Grosvenor Prints

[Mischief] L'Espiéglerie / Arrete Enfant! et fais treve à tes Jeux: / Dans quel danger ne mets-tu pas ton Frère? [...]
Peint par Eisen Pere Gravé par B.L. Henriquez
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gevres
Engraving, sheet 385 x x 270mm (15 x 10½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Kitchen scene: a child squirts his brother with water while their mother/nurse avoids the jet. Verses below equate physical harm and the pain of love as in many prints of the period. Engraving after a painting by François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such works in a light-hearted Flemish manner.
[Ref: 45107] £520.00

The Mischief Making Old Maids & Gossips Arms.
Pub Nov 12th 1810 by S.W.Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 370mm (9 x 14½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, laid on album paper.
A satirical coat of arms, dedicated to ''those backbiting ... sex hateing, envious Old Tabbies''. The quadrants are a tea pot. playing cards, gossiping women and a cat scratching a document. The shield is supported by a rampant pig in Dexter and a monkey in woman's dress sinister.
[Ref: 51629] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Mischievous Boy.
Charles Knight, sculp.
Sep.t 5. 1792, by Jee & Eginton.
Stipple engraving printed in sanguine, platemark 160 x 185mm (6¼ x 7¼"). Damage to left of image.
Scene with a girl comforting a dog, seemingly to protect it from a boy from the titular 'mischievous boy'. Engraved by Charles Knight (1742-1825).
[Ref: 23153] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miscuit Utile Dulci.
E.F. Burney del. F. Bartolozzi sculps.
[n.d. c.1797.]
Etching with engraving, large margins. Plate 109 x 152mm. Some foxing.
Apollo and Mercury as children on clouds. A naked child is seated playing the lyre with another child wearing a winged hat and standing behind a music score conducting. Admission ticket for an evening by A. A. Le Texier, and later for Brandenbough House masquerade. Illustration to 'Mes soixante ans; Epitre en vers, par M. Le Texier' (London: Baylis, 1797).
De Vesme: 1934; ii/iii.
[Ref: 20512] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Miser counting money- illustration to Erasmus' 'In Praise of Folly'?]
C. Eisen Inv. Gravé à l'eau forte par N. Lemire, et retouché au burin par A. Pincio. [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼") large margins. 'Eloge de la Folie' in ms lower left.
Book illustration after Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, La Fontaine and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46497] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Miser & His Mistress. L'Avare et sa Maitresse.
Drawn by Bouvier. Hans Holbein pinx.t
London, Pub.d by A. Friedel, Oct.r 1st. 1830 Cambridge House Kennington. Dean & Munday, Lithographer's Threadneedle St.
Lithograph, rare with large margins. 406 x 266mm. 16 x 10½". Slight staining
A miser trying to shrug of his smiling mistress; both hold small bags of money in their hands.
[Ref: 24877] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Misericorde.]
T. Dankerts excudit. cum Privilegio.
Set of seven mezzotints. Each c.260 x 195mm. Plates III, IV & V trimmed into image on right; plate VII with stain on verso slightly showing through.
[Ref: 1505] £1,300.00 view all images for this item

The Miseries of Idleness. [&] The Comforts of Industry.
[Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by H. Hudson.] [&]
[London Publish'd Jany 20, 1790 by J.R. Smith No. 31 King Street Covent Garden.]
Pair of very rare mezzotints. Image 375 x 310mm (14¾ x 12¼"). Cut to image and around title; 'comforts' lad on album sheet. Some creasing.
A bare interior with a man sitting smoking at a table with a tankard at his elbow, his wife sitting listlessly with bowed head beside him, a little girl pawing at her skirts, a baby turning on a straw bed, its clothes in disarray, and a little boy gnawing on a bone in front of the table, next to a barrel, a dog jumping up at him, with tattered clothes forming curtains around a bed behind them; [&] Cottage interior with a man wearing a round-brimmed hat decorated with straw, returning home, holding his son's hand, and dropping some coins into his wife's apron, as she sits to right holding a sleeping baby, while a little girl sits on the floor with a doll, raising her arms to greet her brother.
CS: 11.
[Ref: 26522] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Miseries of Idleness. [&] The Comforts of Industry.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by H. Hudson.
London Publish'd Jany 20, 1790 by J.R. Smith No. 31 King Street Covent Garden.
Pair of very rare & fine mezzotints, with large margins. Platemark: 335 x 375mm (13¼ x 14¾") each.
A bare interior with a man sitting smoking at a table with a tankard at his elbow, his wife sitting with her head bowed beside him, a little girl pawing at her skirts, a baby turning on a straw bed, its clothes in disarray, and a little boy gnawing on a bone in front of the table, next to a barrel, with a dog jumping up at him. Tattered clothes form curtains around a bed behind them. [&] A cottage interior with a man wearing a round-brimmed hat decorated with straw, returning home, holding his son's hand, and dropping some coins into his wife's apron, as she sits to right holding a sleeping baby, while a little girl sits on the floor with a doll, raising her arms to greet her brother.
Chaloner Smith: 11. Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36980] £620.00 view all images for this item

Miseries of Human Life: Designed and Etched by T. Rowlandson and Published December 1 1808 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London.
[n.d., 1808, First Edition, early issue.]
4to, original half morocco, with printed paper title label on front board; 50 etchings, as called for, with wonderfully fresh colour and large margins; plates watermarked 'J Whatman 1804' (1), 'J Whatman 1805 (3, including 'Pall Mall'); 'J Whatman 1806' (3), and 'John Hall 1805' (11). Hinges cracked, front board nearly detached. 'Miseries of Human Life Introductory Dialogue' with stain; 'Miseries of Social Life Dialogue 7' with repaired tear.
An extremely rare early example of the complete series by Thomas Rowlandson, inspired by 'The Miseries of Human Life' by James Beresford (1764-1840), published in 1806. Rowlandson began drawing scenes as soon as the book was published and, after two years, fifty were selected by Ackermann to be published in a new edition. Contents of the book vary widely, with some plates replaced. The iconic scenes and characters from this series, some of which were Rowlandson's own invention while others closely mirror Beresford's text, reappeared frequently under variations of the 'Miseries' title, right up until the artist's death.
Abbey Life 317; ''Plate 40 'Pall Mall' [last plate in this example] is rare, most copies replacing this with 'The Chiropodist''. Grego Vol II, pp. 119-124.
[Ref: 54618] £4,500.00 view all images for this item

Miseries of Human Life. "Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance whom you suddenly meet, and to whom you liberally impact a share of the jet d'eau".
Woodward del. Cruikshanks del.
London. Pub. by T.Tegg Feb...[n.d. c.1810.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. 240 x 345mm. (9½ x 13½"). Faint watermark.
In greeting a young lady, a beau accidently bespatters her with mud.
Not in BM Satires. Krumbhaar: 742. Cohn.
[Ref: 52804] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Human Life. "During the endless time that you are kept waiting in a carriage while the ladies are shopping having your impatience soothed by the setting of a saw close at your ear."
Woodward del. Cruikshank sc.
[n.d. c.1810]
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A busy street scene centers on a large coach, its box-seat cut off by the right edge. The panels bear escutcheons and a coronet. Inside, a furious man grimaces and covers his ears. A ragged man sharpens a saw beside the coach, while a sullen footman waits at the rear, leaning on a tall cane. The coach’s other occupants, two ladies, are in a nearby shop, examining fabric with an overly attentive shopman.
BM Satires 11152.
[Ref: 66837] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Human Life. "Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance whom you suddenly meet, and to whom you liberally impact a share of the jet d'eau".
Woodward del. Cruikshanks del.
London. Pub. by T.Tegg Feb...[n.d. c.1810.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 355mm. (9¾ x 14"). Tear repaired with tape on lower title. Trimmed to plate on bottom edge.
In greeting a young lady, a beau accidently bespatters her with mud.
Not in BM Satires. Krumbhaar: 742. Cohn.
[Ref: 61857] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Human Life. 301. "As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on Market day finding yourself obliged though your dancing days have been long over, to lead outsides, cross over, foot it, and a variety of other steps and figures;_ with mad bulls for your partners."
Woodward del.
[n.d. c.1810]
Hand-coloured etching, plate 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins. Stained and paper toned.
A man dances away from charging bulls at Smithfield market, losing his hat and his wig in the process.
[Ref: 61911] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Human Life. 287. "Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very cooly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrates on the subject."
Woodward del. Cruikshanks fc.
[n.d. c.1810]
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 245 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). On paper watermarked '1817.' Trimmed to plate on top. Stained.
A man struggles with a stubborn horse who wants to cool off in some water.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 61913] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Human Life. 287. "Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very cooly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrates on the subject."
Woodward del. Cruikshanks fc.
[n.d. c.1810]
Hand-coloured etching, plate 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), with large margins. Some staining in margins and tears to margins.
A man struggles with a stubborn horse who wants to cool off in some water.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 61914] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Two scraps from the title page of 'Mirth versus Misery: The Pleasures of Human Life... The Miseries of Human Life' by Hilaris Benevolus.]
Drawn by W. Satchwell. Engraved by W. Bond.
[London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Paternoster Row, February 1807]
Two scraps, stipples with hand colour. Largest 75 x 75mm (3 x 3"). Laid on album paper with a third image.
Two faces, originally vignettes on the title page of a book by John Britton. The first is a laughing man with uneven teeth, the second a sour face attached to bat wings. The third is unrelated scrap showing Cupid firing an arrow at doves.
See BM 1977,U.957 for the complete sheet.
[Ref: 50082] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Human Life. 237 "Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair!!".
Woodward del. Cruiklshanks Sc.
[n.d., c.1819.]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). On paper watermarked, 'Charles Wise.' Trimmed within plate. Crease.
An interior scene depicting a fashionably dressed man to the left, who rises from his chair on which is a snarling cat with a kitten. A young woman sitting facing him throws up her arms. An old man, seated to the right, wearing a night-cap and glasses, looks up from his book in anxious inquiry. A little boy falls on his back and a dog barks below.
BM Satires 11150.
[Ref: 66834] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Human Life. 264. "Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance whom you suddenly meet, and to whom you liberally impact a share of the jet d'eau".
Woodward del. Cruikshanks del.
London. Pub. by T.Tegg Feb...[n.d. c.1810.]
Hand-coloured etching, 250 x 355mm. (9¾ x 14"). Tear at bottom left.
In greeting a young lady, a beau accidently bespatters her with mud.
Not in BM Satires. Krumbhaar: 742. Cohn.
[Ref: 66835] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[The Misers] From the originals at Windsor L- C-town's dream.
London Pub.d by Jacob Dowes, near Turnstile, Holborn, March 20. 1791.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet size: 440 x 335mm (17¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Borders bit tatty. Very scarce.
After Quintin Matsys' picture of 'The Misers' at Windsor. The misers being George III, writing in his ledger and counting coins, and Queen Charlotte, leaning on his shoulder. The pose, dress, background, and accessories are closely copied, except that the hood over the Queen's head is pushed back to show a large ear-ring and her hair which is decorated with pearls. The 's' of 'Originals' in the title has been scored through, stressing the identification of 'the Misers'.
BM: 7836.
[Ref: 32156] £420.00

The Misers. From the celebrated Picture by Quintin Matsys in His Majesty's Collection Windsor Castle. Les Avares. D Apres le celibre tableau par Quintin Matsys de la galerie de sa Majeste au Chatea de Windsor.
Dean & Munday Litographer's Threadneedle St.
[A. Friedel.] [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph on india, rare with large margins. 406 x 272mm. 16 x 10¾". Slight foxing bottom right
Misers sat at a table logging in a book their worth. Three bulging bags of coins, tied into one, sit on the table in front, with coins spread out to the right; a bird on a perch sits behind on the wall below the shelf. After the 'Blacksmith of Antwerp', Quentin Matsys (1466-1529).
[Ref: 24887] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Misfortune.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. Sheet 190 x 255mm (7½ x 10").
A satirical farmyard scene. Two horses have become skittish causing two people to fall from a carriage. One horse rears while a man grapples with the other. A sow and her piglets run away in fear. A mother and her two children in a cart watch the scene unfold. There are church spires in the distance.
Not in BM Satires but 1991-0615-70.
[Ref: 54518] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Pleasures and Misfortunes in Life. After sweet Meat, sour Sauce. La Viande de bon Gout a la Sauce aigre.
S. Wale inv.t. Grignon &c. Sculp.
Publish'd Jan.y 12 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street.
Coloured engraving. 145 x 175mm. 5¼ x 7¼".
A pair of young lovers forcibly separated, the man restrained by two men carrying staves. One of a series of plates allegorising life's vicissitudes.
[Ref: 26723] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A Mis_Led Man!
H. Heath Del.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 1831 by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St.t, Cov.t Garden.
Coloured etching. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper, title pasted below.
A flamboyantly-dressed young woman leads an elderly man half her size into her house.
[Ref: 51935] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Fan and Pups.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 266 x 343mm. 10½ x 13½". Fine image.
A Cavalier King Charles spaniel bitch, with a small puppy on her back which is orange, red and white, and another of her colouring lying beside her.
[Ref: 18384] £320.00

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Miss Fanny.
T.C. Wilson [in image.] Star, No.38. T.C. Wilson, Sc.
Alvey, lith, London Rd. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 285 x 229mm. 11¼ x 9".
A profile portrait of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Miss Fanny.
[Ref: 23930] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[And if he answers that, Madam, through my small guts, my breath, blood and mistress are all at his service] From Scene I. Miss in her Teens, or the Medley of Lovers.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [c.1774]
Mezzotint, sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Fine impression; trimmed inside plate bottom edge, losing text; blue chalk marks.
A man demonstrates his courage and determination by brandishing his small-sword to the admiration of two women in a room. Scene from 'Miss in her Teens', a two-act farce by David Garrick which first opened to great acclaim in 1747.
[Ref: 40820] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Slamerkin, with her Colt Othello, now the famous Horse Black & all Black, She was likewise ye Dam of L.d Portmor's Oroonoko.
F. Seymour pinx.t. T. Burford fec.
Published according to Act of Parliament 1752.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark,. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Small repaired tear entering picture area on left,
The foal is the famous English racehorse Othello or Black and all Black who raced under Sir Ralph Gore. After his racing career, he was imported to Maryland by Deputy Governor Horatio Sharpe in the late 1750s and he went on to stand stud in the colonies for about 13 years. Plate 10 of a set of twelve horses.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64829] £350.00

Miss Slamerkin, with her Colt Othello, now the famous Horse Black & all Black, She was likewise ye Dam of L.d Portmor's Oroonoko.
F. Seymour pinx.t. T. Burford fec.
Published according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1752].
Mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Repaired tear entering picture area.
The foal is the famous English racehorse Othello or Black and all Black who raced under Sir Ralph Gore. After his racing career, he was imported to Maryland by Deputy Governor Horatio Sharpe in the late 1750s and he went on to stand stud in the colonies for about 13 years. Plate 10 of a set of twelve horses, a state with the date removed.
[Ref: 5478] £390.00

Miss Slamerkin, with her Colt Othello, now the famous Horse Black & all Black, She was likewise ye Dam of L.d Portmor's Oroonoko.
F. Seymour pinx.t. T. Burford fec.
Published according to Act of Parliament 1752.
Mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
The foal is the famous English racehorse Othello or Black and all Black who raced under Sir Ralph Gore. After his racing career, he was imported to Maryland by Deputy Governor Horatio Sharpe in the late 1750s and he went on to stand stud in the colonies for about 13 years. Plate 10 of a set of twelve horses.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64830] £390.00

[Eight plates from the North-West America section of 'Illustrations of Missionary Scenes, an Offering to Youth'.]
[after Joseph Friedrich Josenhans.]
[Mainz: Joseph Scholz, c.1855.]
Eight tinted lithographs with hand colour. Each sheet 325 x 205mm (12¾ x 8"), backed on linen for binding, with letterpress with the titles and a short description. Manuscript pagination on all sheets.
All eight plates from 'Illustrations' relating to America from 'Illustrations of Missionary Scenes, an Offering to Youth', by Joseph Friedrich Josenhans (1812-84), Inspector (head) of the Basel Mission, which contained views from West Africa, India, China and New Zealand as well as the American north-west. There does not appear to be a standard collation. The titles of the plates (from the letterpress) are: 'Dying Indian and Medecine Man'; 'A Missionary's halt in a winter journey'; 'A Missionary descending the rapids in a canoe'; 'Baptism of Indians by the Bishop of Rupert's Land'; 'Public Ordinances prized at the Cumberland Station'; 'A winter congregation at the Red-River Settlement'; 'An Aged Indian, deserted by his tribe, and left to perish'; 'Value set on the Bible' [an interior scene of an Indian boy dying of consumption].
Abbey Travel 10: ''Carefully drawn, and in some cases remarkably powerful illustrations'.
[Ref: 47285] £950.00 view all images for this item

Good News from a far Country [old ink mss.].
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Trimmed as a scrap. 70 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed, losing inscriptions, laid on album paper with ink mss. title.
A missionary arrives on the beach of a South Sea island and is greeted warmly by the inhabitiants as he holds out the Bible.
[Ref: 66677] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Missionary's Daughter teaching a Negro Girl.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet: 85 x 110mm (3¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
A illustration showing a young woman teaching a young black woman who kneels by her.
[Ref: 47954] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Missionary Hymn. Strengthen, Lord, their hearts and hands...
[n.d., c.1865.]
Chromolithograph and letterpress within a floral-embossed gilt border. Sheet 100 x 65mm (4 x 2½"). Laid on album paper.
A view of a mountainous island with a junk-type boat in the sea, suggesting China.
[Ref: 57587] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Missionary Instruction. Pen & Ink Sketches No. 11. Now Sambo, tell me what Man is mad of?..
London J.L. Marks. [n.d., c.1830.]
Etching, rare. Sheet: 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
A satirical scene showing a missionary attempting to teach a young black youth what man is made of according to the Bible.
[Ref: 46052] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Missionary Instruction, or a Black Joke.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 155 x 185mm (6 x 7¼''). Trimmed.
A comic scene showing a missionary giving a black boy a lesson.
[Ref: 51103] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Advert.] To be Published by Subscription, The Missionary Print, to Contain 300 Correct Likenesses.
Published by W. Williams, 2, Amen Corner.
Wood engraving. Sheet: 105 x 115mm (4¼ x 4½''). Laid on album sheet.
An advert for subscribers to contribute to a large group portrait of 300 missionaries and religious figures.
[Ref: 49070] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Missionary Received by an African Chief. West Africa.
Painted by the Church Missionary Society.
Kronheim & Co., London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Chromolithograph, rare. 319 x 450mm (12½ x 17¾"). Paper toning; chip to upper right corner; repaired tears.
A white Church Missionary rowed to the shore by African natives to meet their chief who stands on the shore with a welcome party.
[Ref: 30746] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Missionary Society Meeting. President, ''To conclude, we have preach'd the word in all the inhabited parts of the Earth & have Translated it into 500 unknown Languages & have not the least doubt but that we shall be enabled to render it equally Intelligible in as manu more, aided by the liberal subscriptions of this evening. Vide. The News of Sunday, April, 24, 1826_ Oriental Quarterly Magazine.
London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet, tear in lower margin.
A scene in a missionary meeting, a large, ugly man leads the meeting, on the walls behind are images of exotic lands and a portrait of a large vicar. The British Museum states the print may be a satire of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
BM Satire 15362.
[Ref: 50725] £360.00

Missisippi, of 't Wyd-Befaamde Goud-Land, Door de Inbeelding der Wind-Negotie.
[Anon.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13''). Creasing as issued.
A Dutch print satirising the collapse of the Mississipi Bubble which affected the finances of France. In the centre of the image Europeans are showing negoiating with Native Americans in the Mississippi Valley. Four vignettes which surround the image, the first shows the bedchamber and deathbed of Louis XIV, at the base of the bed rats knaw through bills and papers. The second image shows John Law putting forward his financial plan, the bottom left image shows an affluent couple enjoying their wealth while the final image shows the family of a speculator rushing in to stop his suicide. Beneath the image are two columns of text.
BM Satire 1683.
[Ref: 48326] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

De inventeur der windnegotie, op zyn zegekar.
[Amsterdam, 1720.]
Engraving with very large margins. 225 x 180mm (8¾ x 7"), set in letterpress. Folded as issued.
'The inventor of stock-jobbery in his triumphal car.' John Law seated in a carriage drawn by two scrawny cockerals. A satire on the Mississippi Bubble. Scotsman John Law's house in rue Quinquempoix was besieged by investors eager to invest in his 'Mississippi Scheme', blocking the street. The share price shot up from 500 livres to 15,000, before collapsing back to 500 in 1721. Law had to flee the country. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
BM: 1671.
[Ref: 35859] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

De Laggende Law, de Treurende Actionist met de Smekende Mercurius.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraving. 275 x 355mm. Repairs to folds.
Satire on the Mississippi Bubble, with the title translating as 'Law laughing, the shareholders mourning, and Mercury entreating.'. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 7688] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Stryd Tuszen de Smullende Bubbel Heeren, en de Aanstaande Armoede.
[n.d., 1725.]
Engraving. 275 x 355mm. Repairs to folds.
Satire on the Mississippi Bubble, with the title translating as 'Encounter of the carousing bubble lords and menacing poverty'. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 7687] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vonnis van Apol over de bubbels.
[n.d., 1725.]
Engraving. 275 x 355mm.
Satire on the Mississippi Bubble, with the title translating as 'Apollo's verdict on the stock-jobbers'. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 7686] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Anatomie der Wind-Negotie, of Bombario voor den Drommel.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Engraving. 275 x 275mm. Repaired tears.
Satire on the Mississippi Bubble, with the title translating as 'Anatomy of the stock-jobbery or Bombario gone to the devil'. The bespectacled Bombario is a usurer, picking over the corpse of an investor. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 7672] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

De Opgehulde Actionisten in hun eer en aan zien Gesteld.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraving. 275 x 275mm. Repaired tears.
Satire on the Mississippi Bubble, with the title translating as 'The bedizened shareholders shown during their honor and influence.' Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
BM: 1631.
[Ref: 7674] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

De Kornet van Vuil gewin of Wortel en Besse Postiljon op zyn mager, doch niewlyks gemest Varken uitschreewende De Lompany is vol.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraving. 340 x 280mm, 13½ x 11". Edges of margins tatty.
Satire on the Mississippi Bubble, with the title translating as 'The rubbish-bearing courser, riding on his thin, but newly fatted boar, cries: The company is full'. Above his head is a flock of harpies, and, in the background, a crowd clamours for shares being thrown from a window. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 11790] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

De Geest van der Verreesene Heerakliet Schryjende over de Rampe die er Dagelyks Spruyten uyt Wind Verkopers Acksie: Het tweede Deel
R. invent Et fe:
[Dutch, n.d., c.1720.]
Scarce hand-coloured etching on laid paper, sheet 230 x 175mm. 9 x 7". Trimmed to plate. Slight crease across middle not visible from front.
Satire on the financial crisis in 1720, showing people distressed because they are struck by the 'Wind Trade'; in the front is a man dying, on the right a man hanging over a barrel vomiting, in the background several fools laugh and dance. Heraclitus of Ephesus (c.535 - c.475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Numbered in image with key above (below title). From a satirical series 'De Geest van den Verreesen Herakliet'; many prints lampooning the excessive financial speculations of the early 18th century (such as the South Sea Bubble of 1720) were issued by engravers and publishers in the Netherlands.
See BM ref:1868-0808-9728/9 for prints with similar title, inscription, and subject.
[Ref: 22595] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

De stervende Bubbel-Heer in den schoot van Madame Compagne.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraving. 350 x 330mm (13¾ x 13"). Sheet extended with strips of paper to fit the original binding. Edges tatty.
Satire on the Mississippi Bubble, with the title translating as 'The dying Lord Bubble in the lap of Madam Company'. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles, copied from a satire of Louis XIV by Romeyn de Hooghe.
[Ref: 11793] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

De Ridder van het Gilde Kalf of Hopman van de Vroege en Laate Slacht tyd In Optogt naar 't Orakel van Delfos. De Zon in de Schutter. Orakel van Deflos. Schuylenburg. Al ons geschater Is wind en water. Uit het vel van't kalf Puurd men narren zalf. 't Brood dronken beeft Diend ons ter feest.
Engraving. Plate 342 x 277mm.
A satire on the most infamous financial meltdown in history, the Mississippi Bubble incident. The humpbacked man, mounted on a cow holding gun and a fool's cap, is is John Law, the Scottish financier who established the Banque Generale in France. He was then granted control of Louisiana and founded the Compagnie de la Louisiane d'Occident in 1717 to raise money to capitalise on the fabulous resources of the region. Speculators forced up the value of the company's shares but in 1720 the bubble burst, causing a run on the shares, forcing the company into backruptcy. As a consequence of the failure confidence in other similar companies failed and thousands of individual investors across Europe were ruined.
[Ref: 1670] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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