Grosvenor Prints

Hamlet.
[Metz del. Ansel & Stadler sculp.]
[London, Pub.d Oct.r 1809 by W.m Holland No 11 Cockspur St.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 285 x 345mm (11¼ x 13½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, around title at bottom, losing inscriptions.
Hamlet burlesqued. Halmet is thin, elderly, and ugly, plainly dressed in black; Marcellus and Horatiowear military coats with knee-breeches and buckled shoes. The Ghost, wearing helmet and armour on his upper body, stands with knees bend, lighting the three men with a bright beam from his eye.
BM Satires 11446. See Ref: 47325 for uncut impression.
[Ref: 43904] £320.00

Hamlet.
Metz del. Ansel & Stadler sculp.
[London, Pub.d Oct.r 1809 by W.m Holland No 11 Cockspur St.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 285 x 345mm (11¼ x 13½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into inscription area at bottom, losing publication line.
Hamlet burlesqued. Halmet is thin, elderly, and ugly, plainly dressed in black; Marcellus and Horatiowear military coats with knee-breeches and buckled shoes. The Ghost, wearing helmet and armour on his upper body, stands with knees bend, lighting the three men with a bright beam from his eye.
BM Satires 11446. See: Ref: 43904
[Ref: 47325] £340.00

Hamlet. Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us!
Dean & Co Threadneedle St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph heightened in white. Sheet 255 x 200mm, 10 x 8".
Social satire, a parody of the scenes in Shakespeare's Hamlet when the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him. A donkey draped in a white sheet is ushered through a door by moonlight into an interior by a mischievous boy, surprising another boy within who gestures in surprise, holding a fork in the other hand.
[Ref: 20656] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Handsome Cook Maid. 197
[After François Boucher].
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter house, St. Paul's Church yard, London. [n.d., c.1780].
Hand coloured mezzotint. Sheet size: 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Trimmed inside plate at bottom edge.
A rustic interior scene depicting a young man, seated leaning against a large tub filled with vegetables and pulling a girl towards him, who carries eggs in her apron. Firewood and a pot hanging over a fire in a hearth can be seen in the background to the right. For uncoloured impression, see item ref: 32998.
Ex CLB ii/ii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32996] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Happy Peasant. V.1. 14.
HWB.
Pub.d according to Act of Parl.t Aug.t 2d: 1771 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching. 152 x 108mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A man standing walking to left with giant sabots and holding a hat and pipe. From '24 Caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists, etc.', by Bunbury.
BM Satires: 4681; for an impression with margins see ref. 14148
[Ref: 31158] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

L'innocence au Sérail d'Alger.
[Gobert?]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph with large margins. Plate 190 x 254mm. 7½ x 10".
Innocence in a harem; two young soldiers cautiously approach two women, one holding a fan whilst sat on a couch.
[Ref: 27967] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Opera Over! or ''The Last Man''. Sans Coach _ Sans Cloak _ Sans Every thing!! Dish me! if I sha'nt be in a nice mess before I get to Joy's!!
J.V.S. Esq. Inv.t.
Pub. June, 1827, by T. Gillard, 40 Strand.
Fine coloured aquatint. 290 x 195mm (11½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A dandy steps gingerly from under the portico of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, to the street, where water from a spout crashes onto his top-hat. A link boy stands as if asleep under the next arch.
''The Last Man'' refers to Mary Shelley's novel, one of the first dystopian works, in which plague leaves the protagonist as the only human alive.
BM Satires 15490.
[Ref: 57812] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

I. Mr. C._scratcheth for ideas.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 220mm. 11 x 8¾". Light scuffing/soiling.
A rare print.
[Ref: 12034] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Here's a Health to all Good Lasses.
[Published July 6, 1815, by T. Palser, Surrey side Westminster Bridge.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, losing publisher's inscription at bottom.
An illustration of a famous ballad, showing a one-eyed singer holdoing mug and spoon.
[Ref: 44749] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Here's a Health to all Good Lasses.
Published July 6, 1815, by T. Palser, Surrey side Westminster Bridge.
Rare coloured engraving. Sheet 285 x 205mm (11¼ x 8") Trimmed within plate.
An illustration of a famous ballad, showing a one-eyed singer holding mug and pipe.
[Ref: 52670] £320.00

Here's a Health to all Good Lass'es. Gem. 37.
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by T. Paine, Holywell St., Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
A young man raises a glass towards the viewer, a pair of admiring young girls watching through a doorway. On the table are two pineapples and a decanter.
[Ref: 49494] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Do You Please to have your Bed Warm'd Sir? Sketches of Character No.3.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Very fine etching with hand colour. Sheet 365 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, to printed border on two sides.
A pretty chambermaid holds a candle and a copper bedpan, smiling at the viewer.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 59482] £320.00

Very cold outside eh? Why I'm a perfect icicle don't I look the picture of misery... Sketches of Character _ the outside passenger No 6.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, aka William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T Mclean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Publishing [n.d., c.1829].
Coloured etching. Sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate. Few marks.
A caricature of a drenched man who could not ride inside the coach.
See Ref: 59485
[Ref: 59484] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Most Uncomfortablest, I Vos Hever Hin Six Hinsides vy there arn't a nuf room for four of us [...] Sketches of Character _ the inside passenger No 7.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, aka William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T Mclean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub [n.d., c.1829].
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, taped tear.
A fat passenger addresses the viewer about how bad it was inside a coach, a satirical contrast to 'the outside passenger No 6'.
See Ref: 59484
[Ref: 59485] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Pushing in, with an immense croud, at a narrow door through which another crowd is pushing out. _ Thermometer 95! Heath's Miseries of Life No 6.
London W Spooner [n.d. c.1840].
Coloured lithograph. 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½"), large margins.
A crush in a doorway.
[Ref: 41823] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Please Missis Skinflint, Mother says will you give her change of sixpence and she will send you the sixpence next week? Heath's Miseries of Life No 38.
London W Spooner [n.d. c.1840].
Fine coloured lithograph. 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½"). Mounted on album paper.
A schoolboy with a hoop asks a shopkeeper for a loan.
[Ref: 41828] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

See valiant Captain Snout appears, the drum beats up for volunteers, you that are weary of your wives, and willing to live merry lives, who from the Tally man woud run, and clutches of the bailiff shun, lift under him without delay, and enter into present pay.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.]
Engraving. 290 x 250mm, 11½ x 9¾". Paper brittle, some chipping, creased.
A satire about army recuiters, with the characters with animal heads, with Captain Snout an elephant and his troop cats. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19728] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Heiress: Plate 3. The Finishing School.
[by Robert Seymour.]
Publsihed March 1st 1830 by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, London.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
A plate from Seymour's 'The Heiress: A Farce : in Six Plates'. Here the heroine is send to finishing school. Around the main image are four comic portraits of the foreign tutors teaching languages, dancing, drawing and music, including Carl Matloa von Grump!
[Ref: 44365] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The High Compliment. Tregears Flights of Humour No.30.
Published by G. Tregear 123 Cheapside London 1833.
Hand coloured lithograph Fine colour; some creasing top right.
An illustrated pun; a short stout parson introduces a friend of equal stature named 'Collosus' to his very tall son. Published in a series of social satires by Gabriel Shire Tregear (1828 - 1840; fl.).
[Ref: 17335] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Laughing Stock No.21. Will you oblige me with the paper after you Sir? Sir, I am excessively sorry but it's engaged by the Gentleman in Black.
London Pub.d by O. Hodgson 111 Fleet St. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 170 x 235mm (6¾ x 9¼"). Tear in lower left corner.
Three men are seated at a long table, the figure in the centre reads a newspaper, talks to the gentleman on the right, as the figure on the left, dressed from head to toe in black, watches on.
[Ref: 39467] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Inn Yard at the Time of an Election.
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth.
[London: Robert Sayer, 1768.]
Engraving with very large margins; 175 x 280mm (7 x 11").
A coach getting ready to leave an inn yard, an election riot in the background. 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: 31473] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

O The Roast Beef of Old England &c.
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth.
[London: Robert Sayer, 1768.]
Engraving with very large margins; 175 x 280mm (7 x 11").
Hogarth's revenge for being arrested as a spy while sketching the English arms on the Gate of Calais. He has included a self-portrait on the left. Hogarth's visit to France was an unsuccessful one and he included various references to what he perceived as the ills of the French nation, from idolatry to religious hypocrisy, in this scene. Hogarth's painting of the subject, 'The Calais Gate' is in the Tate Britain gallery, London. 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: 31474] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn.
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth.
[London: Robert Sayer, 1768.]
Engraving with large margins; 175 x 280mm (7 x 11").
A company of touring players dressing and rehearsing their parts in 'Devil to Pay in Heaven' in a ramshackle barn. Hogarth's original print recorded the 'strolling actresses' soon to be put out of work by new bans on unlicenced theatrical companies. 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: 31472] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Holy Friar.
Woodward del. Rowlandson sc.
Lond. Pub. June 15th 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside.
Etching with hand-colouring. Sheet 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Trimmed within platemark.
Two gluttenous friars feast in a Gothic cloister, seated in easy chairs. A lean old friar or lay brother brings in a sucking-pig. An illustrated songsheet, containing the lines 'What Baron, or Squire, or Knight of the Shire, Lives half so well as a Holy Friar'.
BM Satires 10924; Grego: ii 72.
[Ref: 51679] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Shewing a Good Fig'ger of a Horse.
[Compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del.t. [Etched by Charles Williams.]
Pubd May 5th 1801 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracattures lent out for the Evening.
Scarce coloured etching. 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"), watermark Edmeades 1805. Colour slightly faded, ink smear. Small margins.
Outside the Ram Inn three men show a horse to a nervous traveller, while inn servants and a post-boy watch with amusement. One holds its mouth open, another lifts its tail. A sign above the door, 'Travellers Taken In', suggests the sale is not honest.
BM Satires 10666, with no publication line, dated guessed to be 1806.
[Ref: 56153] £460.00

Tregears Rum Jokes No23. The Celebrated Old Horse Blister Rode by Patch Doing a Match Against Time.
Printed by Lefrevre & Kohler 53 Newman St.
Published by G. Tregear 128 Cheapside London.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 195 x 280mm (7¾ x 11''). Slighty messy.
A comic print showing a man with an eye patch galloping on a horse.
[Ref: 51022] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The House-Maid Asleep].
[Published by Carington Bowles. n.d., c.1780].
Proof mezzotint with hand colour. Sheet size: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed to image with small lower margin. Small puncture marks below image. Small hole to top edge of sheet.
An interior scene showing a girl asleep, sitting facing front on a wooden chair, with her head tilted to left, and her hands in her lap. She is holding a needle and piece of dark material, and wears a simple dress and white frilled cap. A cupboard full of plates can be seen behind her, to the right.
Ex CLB: ii/iii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32976] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Houshold Troops Preparing for an Attack.
Drawn on Stone by E. Hull from a Design by G. Eckersall Esq.r. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by Rowe & Waller 49 Fleet St. May 1826.
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 215 x 290mm (8½ x 11½").
A play battle between three children with household items as armour and weapons and two boys with garden implements.
[Ref: 54446] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

How to Lose Your Way.
Bunbury del.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand-coloured etching. 115 x 160mm. 4½ x 6¼".
A man on a horse, and a trap with a couple battle against the headwind, and almost sideways rain, along the road to London and Oxford.
See BM Satires: 7236.
[Ref: 16073] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

How to Present an Address.
Giles Grinagain in. et f.
Pub.d by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly Jan.y 2.d. 1804. [Stamped to the bottom right corner:] S.W.F.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 210 x 240mm. 8¼ x 9½".
"Giles Grinagain" is probably a pseudonym for Samuel Howitt who first published these prints in 1801 and 1802. S. W. Fores re-issued them in 1804.
BM Satires:
[Ref: 16541] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Hue and Cry.
Drawn & Etch'd by F.G. Byron Esq.r [J Hassell Aquatinta]
London Pub.d Jan.y 20.th 1791, by W.m Holland [No 50 Oxford Street]
Aquatint and etching, framed. 682 x 584mm. 26¾ x 23".
The raising of the hue and cry as a highwayman gallops away from the scene of a crime. A rather unsuccessful pursuit ensues. This is the left half of Byron's large print 'Hue and Cry after a Highwayman'.
[Ref: 22973] £450.00

[Excise and Tax.]
J. Collier inv.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 1773.
Etching. Plate: 130 x 205mm (5 x 8''), with very large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A scene showing three figures, on the left a seated figure places a heavy weight labelled 'excise' on the back of an old man with crutches while handing a letter to a third man with a cane. From 'Human Passions Delineated' by Tim Bobbin, psuedonym for John Collier.
BM Satire Undescribed. See Ref: 41826 & 33930
[Ref: 50271] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

They Who have Ears to Hear, Let Them Hear.
Tim. Bobbin inv & del. T. Sanders Sculp.
Published as the Act directs May 1773. [in Rochdale by John Collier.]
Engraving. 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾").
A preacher in a tub in a farm shed haraguing his audience to repentance; his hymnal is open on a page that reads 'There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth'. This is plate 43 of 'Human Passions Delineated' by John Collier (1708-1786), an English caricaturist and satirical poet who used the pseudonym Tim Bobbin. He considered himself to be the 'Lancashire Hogarth' and he both wrote and illustrated this collection of Lancashire dialect poetry. It contained some 120 plates, savagely parodying the behaviour of both the upper and lower classes.
Not in BM Satire, but see BM 1978,U.1037.44.
[Ref: 33930] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Humorous Designs, calculated to Amuse, Instruct, but not to Debase the Mind. Busby's Illustrations for Scrap Books.
Pub.d at the Artist's Depo.y. 81 Charlotte St. Fitzroys London 1826.
Very fine coloured etchings. A collection of 46 plates on scrap sheets. Image 108 x 140mm (4¼ x 5½"). Cut and laid on scrap sheet.
From "Busby's Illustrations for Scrap Books", a collection of social satire of the mid 19th century regarding normal day to day lives across all social classes. These include men playing cards, fighting, eating, drinking, smoking and other social determinants of health: such as the man down to his last shilling, the beggars, the woman's disgust of men and the rat catcher. Range of publication dates from 1824 through to 1832; taken from different books.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 16311] £480.00 view all images for this item

A Scene in Hyde Park M.y 13. 1843.
Published by W. Roxbrough 4 Grays Place Brompton & A. Hays 13 G.t Castle Street Regent Street. [n.d., c.1843.]
Lithograph with hand-colouring, scarce; sheet 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"). Bit messy; creased.
Two scruffy boys pursued up a tree in London's Hyde Park by two policemen, or 'peelers' (named after Sir Robert Peel, whose Metropolitan Police Act led to the formation of London's first police force in 1829). Five more policemen approach on right.
[Ref: 43915] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[24 illustrated plates from 'Homer's Iliad, a Burlesque Translation']
[after George Moutard Woodward.]
[Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, 1797.]
Etchings, each platemark approx 180 x 115, bound together. Foxing to some plates.
Plates etched by an unidentified printmaker after Woodward's satires for Thomas Bridges' 'Homer's Iliad, a Burlesque Translation' in its 1797 edition. Bridges (b.1710?, d. in or after 1775) was a playwright and novelist from Hull, who first published his Homer parodies in 1762 under the pseudonym Caustic Barebones. He also wrote 'The Battle of the Genii' (1765), parodying passages from John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.
[Ref: 25582] £480.00 view all images for this item

Illustration of Plays No 6. Inconstant!!
J. Marks fec.t.
London Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery Street, Bishopsgate. [n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured aquatint, watermark 1825; 140 x 170mm (5½ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
A woman uses a rope ladder to elope with a dashing hussar, her husband or father shouting from the upper window.
[Ref: 57792] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Inflexible Porter. a Tragedy.
Design'd by H.W. Bunbury Esqr.
London Publish'd Mar.h 24th. 1783 by J.R. Smith N83 opposite ye Pantheon Oxford Street.
Stipple. 240 x 260mm (9½ x 10¼"). Some spotting, laid on album paper.
A porter denies two visitors access to his master.
BM: Satires 6343. D'Oench 215.
[Ref: 14425] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Inflexible Porter. a Tragedy.
Design'd by H.W. Bunbury Esqr.
London Publish'd Mar.h 24th. 1783 by J.R. Smith N83 opposite ye Pantheon Oxford Street.
Stipple. 260 x 280mm (10¼ x 11¼ "). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet.
A porter denies two visitors access to his master.
BM: Satires 6343. D'Oench 215.
[Ref: 60063] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Inside the Living Room.]
H. Bunbury del.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. 120 x 178mm. 4¾ x 7".
Inside a living room. A stout teacher sits at one end, a woman holding two large books stands at his side. At the other end of the table is a man lean on a third book shouting, with a clerk standing behind him. In the middle stands a fifth man. By the door is a globe and on the wall are portraits, one of Dr. Allcock.
[Ref: 16082] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Invalid Lodger or How to Follow a Prescription.
M.E[gerton.] I. Wilson Sc.
Published by S.Gans, 15, Southampton Street, Strand. [n.d., c.1825.]
Very fine hand coloured etching with aquatint, on 'W. King' watermarked paper. Image 255 x 195mm, 10 x 7¾". Trimmed to plate.
Social satire: a lodger being asked to keep his dog quiet by the landlord (entering left); the lodger replies that he has no dog and is himself responsible for the barking - following, he claims, the instructions of his doctor! The port the strange guest is drinking is apparently also part of the prescription. After M Egerton (1821 - 1827; fl.), humorous designer and social satirist; apparently an amateur since he often signs as 'Esq'.
BM Satires undescribed.
[Ref: 19575] £380.00

The Invitation. Come Roger and Give it a Stir Up, There's a Good Soul. Random Sketches by Timothy Touchit_ Plate 10.
Very scarce hand coloured lithograph. Sheet: 215 x 315mm, (9 x 12½"). Repaired tear in right edge and bottom left corner.
A young milk maid faces a man who leans over the door to her milk parlour, she holds the handle of the milk churn suggestively.
[Ref: 39461] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

An Irish Epitaph.
Woodward del. Cruikshank F.
Published by T. Tegg. 111 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1807.]
Hand-coloured etching. 235 x 331mm (9¼ x 13"). Trimmed to the image. Messy.
A scene in a country churchyard; An old Irish 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. Reid 23.
[Ref: 52240] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Irish Hospitality.
I. R. Cruikshank. G. C.k sculp.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 165 x 225mm (6½ x 9"). Trimmed and foxing. Minus verses.
A scene in a dining room in which four large men sit around a table drinking wine. An illustration to a song sheet. In profile to left is Whittle.
BM Satire 12699. (not in colour)
[Ref: 46158] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Copy of a Caricature of the Isle of Wight sailing club, when it first commenced. _ Published 1776. For Lady Ashworth with kind love.
[c.1800.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 230 x 335mm (9 x 13¼").
Three women in low cut dresses with coloured ostrich feathers in their high hairstyles, ride buckets towards an arch built in the sea. Three male wind heads blow them on their way.
From the Cameron Album. Not in BM. We can find no record of this image.
[Ref: 58127] £480.00

The Jack Daws. (As Sung by Mr. Palmer and Mr. Downton, of Drury Lane Theatre.) 344. 1.As an Old Jack Daw and a Young Jack Daw Vere a walking out together, As you very well know what birds will do That are of the same feather...Moral. Attend all good people, both old and young, To what I vould say to you now, And vhenever you goes for a valk out together, Don't get up a top of a cow: And, like the poor dicky birds, quarrel and fight, Lest you gets a bloody nose; You may be sent home in the wery same plight, Vith a nastiness over your clothes.
Publish'd April 21, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 250 x 291mm (9¾ x 11½"). Damage to top edge, some creasing.
A Cow image showing a bird with a human face squating on the back of a cow crowing at another fallen bird.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 29944] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Jack Junk, embarking on a Cruize.
[Isaac] Cruikshank del.
Pub by T. Tegg Cheapside [n.d., c.1810].
Coloured etching, C. Willmot 1819 watermark. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14") , with large margins left and right. Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
A sailor, about to mount a horse, puts the wrong foot in the stirrup. An ostler laughs at him, saying, "Jack you dont mount the Horse the right way - but it is sailor like to look one way and row another." Jack scowls and replied ''you lubberly swab you dont know the way I'm a going." A young hunch-backed stable-boy grins delightedly. A signpost points 'To Leatherhead'.
BM Satires 10898.
[Ref: 61876] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Jack Junk, embarking on a Cruize.
Cruikshank del.
Pub by T. Tegg Cheapside [n.d., c.1810].
Hand coloured etching, sheet 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
A sailor with a long queue, holding a cudgel, clumsily mounts a horse on the off side, putting his left. foot in the stirrup. An ostler with a broom, standing by the open stable-door, laughs at him, saying, "Jack you dont mount the Horse the right way - but it is sailor like to look one way and row another." Jack scowls over his left. shoulder to answer: "I dont mount this here horse the right way!! you lubberly swab you dont know the way I'm a going." A hunch-backed little stable-boy, wearing top-boots far too large for him, holds the horse's head, grinning delightedly. There is a landscape background with a distant village and a signpost points 'To Leather-head'.
BM Satires 10898.
[Ref: 61843] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Jack Tar admiring the Fair Sex.
Rowlandson Delin.t 1815.
Fine hand-coloured etching. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with good margins. Unexamined out of frame.
A quayside scene, with a sailor eyeing up two prostitutes, one of whom is black. A pencil note of the frame states there is a watermark of 1814 on the print.
BM 1948,0214.800.
[Ref: 51926] £450.00

The Jealous Husband and Intreagueing Wife.
Parter pinx. Gurnier Sculp.
Printed for Rho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church-Yard, and John Bowles at ye Black Horse in Cornhill.
Engraving. 355 x 405mm.
A man is tricked into receiving a beating at the hands of his wife's lover.
[Ref: 7270] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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