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The Crops Last Shift. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Cruikshanks. Etch.d by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by W.Locke Nov.r 1.st 1791.
Etching, sheet 210 x 230mm (8¼ x 9"). Small margins. Trimmed to plate on two sides, folding creases, as normal.
Four young bloods have attacked an old woman on a donkey with a pannier of potatoes. Their hair is cropped, and they have bludgeons. One has cut off the donkey's tail; another, who holds it, has fallen backwards. A third fills his hat with potatoes which have fallen from the donkey's basket, while a fourth stands with clenched fists facing the old woman. On the collar of a bulldog beside him is inscribed 'Barrymore' (reversed, and only legible in a mirror). The print was published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791.
BM Satires 7998.
[Ref: 59536] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Cruikshanks. Etch.d by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by W.Locke Nov.r 1.st 1791.
Etching, sheet 210 x 230mm (8¼ x 9"). Small margins. Trimmed to plate on two sides, folding creases, as normal.
Four young bloods have attacked an old woman on a donkey with a pannier of potatoes. Their hair is cropped, and they have bludgeons. One has cut off the donkey's tail; another, who holds it, has fallen backwards. A third fills his hat with potatoes which have fallen from the donkey's basket, while a fourth stands with clenched fists facing the old woman. On the collar of a bulldog beside him is inscribed 'Barrymore' (reversed, and only legible in a mirror). The print was published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791.
BM Satires 7998.
[Ref: 59536] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Auction Extraordinary. HB Sketches No. 522.
HB. A. Ducotés Lithog.y 70 St. Martins Lane.
published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, 23rd Feb.y 1838.
Hand coloured lithograph. 'HB Subscribers Copy' blind stamp in lower left corner. Sheet size: 385 x 285mm (15¼ x 11¼"). Tipped into backing sheet.
A scene inside an auction room, with the auctioneer (George Robins) standing behind a pulpit, auctioning objects listed to the left in an advertisement. The dishes to be auctioned are carried around by two men in the foreground, and examined by a man standing in to the left (Lord Brougham), and two men at the right (Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel). Two men standing in the background (Thomas Spring Rice, Lord Russell) are watching the scene. The scene makes reference to Lord Melbourne who was 'a guest at the dinner-table of Her Majesty, and when she was at Windsor, he lived almost wholly at the Castle. The desolate state of his own home was the subject of frequent remark in the daily papers, and furnished occasion for a good deal of pleasantry', from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841.
[Ref: 36584] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
HB. A. Ducotés Lithog.y 70 St. Martins Lane.
published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, 23rd Feb.y 1838.
Hand coloured lithograph. 'HB Subscribers Copy' blind stamp in lower left corner. Sheet size: 385 x 285mm (15¼ x 11¼"). Tipped into backing sheet.
A scene inside an auction room, with the auctioneer (George Robins) standing behind a pulpit, auctioning objects listed to the left in an advertisement. The dishes to be auctioned are carried around by two men in the foreground, and examined by a man standing in to the left (Lord Brougham), and two men at the right (Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel). Two men standing in the background (Thomas Spring Rice, Lord Russell) are watching the scene. The scene makes reference to Lord Melbourne who was 'a guest at the dinner-table of Her Majesty, and when she was at Windsor, he lived almost wholly at the Castle. The desolate state of his own home was the subject of frequent remark in the daily papers, and furnished occasion for a good deal of pleasantry', from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841.
[Ref: 36584] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Levee, or the Maecenas of Scrubs and Scaramouches. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Collings. Etch'd by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C° June Ist 1791.
Etching. 195 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). Original binding folds.
A boxing satire. A group of parasitic followers surround Richard Barry (1769-1793), 7th Earl of Barrymore, including boxers, jockeys, cock-fighters and a man resembling the Prince of Wales. On the back wall are paintings of 'Scrub' (after his nickname 'Lord Scrub), racing, cockfighting and a pierrot and harlequin. On the floor is an open book: 'New Pantomime by Bar & Co'. Despite being painted at an early age as an angelic Cupid by Richard Cosway, Barry found infamy as a rake, beginning at school at Eton, from where he would hire cabs to London to visit prostitutes. The Prince of Wales nicknamed him 'Hellgate'. He married the daughter of a sedan chair man: after he accidently killed himself with his own musket aged 23, she turned to prostitution and bare-knuckle boxing before becoming a matron of the female prisoners at the Tothill Fields Bridewell.
[Ref: 60162] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Collings. Etch'd by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C° June Ist 1791.
Etching. 195 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). Original binding folds.
A boxing satire. A group of parasitic followers surround Richard Barry (1769-1793), 7th Earl of Barrymore, including boxers, jockeys, cock-fighters and a man resembling the Prince of Wales. On the back wall are paintings of 'Scrub' (after his nickname 'Lord Scrub), racing, cockfighting and a pierrot and harlequin. On the floor is an open book: 'New Pantomime by Bar & Co'. Despite being painted at an early age as an angelic Cupid by Richard Cosway, Barry found infamy as a rake, beginning at school at Eton, from where he would hire cabs to London to visit prostitutes. The Prince of Wales nicknamed him 'Hellgate'. He married the daughter of a sedan chair man: after he accidently killed himself with his own musket aged 23, she turned to prostitution and bare-knuckle boxing before becoming a matron of the female prisoners at the Tothill Fields Bridewell.
[Ref: 60162] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
A Scene in the Honey Moon or Conjugal Felicity.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub the Largest assortment of any House in Town. [n.d., 1828.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Small margins.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed 'Best Wiltshire' . The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, married Harriet Mellon, widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. The following year, to celebrate their anniversary, they held a reception, attended by two royal dukes and Prince Leopold (seen on the left). The Duke presented his wife with a silver fruit basket on which was engraved a flitch of bacon; the Duchess then announced her gift of a six-oared cutter called The Falcon, and the boatmen in their liveries made an appearance.
BM Satires 15600.
[Ref: 39607] £360.00
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub the Largest assortment of any House in Town. [n.d., 1828.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Small margins.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed 'Best Wiltshire' . The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, married Harriet Mellon, widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. The following year, to celebrate their anniversary, they held a reception, attended by two royal dukes and Prince Leopold (seen on the left). The Duke presented his wife with a silver fruit basket on which was engraved a flitch of bacon; the Duchess then announced her gift of a six-oared cutter called The Falcon, and the boatmen in their liveries made an appearance.
BM Satires 15600.
[Ref: 39607] £360.00
Militia galantry - or The Soldiers cowardly retreat to save his Bacon; at the expence of his fair Inamorata.
[by Charles Williams.
Pub.d 1821 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins.
Between signs pointing to Cheltenham and Gloucester, a woman kneels at the feet of Col. Berkeley, a tall handsome man in regimentals, wearing a plumed cocked hat. He holds a flag inscribed Letters to Amuse the Public expose the Writer and save my Pocket; on this hangs a letter-file on which papers are spiked. She begs ''In Pity don't Expose me!''. He says ''They will save me thousands''. A coach of onlookers comment, including ''Where's the Honor of a Soldier and Faith there is none in this''. William Berkeley (1786-18570, 1st Earl FitzHardinge, was sued by coach proprietor John Waterhouse for ''Criminal conversation'' with Waterhouse's wife. Despite the attempts satirised here, Waterhouse was awarded £1000 damages at Gloucester Assizes. The scandal did not stop Berkeley becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1836.
BM Satires 14274a, a second state with 'Militia' instead of 'Military'.
[Ref: 54579] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[by Charles Williams.
Pub.d 1821 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins.
Between signs pointing to Cheltenham and Gloucester, a woman kneels at the feet of Col. Berkeley, a tall handsome man in regimentals, wearing a plumed cocked hat. He holds a flag inscribed Letters to Amuse the Public expose the Writer and save my Pocket; on this hangs a letter-file on which papers are spiked. She begs ''In Pity don't Expose me!''. He says ''They will save me thousands''. A coach of onlookers comment, including ''Where's the Honor of a Soldier and Faith there is none in this''. William Berkeley (1786-18570, 1st Earl FitzHardinge, was sued by coach proprietor John Waterhouse for ''Criminal conversation'' with Waterhouse's wife. Despite the attempts satirised here, Waterhouse was awarded £1000 damages at Gloucester Assizes. The scandal did not stop Berkeley becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1836.
BM Satires 14274a, a second state with 'Militia' instead of 'Military'.
[Ref: 54579] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Flying_Beadles. Oh my goodness there is a mouse!!! Oh! My good gracious! Here is a great "Black Beadle"!!! !!!'
Designed and etched by George Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 215 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A satirical scene depicting two vignettes, the first; a gentleman seated with a book and a poker in his hand, a lady fleeing from the room, both having seen a small mouse, the table falling over;. The second; a company of ladies, shocked and standing on furniture to avoid an insect-like 'black beadle', who wears his robes of office and carries his staff, a maid to the left, ringing the bell; five smaller insect-like 'black beadles' below the image, fleeing to the left and right.
[Ref: 66908] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Designed and etched by George Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 215 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A satirical scene depicting two vignettes, the first; a gentleman seated with a book and a poker in his hand, a lady fleeing from the room, both having seen a small mouse, the table falling over;. The second; a company of ladies, shocked and standing on furniture to avoid an insect-like 'black beadle', who wears his robes of office and carries his staff, a maid to the left, ringing the bell; five smaller insect-like 'black beadles' below the image, fleeing to the left and right.
[Ref: 66908] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Boxers of Bangor or Messengers of Peace.
Pub.d Aug.t 6. 1796 by S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caricatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman 1794 watermark; S.W.F. ink stamp on right. Plate: 255 x 395mm (10 x 15½"). Stain in small margins. Very slight printer's crease.
A satirical scene showing the Bishop of Bangor leading a riot to remove Samuel Grindley from a building attached to the Cathedral. Kneeling at the Bishop's feet are two young women, one of which is Mrs Elizabeth Warren who succeeded in calming the mob.
BM Satire 8882.
[Ref: 46736] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d Aug.t 6. 1796 by S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caricatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman 1794 watermark; S.W.F. ink stamp on right. Plate: 255 x 395mm (10 x 15½"). Stain in small margins. Very slight printer's crease.
A satirical scene showing the Bishop of Bangor leading a riot to remove Samuel Grindley from a building attached to the Cathedral. Kneeling at the Bishop's feet are two young women, one of which is Mrs Elizabeth Warren who succeeded in calming the mob.
BM Satire 8882.
[Ref: 46736] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Carlton House Botchers.
For the Oxford Mag.
[1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼'') large margins. Foxing.
A satirical scene in a tailors workroom showing early image of an iron, above the figures heads hangs the petticoats of the Princess of Wales. A group including Lord Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, the Duke of Bedford and the Duke of Grafton who stand around Mr Jeremiah Dyson who is sewing a coat probably intended for the King. A masonic image.
BM Satire 4425.
[Ref: 48431] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
For the Oxford Mag.
[1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼'') large margins. Foxing.
A satirical scene in a tailors workroom showing early image of an iron, above the figures heads hangs the petticoats of the Princess of Wales. A group including Lord Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, the Duke of Bedford and the Duke of Grafton who stand around Mr Jeremiah Dyson who is sewing a coat probably intended for the King. A masonic image.
BM Satire 4425.
[Ref: 48431] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
York Commission Warehouse.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d February 1809 by Walker No7 Cornhill_
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 330mm (9¼ x 13").
Satire on Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852) published around the time of the Duke of York's trial at the conclusion of the cash-for-commissions scandal. Clarke was mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, while he was Commander-in-Chief of the army. In 1809 she testified before the House of Commons that she had sold army commissions with the Duke of York's knowledge, forcing him to resign. He was reinstated, but not before he had cut all ties to Clarke and paid her a considerable sum to prevent her from publishing his letters to her. Here she stands before a large doorway inscribed 'Clark and Company'. Inside can be seen stacks of commissions, labelled: Captains Commissions 500 each, Half-pay Commissions 200 each, Lieutenant, Colonel, Major, Cornet. She urges 'now Gentlemen you had better be quick I have a few bargains to dispose of as the partnership is dissolving'. On the right stands a man playing a fiddle; from his coat-pockets hang papers. Beside him lies a large Note Book. Above his head hangs upside down a portrait: The Dukes Head; the upper part only of the Duke of York's profile is visible, defaced by a black mark, the rest of the picture being cut off by the upper margin of the design. On the left two military bandsmen play a drum and fife.
BM Satires: 11216. W395.
[Ref: 65677] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d February 1809 by Walker No7 Cornhill_
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 330mm (9¼ x 13").
Satire on Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852) published around the time of the Duke of York's trial at the conclusion of the cash-for-commissions scandal. Clarke was mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, while he was Commander-in-Chief of the army. In 1809 she testified before the House of Commons that she had sold army commissions with the Duke of York's knowledge, forcing him to resign. He was reinstated, but not before he had cut all ties to Clarke and paid her a considerable sum to prevent her from publishing his letters to her. Here she stands before a large doorway inscribed 'Clark and Company'. Inside can be seen stacks of commissions, labelled: Captains Commissions 500 each, Half-pay Commissions 200 each, Lieutenant, Colonel, Major, Cornet. She urges 'now Gentlemen you had better be quick I have a few bargains to dispose of as the partnership is dissolving'. On the right stands a man playing a fiddle; from his coat-pockets hang papers. Beside him lies a large Note Book. Above his head hangs upside down a portrait: The Dukes Head; the upper part only of the Duke of York's profile is visible, defaced by a black mark, the rest of the picture being cut off by the upper margin of the design. On the left two military bandsmen play a drum and fife.
BM Satires: 11216. W395.
[Ref: 65677] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Cocking the Greeks.
Pub.d May 16th 1796 by S.W.Fores, No 50 the Corner of Sackville Street. NB Folios of caractures lent for the Evening.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate. Taped tear top left in sky.
Lady Archer and Lady Buckinghamshire in the pillory, Lady Buckinghamshire standing on her Faro bank box with her breasts bare. Lord Kenyon stands beneath, ringing a bell and declaiming against illegal gambling. Aristocratic women were unable to gamble in public houses so often set up their own private tables, however, following the start of the French Revolution any behaviour by the aristocratic classes which might cause the working and middle to react was stongly clamped down on. Chief Justaice Lord Kenyon, while judging a case about gambling debts, suggested the pillory as punishment for gamblers, 'whatever may be their rank. or station in the country'. The ladies here ran a notorious faro-bank.
BM 8878.
[Ref: 61897] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d May 16th 1796 by S.W.Fores, No 50 the Corner of Sackville Street. NB Folios of caractures lent for the Evening.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate. Taped tear top left in sky.
Lady Archer and Lady Buckinghamshire in the pillory, Lady Buckinghamshire standing on her Faro bank box with her breasts bare. Lord Kenyon stands beneath, ringing a bell and declaiming against illegal gambling. Aristocratic women were unable to gamble in public houses so often set up their own private tables, however, following the start of the French Revolution any behaviour by the aristocratic classes which might cause the working and middle to react was stongly clamped down on. Chief Justaice Lord Kenyon, while judging a case about gambling debts, suggested the pillory as punishment for gamblers, 'whatever may be their rank. or station in the country'. The ladies here ran a notorious faro-bank.
BM 8878.
[Ref: 61897] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
A Trip to Coventry an Old Dance to a New Figure.
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d June 2d 1802 by S W Fores Picc[adilly.] Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Eve[ning.]
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; S.W.F. in ink bottom right; 250 x 400mm (9¾ x 15¾"). Patched hole in publisher's inscription, losing text on bottom right. Small margins
An elderly Lord Coventry, attempts to dance with two young girls, propped up with two walking sticks.
BM Satires 9930.
[Ref: 51860] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d June 2d 1802 by S W Fores Picc[adilly.] Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Eve[ning.]
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; S.W.F. in ink bottom right; 250 x 400mm (9¾ x 15¾"). Patched hole in publisher's inscription, losing text on bottom right. Small margins
An elderly Lord Coventry, attempts to dance with two young girls, propped up with two walking sticks.
BM Satires 9930.
[Ref: 51860] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
The Devils Doings or the Cruel Radical Harpies destroying A Feast. "now by St Paul's the work goes bravely on --
[Paul Pry] Esq De. They seem to be Introding here
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are Daily brough out [n.d. c.April 1828.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Plate 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
Satire on disputes in the parish of St Paul's, Covent Garden. The Devil stands on a rooftop, overturning a dinner-table and upsetting the guests who fall on clouds of dust. The guests are also assailed by harpies (winged men whose bodies terminate in barbed and scaly tails). One of these is James Corder, holding a long bill for various dinners. He attacks 'the Grand Carver mounted on his Cockroach' (Roach) and holds out a paper inscribed 'Majority 7'. The dust forms a background, and is inscribed Dust for the Eyes of the Parishioners; looming through it is the façade of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. In April 1828 Corder was elected Vestry Clerk for St Paul's, Covent Garden, beating Roach by a majority of seven.
BM Satires: 15529.
[Ref: 63724] £320.00
[Paul Pry] Esq De. They seem to be Introding here
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are Daily brough out [n.d. c.April 1828.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Plate 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
Satire on disputes in the parish of St Paul's, Covent Garden. The Devil stands on a rooftop, overturning a dinner-table and upsetting the guests who fall on clouds of dust. The guests are also assailed by harpies (winged men whose bodies terminate in barbed and scaly tails). One of these is James Corder, holding a long bill for various dinners. He attacks 'the Grand Carver mounted on his Cockroach' (Roach) and holds out a paper inscribed 'Majority 7'. The dust forms a background, and is inscribed Dust for the Eyes of the Parishioners; looming through it is the façade of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. In April 1828 Corder was elected Vestry Clerk for St Paul's, Covent Garden, beating Roach by a majority of seven.
BM Satires: 15529.
[Ref: 63724] £320.00
An East India Silk Sale; or, Mr. Sleek Hum-Bucking'em, i.e. the Trading Patriot turned.
London Pub. by H. Fores Panton St. Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼''). Trimmed, repaired tear, slight crease.
A satire showing traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham, dressed in a turban kneeling before an English merchant with a list of services he can provide.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 51106] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
London Pub. by H. Fores Panton St. Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼''). Trimmed, repaired tear, slight crease.
A satire showing traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham, dressed in a turban kneeling before an English merchant with a list of services he can provide.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 51106] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A Fair-Lawn View - or the Portsmouth Journey. ''He that is robb'd not wanting / ''What is stolen, let him not know it, / ''And he's not robb'd at all.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub,d Jan.y 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Collectors stamp of Minto Wilson. Trimmed into plate.
A scene at Fairlawn house at Acton Green: a man (probably James Capy, Lord Portsmouth's valet) recoils at seeing Lady Portsmouth asleep in the arms of another man, while Lord Portsmouth sleeps on the farther side of the large bed. John Charles Wallop (1767-1853), 3rd Earl of Portsmouth, had an unsound mind from an early age. After the death of his first wife in 1813, John Hanson, his solicitor, quickly arranged the marriage of the earl and his own daughter, Mary Anne, intending to have the earl declared insane six months later. This failed (thanks to Lord Byron, who had given the bride away), so Mary Anne began an adulterous affair with William Alder, even having intercourse in the same bed with the Earl, fathering three children on her. Eventually it was discovered that the Earl was being badly mistreated by his new wife and her lover. He was adjudged to have been insane since 1809. In 1828 marriage was annulled, Mary Anne's children declared bastards and a judgment for the £40,000 cost of the trial was issued against her. She fled abroad.
BM Satires 14546. Collector's Mark Lugt L.1922a.
[Ref: 69228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub,d Jan.y 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Collectors stamp of Minto Wilson. Trimmed into plate.
A scene at Fairlawn house at Acton Green: a man (probably James Capy, Lord Portsmouth's valet) recoils at seeing Lady Portsmouth asleep in the arms of another man, while Lord Portsmouth sleeps on the farther side of the large bed. John Charles Wallop (1767-1853), 3rd Earl of Portsmouth, had an unsound mind from an early age. After the death of his first wife in 1813, John Hanson, his solicitor, quickly arranged the marriage of the earl and his own daughter, Mary Anne, intending to have the earl declared insane six months later. This failed (thanks to Lord Byron, who had given the bride away), so Mary Anne began an adulterous affair with William Alder, even having intercourse in the same bed with the Earl, fathering three children on her. Eventually it was discovered that the Earl was being badly mistreated by his new wife and her lover. He was adjudged to have been insane since 1809. In 1828 marriage was annulled, Mary Anne's children declared bastards and a judgment for the £40,000 cost of the trial was issued against her. She fled abroad.
BM Satires 14546. Collector's Mark Lugt L.1922a.
[Ref: 69228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Faro's Daughters, or the Kenyonian blow up to the Greeks!!!
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub May 16 1796 by SW Fores No.50 Piccadilly Folios of Caraicatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 270 x 400mm (10¾ x 15¾''). Small margins.
A political satire showing four women, Mrs Sturt, Mrs Concannon, Lady Sarah Archer and the Countess of Buckinghamshire in pillory, Charles James Fox sits between the legs of one of the women. Lord Kenyon, kneels in the foreground fanning a fire of games tables, dice and cards. Mrs Concannon ran a popular gaming house in Grafton Street.
BM Satire 8879.A.
[Ref: 51087] £480.00
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub May 16 1796 by SW Fores No.50 Piccadilly Folios of Caraicatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 270 x 400mm (10¾ x 15¾''). Small margins.
A political satire showing four women, Mrs Sturt, Mrs Concannon, Lady Sarah Archer and the Countess of Buckinghamshire in pillory, Charles James Fox sits between the legs of one of the women. Lord Kenyon, kneels in the foreground fanning a fire of games tables, dice and cards. Mrs Concannon ran a popular gaming house in Grafton Street.
BM Satire 8879.A.
[Ref: 51087] £480.00
![A Peep at a City Feast [&] A Sketch of Lord Mayor's Day.](jpegs/45861.jpg)
A Peep at a City Feast [&] A Sketch of Lord Mayor's Day. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
Etch.d by Barlow
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Two engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Two satirical prints which, together, show a frenetic feast taking place at the Mansion House, with figures such as Charles Cornwallis visible. Published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', although possibly a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the magazine.
[Ref: 45861] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Etch.d by Barlow
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Two engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Two satirical prints which, together, show a frenetic feast taking place at the Mansion House, with figures such as Charles Cornwallis visible. Published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', although possibly a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the magazine.
[Ref: 45861] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Female Court Marshall.
[n.d., c.1757.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8''). Creasing, repaired tears, surface dirt and stains.
A burlesque on Admiral Byng's court martial in the form of a mock trial for adultery of a fashionably-dressed lady. Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was court martialled and executed for 'failing' to relieve the besieged British garrison at the Battle of Minorca. Fashionably dressed women, in wide skirts sit around a large, round table.
BM Satire 3568.
[Ref: 50732] £320.00
[n.d., c.1757.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8''). Creasing, repaired tears, surface dirt and stains.
A burlesque on Admiral Byng's court martial in the form of a mock trial for adultery of a fashionably-dressed lady. Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was court martialled and executed for 'failing' to relieve the besieged British garrison at the Battle of Minorca. Fashionably dressed women, in wide skirts sit around a large, round table.
BM Satire 3568.
[Ref: 50732] £320.00
![[Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton] Whistling Dalmahoy and the Shads.](jpegs/27139.jpg)
[Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton] Whistling Dalmahoy and the Shads.
W.H Pyne del.t. Smart & Hunt sculp.t.
London, Published Nov.r 1, 1822, by S. & I. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Coloured aquatint. 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in the life of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton KG (1663-90), the illegitimate son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine. Grafton, a keen boxer, apparently used to challenge hackney coachmen to a fight, offering a guinea for his fare or nothing depending on the outcome. Here he is shown with a Thames waterman, who, having agreed to fight the Duke on a coal lighter, is leaving him stranded. Published in Pyne's 'The World in Miniature', the portrait of the Duke seems unfair: the reddness and lines of his face mark him as considerably older than the 27 years he attained before his death at the Siege of Cork.
For another plate from the same series see ref. 18360
[Ref: 27139] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
W.H Pyne del.t. Smart & Hunt sculp.t.
London, Published Nov.r 1, 1822, by S. & I. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Coloured aquatint. 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in the life of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton KG (1663-90), the illegitimate son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine. Grafton, a keen boxer, apparently used to challenge hackney coachmen to a fight, offering a guinea for his fare or nothing depending on the outcome. Here he is shown with a Thames waterman, who, having agreed to fight the Duke on a coal lighter, is leaving him stranded. Published in Pyne's 'The World in Miniature', the portrait of the Duke seems unfair: the reddness and lines of his face mark him as considerably older than the 27 years he attained before his death at the Siege of Cork.
For another plate from the same series see ref. 18360
[Ref: 27139] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
May Fashions, or Hints for a four in Hand Exhibition.
[Charles Williams]
Pub.d May 1st 1813 by the Proprietor of Town Talk.
Coloured etching. 270 x 430mm (10½ x 17"). Some creasing, laid on album paper at sides.
Elaborate coaches drive in procession through Cavendish Square. The first has a roof shaped like a pagoda; the second is driver by eccentric amateur actor Robert ''Romeo'' Coates (1772-1848), who is dressed as Lothario, with three huge feathers in his hat. A huge crowd wave and cheer. A satire of the Four-in-Hand Club and their desire for publicity.
BM Satires 12129, with extensive description.
[Ref: 64207] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles Williams]
Pub.d May 1st 1813 by the Proprietor of Town Talk.
Coloured etching. 270 x 430mm (10½ x 17"). Some creasing, laid on album paper at sides.
Elaborate coaches drive in procession through Cavendish Square. The first has a roof shaped like a pagoda; the second is driver by eccentric amateur actor Robert ''Romeo'' Coates (1772-1848), who is dressed as Lothario, with three huge feathers in his hat. A huge crowd wave and cheer. A satire of the Four-in-Hand Club and their desire for publicity.
BM Satires 12129, with extensive description.
[Ref: 64207] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or The Disapointed Dido still in Despair.
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman watermark. Sheet: 265 x 335mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged, a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 46621] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman watermark. Sheet: 265 x 335mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged, a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 46621] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or The Disapointed Dido still in Despair.
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Etching. Plate: 265 x 330mm (10½ x 13''). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 48406] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Etching. Plate: 265 x 330mm (10½ x 13''). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 48406] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
L'Enfant Trouve. A Sample of Roman Charity! or the misfortune of not being born with Marks of "the Talents".
J.s G.y inv & fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 19th 1797 by H.Humphrey, Bond Street.
Coloured etching 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾ "). Frame measures 475 x 380mm (18¾ x 15"). Slightly time stained. Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting members of the Grenville family surround a table on which a black footman places a basket containing a baby. On the further side of the table two brothers, Thomas Grenville and Lord Grenville. Marchioness and Marquis are to the right of the table and on left and profile are the two sons, Lord George Grenville and Lord Temple. The Grenvilles were criticized for supporting Catholic Emancipation, for accumulating sinecures, and for their allegedly sympathetic stance toward Napoleon. Their blend of frugality and opulence is symbolized by the guttering altar candles and the choice to send the child to the workhouse. The Marchioness served as a key figure in English Catholic society, hosting religious life at Stowe, where she employed a chaplain, Dr. Charles O'Conor, possibly represented as the Jesuit in question.
BM Satire 10986.
[Ref: 66031] £480.00
J.s G.y inv & fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 19th 1797 by H.Humphrey, Bond Street.
Coloured etching 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾ "). Frame measures 475 x 380mm (18¾ x 15"). Slightly time stained. Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting members of the Grenville family surround a table on which a black footman places a basket containing a baby. On the further side of the table two brothers, Thomas Grenville and Lord Grenville. Marchioness and Marquis are to the right of the table and on left and profile are the two sons, Lord George Grenville and Lord Temple. The Grenvilles were criticized for supporting Catholic Emancipation, for accumulating sinecures, and for their allegedly sympathetic stance toward Napoleon. Their blend of frugality and opulence is symbolized by the guttering altar candles and the choice to send the child to the workhouse. The Marchioness served as a key figure in English Catholic society, hosting religious life at Stowe, where she employed a chaplain, Dr. Charles O'Conor, possibly represented as the Jesuit in question.
BM Satire 10986.
[Ref: 66031] £480.00
The trial of Mr. Cumberland for spreading the Distemper among the horned Cattle at St. Albans & other Parts
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾''), with large margins. Marking.
An satirical print representing the Court of King's Bench during the trial of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, for 'criminal conversation' (i.e. adultery) with Lady Grosvenor. The majority have animal heads.
BM Satire 4401.
[Ref: 48427] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾''), with large margins. Marking.
An satirical print representing the Court of King's Bench during the trial of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, for 'criminal conversation' (i.e. adultery) with Lady Grosvenor. The majority have animal heads.
BM Satire 4401.
[Ref: 48427] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
High Life at Noon. With Touch indelicate his Grace / Approaches that angelic Place...
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Creased, tear in margin taped.
A duke and duchess take tea with a clergyman, although both are distracted. The duke fondles a servant girl as a black page slips the duchess a letter from her lover. A valet keeps a tradesman with a bill away. A monkey sits on the floor reading 'A Dissertation on Winding up the Clock by Tristram Shandy'. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
Not in British Museum.
[Ref: 57776] £360.00
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Creased, tear in margin taped.
A duke and duchess take tea with a clergyman, although both are distracted. The duke fondles a servant girl as a black page slips the duchess a letter from her lover. A valet keeps a tradesman with a bill away. A monkey sits on the floor reading 'A Dissertation on Winding up the Clock by Tristram Shandy'. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
Not in British Museum.
[Ref: 57776] £360.00
![[Lord Bute and William Hogarth] A Sett of Blocks for Hogarth's Wigs.](jpegs/68934.jpg)
[Lord Bute and William Hogarth] A Sett of Blocks for Hogarth's Wigs. price 6.
[Paul Sandby].
[Orignally c.1762, this printing c.1821.]
Etching. 235 x 385mm (9¼ x 15¼"), large margins. Slight spotting, stitch holes in left margin.
A satire of Lord Bute's negotiations to end the Seven Years' War, alluding to William Hogarth's 'Five Orders of Perriwigs'.
BM Satires 3916 with extensive description.
[Ref: 68934] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Paul Sandby].
[Orignally c.1762, this printing c.1821.]
Etching. 235 x 385mm (9¼ x 15¼"), large margins. Slight spotting, stitch holes in left margin.
A satire of Lord Bute's negotiations to end the Seven Years' War, alluding to William Hogarth's 'Five Orders of Perriwigs'.
BM Satires 3916 with extensive description.
[Ref: 68934] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Duncombe's Miniature Caricature Magazine. No.5. A fine Refiner, or a Search for the Philosopher's Stone!!
[n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. 115 x 152mm (4½ x 6"). Cut.
A satire on Alderman Cox's legal action against Edmund Kean for adultery with Charlotte Cox, at the King's Bench. The alderman stands at centre, wearing the cuckold's horns, feeding Kean's love letters to his wife (standing to the left) into a cooking pot as the devil stokes the fire with bellows. These letters were read out in court: one, addressed to 'Little Breeches' (as is one of the letters in the pot), continued 'My darling love/Little impudent bitch, Come immediately & apologise for your impudence yesterday'. Kean lost and was forced to pay £800 to Cox, although the public disapproval that forced him to leave the country cost him far more.
[Ref: 29062] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. 115 x 152mm (4½ x 6"). Cut.
A satire on Alderman Cox's legal action against Edmund Kean for adultery with Charlotte Cox, at the King's Bench. The alderman stands at centre, wearing the cuckold's horns, feeding Kean's love letters to his wife (standing to the left) into a cooking pot as the devil stokes the fire with bellows. These letters were read out in court: one, addressed to 'Little Breeches' (as is one of the letters in the pot), continued 'My darling love/Little impudent bitch, Come immediately & apologise for your impudence yesterday'. Kean lost and was forced to pay £800 to Cox, although the public disapproval that forced him to leave the country cost him far more.
[Ref: 29062] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Throwing up his Majesty's Fox Hounds.
Published as the Act directs April the 16th, 1782 by J.Langham, No 11. St Bride's Passage.
Engraving. 245 x 295mm.
Basil Feilding (1719-1800), Earl of Denbigh, vomiting up six foxhounds, and gesturing after a fox in the fields. Feilding was Master of the Royal Harriers and and Foxhounds from 1762 until the post was abolished in 1782 when Edmund Burke reformed the Royal finances. In 1777 Walpole called Feilding 'the lowest and most officious of the Court-Tools'.
BM: 5976.
[Ref: 6798] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published as the Act directs April the 16th, 1782 by J.Langham, No 11. St Bride's Passage.
Engraving. 245 x 295mm.
Basil Feilding (1719-1800), Earl of Denbigh, vomiting up six foxhounds, and gesturing after a fox in the fields. Feilding was Master of the Royal Harriers and and Foxhounds from 1762 until the post was abolished in 1782 when Edmund Burke reformed the Royal finances. In 1777 Walpole called Feilding 'the lowest and most officious of the Court-Tools'.
BM: 5976.
[Ref: 6798] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Lecture on Heads Embellished by Jn.o Lockington. 'N° 1. This is one of those extraordinary personages termed Conquerors; and may be thought great like Alexander, he having been where ambition has destroyed numbers; as tho' mankind was only made to be cut to Pieces. Such we call a Hero, a Warrior, a General, or Mankiller. N° 2. This is the head of an Eastern Chief. The Chiefs of which place is under great Subjection of Lacks of Rupees and Berguders or else Deposed of their Crowns; Torn from their families or Starved by our Modern Conquerors: which has been the case lately, he is called Tulgagee Mahah Rajah. To be Continued.
London Published as the Act directs Mar.h 9 1786 by J.Lockington Engraver Saville Passage, Conduit Street, Hanover Square.
Engraving. Sheet 315 x 190mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
'No 1' is either the Duke of Richmond or Lord Amherst, the commander-in-chief in Canada. 'No.2' is Warren Hastings, who had been denounced by Edmund Burke the month before.
BM: 6922.
[Ref: 6877] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
London Published as the Act directs Mar.h 9 1786 by J.Lockington Engraver Saville Passage, Conduit Street, Hanover Square.
Engraving. Sheet 315 x 190mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
'No 1' is either the Duke of Richmond or Lord Amherst, the commander-in-chief in Canada. 'No.2' is Warren Hastings, who had been denounced by Edmund Burke the month before.
BM: 6922.
[Ref: 6877] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Mathew-orama for 1824 or "Pretty Considerable d__d particular" Tit Bits from America - being all well at Natchitoches.
Augte. Hervieu delt. A. Ducote Lithoy.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, sheet 222 x 264mm. Vertical centrefold, mounted to album page.
The actor Charles Mathews (1776 - 1835) in 14 of his American characters as played at the Lyceum for his 1824 'monodrama' entertainment ‘The Trip To America’. Under each character is lettered a quotation. Copied from the 1824 etching of the same title by Thomas Howell Jones, with minor differences in the image. Mathews enjoyed great acclaim during his 1822 -3 trip to America, though his impersonations of types of Americans were not well received when performed in the US in 1831. By Thomas Howell Jones (1824 - 1848; fl.) from a series of 'Mathew-oramas'.
See stock number 7803 (BM Satires: 14714). Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7857] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Augte. Hervieu delt. A. Ducote Lithoy.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, sheet 222 x 264mm. Vertical centrefold, mounted to album page.
The actor Charles Mathews (1776 - 1835) in 14 of his American characters as played at the Lyceum for his 1824 'monodrama' entertainment ‘The Trip To America’. Under each character is lettered a quotation. Copied from the 1824 etching of the same title by Thomas Howell Jones, with minor differences in the image. Mathews enjoyed great acclaim during his 1822 -3 trip to America, though his impersonations of types of Americans were not well received when performed in the US in 1831. By Thomas Howell Jones (1824 - 1848; fl.) from a series of 'Mathew-oramas'.
See stock number 7803 (BM Satires: 14714). Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7857] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!](jpegs/58464.jpg)
[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
A Missionary Society Meeting. President, ''To conclude, we have preach'd the word in all the inhabited parts of the Earth & have Translated it into 500 unknown Languages & have not the least doubt but that we shall be enabled to render it equally Intelligible in as manu more, aided by the liberal subscriptions of this evening. Vide. The News of Sunday, April, 24, 1826_ Oriental Quarterly Magazine.
London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet, tear in lower margin.
A scene in a missionary meeting, a large, ugly man leads the meeting, on the walls behind are images of exotic lands and a portrait of a large vicar. The British Museum states the print may be a satire of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
BM Satire 15362.
[Ref: 50725] £360.00
London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet, tear in lower margin.
A scene in a missionary meeting, a large, ugly man leads the meeting, on the walls behind are images of exotic lands and a portrait of a large vicar. The British Museum states the print may be a satire of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
BM Satire 15362.
[Ref: 50725] £360.00
![Morning. Nigth [sic].](jpegs/55953.jpg)
Morning. Nigth [sic]. Scene in the Island of Jersey. Scene in the Duchy of Lancaster.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. caricatures daily published.
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), large margins.
Satire commenting on Wellington's relationships with cousins Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey and Harriet Arbuthnot. Lady Villiers was often ridiculed for 'affecting great intimacy with the Duke'. Harriet Arbuthnot and her husband Charles however, did have a close relationship with Wellington who promoted Charles Arbuthnot from the Department of Woods and Trees to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unusually, the small character of Paul Pry in the left corner points to an address along the top edge of the print: 'I'm sorry to intrude but some dirty Rogue has lately been copying my caricatures- robbing us of our ideas & just profit- may I ask of my Friends not to purchase unless they see the Publisher T. McLeans name at the bottom, all others are copies P. Pry'.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 55953] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. caricatures daily published.
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), large margins.
Satire commenting on Wellington's relationships with cousins Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey and Harriet Arbuthnot. Lady Villiers was often ridiculed for 'affecting great intimacy with the Duke'. Harriet Arbuthnot and her husband Charles however, did have a close relationship with Wellington who promoted Charles Arbuthnot from the Department of Woods and Trees to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unusually, the small character of Paul Pry in the left corner points to an address along the top edge of the print: 'I'm sorry to intrude but some dirty Rogue has lately been copying my caricatures- robbing us of our ideas & just profit- may I ask of my Friends not to purchase unless they see the Publisher T. McLeans name at the bottom, all others are copies P. Pry'.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 55953] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Caroline Norton and Lord Melbourne] The Way They Teach the Catechism at Chipping Norton.](jpegs/61436.jpg)
[Caroline Norton and Lord Melbourne] The Way They Teach the Catechism at Chipping Norton.
[n.d., 1836.]
Lithograph. Printed area 240 x 230mm (9½ x 9").
An elderly school mistress holding a switch, asks a boy standing before her 'Well my dear - what is your name?'; the boy replies 'N or M as the case may be'. A satire of George Norton's accusing Lord Melborne of adultery with his wife Caroline, suggesting the boy does not know who his father is. After the case, which George lost, he hid his children from Caroline for several years and prevented her getting a divorce. She spent much of her life campaigning for women's rights.
[Ref: 61436] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., 1836.]
Lithograph. Printed area 240 x 230mm (9½ x 9").
An elderly school mistress holding a switch, asks a boy standing before her 'Well my dear - what is your name?'; the boy replies 'N or M as the case may be'. A satire of George Norton's accusing Lord Melborne of adultery with his wife Caroline, suggesting the boy does not know who his father is. After the case, which George lost, he hid his children from Caroline for several years and prevented her getting a divorce. She spent much of her life campaigning for women's rights.
[Ref: 61436] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Caroline Norton] The late Lam[b]entable progress of the new Discoveries just as they were leaving Norton-Falgate](jpegs/63971.jpg)
[Caroline Norton] The late Lam[b]entable progress of the new Discoveries just as they were leaving Norton-Falgate
Published June 10th [1836] St Michael's Alley.
Lithograph. Printed area 290 x 340mm (11½ x 13½").
A caricature of Mrs Caroline Norton as a giraffe with four men mounted on her back and her husband, wearing cuckhold's horns, pulling on a lead around her neck. Caroline has left her abusive husband, George Chapple Norton, who accused her of having an affair with Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. Melbourne is seen here on her back clutching her tail.
[Ref: 63971] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published June 10th [1836] St Michael's Alley.
Lithograph. Printed area 290 x 340mm (11½ x 13½").
A caricature of Mrs Caroline Norton as a giraffe with four men mounted on her back and her husband, wearing cuckhold's horns, pulling on a lead around her neck. Caroline has left her abusive husband, George Chapple Norton, who accused her of having an affair with Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. Melbourne is seen here on her back clutching her tail.
[Ref: 63971] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Odds & Ends for Feburary 1816. Mrs Wright Doing Wrong _ !!!!!! Buscuit & Gingerbread or the Rival Bakers. A. Kean Manoeuvre to ''Pay Old Debts'' -or- ''Drury is it's self again''!!!. A peep into the Punch room at the Pavilion, or the gouty adonis. Parson B_ & the Butchers, or a Probationary Sermon at the Christ Church Newgate St.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 1816 by M Jones Newgate St.
Coloured etching, watermark Turkey Mill; Sheet 220 x 510mm (8¾ x 20"). Folded, as issued, repair to fold.
Five satires on one sheet, published in the 'Scourge'. The largest scene shows Edmund Kean, dressed as Richard III, raising money for the Drury Lane Theatre by scaring the customers. Top left is a scene of John Braham (an actor) eloping with Mrs. Wright, deserting Nancy Storace (who had lived with him as his wife for many years). Top right is the Prince Regent, who was laid up at the Brighton Pavilion with gout.
See BM Satires 12714 for an extesnive description.
[Ref: 54410] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 1816 by M Jones Newgate St.
Coloured etching, watermark Turkey Mill; Sheet 220 x 510mm (8¾ x 20"). Folded, as issued, repair to fold.
Five satires on one sheet, published in the 'Scourge'. The largest scene shows Edmund Kean, dressed as Richard III, raising money for the Drury Lane Theatre by scaring the customers. Top left is a scene of John Braham (an actor) eloping with Mrs. Wright, deserting Nancy Storace (who had lived with him as his wife for many years). Top right is the Prince Regent, who was laid up at the Brighton Pavilion with gout.
See BM Satires 12714 for an extesnive description.
[Ref: 54410] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Packing Up!!! "Had sly Ulysses at the Sack____Of Troy, brought thee his pedler's back_____Vide Cleaveland_
W. Heath.
Pub July 1st 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Cut to border.
In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham, in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of George IV famous giraffe which had died in 1829. A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor. Following George IV's death the Conynghams left Windsor immediately having been bequeathed the king's plate and jewels.
BM Satires: 16143.
[Ref: 43635] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)
W. Heath.
Pub July 1st 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Cut to border.
In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham, in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of George IV famous giraffe which had died in 1829. A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor. Following George IV's death the Conynghams left Windsor immediately having been bequeathed the king's plate and jewels.
BM Satires: 16143.
[Ref: 43635] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)
The Political Wedding..`
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Tears at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
A satirical print engraved for the Oxford Magazine commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 48421] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Tears at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
A satirical print engraved for the Oxford Magazine commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 48421] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
The Political Wedding..`
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Slight loss in title.
A satirical print commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 45476] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Slight loss in title.
A satirical print commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 45476] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Commencement of the Revolution. Window Smashers.
[n.d., c.1832.]
Lithograph. Sheet 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed and backed onto album paper, pt of larger sheet.
A satire of the Reform Act of 1832: a group of men, including the Duke of Wellington, throw bricks and stones to smash a building's window. Opponents of the attempt to pass a reform bill twice attacked the Duke's London residence, Apsley House, smashing the windows. This burlesques the events, with the Duke's bill smashing the windows of the Establishment.
[Ref: 68991] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1832.]
Lithograph. Sheet 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed and backed onto album paper, pt of larger sheet.
A satire of the Reform Act of 1832: a group of men, including the Duke of Wellington, throw bricks and stones to smash a building's window. Opponents of the attempt to pass a reform bill twice attacked the Duke's London residence, Apsley House, smashing the windows. This burlesques the events, with the Duke's bill smashing the windows of the Establishment.
[Ref: 68991] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
The Siamese Youths_after a few years residence in England.
William Heath
Pub Dec 19 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket- sole publisher of W Heath etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed to printed border, repaired damage in bottom right corner.
A scene showing the famous 'Siamese Twins' Eng and Chang Bunker (1811-1874) who travelled the world as a touring exhibit. In 1830 they arrived in England after a successful tour of the USA. One brother is shown making his way through several decanters of wine while the other is shown gorging on meat.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43632] £320.00
William Heath
Pub Dec 19 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket- sole publisher of W Heath etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed to printed border, repaired damage in bottom right corner.
A scene showing the famous 'Siamese Twins' Eng and Chang Bunker (1811-1874) who travelled the world as a touring exhibit. In 1830 they arrived in England after a successful tour of the USA. One brother is shown making his way through several decanters of wine while the other is shown gorging on meat.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43632] £320.00
A Sketch at St Albans -or- Shaving the New Maid Dutchess!!!
R. C. [Robert Cruikshank] fecit. Peter Wilkins del.t.
Pubd June 1827 [by George Humphrey?].
Hand-coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Publication line partly illegible (as BM example).
The Duke of St. Albans (left) stands over his moustachioed wife. holding her chin, with a razor in his right hand. Behind him on a stool are a jug of shaving-water and a bowl of lather with a brush. Mrs. Coutts looks up at him; in her right hand is a cheque for £50,000, in her left a Cheque Book. She says, 'My dear young Shaver, here's £50.000 for you but you must dress my Beard once a day at least, do whatever I desire you, and never dare to contradict me', to which he replies ' My dear Dutchess your chin wants mowing sadly, and you should be properly lather'd first, but I fear I have not strength to do it'. A satirical print on the marriage of actress Harriot Mellon (formerly the wife of Thomas Coutts, who left her his fortune and share in Coutts bank when he died in 1822) to the Duke of St Albans, 23 years her junior.
BM Satires 15455.
[Ref: 50721] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
R. C. [Robert Cruikshank] fecit. Peter Wilkins del.t.
Pubd June 1827 [by George Humphrey?].
Hand-coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Publication line partly illegible (as BM example).
The Duke of St. Albans (left) stands over his moustachioed wife. holding her chin, with a razor in his right hand. Behind him on a stool are a jug of shaving-water and a bowl of lather with a brush. Mrs. Coutts looks up at him; in her right hand is a cheque for £50,000, in her left a Cheque Book. She says, 'My dear young Shaver, here's £50.000 for you but you must dress my Beard once a day at least, do whatever I desire you, and never dare to contradict me', to which he replies ' My dear Dutchess your chin wants mowing sadly, and you should be properly lather'd first, but I fear I have not strength to do it'. A satirical print on the marriage of actress Harriot Mellon (formerly the wife of Thomas Coutts, who left her his fortune and share in Coutts bank when he died in 1822) to the Duke of St Albans, 23 years her junior.
BM Satires 15455.
[Ref: 50721] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Dean Swift and the Post Boy.
A.M. del et sc.
London Published by Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard, 3 Feb. 1806.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate
A satirical print involving Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and author of 'Gulliver's Travels', and a post boy. The boy having been charged with delivering a turbot to the Dean charms into giving him half a guinea for his trouble.
BM Satire 10657.
[Ref: 41369] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A.M. del et sc.
London Published by Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard, 3 Feb. 1806.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate
A satirical print involving Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and author of 'Gulliver's Travels', and a post boy. The boy having been charged with delivering a turbot to the Dean charms into giving him half a guinea for his trouble.
BM Satire 10657.
[Ref: 41369] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Tables Turned or The Lie circumstantial.
Pub.d by T. Taplain Upper Thames St London
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; tear on left.
Duel between Charles Vane, third marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854) and Ensign Battier. Battier's pistol misfired and he declined the offer of another shot and left. He was later horsewhipped by Londonderry's second, Sir Henry Hardinge. In this image Londonderry (far left) nonchalantly awaits the second shot from Battier, which Hardinge (centre, in brown coat) invites. Battier, next to Hardinge, drops his pistol rather than taking the shot, to the disbelief of his second Lt.-Col. Weston (right). A surgeon in the background observes 'I see they will not want me'.
[Ref: 47120] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by T. Taplain Upper Thames St London
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; tear on left.
Duel between Charles Vane, third marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854) and Ensign Battier. Battier's pistol misfired and he declined the offer of another shot and left. He was later horsewhipped by Londonderry's second, Sir Henry Hardinge. In this image Londonderry (far left) nonchalantly awaits the second shot from Battier, which Hardinge (centre, in brown coat) invites. Battier, next to Hardinge, drops his pistol rather than taking the shot, to the disbelief of his second Lt.-Col. Weston (right). A surgeon in the background observes 'I see they will not want me'.
[Ref: 47120] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
The Genius of Caricature, and his Friends, celebrating the completion of the Second Volume of the Caricature Magazine, in the Temple of Mirth
Woodward delt [in image lower left]
London Pubd July 2d 1808 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside
Fine etching with hand-colouring, sheet 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet
The 'Genius of Caricature' presides over a dinner table in the 'Temple of Mirth', which is adorned with caricatures from the 'Caricature Magazine' by Thomas Rowlandson and others on the walls, and folio volumes of the magazine. A toast-master holds a placard inscribed with verses in praise of the 'Caricature Magazine' and its artists (naming Rowlandson and the designer of this print, George Moutard Woodward). Woodward (1760?-1809) was a prolific artist who designed 525 prints between 1790 and his death in 1809. Of orthodox pro-government and anti-French political outlook, Woodward's forte was social satire- in this field his reputation between 1807 and 1809 exceeded that even of Rowlandson (see how his name is mentioned before Rowlandson's and underlined in the placard verses here). While his reputation has since been eclipsed, Henry Angelo, whose 'Reminisces' are the main source of biographical information on Woodward, claimed that if Woodward had learned to draw (he was self-taught) and had been more temperate in his habits (it is reported that he kept low company and drank immoderately), he might have rivalled Hogarth. However, he met an inglorious end, dying in the Brown Bear tavern (according to Angelo with a glass of brandy in his hand) and was buried at the expense of his landlord.
BM Satires 11133
[Ref: 61903] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward delt [in image lower left]
London Pubd July 2d 1808 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside
Fine etching with hand-colouring, sheet 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet
The 'Genius of Caricature' presides over a dinner table in the 'Temple of Mirth', which is adorned with caricatures from the 'Caricature Magazine' by Thomas Rowlandson and others on the walls, and folio volumes of the magazine. A toast-master holds a placard inscribed with verses in praise of the 'Caricature Magazine' and its artists (naming Rowlandson and the designer of this print, George Moutard Woodward). Woodward (1760?-1809) was a prolific artist who designed 525 prints between 1790 and his death in 1809. Of orthodox pro-government and anti-French political outlook, Woodward's forte was social satire- in this field his reputation between 1807 and 1809 exceeded that even of Rowlandson (see how his name is mentioned before Rowlandson's and underlined in the placard verses here). While his reputation has since been eclipsed, Henry Angelo, whose 'Reminisces' are the main source of biographical information on Woodward, claimed that if Woodward had learned to draw (he was self-taught) and had been more temperate in his habits (it is reported that he kept low company and drank immoderately), he might have rivalled Hogarth. However, he met an inglorious end, dying in the Brown Bear tavern (according to Angelo with a glass of brandy in his hand) and was buried at the expense of his landlord.
BM Satires 11133
[Ref: 61903] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)
A Theatrical Candidate. A Candidate for the stage lately applied to the Manager of Drury-lane Theatre for an engagement...
[n.d., c.1797.]
Hand-coloured etching. 1809 Watermark. Plate: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾'') large margins. Creasing, tears in edges.
A satirical print showing an actor in rags speaking before Sheridan, who sits at at a table littered with paper.
BM Satire 9086.
[Ref: 50747] £320.00
[n.d., c.1797.]
Hand-coloured etching. 1809 Watermark. Plate: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾'') large margins. Creasing, tears in edges.
A satirical print showing an actor in rags speaking before Sheridan, who sits at at a table littered with paper.
BM Satire 9086.
[Ref: 50747] £320.00
A Ward of Chancery.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub Feb 8 1792 by S W Fores 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the Greatest Collection of Caricatures in Europe Admitance 1 Shilling.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed just within plate. small nick in top edge.
A young lady elopes on the back of a stag with a human head and cocked hat, pursued by judges including her father Edward Thurlow (1731-1806), who was Lord Chancellor before he was sacked by William Pitt in 1792, the year of this caricature. This satirises the elopement of one of his three illegitimate daughters, drawing attention to his own long-term attachment to a young woman in the bar at Nando's coffee-house.
BM 8164.
[Ref: 36357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub Feb 8 1792 by S W Fores 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the Greatest Collection of Caricatures in Europe Admitance 1 Shilling.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed just within plate. small nick in top edge.
A young lady elopes on the back of a stag with a human head and cocked hat, pursued by judges including her father Edward Thurlow (1731-1806), who was Lord Chancellor before he was sacked by William Pitt in 1792, the year of this caricature. This satirises the elopement of one of his three illegitimate daughters, drawing attention to his own long-term attachment to a young woman in the bar at Nando's coffee-house.
BM 8164.
[Ref: 36357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Man being tortured with a grinding wheel.]](jpegs/65399.jpg)
[Man being tortured with a grinding wheel.] Valet de gagne Petit. Frere piedebanc.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Trimmed into plate. Some creasing.
A man is seated, his hands tied behind his back, he is being forced foward by a man on to a grinding wheel. A monkey is perched above the man, urinating and a woman stands in the right background admiring herself in a hand mirror.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Trimmed into plate. Some creasing.
A man is seated, his hands tied behind his back, he is being forced foward by a man on to a grinding wheel. A monkey is perched above the man, urinating and a woman stands in the right background admiring herself in a hand mirror.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Town Talks a Great Liar.
Pub March 5.th. 1812 by S W Fores 50 Picadilli.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Eighteenth Century watermark. Sheet: 380 x 255mm (15 x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A figure, his head in his hands faces a second figure who sits across the table and holds up a publication headed 'Town Talk', behind him a third man raises his arm and shouts. On the floor lies a large sheet of paper signed TC (Thomas Coventry). The seated man, Thomas Coventry (1792-1869), a country parson, is being blackmailed by his rakish brother Lord Deerhurst for some indiscretion. On the wall behind them is a portrait of courtesan Suk Conway.
BM Satire: 11949.
[Ref: 38760] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pub March 5.th. 1812 by S W Fores 50 Picadilli.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Eighteenth Century watermark. Sheet: 380 x 255mm (15 x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A figure, his head in his hands faces a second figure who sits across the table and holds up a publication headed 'Town Talk', behind him a third man raises his arm and shouts. On the floor lies a large sheet of paper signed TC (Thomas Coventry). The seated man, Thomas Coventry (1792-1869), a country parson, is being blackmailed by his rakish brother Lord Deerhurst for some indiscretion. On the wall behind them is a portrait of courtesan Suk Conway.
BM Satire: 11949.
[Ref: 38760] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Cheap Excursion Trains.
George Cruikshank.
The Comic Almanac 1850. D.Bogue Fleet St.
Etching. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and pasted onto album paper. Some time staining. Missing top right corner.
A satirical scene depicting various advertisements including Eqyptian excursions, hotels, ice-cream, 'Nile Penny Boats every 5 minutes'. A train is seen in the background as crowds of people swarm around the stalls.
[Ref: 66808] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
George Cruikshank.
The Comic Almanac 1850. D.Bogue Fleet St.
Etching. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and pasted onto album paper. Some time staining. Missing top right corner.
A satirical scene depicting various advertisements including Eqyptian excursions, hotels, ice-cream, 'Nile Penny Boats every 5 minutes'. A train is seen in the background as crowds of people swarm around the stalls.
[Ref: 66808] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
![[Wellington] Morning. Nigth [sic].](jpegs/61311.jpg)
[Wellington] Morning. Nigth [sic]. Scene in the Island of Jersey. Scene in the Duchy of Lancaster.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] esq.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. caricatures daily published [n.d., c.1829].
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Small margins.
Satire commenting on Wellington's relationships with cousins Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey and Harriet Arbuthnot. Lady Villiers was often ridiculed for 'affecting great intimacy with the Duke'. Harriet Arbuthnot and her husband Charles however, did have a close relationship with Wellington who promoted Charles Arbuthnot from the Department of Woods and Trees to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Of interest is the extra text around the top of the plate, issuing for the small figure of Paul Pry: 'I'm sorry to intrude but some dirty Rogue has lately been copying my caricatures- robbing us of our ideas & just profit- may I ask of my Friends not to purchase unless they see the Publisher T. McLeans name at the bottom, all others are copies P. Pry'. This piracy led Heath to drop Pry by 1830.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 61311] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] esq.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. caricatures daily published [n.d., c.1829].
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Small margins.
Satire commenting on Wellington's relationships with cousins Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey and Harriet Arbuthnot. Lady Villiers was often ridiculed for 'affecting great intimacy with the Duke'. Harriet Arbuthnot and her husband Charles however, did have a close relationship with Wellington who promoted Charles Arbuthnot from the Department of Woods and Trees to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Of interest is the extra text around the top of the plate, issuing for the small figure of Paul Pry: 'I'm sorry to intrude but some dirty Rogue has lately been copying my caricatures- robbing us of our ideas & just profit- may I ask of my Friends not to purchase unless they see the Publisher T. McLeans name at the bottom, all others are copies P. Pry'. This piracy led Heath to drop Pry by 1830.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 61311] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)