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In presenting ''My Book of Curs,'' the Artist hopes to cur-ry favor with his friends [...]
In presenting ''My Book of Curs,'' the Artist hopes to cur-ry favor with his friends [...]
[by Robert Richard Scanlan.]
[n.d., 1840.]
Large 4to, lithographic title and 45 caricatures printed on chine collé on 23 sheets. Front board detached, some staining, a few tears.
A rare collection of anthropomorphic satires of dogs with human attributes.
[Ref: 59205]   £750.00   view all images for this item
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[Singerie: a thin kitchen] Indulgent etiam Genio, tenuique polenta / Se recreant: fugiens pinguiour hospes abit.
[Singerie: a thin kitchen] Indulgent etiam Genio, tenuique polenta / Se recreant: fugiens pinguiour hospes abit. Pour guarir maladie et tout mal qu'endommage, / Ils distilent ici diverse herb en breuuage.
[by Pieter van der Borcht.]
[Antwerp, c.1562.] But much later.
Etching. Sheet 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides.
From Norske National Costume Chr. Tonsberg Christiania" 1852. A rundown room filled with thin monkeys, sitting around a table with a plate of mussels, carrots, turnips and cabbages strewn on the floor, all regarded as food for the poor. A better-fed monkey tries to leave, held back by a female monkey pulling at his coat. Pieter van der Borcht (c.1535-1608) did much to popularise singerie with this series of 18 prints which were, according to the British Museum, first published by Vrints c.1562. The Rijksmuseum lists editions by Philips Galle (c. 1580 as 'La vie humaine imitée par les singes') and Claes Visscher.
Metropolitan Museum 68.776.11; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1891-A-16318. From Cameron Album bought in Venice on a grand tour.
[Ref: 58126]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Singerie: an alchemist and family] Docta etiam sanos Plantis haurite liquores, / Quesis ægro medicam sedula præstet opem. /
[Singerie: an alchemist and family] Docta etiam sanos Plantis haurite liquores, / Quesis ægro medicam sedula præstet opem. / Pour guarir maladie et tout mal qu'endommage, / Ils distilent ici diverse herb en breuuage.
[by Pieter van der Borcht.]
[Antwerp, c.1562.] But much later.
Scarce etching. Sheet 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides.
The French title: ''To cure sickness and any damaging ailment, They distill here various herbs''. From Norske National Costume Chr. Tonsberg Christiania" 1852. The interior of an alchemist's rundown workshop, the monkeys dressed in rags. To highlight the theme that there was no money to be made in the profession, the family can be seen in the background entering the workhouse. Pieter van der Borcht (c.1535-1608) did much to popularise singerie with this series of 18 prints which were, according to the British Museum, first published by Vrints c.1562. The Rijksmuseum lists editions by Philips Galle (c. 1580 as 'La vie humaine imitée par les singes') and Claes Visscher.
BM 1866,0407.46, second state, with lettering. Wellcome Library no. 17512i. Rijksmuseum RP-P-1891-A-16318. From Cameron Album bought in Venice on a grand tour.
[Ref: 58125]   £380.00  
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Le point d'honneur anglais. Moi boxer toi !..
Le point d'honneur anglais. Moi boxer toi !..
Lith du Cheyère [after P.J. Feuchere].
Genty Editeur [Paris: n.d., 1827].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"). Creases and stains.
A simian-faced Englishman squares up to a guard dog with a spiked collar and chain, watched by his wife and a dog standing on its hind legs. Boxing item.
[Ref: 62294]   £360.00  
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Sockos se boxant. No.10.
Sockos se boxant. No.10.
Lith. de A. Cheyère.
Gentry, Editeur. [n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½''). Foxing.
A scene showing two monkeys dressed in human clothes boxing.
[Ref: 49028]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Boxeurs.
Les Boxeurs.
Peint par Bristow. Grave par Designe.
Imprime par Aze [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint on india paper, very large margins; 225 x 255mm. 9 x 10". A good impression.
One of the popular anthropomorphic prints showing monkeys forgetting their better nature due to drinking. Here the apes are embroiled in a brawl over a card game in an interior. A Boxing print. French copy of a plate by Edmund Bristow (1787 - 1876), one of his typical subjects.
[Ref: 27815]   £320.00  
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Newmarket. Exhibiting a new Race of Jockies.
Newmarket. Exhibiting a new Race of Jockies.
On stone by R. Seymour.
[London, William Spooner? n.d., c.1833.]
Coloured lithograph, very fine & scarce. Sheet 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Three cats in colours race saddled pointers watched by an excited crowd of cats.
[Ref: 33860]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Concert of Cats.
Concert of Cats.
Painted by P. Breughel. Etched on Stone by an Amateur.
R. Ackermann's Lithography July 1817.
Lithograph. 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"), large margins.
A group of cats singing from a gather score decorated with mice. One cat plays the trombone.
[Ref: 59444]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Chaudronier.
Le Chaudronier.
C. Hüet inv. J. Guélard sculp. C.P.R.
A Paris chez Charpentier rue S.t Jacques au Coq avec privilege du Roy. [n.d., c.1760.]
Etching. Plate: 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½''). Thread margins.
A scene showing three figures, including a coppersmith about to castrate a cat.
[Ref: 51139]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Cupboard Love.
Cupboard Love. What shall I do to tell how much I Love thee?
[Edward (Ned) Hull]
[Charles Tilt, 10th April 1834]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 7"). Trimmed into image, title excised and stuck on album paper underneath.
A cat dressed as a musician, playing a lute, serenades a mouse on a wheel of cheese. The work of the artist printmaker and drawing teacher Edward Hull who lived at 1 Poplar Grove, Oval, South London.
[Ref: 54376]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Literary Cur!  [&]  The Nautical Cur!
The Literary Cur! [&] The Nautical Cur!
[R.R. Scanlan monogram in images.]
1839 [dated in plate.]
Lithograph, two images to one sheet. Sheet 380 x 275mm, 15 x 10¾".
Two caricatures showing dogs in human guises: one shows an elderly man sitting writing with a quill in a book in his Library/Study; the other a sailor in his dingy at sea. They are visual puns on the double meaning of the "cur" (popular slang for a mongrel dog and a disreputable person) of the captions.
[Ref: 19486]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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The Irish Cur!  [&]
The Irish Cur! [&] "Military Curs!"
[R.R. Scanlan monogram in images.]
1839 [dated in plate.]
Lithograph, two images to one sheet. Sheet 380 x 275mm ( 15 x 10¾"). Some surface soiling; tatty extremities left and right.
Two caricatures showing dogs in human guises: one shows a club-wielding Irishman in characteristically shabby clothes; the other below two military types in uniform beside a cannon, one holding a sword, the other a telescope. They are visual puns on the double meaning of the "cur" (popular slang for a mongrel dog and a disreputable person) of the captions.
[Ref: 19487]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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The
The "Cur" What drinks! [&] T.Total "Curs".
RRS[canlan] [initials/monogram in images.]
[Dated 1840 and 1839 in plate.]
Lithograph, two images to one sheet. Sheet 380 x 275mm, 15 x 10¾". Some surface soiling/scuffing.
Two caricatures showing dogs in human guises, one stumbling drunkenly out of a gin parlour (above), two others pumping water from a public well. They are visual puns on the double meaning of the "cur" (popular slang for a mongrel dog and a disreputable person) of the captions.
[Ref: 19476]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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[A Donkey Reading a Letter.]
[A Donkey Reading a Letter.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾''), with large margins.
A comic scene showing a donkey, dressed in men's clothes, sitting on a chair and reading a letter.
[Ref: 50243]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Tailpiece to the Catalogue of Pictures exhibited in Spring Gardens, May 1761]
[Tailpiece to the Catalogue of Pictures exhibited in Spring Gardens, May 1761]
W. Hogarth inv.t et del. C. Grignion sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament May 7. 1761
Engraving, sheet 145 x 140mm (5¾ x 5½"). Trimmed inside platemark; slight staining.
Satire on connoisseurs. Tailpiece to an exhibition held by the 'Society of Artists' at Spring Gardens, Charing Cross, in 1761. This exhibition was organised as artists, including Hogarth, withdrew from exhibiting at a space lent by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce on the Strand. Hogarth designed the frontispiece and tailpiece for the catalogue, which together predict increased royal patronage of the arts and the end patronage from connoisseurs. Royal patronage is represented as a plentiful reservoir in the frontispiece, while in this tailpiece a connoisseur dressed as a monkey, holding a magnifying glass, waters three withered and sapless sticks (all labelled with their dates of death, centuries ago) to show the poverty of patronage from connoisseurs. The labelling of the dead trees as 'exoticks' only emphasises the disillusionment of those connoisseurs.
Paulson 237 i/ii; BM Satires 3809
[Ref: 33701]   £330.00  
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Fashion is But One Creature Apeing Another.
Fashion is But One Creature Apeing Another.
Alfred Crowquill - Glypho [after Alfred Henry Forrester].
[n.d., 1844.]
Scarce electrotype. Printed area 120 x 105mm (4¾ x 4¼"). Spotting.
A monkey wearing a cap and a coat with fur collar and cuff, smoking a pipe at a window. "Fashion is but One Creature Apeing Another" Crowquill affirmed in this hilarious send-up of the 19th century British gentleman caricature. Patented in 1842, a glyphograph is a relief printing block, created by drawing through a compostion on a metal plate, and making an electrotype of the result.
See Bestiary: Animals in Art. Christopher Matthews, Thomas & Hudson, 2018.
[Ref: 61302]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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A Party of Odd Fish.
A Party of Odd Fish.
On stone by R Seymour.
London. Publioshed by William Spooner, 259 Regent S.t Oxford S.t. Printed by Lefevre & Kohle, 52 Newman S.t.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), large margins. Bit messy.
A card party, with clothed fish as players. Under the image is a key naming them, including Major Herring of the Reds, Alderman Cod and Miss Ann Chovy.
[Ref: 52635]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir Frog he would a wooing go,
Sir Frog he would a wooing go, Whether his mother would let him or no &c.
E. Hull del.t.
London: Published by Rowe & Waller 49 Fleet St November 1825.
Fine coloured lithograph. Old ink signature in margin "Mr. Thomas 1826". Printed area 180 x 250mm (8 x 9¾") Creasing.
An anthropomorphic frog escapes the apron strings, riding on a lizard, a pair of pistols in his belt. It is an illustration to an old ballad (pre-dating 1581), in which the frog goes to Mouse Hall to court the daughter of the house, before coming to a sticky end.
[Ref: 33087]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[A Frog he would a wooing go] Pray Mr.s Mouse will you give us some beer, / That Froggy and I may make good cheer/ &c &c.
[A Frog he would a wooing go] Pray Mr.s Mouse will you give us some beer, / That Froggy and I may make good cheer/ &c &c.
E. Hull[?]
[n.d, c. 1830.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 195 x 245mm (7¾ x 9½"). Slight stain on left.
A scene from 'A Frog he would a wooing go', telling the story of an anthropomorphic frog, based on a folk song that can be traced back to the Scots 'The Frog cam to the Myl dur' in 1548. The frog courts a mouse, but at the wedding the rodents are killed by cats, but frog escapes, only to be eaten by a duck.
[Ref: 51807]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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A Frog he would a wooing go...
A Frog he would a wooing go...
G Dawes del.
[n.d, c. 1830.]
Rare lithograph, with fine hand colour. Sheet: 360 x 245mm (14 x 9½"). A few marks.
A series of six vignettes telling the story of an anthropomorphic frog, based on a folk song that can be traced back to the Scots 'The Frog cam to the Myl dur' in 1548. The frog courts a mouse, but at the wedding the rodents are killed by cats, but frog escapes, only to be eaten by a duck.
[Ref: 42745]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Gin-Retailers (if there's any) Who can by a Licence get a penny...
The Gin-Retailers (if there's any) Who can by a Licence get a penny...
[after Egbert van Heemskerck the younger.]
[London, John Bowles, c.1760 but later impression on wove paper.]
Coloured engraving with etching. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 10"), with large margins.
A satire on gin drinking: all the male figures have been given the heads of monkeys and the women those of cats. A reversed copy of a plate by William Henry Toms, one in a set of eight anthropomorphic scenes.
[Ref: 54434]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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"The Baby Hippopotamus"
[n.d. c.1870's]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼"), with large margins. Creases.
An anthropromorphic satire. A midwife wearing a dress and bonnet holds a baby hippo, just birthed by the hippo laying in a grand bed. Grandparents look pleased, the grandmother sits on a chair while the grandfather stands next to the fireplace wearing a housecoat. Possibly a satire on the first captive-bred hippo at London Zoo; bore by Adhela and fathered by Obaysch in 1871.
[Ref: 61459]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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I Am Offended Tom.
I Am Offended Tom.
Sold by J. Knight, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. Standidge & Lemon, Litho, 77 Cornhill, London. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. Printed area: 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"), with large margins.
Two cats: a female sits, eyes towards the ground ignoring the sheepish looks of her male suitor.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 47360]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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I Am Offended Tom.
I Am Offended Tom.
Sold by J. Knight, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. Standidge & Lemon, Litho, 77 Cornhill, London. [n.d. c.1800.]
Lithograph. 222 x 178mm. 8¾ x 7". Trimmed into plate at bottom.
Two cats: a female sits, eyes towards the ground ignoring the bashful looks of her male suitor.
[Ref: 16045]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Jouer De Mandoline.
Le Jouer De Mandoline.
Decamps pinxt. Veyrassat Sc.
Imp. Delamam. [French, 1850s.]
Etching, 215 x 275mm. 8½ x 10¾".
A monkey, artistically dressed, singing and playing a guitar on a table-top, reading from an open book of music draped over a chair; also glassware and cutlery. Apparently from a series showing apes engaged in creative human pursuits, 'L'Artiste' (lettered above image). After Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (1803 - 1860).
[Ref: 17876]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The Logicians.
The Logicians.
Suweyns pinxit. Lambert del.t. Printed by Engelmann G. C. & Co.
London: Published by R. Ackermann, 96, Strand, May 1828.
Lithograph. Sheet 245 x 370mm (9¾ x 14½"). Tear in title area taped, some spotting.
A singerie scene, with three monkeys in Dutch dress, drinking and smoking in an inn. By Antoine Suweyns (Flemish, 1720-89).
[Ref: 58359]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The very Wise Aldermen of Gotham, Scratching for a Mayor.
The very Wise Aldermen of Gotham, Scratching for a Mayor.
[Anon., 1773.]
Etching, sheet 195 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼") with 2pp. accompanying letterpress. Glued to backing sheet.
Etching and the 'Letter from a Gentleman in London' which it accompanied in the 'Sentimental Magazine' for October 1773. The text notes that 'by the annexed cooper-plate, representing the court of aldermen of London scratching for a lord-mayor, the leading features, or characteristics of the greater part of them, may be easily distinguished'. These include Frederick Bull, with a bull's head, writing with a pen in his cloven hoof in the centre; John Wilkes (1725 - 1797) on the right, Sir Watkin Lewes behind them; and Thomas Harley (1730 - 1804) as an ape wearing spurred boots entering from the right. In this election Bull was chosen by the aldermen, although the print was reissued on the same occasion the following year, when Wilkes became mayor.
BM Satires: 5235; for 1774 reissue see ref. 13858.
[Ref: 46561]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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The Love Sick Frog.
The Love Sick Frog. ''-She pin'd in thought...
Drawn by H. Walter. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
Published 1828, by W.B. Tiffin, 3, Haymarket, London.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 305mm (9 x 12''). Creasing and foxing.
A scene showing a group of frogs surrounding a reclined frog pining for her love.
[Ref: 51081]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lover.
The Lover.
Drawn by Pug.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 190 x 158mm. 7½ x 6¼". Cut and laid on album sheet.
A monkey in full dress of 17th century England. He is sat in a chair holding a pen as he writes out verses of poetry. Leaning against the window is a book entitled 'Art of Love'. In front of him to the left stands a small ballerina monkey with wings and a bow and arrow aimed directly at him; an ape representation of cupid.
[Ref: 16298]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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L'Execution du Marauder.
L'Execution du Marauder.
Lith. de Langlumé. [Two monograms in image, probably of artist and publisher.]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph, image 190 x 300mm (7½ x 11¾"). Some margin trimmed; glued to backing.
Anthropomorphic satire: a black cat in a human smock faces a firing squad of monkeys dressed in the uniforms of French infantrymen. A monkey drummer-boy watches the scene, saluting(?); a tent, fortress and some cavalry in the background. Under Charles X's regime until the Revolution of 1830 the political caricature was prohibited by censorship in France.
[Ref: 25020]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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McQueen's Dogs at the Jubilee Banquet.
McQueen's Dogs at the Jubilee Banquet. The Queen & The Royal Family! 'God Save the Queen'. Richard III. A VI S I.
Walter T. Allen.
London Published Dec.r 1st 1886 by F.C. McQueen & Sons, 181 Tottenham Court Road, W. Stiefbold & Co Berlin, Knoedler & Co New York - Copyright registered.
Photogravure with hand colour. Sheet 445 x 345mm (17½ x 13½") very large margins.
Anthropomorphic bulldog, wearing evening attire with the Order of the Garter, proposing the Royal toast, with a quote from Shakespeare, with stamp.
See Ref: 51420 in series.
[Ref: 60049]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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McQueen's Dogs at the Jubilee Banquet.
McQueen's Dogs at the Jubilee Banquet. The Ladies! ''To Drink to those Fair Ladies''. Henry 8. A1 S4.
Walter T. Allen.
London Published Dec.r 1st 1886 by F.C. McQueen & Sons, 181 Tottenham Court Road, W. Stiefbold & Co Berlin, Knoedler & Co New York - Copyright registered.
Photogravure with very fine hand colour. 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13"), with very large margins. Mint.
Anthropomorphic terrier, with monocle and evening attire, proposing a toast with a quote from Shakespeare, with McQueen's blind stamp. A satirical celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887.
[Ref: 51420]   £350.00  
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Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 31. Concert vocal.
Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 31. Concert vocal.
J. Granville. Lith le Langlume.
chez Bulla Rue St. Jacques No.38 et chez Martinet rue du Coq [n.d., 1829-30].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼").
A choir of a duck, two bulls, a cockerel and another male bird are accompanied by a bull on piano and monkey on a violin, all in human clothes. 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' was so successful that, before the series was completed, Bulla and Martinet decided to publish an edition titled in both French and English.
[Ref: 53376]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 25. [Dancing Lesson.]
Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 25. [Dancing Lesson.]
J. Granville. Lith le Langlumé.
chez Bulla Rue St. Jacques No.38 et chez Martinet rue du Coq [n.d., 1829-30].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"). Some spotting.
A stag dancing master with a violin gives lessons to a pair of dogs and two huge female grasshoppers, all in human clothes. 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' was so successful that, before the series was completed, Bulla and Martinet decided to publish an edition titled in both French and English.
[Ref: 53377]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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The Midnight Magistrate, or the Humours of a Watch House.
The Midnight Magistrate, or the Humours of a Watch House.
Heemskirke delin.t. & pinx.t. W. Tringham sculpt.
[n.d., c.1754]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 350 x 260mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed around title. Publication trimmed. Repaired tear in lower edge of image.
Interior scene. A cat in a woman's outfit is brought before a seated monkey acting as a magistrate in a watch house. In the left of the image a second, male cat, described in the text as the female's 'Paramour', is brought forward under guard. Several monkeys surround the seated monkey watching he proceedings while others smoke and drink.
[Ref: 33123]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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A Midnight Revel.
A Midnight Revel. "While well attested, as as well believ'd, Heard solemn, goes the goblin story round: Till superstitions horror creeps o'er all. Or freqent in the sounding hall, they wake The rural gambol". Vide Thomson.
London. Published by Thomas Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street. [n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph, very rare 216 x 305mm. 8½ x 12".
Monkeys playing about in a room with pots, pans, a hot poker, one on stilts, another holding a candle; one wears a blindfold chasing another. A dog can be seen sneaking in through the doorway.
[Ref: 24109]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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A Minuet.
A Minuet.
[n.d. c.1870.] Published by R. Farrier, No. 7, Church St. Chelsea.
Lithograph. Sheet 250 x 310mm (10 x 12¼".)
A musical cacophony of household implements. A magical masterpiece of everyday utensils that have come to life to create circus movements with the tight-rope dish, orchestration from the bellows, barrel, jug, saucepans; and arcobatics from the kettle and jug. The pork chop sits on as spectator.
[Ref: 54532]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Pray Accept Your Photograph.
Pray Accept Your Photograph.
[n.d., c.1880].
Lithograph, very scarce. Sheet size: 550 x 215mm (21½ x 8½"). Horizontal creases where previously folded.
A smartly dressed monkey, in a green chequered suit and grey overcoat, stands facing the viewer, smiling, with his left hand on his chest, and his right hand by his side. His attire is that of a typical Victorian photographer. Based on the genre of Singerie or 'Monkey Trick', depicting monkeys apeing human behavior, often fashionably attired, always with a gentle cast of mild satire.
[Ref: 33359]   £420.00  
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[A monkey smoking and reading The Times] How Tedious.
[A monkey smoking and reading The Times] How Tedious.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼". Trimmed into image, 'How Tedious' written in ink as a title.
A monkey wearing a fez and smoking jacket, sits in a window smoking an ornate opium pipe and reading the Times.
[Ref: 60404]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[A monkey and violin] De Beriot.
[A monkey and violin] De Beriot.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼". Trimmed into image, 'De Beriot' written in ink as a title.
A monkey wearing a hat sits with his feet on the keyboard of a piano, playing a violin. One hand is on the bow, the other under the violin, not on the strings. Satire on Belgian violinist and composer, Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–70).
[Ref: 60403]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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''Poculum elevatum.''
''Poculum elevatum.'' From an Original Picture in the Possession of Jos.h French Esq.r, Windsor. Proof.
Painted by E. Bristow Engraved by H.D. Dawe.
Pub.d Jan.y 1836 by H. Dawe 6 Bartholomew Place Kentish Town. Ackermann & Co. Strand & C. Tilt, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired tear.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed as monks toasting each other with wine.
[Ref: 59168]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Monkey seated at an easel]
[Monkey seated at an easel] How oft' at Morning we despise the Dame, / Who to the Pencil owes her Ev'ning's Fame! [...]
Watteau pinxit.
Printed & Sold by J. Tinney at the Golden Lion near the Globe Tavern in Fleet-Street London. [c/1750]
Rare engraving, platemark 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), with very large margins.
Copy, in reverse, of an engraving by Louis Deplaces after Watteau, showing a monkey as an artist. palette on arm before a painting. The verses beneath, while longer than those beneath Desplaces' print, make a similar comparison between monkeys' mimickry of mankind and the disguise of natural appearance accomplished by make-up.
[Ref: 45993]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Monkey parish watch-house]
[Monkey parish watch-house]
[Anon, c.1820's]
Lithograph with very fine hand-colouring, sheet 245 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Trimmed to image.
Unusual amateur lithograph set in a watch-house, on the wall of which hang the 'Rules & Order For the Watch of Monkey Parish'. Two well-dressed cats have been apprehended and their valuables handed over and kept in a ledger. One monkey in the foreground has been injured and his lamp broken- three other defunct lamps hang on the wall. A particularly odd example for the trend for anthropomorphic prints in Victorian England.
[Ref: 31966]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Adone then you imperdent Monkey, or I'll scratch yer face!
Adone then you imperdent Monkey, or I'll scratch yer face!
[n.d. c.1800.]
Coloured lithograph, rare. 229 x 215mm. 9 x 8½".
Two monkeys: a dandy leans in to a kiss the cleaning woman who shows her claw in disgust at his forward gesture; broom and bucket spill on floor.
[Ref: 26853]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Ha! Ha! very good. Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain? Shakespeare
Ha! Ha! very good. Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain? Shakespeare
Thos. Landseer.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Etching. Plate 198 x 140mm. 7¾ x 5½".
A monkey in Victorian dress seated in an armchair; with a glass of port in his right hand. A port jug sits on a table; a small dog on the floor looking up at his inebriated master.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18507]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[First King.]
[First King.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom, small scrape in top edge.
A singerie print, with monkeys playing draughts. One is dressed in a soldier's uniform.
[Ref: 62163]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Roser.]
[Roser.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom.
A singerie print, with monkeys in human clothes playing cribbage.
[Ref: 62164]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Pugilistic Monkey's.
Pugilistic Monkey's.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured etching, watermark Hagar & Son 1826. Sheet 180 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A pair of monkeys in a boxing ring, attended by their seconds.
See Ref: 56370
[Ref: 56371]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Monkey's at Whist.
Monkey's at Whist.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Fine coloured etching, watermark Hagar & Son 1826. Sheet 180 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Four fashionably-dressed monkeys play cards.
See Ref: 56371
[Ref: 56370]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir  If your Grimaces be reasoning I do not know which of us have the best of it, but I repeat I have no doubt of being elected to fill the Papal Chair, grin as much as you please!
Sir If your Grimaces be reasoning I do not know which of us have the best of it, but I repeat I have no doubt of being elected to fill the Papal Chair, grin as much as you please!
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 295 x 400mm. 11½ x 15¾".
Three monkeys dressed as monks, in earnest discussion outside an Italian monastery. A quirky print, pencil annotation below image.
[Ref: 16210]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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