperance cause, such as as his 'Temperance Placards'.
For one of Cruikshank's 'Temperance Placards' see ref. 40796.
[Ref: 43833] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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)

A Tenant at Will. Marks's New Caricaturist. No.98.
London, Published by J.L. Marks 91, Long Lane Smithfield. [n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured woodcut and letterpress, sheet 190 x 225mm. 7½ x 9". Linen backing.
Social satire; a tax collector and bailiff visit the home of an unrepentant tenant. From the series 'Marks's New Caricaturist' by J Lewis Marks (1814 - 1848; fl.).
[Ref: 17344] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Going to Church, a Sketch Illustrative of Mr Newman's Tithe Leasing Act.
J.W. Wright. W. Read.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Coloured etching. 195 x 290mm (7¾ x 11½"), very large margins. Paper lightly age-toned.
A country family cordially greet the vicar and his wife as they walk out of a village and up a hill to the church. A satire on the Tithe Leasing Bill, introduced to Parliament by Robert Newman, MP for Bletchingley. It was an attempt to reform the tithe, a 10% (tithe being a tenth) income tax that Church tenants had to pay, which Newman claimed counter-productive in agricultural communities. His bill, suggesting it should be replaced by fixed rent, passed the commons, with the support of MPs including Henry Brougham, but was stuck down in the Lords. The system gradually ended between the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 and the Finance Act of 1977.
[Ref: 51749] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Mc. Lean's Monthly Sheet of Caricatures No. 53. A Meeting of the Trades's Union. A Sunday ''Turn Out'' of the Trades' Unions.
[by Robert Seymour.] A Du Cote Lithog. 70 St Martin's Lane.
[Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London. May 1st, 1834.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 350 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Small tear in bottom margin.
Two satires on one sheet. At top a speaker lists what he doesn't want: ''No king, no Lords... no taxes, no transportation, no nothing''. Underneath columns of workers march out of gin palaces.
BM: 1868,0808.12343.
[Ref: 51682] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Traveller & Boy.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving. Sheet: 250 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Trimmed.
Interior scene with a traveller and a boy standing in the centre. A young woman washes dishes to their right and to their left an old mam sits in a corner smoking a pipe. Behind them a man with a mask-like face watches them whilst drinking.
[Ref: 33124] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Tregears Black Jokes. The Breaking Up.
W Summers. del.t. Hunt sculp.t.
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Aquatint with hand-colour. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Glue stains in margins.
An end-of-term dance, with the young black schoolgirls showing their parents what they had been taught. A teacher accompanies them on the violin. Plate 8 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman: Hunt p.132.
[Ref: 51779] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Tregears Black Jokes. N.o.8.] The Breaking Up.
W Summers. del.t. Hunt sculp.t.
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London.
Aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"). Trimmed around image and text.
An end-of-term dance, with the young black schoolgirls showing their parents what they had been taught. A teacher accompanies them on the violin. Plate 8 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman: Hunt p.132.
[Ref: 40817] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Tregear's Black Jokes. The Card Party. They Are Certainly Black Legs. see Tregear's Catalogue.
W Summers del.t Hunt sculp.t.
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14").
Black men and women sit at a table, lit by candlelight, playing cards. Plate 7 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman: Hunt p 132.
[Ref: 51780] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tregear's Black Jokes. N.11. Miss Whites birth-day, Party.
W Summers del.t. Hunt sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"). Small tear to left-centre. Time staining.
A large black family sat around a table drinking tea and eating cake. A brightly-coloured tropical bird sits on a perch to the left and cat laps up milk on the floor, which a girl pour into an overflowing cup. Plate 16 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman p.134-11.
[Ref: 19757] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tregear's Black Jokes. N.11. Miss Whites birth-day, Party.
W Summers del.t. Hunt sculp.t.
London Published by GS Tregear 123 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Some holes and tear into upper edge.
A party of black children and adults seated around a table. Some of the children are grabbing for food while one girl spills a drink and another knocks over a candlestick as a man pours water over her head. Plate 16 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman: Hunt 134.
[Ref: 23609] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tregears Black Jokes. The Route. Whilst de lads ob de village, so merrily are, Dou and I will be first in de trong.
W. Summers Del. C. Hunt Sc.
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Aquatint with hand-colouring. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Glue stains in edges.
At a gathering of smartly-dressed black people, a couple walk out onto the dance floor as an orchestra plays on the balcony. Plate 6 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman p.131.
[Ref: 51783] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Route. Whilst de lads ob de village, so merrily are, Dou and I will be first in de trong. Lewis's Black Jokes. No. 6.
W. Summers Del. C. Hunt Sc.
T.C. Lewis & Co. 96 Cheapside London [c.1850]
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 230 x 310mm (9 x 12¼"). Trimmed.
At a gathering of smartly-dressed black people, a couple walk out onto the dance floor as an orchestra plays on the balcony. One of a series of 'Tregear's Black Jokes', a set of twenty caricatures first published in 1834, the year in which the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. The prints, which were advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks', developed the theme of the earlier 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population. These were first published by Edward William Clay in the United States in the 1820s. The London publisher Gabriel Shire Tregear published copies of the 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures, then followed it up with 'Tregear's Black Jokes'. After Tregear's death his plates passed to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this print. The three mentions of Tregear's name on the plate have either been changed to Lewis', or simply effaced.
Hickman p.131.
[Ref: 47096] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Tregear's Black Jokes. Venus and Adonis
W Summers del.t Hunt sculp.t.
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
A black man in riding attire, holding the reins of a white horse, takes his leave of a crying woman to join the hunt in action in the background. Plate 5 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman: Hunt p 129.
[Ref: 51784] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Union, Dedicated without permission to the Member of the Trades Union, by their Devoted Servant Will Strike. [On the post reads the following]: Meeting of the Trades Union on barren ground April 1, 1834.
Designed and Engraved by HB.
London: 1834, Pubd by Thos. McLean, 26. Haymarket.
A very scarce mezzotint. Plate 184 x 239mm. 7¼ x 9½". Small crease to bottom right hand corner and top left. Trimmed to platemark.
An early Trades Union item. The Grand National Consolidated Trades Union was founded in 1834 as the first domestic association. It was short lived due to the panic of 1837 with ordinary citizens exercising too much control over credit and economic opportunity, leaving banks in trouble. This collapse of financial support and businesses left a lot of people unemployed.
Ex.Col: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14985] £480.00

The Unlucky Surprise. [&] The Bengall Minuet.
Pub.d. Accor.g to Act Nov.r 1 1773 by MDarly Strand [& Nov 3.].
Fine pair of etchings on one sheet, 18th century watermark. Each 460175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"), with very large margins. Slight paper toning. Uncut.
Two satires. Above a portly, middle-aged man opens a door to find his young wife in an embrace. Below, two figures in profile face each other for a minuet dance in a panelled interior, satirising a nabob (a man who had gained significant wealth with the East India Company) and his wife, preparing for their new place in society.
'Bengall' BM Satires: 5174. Unlucky Surprise not in BM.
[Ref: 55387] £460.00

_"and, would'st thou turn the vile Reproach on me?"
J. C.d Esq_r del.t_ _J.s G.y [James Gillray] fec.t.
London, Publish'd Feb.y. 2.d 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13¼"). Trimmed close to printed border.
A grotesquely hideous man, lean and elderly, sits in an armchair addressing a pregnant young woman. The title is taken from a well-known play of the period, "The Earl of Warwick; a Tragedy, in 5 Acts" by Thomas Franklin.
BM Satires 10802.
[Ref: 61762] £490.00

Volunteer Wit or not Enough for a Prime. 227
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾''). Crease on left.
A scene in a gothic-style room in which seven elderly men in uniforms at dessert, the colonel asks the men to toast the king but a second man complains that the glasses are not large enough.
BM Satire 11136.
[Ref: 50787] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Worship of Wealth.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank. _ 23 Myddleton Terrace.
Etching on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11").
A large money bag drawn in a carriage, gentlemen bowing as it passes. Several highly caricatured character studies either side, and four lines of verse below main image. A satirical print from 'My Sketch Book' by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878).
[Ref: 12020] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

St Swithins Chapel _ Cold bath fields -(NB not a Chapel of Ease.)
Sketched Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Myddleton Terrace Pentonville Dec.r 1833.
Etching on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11").
A preacher addresses a crowd under umbrellas in the rain outside Coldbath Fields Prison (later also known as Clerkenwell Gaol) in the Clerkenwell area of London. Also other vignettes of figures under umbrellas in the rain, and Napoleon wrestling with a huge globe lower left. A satirical print on wet British weather from 'My Sketch Book' by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878). Swithun is one of the few Anglo-Saxon saints still known to most ordinary people because of his patronage of the English weather. He gives his name to a British weather lore proverb, which says that if it rains on Saint Swithun's day, 15th July, it will rain for 40 days.
[Ref: 12021] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Who Are You? Ask Anybody. Ask the Ladies. Ask My Relations They Know, There Is No Pride About Me.
A.C.
[n.d., c.1830.]
A rare lithograph. Sheet: 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"). Trimmed with some damage and creasing.
Three figures stand above three answers to the question 'Who are you?'. A well-dressed figure smoking a cigar answers 'Ask anyone', a cupid-like figure answers 'Ask the ladies', while a third, scruffy, dog-like figure answers 'Ask my relations they know, there is no pride about me'.
[Ref: 43789] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Who s Afraid.
Pub accord to Act March 18th. 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
An elderly man shouting with outstretched arms. In his left hand is a walking-stick. A wide looped hat on the back of his head shows straggling locks of his own hair. He wears a long coat with wide cuffs, a plain neck cloth, ruffled shirt-sleeves, and high-quartered shoes. From 'Characters, Macaronies & Caricatures, by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.6' upper left and '2' upper right.
BM Satires: 5149.
[Ref: 14491] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Will Waddle and the Baker, or, 20 Stone reduced to a mere Skeleton. Will Waddle, whose temper was studious and lonely, / Hir'd lodgings that took Single Gentlemen only [...]
Published July 12, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle 53 Fleet Street, London
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 200 x 240mm (8 x 9½"). Trimmed to platemark.
Song about obese Will Waddle and how he was 'reduced to a mere skeleton' after moving into lodgings directly above a baker's oven, accompanied by image of a confrontation between him (right) and his landlord (left).
[Ref: 41573] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Wiseacre Corporation. Gentlemen I am not going to the further end of the Country to prove what I say; the Road which I am obliged to pass to my nown House, is quite unpassable to any thing but a beast. I likeways move that lamps in the Parish be taken down every night, and hung up every morning, to prevent their being broke: Agreed. Resolv'd that the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman for his Partial conduct: passed Crim. con.
Published 10.th Sept.r 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street London.
Etching with stipple. 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"), large margins.
Satire of a country justices' meeting held, according to the map on the desk, in 'Break-Neck Shire'.
BM Satires 10358
[Ref: 51747] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A woman swearing her child to a Grave Citizen.] Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, / And makes his Market of the trading Fair; / His Office Shelves with Parish Laws are grac'd, / But Spelling Books and Guides between 'em plac'd. / Here pregnant Madam screens the real Sire, / And falsly swears her Bastard Child for Hire / Upon a Rich old Letcher, who denies / The Fact, and vows the naughty Hussif lies; / His Wife enrag'd, exclaims against her Spouse, / And Swears she'l be reveng'd upon his Brows; / The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, / And force him to provide Security.
W. Hogarth pinx. J. Sympson Jun.r Sculp.
Sold by J: Sympson Engraver and Print seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane.
Engraving. On verso in ink "The justice is sin Tho's De Veil a striking likeness"; Sheet 295 x 340mm (11½ x 13½"). Trimmed to plate, mounted on album paper.
A pregnant woman falsely swears on the Bible that the horrified miser to left is the father. The judge is said to be Sir Thomas De Veil, the magistrate of Bow Street who appears in Hogarth's 'Times of Day'. Hogarth's original painting of c.1729 is now in the National Gallery of Ireland.
[Ref: 40351] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

An Irish Epitaph.
Woodward del. Cruikshank F.
Published by T. Tegg. 111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1807.]
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
A scene in a country churchyard; An old couple, with a dog, gaze at a (tilted) tombstone to the right, inscribed: 'Here lies Iohn Highley. whose Father & Mother. were Drown'd in their passage to America. Had they both lived they would have been Buried Here.' The dog is seen cocking his leg below.
BM Satires 10914.
[Ref: 36567] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Wrong Box. Capital Joint this Landlord 'pon my Soul, Here's Cut and Come again, / Yes Sir ther's Cut, to be sure, but I'll be___ if ever You shall Come again.
Drawn by M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Pubished by Tho.s Mclean, 26 Haymarket 1827.
Etching and aquatint with hand colouring. 180 x 170mm (7 x 6¾"). Laid on album paper. Toning.
The interior of an eating house, with a gentleman sitting alone at a table to the left. He is eating an enormous joint of beef, seen on the table, with a tankard of beer. A thin dog chews on the scraps on the floor below. The portly owner stands to the right, watching. Other diners can be seen behind, with a row of top hats hanging on the wall above.
Hickman: pg.75 ii of ii. Not in BM.
[Ref: 56498] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Zealots for, & against the true Religion.
[n.d. c.1773.]
Etching with large margins on 3 sides. Plate 171 x 114mm (6¾ x 4½").
A tall column, on the top of which is a book on which stands a lamb bearing a cross to which is attached a pennon with a St. George's Cross, the whole representing Religion. Two opposing bodies of clergy strain at with ropes; the bishops in lawn sleeves on the left, ministers in gowns on the right. Over the ministers hovers Beelzebub, pointing to the column and saying: "My Children that is not your God, but I am". The bishops, whose aim is to prevent the opposing party from pulling down the column, strain from the other side.
BM Satires: 5107.
[Ref: 34694] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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