Grosvenor Prints

Upon my Word it is Might fine, I'm above the Axe yet I'm under the Lyne.
[Anon., c.1750.]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 80mm (4½ x 3"). Trimmed.
Caricature, perhaps of George Lyttelton (1709-73), politician and writer.
[Ref: 41558] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[George Lyttelton] The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary. 11.
Pub.d as the Act Directs May 1st 1773 [by William Austin].
Coloured etching. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"), with wide margins. Some creasing and spotting.
George Lyttelton as a hooked-nosed Death, using a tomb as a writing desk, one hand holding a scythe. A grave-digger with a built-up shoe, holds out a skull which declaims ''Life is a jest & all things shew it. I thought so once but now I know it'', John Gay's own epitaph on his monument in Westminster Abbey. The first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773, a few months after this caricature) wrote 'Dialogues of the Dead' (1760).
[Ref: 54443] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[George Lyttelton] The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary. 11
Pub.d as the Act Directs May 1st 1773 [by William Austin].
Etching, J. Whatman watermark. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"), with large margins.
George Lyttelton as a hooked-nosed Death, using a tomb as a writing desk, one hand holding a scythe. A grave-digger with a built-up shoe, holds out a skull which declaims ''Life is a jest & all things shew it. I thought so once but now I know it'', John Gay's own epitaph on his monument in Westminster Abbey. The first Baron Lyttelton (1709-73), a few months after this caricature) wrote 'Dialogues of the Dead' (1760). From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
See Ref: 54443
[Ref: 63635] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[George Lyttelton] Cassius. O Prithee Strive they Grov'ling mind to raise, / Above the Bounds of thy Imperfect State [...]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t Sep. 30 1756 by Edwards & Darly at ye Acorn in ye Strand
Engraving, sheet 115 x 80mm (4½ x 3"). Trimmed on card as issued.
Caricature of George Lyttelton (1709-73), politician and writer, published shortly before he was created Baron Lyttelton of Frankley, alluding to the Roman Senator Cassius in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'.
BM Satires 3513.
[Ref: 41556] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Giorgio Lygttleton.
G.B. Bosio dis. L. Rados inc.
[n.d. c.1770].
Stipple engraving. 155 x 220mm.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, statesman and patron of poets like Pope and Fielding [1709 - 1773].
[Ref: 730] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Lytton Bulwer [facsimile signature.]
A. D'Orsay 1. August 1837 [signed in plate.]
London, Published by John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to the Queen.
Lithograph on india paper, india 240 x 165mm. 9½ x 6½".
Portrait of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803 - 1873), novelist and politician. He published Falkland, 1827, and Pelham, 1828, which made his reputation; he enjoyed great popularity as the author of historical and romantic novels. MP from 1852 and secretary for the colonies, 1858-9. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time
O'Donoghue p.113, 3.
[Ref: 21887] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

L’América. Galerie du Palais Royal (T..re. Gudin)
Sabatier del. Fig par V. Adam [after Theodore Gudin) Lith de C. Motte.
J.P. Quenot direx [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph on chine collé. 303 x 438mm (12" x 17¼"), with blind stamp of 'Galerie Lithographiée de S. A. R. Mgr. le Duc d'Orléans' in title. Some staining in the margins.
A view of a ship bearing the American flag in a choppy sea.
[Ref: 8740] £420.00

[Daniel M'Naghten] Trial of M.cNaughton.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, edges browned.
The trial of Daniel M'Naghten (1813-65, also McNaughten) for the murder of Prime Minister Robert Peel's private secretary, Edward Drummond, at the Old Bailey in 1843. His defence was that he was suffering from paranoid delusions: the verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity led to the creation of the 'M'Naghten rules', a legal test defining the defence of insanity, in 1843.
[Ref: 62531] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A View on the Maese, near Maestricht. From the Original Picture painted by Adrian Cuyp, in the Collection of the Right Honble. the Earl of Bute; To Whom this Plate is most humbly Dedicated, by his Lordship's most Obliged, and most Obedient humble Servant, J. Boydell. Size of the Picture, 5 feet by 8 F in Length. No.12.
Adrian Cuyp Pinxit. Will.m Elliott Sculpsit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London; December 1st. 1764.
Engraving. 405 x 605mm (16 x 23¾"), with wide margins.
A fine pastoral landscape with shepherds and their cattle near trees in left foreground, the River Maas with town in right background.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38276] £520.00

Vue de Maestricht.
[Anon., c.1830]
Lithograph, printed area 155 x 205mm (6 x 8").
The town of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Annexed to the First French Empire from 1794-1814, it became part of the Netherlands in 1815, and was made the capital of the new Province of Limburg.
[Ref: 43423] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Zonneberg caves.] S.t Pieters Bergh bÿ Mastricht, soo als hem die onder de Aerde vertoont.
Jan Luyken invenit et fecit.
[n.d., 1682.]
Rare etching. Sheet 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom. Small wormhole bottom centre.
A view of the Zonneberg caves, limestone quarries under Sint Pietersberg near Maastricht. Many men are working.
[Ref: 59402] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Battle of Maestricht. Plan of the Camp of the Army of the Allies, commanded by Mons.r D'Auverquerque, and the manner in which it was drawn up in Battle, when the Army of the Two Crowns advanced to Attack It May 14th 1703.
I. Basire Sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 385 x 480mm (15¼ x 18¾"). Very fine impression with original binding folds, trimmed at top, as issued.
A map of the environs of Maastricht during the War of the Spanish Succession, when the allied army under Henry, Count of Nassau, Lord of Overkirk (Ouwerkerk in Dutch) was attacked by the French & Spanish. Henry, second cousin and Master of Horse to William III, was one of Marlborough's most trusted generals and was made Field Marshal of the Dutch States Army in 1704. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 28246] £95.00

[Mrs Maberley?] Equestrian Sketches Pl. 20.
[by John Doyle, ''H.B.''] A. Ducotè's Lithog.y 70, St. Martin's Lane.
Published by T. M.cLean, 26, Haymarket, 1st. July 1839.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾") very large margins.
A gentle caricature of a woman riding side-saddle, one of at least 45 in the series, all printed without names of the subjects. Probably the wife of William Leader Maberly (1798-1885), the joint secretary to the General Post Office who strongly opposed the introduction of the Penny Post.
[Ref: 51811] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mac Rimmon.
R. R. M.clan pinxit. L. Dickinson, Lith.
Printed by C. Graf. [n.d., c.1845]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 470 x 325mm (18½ x 12¾"). Dent in bottom left. Taped to cloth covered mount at corners.
A depiction of a MacCrimmon piper to MacLeod of MacLeod, from Robert Ronald McIan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', published in 1845. The MacCrimmons were a Scottish family that were pipers to the chiefs of Clan MacLeod for several generations. McIan (1803-56, also Robert Ranald McIan), was a Scottish actor and painter best known for romanticised depictions of Scottish clansmen, their battles and domestic life.
[Ref: 58002] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

MacAlister.
R. R. M.clan pinxit. L. Dickinson, Lith. Printed by C. Graf.
London, Published by Ackermann & Co, 36, Strand [n.d., 1847].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"), on thick paper. Edges chipped top left & bottom.
A man of Clan MacAlister, one foot resting on a chest with 'J. Macalister Passenger Canada', suggesting he is a victim of the Highland Clearances. From Robert Ronald McIan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', Volume II, published in 1847. McIan (1803-56, also Robert Ranald McIan), was a Scottish actor and painter best known for romanticised depictions of Scottish clansmen, their battles and domestic life.
[Ref: 61062] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Aana Macallame borne in the Orknes of Scotland in the year of our Lord 1615 being presented to the kings Majesties sight Octob.r 1662. Though my portraiture seems to bee [/] A Man; my Sex denyes me so; [/] Nature hath still Varity; [/] To make the World her wisdome know;.
[n.d., c.1662.]
Fine engraving. Sheet: 180 x 125mm (7 x 5'').
A portrait of Anna Macallame, a bearded woman of Orkney presented to Charles II.
Wellcome Library 881i.
[Ref: 49714] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Map of Macau and surrounding area] Carte de l'entrée de la riviere de Canton Dressée sur les Observations les plus récentes. Par N.B. Ing.r [...]
J.v. Schley direx. [c.1764]
Engraving, platemark 275 x 210mm (11 x 8"), with very large margins. Folds as normal.
Map of the port of Macau and the entrnce to the Pearl River in China. From a Dutch edition of Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages', with copies of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's maps.
[Ref: 47424] £160.00

Macao.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india paper. 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15"), with wide margins.
Prospect of the trading port of Macao (Macau), on the South China Sea; a sailing ship in foreground. Macao is now, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
See BNF FRBNF33995730. See BM Anthropology Library KU4 [LAP-] V.1-5.
[Ref: 27829] £650.00

Macao
C. Graham del. A.H. Payne sc.
Verlag der Englischen Kunstanstalt von A.H. Payne in Leipzig.
Steel engraving, sheet 180 x 235mm (7 x 9¼").
Prospect of the trading port of Macao (Macau), on the South China Sea; a sailing ship in foreground. Macao is now, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China.
Not in Chater Collection; for coloured impression see ref. 37024.
[Ref: 42254] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan of the City and Harbour of Macao A Colony of the Portuguese situated on the southern extemity of the Chinese Empire.
Engraved by B. Baker Islington.
Published April the 12th, 1796 by George Nicol.
Engraved map. 710 x 560mm (18 x 22"). Staining top & bottom right.
A detailed map of Macao. published in Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', the first British embassy to China. The 37-point key lists forts, parishes, colleges, covents, chapels and other buildings of interest including the Customs House and the English Factory. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38164] £650.00

Macao from Penha Hill.
W. Heine. J. Queen del.t. P.S. Duval & Co. Phil.a.
[New York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1856.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 220 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Small chips in edges.
From Francis Hawk's 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan', the account of Commodore Matthew Perry's mission to Japan. Wilhelm Heine (1827 - 1885), a German-American, was the official artist to the expedition.
[Ref: 64710] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Map of Macau] Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao, Par N.B. Ing.r de la Marine [...]
J.v. Scley direx. [c.1764]
Engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 230 x 175mm (9 x 7"). Small margins.
Map of the port of Macau on the Pearl River in China. From a Dutch edition of Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages', with copies of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's maps.
[Ref: 47417] £140.00

Sketch of the Typa and Macao.
W.H. [engraved by William Harrison after William Bligh.]
[n.d., watermarked 1801.]
Engraved map with later colour. 275 x 220mm (10¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate at sides, binding notches on right.
A chart of the approaches to Macao, drawn by William Bligh when he was Master of HMS Resolution, Cook's ship on his Third Voyage. The famous 'Mutiny on the Bounty' was nearly 20 years later in Bligh's career. The chart was published in the Official Account, 'Voyage to the Pacific Ocean', first published in 1785. The watermarked 1801 is a sign of the enduring interest in Cook's discoveries. Bligh's original chart is now lost.
[Ref: 43335] £160.00

Macao, from the Forts of Heang-shan [parallel text in French and German]
Engraved by S. Fisher
The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited [c.1850]
Steel engraving, printed area 170 x 190mm (6¾ x 7½").
Prospect of the trading port of Macao (Macau), on the South China Sea. Macao is now, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. V
[Ref: 47418] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Macao.
Romargue Freres del et sc
Imp.ie Chardon ainé et fils 30 r. Hautefeuille, Paris. Berlin, Leprieur et Morisot Editeurs à Paris
Steel engraving, printed area 170 x 190mm (6¾ x 7½").
View of Macau, on the South China Sea, from the forts of Heang-shan.
[Ref: 47419] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Macao en Chine. Atlas du Voyage de la Pérouse, No 40.
Dessiné par Duché de Vancy. Gravé par Masquelier.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.]
Scarce engraving, 18th century watermark. 280 x 425mm (11 x 16¾"). Some creasing. Bit messy.
A view of Macao drawn by Gaspard Duché de Vancy and engraved by Louis Joseph Masquelier for the account of the Pacific scientific expedition of Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. Leaving Brest in 1785, Lapérouse rounded Cape Horn to enter the Pacific, visiting Easter Island, Hawaii, Alaska and the east coast of Asia, before arriving off Botany Bay on 24 January 1788. There he met with the British First Fleet, taking the opportunity to send journals, charts and letters back to Europe with the British merchant ship Alexander. In March he set sail again and disappeared: this plate was published while the search for the explorer continued. In 1828 artifacts of the expedition were found; the remains of the ships were discovered on Vanikoro in 1964.
[Ref: 60806] £380.00

Fort de L'Entree de la Typa.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. Finot imp. [Paris, c.1835.]
Aquatint printed in brown ink 290 x 380mm. 11½ x 15". A good impression; small nicks and creases to lower left margin.
A prospect of a fortification on Taipa, the smaller of the two islands of Macao (Macau); rowing boats and a sailing ship in foreground. Macao is now, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. From "Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace."
NLA 2201115.
[Ref: 21056] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Macao.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc. Finot imp.
de Sainson Edit. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15") very large margins.
Prospect of the Portuguese trading port of Macao (Macau), from 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...'. Colour-printed examples are rare.
SP Lohia Collection 5256: ''The coloured version of the 'Album Historique' is a work of extraordinary quality. It ranks among the finest plate books produced in the 19th century, the colouring being o
[Ref: 54665] £650.00

Couvent de la Guia à Macao.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. Finct imp. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed on india paper. Plate: 290 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"). Stain in left margin; foxing in large margins.
A view of the 17th century fortress of Guia with the convent of St Clare in Macau. After a drawing by Barthelmey Lauvergne who travelled on the corvette La Favorite commanded by Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) who circumnavigated the world between 1829-1832. Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite
[Ref: 46784] £380.00

Macao.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. Finct imp. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed on india paper. Plate: 290 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"). Foxing, stain in left margins.
A view of the town of Macau on the Pearl River in China. After a drawing by Barthelmey Lauvergne who travelled on the corvette La Favorite commanded by Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) who circumnavigated the world between 1829-1832. A plate from the series 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite'.
[Ref: 46793] £480.00

Vue de la Ville de Macao.
[Paris, 1790.]
Engraving, very scarce, fine impression. 270 x 510mm (10½ x 20"). Original binding folds.
A view of Macao from the sea, published in a French edition of Captain John Meares' 'Voyages Made in the Years 1788 & 1789 from China to the Northwest Coast of America'. Meares, trading in furs from the Pacific north-west to Asia without the necessary licence from the East India Company, caused the Nootka Crisis of 1789, in which Spain and Britain came to the brink of war over sovereignty of Pacific Canada. One of the immediate consequences was the Vancouver Expedition of 1791-5.
[Ref: 33514] £950.00

Pagode Chinoise a Macao. Chine.
Desiné par Lauvergne. Imp Lemercier, Bernard et Ce. Lith par Sabatier. Fig par Bayot.
Arthus-Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et Co. 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph with large margins. Sheet size: 325 x 490mm (12¾ x 19¼"). Repaired damage to top left corner of sheet.
Plate 55 of Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52, engraved by L. Sabatier after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne. A view of the A-Ma Temple in Macau. The view also shows the relief stone sculpture of a Chinese junk carved on a rock in the courtyard of the temple to the left. Various figures in traditional costume can be seen in the foreground.
[Ref: 33567] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Macau.] Franciscan Monastry at Macoa.
I. Wathen del.t. I. Clark direx.t.
London, Published by Black, Parry & C.o. and Nichols & C.o. 1814.
Handcoloured aquatint. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark. Slight creasing.
A view from James Wathen's (1751-1828) 'Journal of a Voyage to India and China' (London, 1814, 2vols.)
[Ref: 40186] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Pria Grandé, Macao. Le Pria Grandé, Macao. Pria Grandé Macao.
Drawn by T. Allom. From a sketch on the spot by Warner Varnham, Esq. Engraved by W. H. Capone.
The London Printing and Publishing Company_Limited.
Hand coloured engraving. Sheet: 275 x 205mm, (10¾ x 8"). Cut to platemark.
A view of the promenade of Praia Grande Bay in Macau which was under Portugese rule. The promenade is lined with handsome European buildings and the bay is full of boats.
[Ref: 37187] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Macao
C. Graham del / A.H. Payne sc.
London: Brain & Payne. 12, Paternoster Row [c.1850]
Steel engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 205 x 270mm (8 x 10½").
Prospect of the trading port of Macao (Macau), on the South China Sea; a sailing ship in foreground. Macao is now, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China
Not in Chater Collection
[Ref: 37024] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Macao,- China
Drawn by W. Purser / Engraved by W. Floyd
Fisher, Son & Co. London 1832
Steel engraving, platemark 170 x 250mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Large margins.
Prospect of the trading port of Macao (Macau), on the South China Sea; a sailing ship in foreground. Macao is now, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. View along the Praya Grande showing buildings in detail. This is a less common view that the distant views looking towards the island from the sea.
Not in Chater Collection
[Ref: 37025] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Macau.] Church of S.t. Lazarus near Macoa.
I. Wathen del.t. I. Clark direx.t.
London, Published by Black, Parry & C.o. and Nichols & C.o. 1814.
Handcoloured aquatint. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, small repaired hole in image.
A view of St Lazarus Church, built between 1557 and 1560, is one of the oldest churches in Macao. From James Wathen's (1751-1828) 'Journal of a Voyage to India and China' (London, 1814, 2vols.)
[Ref: 56328] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Illiterate Macaroni. of 21 Learning his A.B.C.
[Engraved by Matthew Darly.]
[Pub accordg to Act by MDarly Strand July 1st 1772.]
Etching. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Full-length portrait of an unintelligent young gentleman, peering through a glass at a child's alphabet book. He has a very large club of hair with strands protruding over his forehead under a small hat.
BM Satires 4652.
[Ref: 65824] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Slight of Hand by a Monkey. Or the Lady's Head Unloaded.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 25 Oct.r 1776.
Fine coloured mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Frame 420 x 320mm (16½ x 12½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting a monkey on a wall in the upper left snatching a huge wig from the head of a female macaroni revealing her to be almost bald, to the delight of a passing butcher's boy and a man picking pears who looks over the wall.
BM 4546
[Ref: 66042] £750.00

The Enraged Macaroni.
Phil Dawe inv.t et fecit.
Published July 13th 1773. Printed for John Bowles, at No.13 in Cornhill.
Fine coloured mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Frame 420 x 320mm (16½ x 12½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting a Billingsgate fishwoman thrusting a fish in the face of a macaroni who is about to draw his sword in reaction, while another woman, leaning out of the window of a grog shop behind them, is cutting off his long queue. Meanwhile, the macaroni's pet dog steals a fish from the fishwoman's basket
BM -Not in.
[Ref: 66043] £750.00

A Hint to the Husbands, or the Dresser, properly Dressed.
London Printed for R.Sayer & J.Bennett, No.53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 25 Jan.y 1777.
Fine coloured mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Frame 420 x 320mm (16½ x 12½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting a lady sits at her dressing-table, while a hair-dresser attends to her elaborate coiffure. She turns round in astonishment towards her husband, who has entered from an open door and threatens the hairdresser with uplifted riding-whip and clenched fist. He is in riding-dress. A maidservant enters behind him holding two fingers above her master's head to indicate that he is a cuckolded husband. The lady's hair is dressed in the elaborate fashion of the period, a pyramid with curls, decorated with pearls, and an enormous head-dress of feathers. She wears a lace-trimmed wrapper over her low-cut dress. In her right hand is a brush or pencil for the complexion; the other is outstretched in alarm. The hairdresser, who wears an enormous toupet wig, with side-curls and large looped club, is smoothing her hair with a comb.
BM 5467
[Ref: 66045] £750.00

The Blooming Peach and Shriveled Apple. Or Amorous Notions at Fourscore.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No.69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs 2nd Jan.y 1773.
Fine coloured mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Frame 420 x 320mm (16½ x 12½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting an elderly man on the left seizes the arm of a young woman, possibly a prostitute, who pulls away.
BM 4526.
[Ref: 66046] £750.00

Now S.r You'r a Compleat Macaroni. 4.
Brandoin Pinx.t. Caldwell sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½") very large margins
A dapper young man with a very high pompadour doffs his hat, hand on sword hilt. He is shadowed by a barber who has to support a huge cushion of hair hanging from his queue. The barber has combs in his hair and scissors in his pocket. First published by John Smith of Cheapside and Robert Sayer, 1772. This example has had the publication line removed and a plate number added.
Not in BM
[Ref: 58289] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Macaroni Ass Match Between the Cubs NB St-e Gamblers. Nature Display'd both Serious and Comic in 12 Designs Dedicated to S. Foot Esq.r.
[William Austin]
Pub.d as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching. Sheet: 260 x 390mm (10¼ x 15¼''). Trimmed.
A satirical print showing two men wearing macaroni clubs taking part in a race on donkeys. Frontice to a set of 12 prints by William Austin.
BM Satire 5112.
[Ref: 48368] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Macaroni Bricklayer, Prior to any other Macaroni. V.4. 18.
Pubd. accordg. to Act of Parlt. Sepr. 17, 1772, by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5").
A man standing in profile holding a trowel and wearing a sword. The BM suggests that "this might be George III. This seems unlikely, and the suggestion is that the character is a mason."
BM Satires: 4656.
[Ref: 38223] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Macarony Brothers. 3.
Brandoin Pinx.t. Caldwell sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), very large margins.
A comparison of a caricatured dandy and an old sailor, pipe in mouth, clothed monkey on his shoulders. First published by John Smith of Cheapside and Robert Sayer, 1772. This example has had the publication line removed and a plate number added.
See BM 1948,0214.471, 'published by Matthew Darly'.
[Ref: 58291] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Macaroni Captains.
Pub.d Accord.g to Act, Sep.r 17th. 1772, by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾").
Two military men engaged in a violent struggle with some geese using their swords and a cane: one goose is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of the soldier to left, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword. The other soldier is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks; one lies dead on the ground. Numbered '11' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 5061.
[Ref: 14100] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Macaroni Captains.
Pub.d Accord.g to Act, Sep.r 17th. 1772, by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate at bottom, mounted in album paper at edges.
Two military men engaged in a violent struggle with some geese using their swords and a cane: one goose is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of the soldier to left, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword. The other soldier is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks; one lies dead on the ground. A caricature published by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91).
BM Satires: 5061.
[Ref: 63564] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Macaroni Cauldron.
Pub'd accordg to Act March 9 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand. to be had with many other Macaronies pubd by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with very large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Paper toned.
Six men gambling with dice at a table, with strange pointed hats with cap-like peaks; they are all portraits. The man casting the dice (having removed his hat) is Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland (1723 - 1774); also represented is his famous younger brother Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806). Four lines of verse taken from the 'Epilogue to the Grecian Daughter' either side of title. Eight lines adapted from the witches' song in William Shakespeare's Macbeth are etched within image, to side of table. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 4829.
[Ref: 66241] £480.00

The Drowsy Contrast or Turtle & Bone Soup Macaronies. 23.
Publish'd according to Act by M Darly, 39 Strang Nov.r 26 1772.
Etching. 177 x 247mm (7 x 9¾"), with wide margins.
Social satire: two men, one in traditional wig and the other in Macaroni costume, both seated yawning.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 27857] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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