Grosvenor Prints

[Thomas Tegg] The Genius of Caricature, and his Friends, celebrating the completion of the Second Volume of the Caricature Magazine, in the Temple of Mirth.
Woodward del.t.
London Pubd July 2d 1808 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside [but slightly later].
Etching with hand-colouring. 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Framed. Creasing. Unexamined out of frame.
The 'Genius of Caricature' (a gap-toothed Lilliputian in a harlequin costume, probably a caricature of Thomas Tegg) proposes a toast to the success of the second volume of the Caricature Magazine to other Lilliputians around a dinner table in the 'Temple of Mirth', Tegg's shop. The walls are adorned with caricatures from the 'Caricature Magazine' by Thomas Rowlandson and others on the walls, while folio volumes of the magazine sit on a shelf. A toast-master holds a placard praising Tegg.
BM Satires 11133.
[Ref: 51841] £320.00

[Richard Grenville Temple?] A Temple Macaroni.
Pub by MDarly accorg. to Act Feby. 14th. 1772.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A man looking to his right, probably Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple (1711 - 1779). His right hand is in his coat pocket, his left thrust in his waistcoat. He wears a looped hat, his hair or wig is in a long queue bound with black ribbon. He wears a sword, laced coat, ruffled shirt and cravat, low buckled shoes. A greyhound-type dog (whippet?) walks in front. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '11' upper right.
BM Satires: 4994.
[Ref: 14172] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Thrale] The Southwark Macaroni. 3.
Publish'd according to Act. Aug.t 24 1772 by M Darly, No.39 Strand.
Etching. Platemark 125 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Large margins.
A portrait of Henry Thrale, holding a stick in one hand with the other in his pocket. Thrale was a Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1765 to 1780 and was a close friend of Samuel Johnson. Plate 3 from 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by Mdarly'. (Vol.4).
[Ref: 38701] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[George Tierney] French Habits. No 6. Le Boureau.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
George Tierney, Radical MP for Southwark and supporter of Fox, caricatured as an executioner, standing by a guillotine with blood dripping from the blade. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9201.
[Ref: 59146] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Tooke] A Near Guess. M.r. Tooke.
Drawn Etch.d. & Pub.d. by Richard Dighton as the Act directs 1823.
London, Pub.d. by T.M.c.Lean. 26 Haymarket 1824.
Etching with very large margins. Plate: 170 x 250mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Faint title. Some surface dirt.
A full-length portrait in profile of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858) standing, hands upon an umberella, with the text 'Y.C. Tallow 30/-' issuing from his closed mouth. Tooke was an english economist who served as governor of the Royal Exchange Corporation and as chairman of the St. Katharine's Docks company.
BM 14536.B
[Ref: 34433] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Sydney.] 29.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by Ja.s Bretherton 14.th July 1784.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Thomas Townshend (1733 - 1800), 1st Viscount Sydney, standing with his hat held out in his right hand, his left on his sword. He served as Pitt's Secretary of State for the Home Department. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is named after him.
BM Satires 6640.
[Ref: 60067] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Townshend & Miss Warton] No. X The delectable Miss Wh_rt_n. No. XI. The Vigilant Secretary.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r Fleet Street May 1. 1784.
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
Two bust portraits set in ovals illustrating the account of Thomas Townshend (1733-1800) later Baron Sydney who served as Secretary of State for the Home department during Pitt's administration and a Miss Wharton who was the daughter of an apothecary. Sydney, Australia, was named after him. Wharton, after being left in financial difficulty following the death of her father, was induced to become the mistress of a French marquis and then the Duke of Queensbury until she was saved by Sydney. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6681.
[Ref: 45514] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[James Trail] A Pillar of the Church. With it's Proper Capital.
Pubd. by MDarly Strand April 1st 1772 accor to Act.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
James Trail (d.1763), Bishop of Down, stout and elderly. His right hand holds a tasselled mortar-board. He wears a silk gown, lawn sleeves, a pair of bands and an enormous wig. Lettered 'Bishop of Eider Down' to top of plate. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '23' upper right.
BM Satires: 5003.
[Ref: 14160] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Charles Turner.] 15.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼") with large margins. Small nicks and tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Sir Charles Turner (1726-1783), standing in profile to the left as if making a speech. He is excessively thin, a cane is under his left arm, and his left hand is in a muff. He was a British politician and Lord Mayor of York.
BM Satires 6073.
[Ref: 60076] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Mark Twain.] Mark Bay H. A. By Great Humorist _ U.S.A.
Nap.
[n.d. c.1900.]
Watercolour and gouache, sheet 285 x 345mm (11¼ x 13½"). Tears and creases.
A caricature of American writer and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910) as a horse.
[Ref: 60707] £650.00

[Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones] Independence.
J.s Gillray ad vavam fec.t.
Pub.d June 9.th 1799. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate, two tears taped. Made up top right corner.
A full-length portrait of Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones (1765-1811), M.P. for Denbigh (1796-1802), caricatured as a John Bull stereotype, making a speech to empty benches in the House of Commons, a long, blustering speech above his head.
BM Satires 9401.
[Ref: 64708] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Percy Upton] Up-Town. Colonel Upton.
Drawn Etch.d by Rich.d. Dighton. 1817.
Pub.d. bt T. McLean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10"). Some light markings.
Full length portrait in profile of Arthur Percy Upton, 3rd son of 1st Baron Templeton, an army officer and politician who served as MP for Bury St. Edmunds between 1818 and 1825).
BM 12911.
[Ref: 34401] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry] One of the Tenth - When I was an Infant gossips would say - when I grew older I'de be a soldier. &c.r. Hyde Park May 27 1829. Sketched at the Review.
[William Heath.]
Pub May 28, 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole Publisher of P. Pry caricatures.
Etching with very fine colour. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1828', with large margins.
Lady Londonderry riding sidesaddle on a galloping horse, in a skirted approximation of the uniform of the 10th Hussars (regiment of her husband, Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry), with false moustache. At the review Lord Wellington fell from his horse but was unhurt.
BM Satire 15930.
[Ref: 55405] £360.00

[James Waller] No. XXXVII. The Pliant Penitent. No. XXXVIII. The Tithe Hunter.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r Fleet Street, Jan.y 20: 1782.
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Small margins.
Two bust portraits in ovals illustrating an account of the affair between James Waller D.D. nephew of Terrick, Bishop of London, Vicar of Kensington (1770-95), the lady was a lady of fashion who became converted by the Tithe Hunter. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6079.
[Ref: 45505] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charlotte Walpole] Nancy.
H.Bunbury Delint. Watson & Dickinson Excudt.
London, Publish'd Jany. 22d. 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, printed in brown ink. Sheet: 205 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The actress Charlotte Walpole (c.1758 - 1836) dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath as Nancy in Sheridan's 'The Camp'; she stands on a hill above the military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind. The orignal title of the print was 'Miss Walpole'; it is the third in a series with 'A Visit to the Camp' and 'The Recruits' (see BM Satires 4765-66). 'The Camp' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan was first produced at Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 15 October 1778 and was frequently performed 1778-80. The production concluded with 'a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heath, from a View taken by De Loutherbourg and executed under his direction' (quoted in The London Stage, part 5, ed. C. B. Hogan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1968, I, p. 208). After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM: 5803.
[Ref: 39803] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Billy Waters et al] 30 Extraordinary Characters &c. Described in the Work.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Stipple. Sheet size: 190 x 266mm (7½ x 10½"). Trimmed to image. Creased as normal.
A collection of thirty freaks and figures, both shunned and celebrated by contemporary society, including: Masaniello, the Neapolitan fisherman who supposedly led an uprising against the Spanish Habsburg rule in Naples in 1647; Billy Waters, one of many black beggars in early 19th-century London; Bampfylde Moore Carws (1693-1759), the English rogue, vagabond and imposter, who claimed to be King of the Beggars; Count Joseph Boruwlaski, the Polish dwarf who fell in love with Durham; Sir Thomas Parkyns (1662-1741), the noted wrestler, seen here clenching his fists, and the author of a book on Cornish Hugg wrestling; Samuel Horsey, who claimed that the surgeon Mr Abernethy cut off his legs without any explanation, who can be seen sliding along Charing Cross; and Lord Rokeby (1712-1800), the English eccentric nobleman who preferred a watery environment to a dry one. Key below identifying the figures, and images of natural phenomena (a water spout, volcanic eruption etc) around the edges.
A copy in the John Johnson Collection.
[Ref: 36314] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Brook Watson.] 35.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Pub.d by Ja.s Bretherton 31.st March 1788.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (1735 - 1807), bending forward, his wooden leg concealed behind a bench, and holding out a document with a pendent seal inscribed 'Pension for Services'. Watson was a British merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London. At 14 years old, he was attacked by a shark resulting in the loss of his right leg below the knee.
BM Satires 7290.
[Ref: 59983] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham.] 1.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (1730 - 1782), standing in profile to the left. Rockingham was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain, in 1765-6 and 1782.
BM Satires 6069.
[Ref: 59997] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] A Draught of the Old Well _ Ah help, in this extremest need,__If water-gods are deities indeed__vide Dryden. Cheltenham - see the conquering Hero comes!!!
[Paul Pry] Esq. It is a very moving sight.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., 1828.]
Etching with hand colour. Framed, sight size 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Unexamined out of frame; trimmed to printed border.
Caricature produced at the time of Wellington's visit to Cheltenham for his health, after which he returned feeling much better. Very thin, he walks in discomfort holding a bunch of papers docketed Lord High Adm[iral]. His complexion is mud-coloured (as in some other prints of this date) to show his ill-health.
BM Satires: 15548.
[Ref: 60629] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] A Vision -- Past. Present.
William Heath.
Pub Feb 9th 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of W Heaths Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins.
Wellington's military success ('past') is contasted with his political instability ('present'). On the left he stands on a cloud immediately above Napoleon's tomb, with Fame blowing her trumpet and holding a wreath over his head. On the right he kneels precariously on the summit of a globe which is crushing the British people, some of whom try desperately to hold it up. It is covered, like a map, with islands or continents inscribed respectively 'Free Trade', 'National Debt', 'Currency', 'Taxes'. Dividing the two scenes, and in the upper part of the design, is a king enthroned, whose fleur-de-lis head identifies him as Charles X. Speech bubble coming from the fleur-de-lis reads 'all for me', the implication being that Napoleon's defeat served only to restore the Bourbons. This print was published only months before Charles was deposed in the July Revolution.
BM Satires: 16030.
[Ref: 39609] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Oh What a Falling Off Was There _ fully accow/utred the Hero Lay. Review - Pl 2.
[Monogram of Paul Pry - William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub May 29 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket- Sole Publisher of P. Pry Caricature.
Etching with fine hand colour. 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"), with large margins.
The Duke of Wellington, in full dress uniform including a bearskin, falls into a muddy puddle. On the 28th of May 1829 Wellington, whilst at a review in Hyde Park, fell from his horse and was cheered by the crowd.
BM Satires 15773.
[Ref: 55406] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G. [&] M.r Laurence Irving.
WH. [Wallace Hester]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Dec.r 6, 1894.
Chromolithograph, sheet 420 x 560mm (16½ x 22"). Vertical fold as issued.
Rare lightly caricatured double portrait of British nobleman and landowner, Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington, JP (1876 –1941) styled as Marquess of Douro from 1900 to 1934, and English dramatist and actor, Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving (1871 –1914).
[Ref: 63827] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Tragedy. Waterloo 1815. Comedy. Oxford 1834. All the worlds a Stage, and all the Men and Women merely players [...]
I.B.
Pub.d October 14, 1834 by J.B. Brooks, 9 New Bond Street.
Coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 225 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A double caricature comparing the tragedy of Waterloo with the comedy of Wellington being made Chancellor of Oxford University.
Rare: not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 61232] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington & Peel] The Ballad Singer's.
W. Heath.
Pub July 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. Election caricatures executed for Gentlemen in 3 Hourse.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 355 x 240mm (14 x 9½"). Unexamined out of frame.
Wellington, bare-headed and wearing an old corporal's military tunic, plays a flute as Robert Peel, a buxom woman, bawls a ballad: 'The Pride of all nature is Sweet Willey O!' Nestled in the crook of Peel's arm is a miniature policeman.
BM Satires 16187.
[Ref: 61180] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] The Man Wot Drives the Sovereign.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub April 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 355 x 240mm (14 x 9½"). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame. Foxing, spot in top right.
Wellington stands in profile to the right, with his gloved left hand touching the broad brim of his hat. He is dressed as the driver of a mail-coach, holding his whip and a paper resembling the 'Gazette', headed 'Bill', representing the Catholic Relief Act of 1829.
BM Satires 15731.
[Ref: 61179] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] The Man Wot's Been Made Foreman to the British!!! NB. He is perfectly Fire-proof - having been engaged in Hot work all his life.
T.J. [Thomas Howell Jones] fec.t.
London. Pub. 1829 by S. W. Fores. 41. Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame.
A caricature of the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, in the uniform of a fireman of a London fire insurance company, leaning on an axe. He says 'Mind what I say—I'm the Man wot Can do the Trick—There's no mistake about me!!!'
[Ref: 61166] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] The Sign Manual!!! Here is the hand and seal of the Duke: you know the character I doubt not, and the signet. Vide Measure For Measure.
W. Heath.
Pub. May 1830 by T. Mclean 26 Haymarket.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 235 x 345mm (9¼ x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame; trimmed to border.
The Duke of Wellington, signs a document as Prime Minister, saying 'Sign for you now - Sign for my self by-and by'. During the last year of George IV's reign the 'Sign Manual Bill' was passed, allowing the royal signature to be added to warrants using a stamp. Heath is referring to gossip that Wellington wanted the crown for himself.
BM:16122.
[Ref: 60627] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Punishment Drill.
William Heath.
Pub May 15 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - sole Publisher of W Heath Etchings.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Fine colour, slight mark on title. Unexamined out of frame, trimmed to plate.
The Duke of Wellington caricatured as a private of the Grenadiers, with large bearskin, wades through mud carrying a heavy pack (with items labelled 'Corn Bill', 'Treasury' and 'Currency'), a musket ('Emancipation') and a seemingly empty pouch ('Budget'). The Duke's government was beset by problems, including a Tory revolt.
BM Satires 16117.
[Ref: 60630] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Take Up Your Bed and Walk!!! During the Duke's Temporary sojourn at Walmer Castle he invariable reposes on the Camp bedstead which form'd his Grace's couch throught the Peninsular Campaigns - the highly prized article of furniture being regularly convey'd from Downing Street to Walmer Castle when ever the Duke, visits the latter place_vide Morning Herald_
William Heath.
Pub Oct 1st 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole publisher of WH Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching . Framed, sight size 355 x 245mm (14 x 9½"). Unexamined out of frame, trimmed close to printed border.
Wellington carrying 'the camp bedstead which form'd his Grace's couch throught [sic] the Peninsular Campaigns' and which he supposedly had brought to his favourite country residence of Walmer Castle in Kent when he spent time there.
BM Satires: 15867.
[Ref: 60634] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] The Noblest Roman of the All. This Statue of Roman Cement_has been erected at the cost of the 40s Freeholders.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub April by T McLean 26 Haymarket [n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame.
Caricature of the Duke of Wellington, as a statue in Roman armour, holding against his right hip a document inscribed 'Emancipation'. He wears a wreath of battered ears of corn (suggesting the straw crown of the lunatic as well as the Corn Bill), and faces an aggressive raven with the head of Eldon. Other menacing birds fly near. From the pedestal, as a background to the Duke's legs, projects a trophy of flags topped by French imperial eagles, with spear, bayonet, &c. A satire of the Bill to disenfranchise the forty shilling Irish freeholders which accompanied the Catholic Emancipation Relief Act, raising fivefold the economic qualifications for voting. The Bill passed with little opposition but not without protest.
BM Satires: 15722.
[Ref: 61165] £320.00

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Going to Downing Street - a sketch - On some great charge employed He seem'd, or fixt in cogitation deep. Vide Milton.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esqr Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are daily Pub [n.d., c.1828].
Etching with hand colour. Framed, sight size 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Unexamined out of frame.
The Duke of Wellington rides along, peering short-sightedly at papers in his hand. The lines come from 'Paradise Lost'.
BM Satires: 15567.
[Ref: 60635] £320.00

[ArthurWellesley, Duke of Wellington] The Mute-Ability of Affairs!!!_ "His honor Is nothing but mutation, ay, and that From one bad thing to worse._Vide Shakespeare. Undertaker in Chief & Cabinet maker to His M___y.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esqr Del et Scul.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [c. January 1828]
Hand-coloured etching. Framed, sight size 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Unexamined out of frame, slight spotting.
Wellington, dressed in black as a mute at a funeral. The title and Shakespeare quotation allude to the Duke's agreement to form an administration ('Cabinet maker') despite making an earlier speech suggesting he would not do so.
BM Satires: 15501.
[Ref: 60637] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] And If I Have Got a Pension Have I Not a Right to It?
William Heath.
Pub Nov 20 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of W. Heaths Etchings.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼") Unexamined out of frame.
The Duke of Wellington caricatured as a Chelsea Pensioner, older than his years.
BM Satires 15912.
[Ref: 60640] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Mrs Double U the Housekeeper. Household Servants - in Six Plates by William Heath. No. 3.
Pub Oct 10th 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket Sole publisher of W. Heaths Etchings.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame.
A caricature of Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington as a disapproving housekeeper, attempting to curb George IV's extravagant spending on Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole; however the monogram was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
BM Satires 15880.
[Ref: 61162] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] A Draught of the Old Well _ Ah help, in this extremest need,__If water-gods are deities indeed__vide Dryden. Cheltenham - see the conquering Hero comes!!!
(Paul Pry) Esq. It is a very moving sight.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., 1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), with very large margins watermarked 1827.
Caricature produced at the time of Wellington's visit to Cheltenham for his health, after which he returned feeling much better. Very thin, he walks in discomfort holding a bunch of papers docketed Lord High Adm[iral]. His complexion is mud-coloured (as in some other prints of this date) to show his ill-health.
BM Satires: 15548.
[Ref: 41905] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] A Draught of the Old Well _ Ah help, in this extremest need,__If water-gods are deities indeed__vide Dryden. Cheltenham - see the conquering Hero comes!!!
[Paul Pry] Esq. It is a very moving sight.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., 1828.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 380 x 260mm (14½ x 10"), with large margins.
Caricature produced at the time of Wellington's visit to Cheltenham for his health, after which he returned feeling much better. Very thin, he walks in discomfort holding a bunch of papers docketed Lord High Adm[iral]. His complexion is mud-coloured (as in some other prints of this date) to show his ill-health.
BM Satires: 15548.
[Ref: 52757] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. et al.] A Tory Dinner Party. Presented with No.13 of The Fly. Duke of Wellington. Sir Rb.t Peel. Sir Ch.s Wetherhall. Sir Fr.s Burdett. L.d Lyndhurst.
W. Clerk, Lithog, 202 High Holborn.
Pub.d by F. Glover, No 1 Water Lane, Fleet St.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾").
Caricature portraits of Conservative politicians standing for a toast.
[Ref: 58081] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] The Man Wot Drives the Sovereign.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub April 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet size: 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼"), watermarked 'J. Whatman 1828'. Trimmed.
Wellington stands in profile to the right, with his gloved left hand touching the broad brim of his hat. He is dressed as the driver of a mail-coach, holding his whip and a paper resembling the 'Gazette', headed 'Bill', representing the Catholic Relief Act of 1829. The Act was the culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout Britain, drawing support from the Duke of Wellington, as well as from the Whigs and liberal Tories.
BM Satires 15731.
[Ref: 32016] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington & Henry Brougham] A Curious Figure that Kicks all Manner of Ways. HB Sketches no 764.
HB [John Doyle] Printed at 70 St Martin's Lane.
Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, March, 1843.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 365 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾"), large margins. Tear entering printed border at top repaired, some spotting.
The Duke of Wellington operates a cardboard figure of Lord Brougham, with jointed arms and legs.
[Ref: 58474] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Oh What a Falling Off Was There-Fully Accoutred the Hero Lay.
[Paul Pry Esq.]
Pub May 29 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket- Sole Publisher of P. Pry Caricature.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 360 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Mounted within album sheet. Central vertical crease. Description on verso.
Wellington, in full uniform falls off his horse into a puddle of mud. On the 28th of May 1829 Wellington, whilst at a review in Hyde Park fell from his horse and was cheered by the crowd.
BM Satires 15773
[Ref: 37332] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] This Statue of Roman Cement_has been erected at the cost of the 40s Freeholders- The Noblest Roman of the All.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub April by T McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Time stained.
Caricature of the Duke of Wellington, referring to the Bill to disenfranchise the forty shilling Irish freeholders which accompanied the Catholic Emancipation Relief Act, raising fivefold the economic qualifications for voting. The Bill passed with little opposition but not without protest. Wellington as a statue in Roman armour, holding against his right hip a document inscribed 'Emancipation'. He wears a wreath of battered ears of corn (suggesting the straw crown of the lunatic as well as the Corn Bill), and faces an aggressive raven with the head of Eldon. Other menacing birds fly near. From the pedestal, as a background to the Duke's legs, projects a trophy of flags topped by French imperial eagles, with spear, bayonet, &c.
BM Satires: 15722.
[Ref: 58272] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] Take Up Your Bed and Walk!!! During the Duke's Temporary sojourn at Walmer Castle he invariable reposes on the Camp bedstead which form'd his Grace's couch throught the Peninsular Campaigns - the highly prized article of furniture being regularly convey'd from Downing Street to Walmer Castle when ever the Duke, visits the latter place_vide Morning Herald_
William Heath.
Pub Oct 1st 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole publisher of WH Etchings.
Coloured etching. 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Laid on card.
Wellington as a coal porter, carrying his military campbed balanced on his head. Half-way through his first term as Prime Minister, Wellington was already unpopular. He had been appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in January 1829, shortly after being made PM, mainly because he wanted to use Walmer Castle as a country residence. This caricature suggests he should leave government and retire there.
BM Satires: 15867.
[Ref: 55937] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel] Killing Time.
London. Published by J. M.c Cormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾)"
The Duke of Wellington walks on a street with a pretty young woman, looking over his shoulder at Robert Peel, who is giving the woman a knowing look.
V&A E.709-1947.
[Ref: 62321] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] The Mute-Ability of Affairs!!!_ "His honor Is nothing but mutation, ay, and that From one bad thing to worse._Vide Shakespeare. Undertaker in Chief & Cabinet maker to His M___y.
[Paul Pry] Esqr Del et Scul.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [c. January 1828]
Hand-coloured etching with large margins; paper watermarked: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Plate 372 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼").
Wellington, dressed in black as a mute at a funeral. The title and Shakespeare quotation allude to the Duke's agreement to form an administration ('Cabinet maker') despite making an earlier speech suggesting he would not do so. Wellington was Prime Minister from 1828-1830.
BM Satires: 15501.
[Ref: 30505] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington] A Vision -- Past. Present.
William Heath.
Pub Feb 9th 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of W Heaths Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins.
Wellington's military success ('past') is contasted with his political instability ('present'). On the left he stands on cloud immediately above Napoleon's tomb, with Fame blowing her trumpet and holding a wreath over his head. On the right he kneels precariously on the summit of a globe which is crushing a number of artisans and farmers, some of whom try desperately to hold it up. It is covered, like a map, with islands or continents inscribed respectively 'Free Trade', 'National Debt', 'Currency', 'Taxes'. Dividing the two scenes, and in the upper part of the design, is a king enthroned, whose fleur-de-lis head identifies him as Charles X. Speech bubble coming from the fleur-de-lis reads 'all for me', the implication being that Napoleon's defeat served only to restore the Bourbons. This print was published only months before Charles was deposed in the July Revolution.
BM Satires: 16030.
[Ref: 43629] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] A Peep at the Premier, in his Peninsular Cap.
Ideas by H.B. [John Doyle] E. McLean.
Published by E.McLean, 8 Upper Castle Street, Leicester Square, opposite St Martin's Ct [n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 240 x 280mm (9½ x 15"). Tears taped.
Wellington sits at a writing desk, with a folio of HB caricatures, cursing a caricature of himself and Lord Eldon (BM Satires 16075).
Not in BM Satires, but see 1991,0720.102, different state, with second half of title 'A scene from Apsley House'.
[Ref: 69457] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Wilkes.]
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17th June 1782 by C.Bretherton.
Etching. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼), with large margins. Some spotting.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Wilkes, wearing a hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt, and sword, with wrinkled riding-boots, looking old and toothless, with his squint exaggerated.
BM Satires 6067.
[Ref: 54342] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[John Wilkes.]
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17th June 1782 by C.Bretherton.
Etching. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Faint glue stains at edges of outer margins.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Wilkes, wearing a hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt, and sword, with wrinkled riding-boots, looking old and toothless, with his squint exaggerated.
BM Satires 6067.
[Ref: 60133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Wilkes] Out of Place and Unpensioned.
J. Collett inv.t et del.
Published as the Act directs, Nov.r 9.th 1769 by Jn.o Smith, N.o 35 in Cheapside, & Rob.t Sayer, N.o 53 in Fleet Street London.
Engraving. Sheet: 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A portrait of radical politician and writer John Wilkes (1725-1797) who, after returning from exile in France, was elected MP for Middlesex in 1769. However, as parliament considered him an outlaw at the time he was expelled from the House of Commons, he was then re-elected and the expelled again and Henry Luttrell was given the seat. Supporters of his campaign for re-election were John Wheble, editor of the Middlesex Journal and the Society of Gentlemen Supporters of the Bill of Rights, who signed a petition calling George III to allow Wilkes to stand for the seat as barring him was an invasion of the rights of electors to choose their elective. Wilkes stands, his chin resting on a stick, on the table beside him is a copy of 'The Middlesex Journal' and on the wall hangs 'The Middlesex Petition', based on an earlier mezzotint droll of a man in a similar stance.
[Ref: 41931] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilkes Esq.r.
Drawn from the Life and Etched in Aquafortis by Willm. Hogarth.
Price 1 Shilling. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament May ye 16. 1763.
Etching. 355 x 230mm (14 x 9"). Trimmed just within plate at bottom, crease across top.
Caricature portrait of John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), holding a pole topped by the cap of Liberty. The personal friendship of Hogarth & Wilkes did not stop the two attacking each other in caricature and pamphlet. Early in 1763 Wilkes had antagonised Hogarth by mocking his acceptance of royal payment; here Hogarth retaliates with this satirical portrait of Wilkes during his trial for an attack on George III in his satirical journal 'The North Briton'. On the reverse is pasted an election bill for Montgomery for the General Election of 1802, advertising the support of 'Lady Harriot'. (Henrietta Clive, sister of George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, and daughter-in-law of Clive of India) and 'two Clives for Ever' for an unnamed candidate. Very scarce local publication line 'Griffiths Printers Bishop's Castle'.
Paulson: 214, I of II, with price. BM 4050.
[Ref: 58307] £360.00

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