Grosvenor Prints

Funny Characters N.o 34. An Unaccountable. Do you sell Account Books, Sir?_ Yes!_ Then let me have one that 'ill account for my Vife blowing me up ven I speaks to any other Hooman!
Printed by L.M. Lefevre.
London. William Spooner, 377, Strand. [n.d. c.1840]
Rare lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 330 x 275mm (13 x 10¾"), large margins. Some slight brown stains bottom left.
A accented man visits an acounting stationers.
[Ref: 61494] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

No. IV. No. V. [Mrs G_n_r. Lord Amherst?] [Americanus and Eliza.]
[n.d., c.1769.]
Engraving, proof before title. Plate: 105 x 170mm (4 x 6¾"). Small margins.
A pair of portraits of Jeffrey Amherst and an unidentified mistress; Amherst liberated Canada from the French. 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 4347.
[Ref: 45428] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Amorous Hollander.
Ostade Pinx.t. Philip Corbutt fecit.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Collections mark of Count G. Archinto of Milan on verso. Plate: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾''). Creasing, tears in edges. Small margins.
A scene in a tavern showing a man resting against a woman, patting her stomach. After a painting by Dutch artist Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The engraver was Richard Purcell, who often used the alias of 'Corbutt', generally with the prefix of 'Charles', but sometimes 'Philip' or initials, when pirating other plates
[Ref: 48845] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Amusing the old ones Wife.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 230 x 320mm (9 x 12½"), large margins. Creasing in margins.
A corpulent man sits before a fire, smoking a pipe. Behind a much younger man feeds cherries to the old man's wife.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 40604] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Apartments Furnish'd. A Lady having occasion to visit her Mantua Maker, sat in a chair whereon a bill to let Apartments laid with waters wet; she unobserved left the house with the placard sticking to her dress.
Designed by T. L. Busby.
Pub.d 1827 at the Artist's Depository 21 Charlotte St., Fitzroy Sq.
Coloured etching. Sheet: 235 x 140mm (9¼ x 5½"). Trimmed.
A young woman is approached by a young man who comments on a handbill accidentally stuck to her dress. Thomas Lord Busby (fl. 1804-37).
[Ref: 43785] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Barber of Seville.
Publish'd Mar 15. 1808 by Lauire & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8½ "). Trimmed, losing letterpress song, with foxing.
An illustration to a ten-verse poem (not present) satirising Gioachino Rossini's 'Barber of Seville. A woman with cross-eyes and a hairy chin sits under a grape-trellis and an orange-tree; a barber kneels at her feet. In the song the amour promises to shave her every morning if she will marry him.
BM Satire 11195.
[Ref: 46482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A late Scene at Barnet.
[London Magazine October 1771]
Etching, sheet 130 x 205mm (5¼ x 8"). Plate mark hard to discern. Slight stain in title.
A bedroom scene. A group of people gather in a bedroom where a half-naked lover jumps out of a window leaving his mistress with her breasts out in a four-poster bed.
BM: 1922.0710.614
[Ref: 62949] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Power of Beauty. What can delight like Wealth? the Miser cries...
[Engraved by Philip Dawe? after Heroman van der Mijn.]
Sold by T. Bowles in St. Pauls Ch. Y.d & J. Bowles at ye black Horse, Cornhill.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A young ballad singer holding a music sheet is embraced by an old man who holds up his money bag.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36303] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Best Shelter under the Banner of Love.
Published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whittle. 58 Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 110 x 150mm.
No. 206 lower left corner.
[Ref: 3757] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Blooming Gleaner and Amourous Justice.
London Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard.
Engraving. 420 x 350mm, 16½ x 13¾". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A middle-aged man with a gout-afflicted leg approaches a pretty young harvester.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 8821] £330.00

The Bridegrooms' Gift.
C. Eisen Pinxt. C. Spooner Fecit.
Printed for John Bowles_at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 250 x 350mm.
[Ref: 759] £390.00

The Young Sweep in Love, or the House Maid's Conquest.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act Directs [date erased]. 198 lower left.
Mrzzotint 112 x 150mm.
A young chimney sweep standing on tip-toes to kiss a tall maid in the kitchen of a house.
BM:4589 [Reduced Version]
[Ref: 7255] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Bull and Mouth.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
by Tho.s Tegg No.11 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½''). Trimmed within plate.
An elderly ugly and obese 'cit', seated full face in an arm-chair, yawns cavernously, with closed eyes. He wears a nightcap. His comely and meretricious-looking young wife holds up her fingers above his head, to signify the cuckolds horns, while she slips a letter into the hand of a handsome young military officer who stands in the doorway behind her, a finger on his nose.
BM Satire 11145.
[Ref: 50748] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Capt.n Conquest and his Baggage Waggon.
S. H. Grimm del.t. J. Goldar sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.o 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith N.o 35 Cheapside, as the Act directs 15 June 1772.
Engraving. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
In this satire on fashion and unequal marriage, a squat, elaborately dressed woman stands with a tall man dressed in military fashion. The title of the print suggests the man has successfully pursued this marriage for the sake of the woman's wealth.
[Ref: 68280] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. & Mrs. Caudle. No! Mr. Caudle, I shall not go to sleep like a good soul!" Vide Punch.
[John Leech.]
[1846.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9''). Trimmed.
A comic scene in which Mr and Mrs Caudle lie in bed. Mrs Caudle was the comic creation of Douglas William Jerrold who often featured in Punch magazine.
[Ref: 50992] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. & Mrs. Caudle. ''What Mr. Caudle? You'll have a separate room? You'll not be tormented in this manner? No you won't Sir_not while I'm alive'' Vide Punch.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Engraving. Sheet: 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6''). Marking.
Mrs Caudle was the most famous creation of the playwright and journalist Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857). 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialized in 'Punch' in 1845, and Thackeray wrote that ‘Almost all the events and perplexities of Cockney domestic economy pass before her’, wrote Thackeray of the character, ‘and … a student in the twentieth century may get out of her lectures as accurate pictures of London life as we can get out of the pictures of Hogarth’ (W. M. Thackeray, Contributions to the ‘Morning Chronicle’, ed. G. N. Ray, 1955, 94).
[Ref: 50404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. & Mrs. Caudle. No! Mr. Caudle, I shall not go to sleep like a good soul!" Vide Punch.
[John Leech.]
[1846.]
Hand-coloured lithograph, laid on album sheet. Sheet: 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9"). Trimmed to printed bottom, foxing.
A comic scene in which Mr and Mrs Caudle lie in bed. Mrs Caudle was the comic creation of Douglas William Jerrold who often featured in Punch magazine.
[Ref: 46148] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Caudles Illustrated Curtain Lectures No.2 ''Ah! I expected what it would come to when you were made a Mason!!''. Vide Punch.
Published by Preston, 31 Burlington Arcade [c.1850]
Lithograph printed in brown ink with hand-colouring and gum arabic. Sheet 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½").
A pillow-talk scene. Mrs Caudle was the most famous creation of the playwright and journalist Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857). 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialized in 'Punch' in 1845, and Thackeray wrote that ‘Almost all the events and perplexities of Cockney domestic economy pass before her', wrote Thackeray of the character, and 'a student in the twentieth century may get out of her lectures as accurate pictures of London life as we can get out of the pictures of Hogarth' (W. M. Thackeray, Contributions to the ‘Morning Chronicle', ed. G. N. Ray, 1955, 94). This print is probably a separately-issued copy sold at Burlington Arcade, which runs alongside Burlington House between Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens.
[Ref: 51929] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. Caudles Illustrated Curtain Lectures] It's very easy, Mr Cuadle, for you to say you wont be worried in this way.
Rock & Co. London [c.1850]
Wood engraving with hand coloir. Sheet 85 x 110mm (3¼ x 4¼").
A pillow-talk scene. Mrs Caudle was the most famous creation of the playwright and journalist Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857). 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialized in 'Punch' in 1845, and Thackeray wrote that ‘Almost all the events and perplexities of Cockney domestic economy pass before her’, wrote Thackeray of the character, and 'a student in the twentieth century may get out of her lectures as accurate pictures of London life as we can get out of the pictures of Hogarth’ (W. M. Thackeray, Contributions to the ‘Morning Chronicle’, ed. G. N. Ray, 1955, 94).
[Ref: 51940] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Caudles Illustrated Curtain Lectures No.4 "You to go to Greenwich Fair, and race up and down the hill, If I were you I should hide my head under the clothes, and be ashamed of it!"
Published by Preston, 31 Burlington Arcade [c.1850]
Lithograph printed in brown ink with hand-colouring and gum arabic. Sheet 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½").
Mrs Caudle was the most famous creation of the playwright and journalist Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857). 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialized in 'Punch' in 1845, and Thackeray wrote that ‘Almost all the events and perplexities of Cockney domestic economy pass before her', wrote Thackeray of the character, ‘and … a student in the twentieth century may get out of her lectures as accurate pictures of London life as we can get out of the pictures of Hogarth' (W. M. Thackeray, Contributions to the ‘Morning Chronicle', ed. G. N. Ray, 1955, 94). This print is probably a separately-issued copy sold at Burlington Arcade, which runs alongside Burlington House between Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens.
[Ref: 46590] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures. "Ha! you are an aggravating creature, Caudle; lying there like the mummy of a man, and never as much as opening your lips to one." Lecture 15.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Hand-coloured etching in relief, on embossed and pierced patterned border trademarked Dobbs Bailey & Co. 114 x 146mm. 4¼ x 5¾". Laid on separate embossed album sheet.
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was a journalist later on in life and worked for Punch magazine in which Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialised. A man and woman, probably Mr and Mrs Caudle, lying in a double bed, both wearing night-caps, the man attempting to sleep while his wife harangues him for staying out late and spending his money outside the home on strangers.
See BM: 1956,0915.2.
[Ref: 17472] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Choice of a Wife.
Drawn by M.E[gerton]. Esqr. Engraved by G. Hunt.
Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. [n.d., c.1825.]
Very fine hand coloured etching with aquatint.. 340 x 255mm, 13½ x 10". A fine impression, with margins, uncut.
Social satire: two rakish bachelors, 'Charles' and 'Tom', sit together discussing their ideal wife over a punch-bowl in 'the Hummums' hotel'. In a mirror to right are reflected a yawning waiter, a hanging candelabra, and a wall-clock pointing to 12.15. After M Egerton (1821 - 1827; fl.), humorous designer and social satirist; apparently an amateur since he often signs as 'Esq'. Issued as a pair with 'The Choice of a Husband', featuring two young women in conversation.
BM Satires 15007. Hickman: p.48.
[Ref: 19576] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Church and Steeple. "Bless me her Ladyship exclaims, "Who's thus, so monstrous tall, This Son of Mars, who holds his head So high above us all?" "They meant him Lady, for the Church, Tis whisper'd 'mongst the people,""Dear Sir, you surely must mistake Perhaps you mean the Steeple."
Alfred Mills del et sc:t.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Rare etching with hand-colouring, sheet 175 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate. Creasing. Light staining.
Caricatured scene at a rout: a young woman points out a tall, awkward officer in tight regimentals, while a grotesque elderly man bows beside her. Other caricatured guests look on with amused attention.
BM Satires 10653.
[Ref: 67893] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Citizen Retired, or Business at an End till Monday.
[Engraved by John Raphael Smith.]
[n.d., c.1780.] Publish'd as the Act directs. Printed for Carrington Bowles, Map & Printseller, Nº69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Some foxing and pin hole near centre in the gentlemen's waistcoat. Date erased from print on lower right.
A gentleman sitting, wearing a coat, breeches and top boots, with his fashionable mistress sat upon his knee.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. BM Satires 4519. D'Oench 24.
[Ref: 64498] £360.00

L'Amour de Ville, ou l'Amour Coquet.
Inventé et peint par Ch. Coypel 1731. Graavé par Lépicié 1732.
A Paris chez L. Surugue graveur du Roy rüe des Noyers vis avis S.t Yves.
Fine etching, 18th century watermark. 355 x 245mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins
A young woman pretends to be captivated by a amorous young man while happily accepting a love letter slipped into her hand by a young African servant.
[Ref: 67947] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Coblers Cure for a Scolding Wife.
Rowlandson Del.
London Pub Aug by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside. [n.d, c.1815.]
Fine hand-coloured etching, J. Whatman watermark. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Left corner loss. Taped into mount at top.
A cobbler sews his wife's mouth shut, aided by a laughing maid, who holds up a candle to light the room.
BM Satires 12148, with the date scratched out rather than erased as this example.
[Ref: 68796] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Young Sweep in Love, or the House-Maid's Conquest.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard London. Publish'd 29 May 1773.
Mezzotint with etching and hand-colouring, sheet 145 x 115mm (5¾ x 4½"). Trimmed to image, losing publication line.
A chimney-sweep reaches up to kiss a tall housemaid while another servant, hiding under the mantelshelf, watches on. Behind, fireplace with bellows hanging, pestle and mortar and candles on a shelf, and 'A New Love Song' stuck to the wall. Reduced version of an earlier print itself derived from a different print, 'The Unfortunate Discovery', after John Collet (c.1725-80), painter and prolific designer of humorous scenes for publishers to make prints of.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; see BM Satires 4589 for larger version.
[Ref: 32374] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Comforts of Matrimony. a good Toast.
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured aquatint. 270 x 320mm (10½ x 12½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1810, large margins.
A handsome young couple sit at a breakfast-table near a fire, the husband toasting a muffin, his wife with her arm round his shoulder. Around them are three young children and a dog. Originally published 1809 by Reeve & Jones, this example has their inscription removed and the thick aquatint border reduced, with much of the detail of the scene worn away.
BM: 11452.
[Ref: 51875] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Conclusion, or the Last Stage of Elopement.
Publish'd by I.Phillips No.164, Piccadilly London. [c.1786.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 235mm. 14 x 9¼". Trimmed to the image top and sides. Some creasing. Glue stain to the bottom left-hand corner.
A woman with her arm held by a young man who directs her towards a waiting coach.
CS: undescribed.
[Ref: 16346] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Coquettes. (A Scene in Paris).
Publish'd Feb.y. 21. 1803. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 200 x 245mm (8 x 9¼"). Trimmed.
A young woman sits on a chair while a young man stands beside her, in a scene to the right the woman receives a letter from a messanger.
[Ref: 43967] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Wedding. ''O Pan, Tegean God_be here Propitious'' Virgil, Georgic, 1st. verse. 17.
A. Parson, Del.t.
[London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.]
Hand-coloured etching, watermark 'J. Whatman 1825'. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet.
A scene showing a newly married couple walking out of a country church, followed by the rest of the congregation.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50726] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Courtship. By this hand I swear that your property I can easily dispense - But your person...oh, oh. there I feel it Oh. Oh.'
H. Alken del.t. W. Day lithog. 17 Gate Str.t.
[London, Pub.d by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place, 1828.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 165 x 190mm (6½ x 7½"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A handsome beau on one knee before a large woman dressed like a wedding cake.
[Ref: 41797] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Courtship. Plate VI.
[Robert Seymour]
London. Published by Thomas M.cLean. 26. Haymarket. July 1.st 1829.
Fine hand-coloured etching, 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A series of scenes depicts Pickle’s romantic misadventures. He first encounters a fashionable woman when he sees her lying in shallow water after her horse has bolted, leaving an empty gig behind, love at first sight. Later, he dreams of her while sleeping with a copy of Ovid’s Art of Love on his pillow; above his head, dreamlike images of the lady, a galloping horse, and his own face appear among clouds. The next morning, he visits the lady and is welcomed flirtatiously into her neat parlour. Their courtship continues in a picturesque tea garden, where she coyly accepts his declaration of love beneath the trees as a waiter serves tea and a smiling sun looks down. Soon after, Pickle visits her again in her well-appointed room. As they sit together on the sofa, the portrait of her late husband glares down. She remarks that she despises greed, while Pickle replies that only the wealthy can afford to think little of money. Their courtship culminates in marriage, symbolized by a clergyman-like Cupid holding a wedding ring beneath a setting ''honeymoon.'' The dream collapses the next day, when Pickle discovers his new wife is not a wealthy widow but a former milliner with five plain children from her first marriage. She cheerfully explains that, lacking fortune but blessed with family, she thought it best to marry again. Two smaller accompanying scenes show Pickle gallantly helping the lady into a Thames boat and later assisting her from a gig, moments from the courtship that led to his ill-fated union.
Bm Satires 15988.
[Ref: 67476] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Cries of London (Gents' New Style) No.6. (Prudent Mamma) I should have no objection Mr. Sap Green...
Dean & Son, Publishers, &c. 31, Ludgate Hill London.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 300 x 220mm (11¾ x 8½''). Foxing.
An interior scene showing a middle aged woman in conversation with a young man who wishes to marry her daughter, from outside a peddlar calls through the window.
[Ref: 51097] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid & Psyche. I wish I had a thousand pound [/] I'd give it thee, my Honey. [/] Oh! give me what I value more, [/] Your love and looks so funny!.
Printed by G. E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St.
Pub. by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket. [n.d., c1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 250 x 225mm (9¾ x 9"). Trimmed. Some staining.
A humorous valentine showing a funny looking man and a woman dressed as the mythical lovers Cupid and Psyche. Ballet interest.
[Ref: 40918] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Cure for Love. No Cure. No Pay.
Last MD Invt.
Pub.d Octo.r 1806 by Walker 7 Cornhill.
Hand-coloured etching. 350 x 247mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to coloured edge.
A fat ugly man stands in a dilapidated wash-house, one foot on a rough stool, the other trampling on his wig; he gazes up at a noose hanging from a beam, saying, "Oh! my hard Fate!" / Why did I trust her ever?" / What story is not full of Womans Falsehood?" At his feet is a letter: 'You old Fool if you ever [? trouble] me again with your Stupid epistles I will expose you in the public Papers Peggy Perkins.'
BM Satires 13454.
[Ref: 52281] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Day Before Marriage.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 165 x 255mm, (6½ x 10"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet with title separate.
A young maiden seated in her boudoir holding up a necklace. A harp and music score dominate the table space. A small spaniel is seated below on a cushioned stool.
[Ref: 39964] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Dear Albert, arter all there's nothing like the Valtz! I vonders if the Kiveen feels the same delightful sensations when she's Valtzing with her Albert, as I dos?
JLM [in image]
London, Pub.d by J L Marks Long Lane Smithfield. [n.d. c.1840]
Very rare finely hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Folds. Tears. What looks like make up, obscurring part of the lady's face.
Satire print from the Victorian era that parodies a plump, aristocratic German woman dancing with a grin-faced black man dressed shabbily; the man appears to be her servant. With the caption "Dear Albert, artist all, there's nothing like the Valtz!," the woman parodies her pretenses of comparing herself to Queen Victoria, whose husband was Prince Albert. I wonder if the Kiveen experiences the same delightful feelings as I do when she's kissing Albert. Although slavery had been outlawed across the British Empire by the time this print was probably created (after 1833) the way Albert is portrayed—his big smile, wide eyes, and innocent manner—is evocative of the racial stereotypes prevalent at the time.
[Ref: 62031] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

I will pay no more debts of her Contracting
Mr. Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton f.
Published 5th December 1772 by J.Bretherton New Bond Street.
Engraving. 160 x 215mm (6¼ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A man refuses to settle a bill his wife has incurred an a mercer's.
BM Satire 5085.
[Ref: 1025] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Delights of Love - a Family Catch.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Sept.r 4th, 1804 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 265 x 370m (10½ x 14½"). Large margins. Laid on archival paper and false margins added.
Daughter, mother, and father sit by a small oblong table, singing a catch. Daughter: 'Give me the sweet delights of love / Let not anxious cares destroy them, / Oh how divine still to enjoy them'. Mother: 'Pure are the blessings love bestowing, / Peace and harmony ever flowing.' Father, angrily: 'A smoaky house, a failing trade, / Six squalling brats and a scolding Jade'.
BM Satire 10331. See our reference 51853 for framed version.
[Ref: 62869] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Delights of Love - a Family Catch.
[by Charles Williams.]
[Pub.d Sept.r 4th, 1804 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.] Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening'
Coloured etching. 250 x 350m (9¾ x 13¾"). Framed. 'Sept 9 1804' in old ink mss in title area. Unexamined out of frame.
Daughter, mother, and father sit by a small oblong table, singing a catch. Daughter: 'Give me the sweet delights of love / Let not anxious cares destroy them, / Oh how divine still to enjoy them'. Mother: 'Pure are the blessings love bestowing, / Peace and harmony ever flowing.' Father, angrily: 'A smoaky house, a failing trade, / Six squalling brats and a scolding Jade'.
BM Satire 10331. See reference 62869 for unframed version.
[Ref: 51853] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Fallen but Charming Creatures.]
[after Aleksandr Lebedev.]
[St Petersburg: Pol-Peti, 1862.]
Folio, disbound, 30 numbered lithographic plates, each 430 x 305mm (17 x 12"), as called for. Hinges strained, wear to plates, especially first and last, some staining, a few plates misbound.
An extremely rare set of the first issue of 'Fallen but Charming Creatures', 30 satirical plates after Aleksandr Lebedev (1830-98) with titles written by Vsevolod Krestovsky. The scenes depict 'kamelii' (camellias), urban women who used their sex to gain advancement, in various locations including the opera. All but two have Russian titles in Cyrillic: Plate 1 has a French quote from Victor Hugo's 'Les Chants du Crèpuscule' (Hugo's 'Lady of the Camellias' was the origin of the nickname); Plate 5 has a shopkeeper talking about her assistant like one of her wares. The series with another 30 lithographs, issued separately, then 'An additional album, Another Ten Fallen but Charming Creatures' in 1863.
Colleen Lucey: ''Fallen but Charming Creatures'': The Demimondaine in Russian Literature and Visual Culture of the 1860s. (PDF available for download)
[Ref: 52504] £950.00 view all images for this item

The Detection.
H. Wigstead. [Etched by Thomas Rowlandson.]
[Published by S.W. Fores, 1796.]
Fine hand-coloured etching, Collector's mark M.W. Sheet: 240 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼''). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
A scene in a drawing room, in which an old man sleeps in his chair before the fire, behind him a young couple sit next to each other on a piano, from the other side of the room a woman wake up and spots the lovers.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 51063] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Discord of Matrimony.
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles. No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard London. Published as the Act 407 directs, 1 May, 1793.
Mezzotint, fine with very large margins. 110mm x 150mm. (4¼" x 6"). Hole in upper margin from previous binding.
Portrait of a well-dressed husband and wife looking angrily at each other. A humorous mezzotint 'droll' from the publisher Carington Bowles, who specialized in such prints.
[Ref: 31910] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Dull Husband.
Rowlandson 1789.
Etching. Sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to printed border.
An interior scene in which an attractive, well-dressed woman plays the harp, an open music book and a lute lie on the floor and her husband sits, asleep in the chair next to her.
BM Satires 9677.
[Ref: 67915] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Dull Husband.
Rowlandson 1789.
Etching. Sheet: 215 x 175mm (8½ x 7"). Trimmed with some light staining.
An interior scene in which an attractive, well-dressed woman plays the harp, an open music book and a lute lie on the floor and her husband sits, asleep in the chair next to her.
BM Satire 9677.
[Ref: 41521] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Enrag'd Batchelor, or the Plague of a Single State. Batter'd, deseas'd, and past his youthfull Pranks...
Boitard Inv.t et Delin. W. Proud sculp.
[London: Carington Bowles?, c.1760.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 340 x 230mm (13¼ x 9''). Trimmed into text at bottom, creasing.
A comic scene showing a batchelor enraged to find a baby in a basket in his house, the baby is a punishment from the gods for his selfish behaviour.
[Ref: 50735] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Enrag'd Batchelor, or the Plague of a Single State. Batter'd, deseas'd, and past his youthfull Pranks... 30.
Boitard Inv.t et Delin. W. Proud sculp.
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House, in St Pauls Church yard, London [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾''), with large margins. A little wear in corners of margins.
An aging bachelor glares at a baby in a basket in his house, left by one of his mistresses.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 55371] £380.00

One of the Fair-sex. Busby'ys Humorous Etchings, 68.
Design'd by E. Penny. Engrd. by T L Busby.
Pubd. 1827 at the Artist's Depository. 21 Charlotte Street. Fitzroy Squ London.
Etching engraving. 115 x 146mm (4½ x 5¾").
An irrate wife, with hands on hips, berates her husband for thinking that she will submit to anything; his response is that she has minsunderstood and taken it in the wrong way.
[Ref: 52350] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Happy Family. "A Quie Hint to the Wives of England."
George Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare etching. Sheet 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed and pasted onto album paper.
From a plate with five satirical scenes. A mother sits contently embroidering, while her family are all suspended in the air in baby jumpers. The young children sit sulking, with arms crossed, their doll also dangling, an older girl sits with her head in a book. Beside the wife is her husband, smoking a pipe, his slipper having fallen to the ground.
[Ref: 66806] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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