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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)
"Two Pair of Portraits;"_presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain," by John Horne Tooke.
Js. Gillray, invt. & fect.
Publishd December 1s.1798.by J.Wright Piccadilly for y.e Anti Jacobin Review.
Rare extract. 4pp. letterpress with folded etching. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½").
John Horne Tooke sits at an easel, on which are portraits of Fox and Pitt. Sitting on the floor are portraits of Lord Holland and Chatham. Horne Tooke asks "Which two of them will you chuse to hang up in your Cabinets; the Pitts, or the Foxes?''. On the wall is a bust of Machiavelli. The text is a transcript of Horne Tooke's pamphlet with the same title.
BM Satires: 9270.
[Ref: 60225] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Js. Gillray, invt. & fect.
Publishd December 1s.1798.by J.Wright Piccadilly for y.e Anti Jacobin Review.
Rare extract. 4pp. letterpress with folded etching. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½").
John Horne Tooke sits at an easel, on which are portraits of Fox and Pitt. Sitting on the floor are portraits of Lord Holland and Chatham. Horne Tooke asks "Which two of them will you chuse to hang up in your Cabinets; the Pitts, or the Foxes?''. On the wall is a bust of Machiavelli. The text is a transcript of Horne Tooke's pamphlet with the same title.
BM Satires: 9270.
[Ref: 60225] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Histoire Veritable et Remarquable, arrivée à l'endroit d'un nommé Roux, fils d'un Cordonnier, lequel aiant renié son Pére, le Diable en prit possession. Sur l'Air des Pendus.
[Rotterdam: Fritsch and Böhm, 1712.]
Engraved plate with letterpress, sheet 180 x 215mm (7 x 8½"). Repaired tears, original binding folds. Damaged.
A plate illustrating a poem in François Gacon's 'L'Anti-Rousseau, par le poe`te sans fard', a satire of the works of Jean Baptiste Rousseau. It tells of the son of a shoemaker (like Rousseau) who grows up and renounces his father and gets possessed by the devil.
[Ref: 60137] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Rotterdam: Fritsch and Böhm, 1712.]
Engraved plate with letterpress, sheet 180 x 215mm (7 x 8½"). Repaired tears, original binding folds. Damaged.
A plate illustrating a poem in François Gacon's 'L'Anti-Rousseau, par le poe`te sans fard', a satire of the works of Jean Baptiste Rousseau. It tells of the son of a shoemaker (like Rousseau) who grows up and renounces his father and gets possessed by the devil.
[Ref: 60137] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Illustrations of Time by George Cruikshank.
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Etched title page. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
The decorative titlepage with a central vignette of a winged figure of 'Time' dining on artifacts of the world, including an elephant!. The titlepage of a set of six plates with multiple images of time (see Stock 51767).
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 60359] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Etched title page. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
The decorative titlepage with a central vignette of a winged figure of 'Time' dining on artifacts of the world, including an elephant!. The titlepage of a set of six plates with multiple images of time (see Stock 51767).
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 60359] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[John Wilkes.]
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17th June 1782 by C.Bretherton.
Etching. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Faint glue stains at edges of outer margins.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Wilkes, wearing a hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt, and sword, with wrinkled riding-boots, looking old and toothless, with his squint exaggerated.
BM Satires 6067.
[Ref: 60133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17th June 1782 by C.Bretherton.
Etching. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Faint glue stains at edges of outer margins.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Wilkes, wearing a hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt, and sword, with wrinkled riding-boots, looking old and toothless, with his squint exaggerated.
BM Satires 6067.
[Ref: 60133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)