Grosvenor Prints

A Russian Dandy a scene at Aix la Chapelle. Tis said that the Head of the Forces allied, Not having a Coat to his Back, A generous Monarch the needful supplied, And when thus equip'd they sat down side by side, To drink their Champaign & theire Sack, Now doubtless this Hero of wonderful note, Had the Monarch allowed him to choose, Would have barter'd his honor to sit in his Coat, For the Pleasure to stand in his Shoes.
Pub Dec 8th 1818 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilli & Oxford Street.
Hand coloured etching, 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"), with large margins. Laid on paper. Mount burn. Time staining. Small crease in top margin. Taped tear bottom margin.
Scarce and good satire image showing the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, held in the autumn of 1818. It (incorrectly) suggests that the Tsar imposes his policy on Wellington, who attended the Conference as Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces, Castlereagh being the British plenipotentiary. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) stands left wearing a uniform and cocked hat with field-marshal's plume. He faces talking to Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (1777-1825). They both wear giant boots that reach the hips, and being wrinkled at the ankles suggest the trousers of the dandies. Wellington: "One may be allowed a Variety of Mistresses; but I have such a Variety of Masters, I shall not know which to serve first!!!" Alexander: "I think you will be a little Straiten'd in it." One of the Russians: "Our Master has put him in a strait coat now; it will be well if he does not get a Strait Waistcoat by & by."
BM Satires 13010.
[Ref: 60704] £420.00

[Set of eight scenes] The Baliff's Hunt. Going Out in the Morning. [&] Plate 2. In Full Scent. [&] Plate 3. Breaking Cover. [&] Plate 4. The Pursuit. [&] Plate 5. At Fault. [&] Plate 6. The Second Escape. [&] Plate 7. Double and Squat. [&] Plate 8. The Seizure.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Eight coloured etchings. Each sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper in a strip, concertinaed into a leather pouch with facsimile of Rowlandson's signature.
A work of bailiffs chasing a debtor through the streets satirised as a fox hunt.
[Ref: 60674] £700.00 view all images for this item

[Francois Auguste Biard] Si Biard est peint en ours c'est pour la belle page...
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10").. Slight ink show-through.
A caricature of French painter Francois-Auguste Biard (1799-1882), dressed in a polar bear skin in order to sketch the animals in the Arctic. In 1839 he joined Joseph Paul Gaimard's scientific expedition to Spitsbergen and Lapland, after which he painted several scenes of polar bears.
[Ref: 60509] £360.00

The Blue Devils _ !!
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St. London _ Jan.y 10th. 1823 _
Coloured etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark Sheet 200 x 240mm (8 x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border.
A melancholy man in night-cap and slippers stares at his account sheet in an otherwise empty grate, supporting his head on his hand. He is tormented by blue demons: one offers him a noose, another a razor.
BM Satires 14598, with extensive description.
[Ref: 60564] £320.00

[Henry Brougham] Present and Past. What I am. What I was.
H. Heath del.t.
[n.d., c.1836.]
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 260 x 220mm (10¼ x 8¾"). Laid on album paper, with cockling caused by glue in corners.
Pair of caricatures on one sheet of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, contrasting his clothing out of office to his Lord Chancellor's robes. When Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister again in April 1835 his dislike of Broughham caused him not to reappoint him as Lord Chancellor.
[Ref: 60592] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year in London. [&] The Same to you_Sir,_ & Many of E'm._
M.E. Esq.r [M. Egerton] del. G.Hunt, sc.
London, Published by Thos. M.c.Lean, 26 Haymarket, 1827.
Pair of hand-coloured aquatints with etching. 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9¼"), with good margins. 'A Merry Christmas..' on paper watemarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1824'. The Same To You_Sir,_ & Many Of 'Em paper slightly toned.
A pair of English satirical prints: a man and women, both carrying umbrellas, fighting their way through a blizzard on the streets of London.
Hickman p.60. BM: 14999.
[Ref: 60696] £850.00 view all images for this item

The Old Commodore. Illustrations of Dibdin.
Designed & drawn on Stone by Ja.s & Geo. Foggo.
London: Published by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. 14 Newman St. Aug: 1830. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
Lithograph, sheet 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"). Crease above title.
An old commodore seated in an armchair at a fireplace, with a bandaged gouty foot resting on a footstool, grabbing a walking stick with his right hand. He is watched by a younger man, standing behind the armchair. Sword and scroll lying on the floor in foreground. Illustration to a Charles Dibdin's song.
[Ref: 60607] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Christiaan de Wet] De Wet, Br Horse 5 yr. By, Darling - Not Caught Yet.
Nap.
[n.d. c.1900.]
Watercolour and gouache, sheet 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14"). Creases and small tears.
A caricature of a Boer general Christiaan de Wet (1854-1922), one of their best guerrilla leaders.
[Ref: 60715] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Double Disaster or New Cure for Love. E3
Rowlandson Del et Sculp.t.
London Pub.d by T. Tegg N. 111 Cheapside July 10. 1807.
Coloured etching. Sheet 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, tear repaired on left border, paper toned.
A young man hiding in a brewing copper is forced out when an old maid lights the fire, and is drenched by a water pump as he emerges. To the left a woman leaves the beer tap open, causing her jug to overflow.
BM Satires 10932.
[Ref: 60505] £380.00

Les Anglais au Salon de 1814.
[by Louis Félix Legendre.]
[n.d., 1814.]
Fine coloured etching. 260 x 290mm (10¼ x 11½") very large margins. Near mint.
A crowd of English tourists at an exhibition of paintings. One man holds a telescope, another a lorgnette. A satire on English tourists returning to the continent after the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition, when Napoleon was exiled to Elba.
[Ref: 60501] £350.00

Military Duties Plate 3.rd. Eyes Right.
[William Heath.]
[Pub.d May 8 1824 by S.W.Fores 41 Picadilly.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"). Trimmed, very small hole top right.
A soldier stands at attention beside an officer outside a rustic inn or cottage. As the officer inspects a paper, the soldier eyes a girl in an open window.
BM Satires 14731.
[Ref: 60586] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The March of Bonnetism.
[By William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where Published and other Caricatures are daily Pub.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark J. Whatman, Turkey Mill; 305 x 420mm (12 x 16½") with small margins. Creases and tears on margins.
A satire on the extreme fashion of 19th century, showing the manufacture and exhibition of an enormous and flamboyant hat. The ridiculous creation is too heavy to actually wear, and requires rigging to support it. The hat is shown hanging by its ropes, with a notice saying ‘The suspension ties are out of order. It is requested that no lady will rashly venture under this hat.’ In the final scene, the notice has been ignored and the ropes have snapped, crushing the ladies below.
[Ref: 60499] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Liberté de La Presse chex les Anglais.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Fine & scarce coloured etching. 230 x 270mm (9 x 10½") very large margins.
A wonderful image of a press gang rounding up civilians on a quayside. The French title is a pun, 'The Freedom of the Press according to the English'.
[Ref: 60497] £490.00

[George IV & Wellington] The Two Happiest Men Alive. A Friend in need is a Friend indeed. vide John Bull.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esqr Del.
Pub by McLean 26 Haymarket London. Sep 30 1827.
Etching with fine hand colour. Framed, sight size 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
George IV, with a gouty leg and a crutch under his left arm, is supported by the Duke of Wellington. The king plainly dressed but with the Garter ribbon and star, has a much swathed gouty leg supported in a sling from the neck. Earlier in the year Wellington had agreed to become commander-in-chief of the forces, pleasing the king
BM Satires: 15429.
[Ref: 60632] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Peter Gilpin.] Spearmint Ch. H. 6yr old by Wide Experience _ Clarehaven.
Nap.
[n.d. c.1900.]
Watercolour and gouache, sheet 290 x 350mm (11½ x 13¾"). Teras, nicks and creases on edges.
A caricature of a British racehorse trainer Peter Gilpin (1858-1928) as a horse.
[Ref: 60709] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

An Olio of Good Breeding: With Sketches Illustrative of the Modern Graces.
By G.M. Woodward, Author of Eccentric Excursions, &c. [Etched by Rowlandson].
London Publish'd May 27, 1801, at R. Ackermann's 101 Strand.
7 etchings with wonderful hand colour. 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6), with large margins. Frontispiece and Plate 7 on paper watermarked '1799'. Tear in Frontispiece going into image. Incomplete; missing plates 2, 3 & 4.
7 out of 10 plus titlepage and frontis (9 pages) from the second edition of 'An Olio of Good Breeding' published by Ackermann. Satire on etiquette. Plates with titles include 'The Graces! The Graces! The Graces!!' and 'Horror Personified.' The first edition was published in 1797 by Woodward, in Berners Street.
[Ref: 60536] £990.00 view all images for this item

The Graces! _ The Graces! _ The Graces! Chesterfield.
London: Pub: May 7, 1801. at R. Ackermann's 101 Strand.
Coloured etching. 205 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed into plate at top. Small margins.
Three unattractive women smiling at the viewer.
BM: Not in.
[Ref: 60558] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Wot are you sowing the Grass Seed for, Mum, it will Grow without that. / Why I promised by late Dear husband that I would not het Married again untill the Grass Grew & I want it to be quick.
Printed by Lefevre & Koller 52 Newman Str.
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6").
Trimmed and laid on album paper.
An unpretty woman in widow's weeds sprinkles grass seeds on her husband's grave.
[Ref: 60523] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of a Guerilla Chief.
WH [William Heath] Del et Sculp.
Pub May 8 1823 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St & 74 New Bond St.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to printed border.
Caricature of a Spanish guerrilla, dressed like a peasant mountaineer rather than of a soldier, standing on a ledge, cocking his musket as he sees regular troops below. In 1820 Spain, a revolt led to a Republican government, but by 1823 the country had descended into civil war. This figure is presumably a Republican, fighting against the Monarchist 'Army of the Faith' (subject of a companion print, BM 14522). In the end order was restored when the European powers agreed that Louis XVIII could lead a French Army of 100,000 into Spain.
BM Satires: 14523.
[Ref: 60587] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Head Ache.
[Anchor monogram of Captain Frederick Marryat] G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 23th. 1818 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Coloured etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. Sheet 295 x 240mm (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border. Crease right corner.
A bald man sits in an armchair by the fire, his eyes rolling up into his head, as six imps torment him by bawling in one ear and trumpeting in the other, and attacking his skull with a red-hot poker, drill, corkscrew and hammer.
BM Satires 13439.
[Ref: 60572] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Jealous Maids. His Lordship loves the Amourous Game; / His gadding Lady does the same; / The Maids as their Mistress do, / The Footman apes his Master too.
John Collett pinx.t. Rob.t Lawrie fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, London.
Scarce mezzotint. 255 x 335mm (10 x 13¼''), large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A footman flirts with one maid while another looks on, sewing. A pair to 'The Rival Milleners'.
BM: 2010.7081.1181
[Ref: 60442] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

[Jolting Preventatives.]
Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp.
London Published by Allen & Co, 15 Paternoster Row, March 4, 1797.
Coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 240mm (7 x 9½"). Trimmed, losing title at top.
Four scenes of the inside of a coach, each with two people and their different ways of holding onto the safety straps, expressing from attraction to distain. A pair to 'Symptoms of Jolting'.
BM Satires 9134.
[Ref: 60579] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Journeyman Parson going on Duty.
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 9 Nov.r 1785. [But later]
Mezzotint, watermark 1832. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Several tears.
A parson says farewell to his family outside a thatched cottage near a milestone indicating that they are 70 miles from London. A paper in his jacket reads 'Charity Sermon'. His small son holds a copy of 'The Youth's Instructor'.
[Ref: 60439] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Andrew J. Joyner] One of the Best Ch. H. 5yr. By Practical _ U.S.A.
Nap.
[n.d. c.1900.]
Watercolour and gouache, sheet 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14"). Creases and small tears.
A caricature of a American racehorse trainer Andrew J. Joyner (1861-1943) as a horse.
[Ref: 60710] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Vauxhall Gardens. A Hint to the Ladies. [Collection of Heads by W.D.]
WD [William Drummond].
London: Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, August 15, 1833. Maguire & Co, lith, 9 Brydges Street, Covent Garden.
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring. Sheet 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾" Some cockling of paper at corners.
Two young women sitting on a park bench, one looking over her shoulder at the viewer. The 'hint' is that their skirts were raised by the bench so that they were showing their calves. One of a series of characters, Collection of Heads by W.D., some real and some fictional, by William Drummond (1800-1849, fl.).
See Ref: 60556
[Ref: 60585] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Musée Grotesque, No. 24. Richesse et Misère ou Rien qu'un.
[by Godisart de Cari.]
A Paris chez Martinet libraire Rue de Coq no.15 [n.d., 1818].
Coloured etching. 215 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Tear in right margin taped.
A thin miser stands before his desk laden with bags of money while he and his cat starve. On wall behind a picture of "les Israelites adorant le veau d'or" (golden calf)! Jewish interest.
[Ref: 60506] £350.00

[A monkey smoking and reading The Times] How Tedious.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼". Trimmed into image, 'How Tedious' written in ink as a title.
A monkey wearing a fez and smoking jacket, sits in a window smoking an ornate opium pipe and reading the Times.
[Ref: 60404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A monkey and violin] De Beriot.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼". Trimmed into image, 'De Beriot' written in ink as a title.
A monkey wearing a hat sits with his feet on the keyboard of a piano, playing a violin. One hand is on the bow, the other under the violin, not on the strings. Satire on Belgian violinist and composer, Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–70).
[Ref: 60403] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A New Years Gift.
E.W.
London, Published by Tho.s M,,cLean, 26 Haymarket, 1827.
Scarce coloured aquatint. Sheet 305 x 250mm (12 x 9¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1835'. Trimmed within plate, some staining.
A dandy wearing a top hat walking in a windy, wintry street, smoking a cigar, is hit in the face by a snowball. According to the BM (2015,7043.3): 'The artist 'E.W.' is unidentified, but is of higher quality than either 'M.Egerton' or Theodore Lane'.
[Ref: 60441] £450.00

Northumberland Races 1826. County Plate.
[Drawn and etched by Joseph Crawhall?]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Etching. 210 x 400mm (8¼ x 15¾"), paper watermarked 'W 1826', very large margins.
Political satire, with the Northumberland candidates dressed as jockeys arriving at the finish line. The BM has another from the same series (Satires 15133. attributed in pencil mss. to Joseph Crawhall), which shows Thomas Wentworth Beaumont winning easily, although Beaumont actually lost his Northumberland seat in 1826 to Henry Thomas Liddell. Perhaps this is an undated version, showing the correct result: it certainly is taking the same viewpoint, with Ravensworth Castle in the background and some members of the audience are in both..
[Ref: 60409] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Patriotic Toast.
A. Sharpshooter Fect.
Pub. Feb 25, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St. Strand.
Hand-coloured etching, 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"), with large margins. On paper watermarked '1829'. Slightly cockled paper. Slightly time stained.
Wellington, Peel, Lyndhurst, and Scarlett toast as they display indifference to the distress agricultural and industrial workers alluded to in the King's Speech of 1830.
BM Satire: 16044.
[Ref: 60706] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull ou Le Peuple Anglais apprenant de l'Enchanteur Merlin Comment Finira la Guerre.
Le Cour inv. & Sculp.t an XI.
[1803]
Rare aquatint and etching. 240 x 280mm (9½ x 11") large margins. Tears taped, some creasing. Collector's ink stamp, "J.M.R. Vienne" Collections Francaise and pasted label on reverse.
''John Bull or The English People Learning from the Enchanter Merlin How the War Will End''. A satire of the end of the Peace of Amiens in 1803. It is set in Merlin's cave, with the magician showing John Bull a gallows with Pitt hanging from it. Thunderbolts emitted by a laurel wreath represesenting the French Republic break George III's throne, causing him to fall to the floor.
[Ref: 60502] £360.00

Rêve de Pitt.
[by L.D. Lelue.]
A Paris chez Martinet. rue de Coq, S. Honoré [n.d., 1805].
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½"). Trimmed into plate on three sides.
William Pitt the Younger lies asleep in a bed on rockers, his arms outstretched towards a Punch and Judy booth in a cloud, cheering on the puppet of the Austrian emperor Francis, which clubs a prostrate Napoleon puppet which hangs over the side of the booth. Two men rock the bed.
BM Satires 10520.
[Ref: 60713] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[William Pitt the Younger] Disciples catching the Mantle: _ the Spirit of Darkness overshadowing the Priests of Baal.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Publish'd June 25th 1808 by H. Humphrey, S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. 400 x 340mm (15¾ x 13½"). Several tears repaired. Damaged including tear going into the centre of image.
The apotheosis of William Pitt the younger, with the Prime Minister being carried to 'Immortality' in a fiery chariot. Underneath, on 'The Rock of Ages', is his cabinet (including Canning, Eldon and Portland) basking in his light, reaching up at Pitt's discarded mantle. To the right, on 'Broadbottom Dunghill', are the Opposition, cowering under Fox's 'Republican-Mantle', which has been set on fire by a thunderbolt. Between the two, in the background, is Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback before the French army, being bombarded by the Royal Navy. One of Gillray's larger satires.
BM Satire 10992, with extensive description.
[Ref: 60645] £490.00

Pursuing the Common Enemy.
Dean & Munday Lithographers Threadneedle St.
London Pub.d by: O. Hodgson 10. Cloth Fair. [n.d. c.1829.]
Scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 210 x 320mm (8¼ x 12½. Several tears taped.
A disparate crowd, including the Pope, an archbishop, a Turk, a Jewish clothes pedlar and a Quaker, pursue a man. The archbishop using his crozier to trip him, causing his shoe to fall off, revealing a hoof, and the man's tail coils itself around the crozier. A barrister sits on the ground by a flame, with a slab on which is written 'Cancery Suit'. Jewish interest.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 60590] £160.00

[John Roberts Jr.] John Bay. H. 6. Yr old by Worlds Champion _ the Green Cloth.
Nap.
[n.d. c.1900.]
Watercolour and gouache, sheet 285 x 345mm (11¼ x 13½"). Some creases and tears on edges.
A caricature of English billiards player John Roberts Jr. (1847-1919) as a horse.
[Ref: 60708] £320.00

Selections from Seymour No. 10. ''Och thin Paddy, what's the botheration, if you carry me, don't I carry the wiskey, sure and that's fair, and aqual.
[after Robert Seymour.]
Published at 137 Fleet Street, London, May 1836.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Printed area 225 x 150mm (8¾ x 6").
An Irishman has rolled up his trousers and walks through water bare-footed, carrying a one-legged man on his shoulders. That man carries a barrel of whiskey, adding to the first man's burden. Robert Seymour (1798-1836), an early illustrator for Charles Dickens, commited suicide by shooting himself in April, 1836. Several printers and print dealers issued 'Selections from Seymour' to help his family.
[Ref: 60593] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Slippery Weather. Early one Morning Sue & Ciss, / Went out to fetch some water, / Moses forsooth must have a Kiss, But Mark what followed after. / In Struggling much poor Moses fell, / Hard fate to go a wenching, / And very hard Old Claths to sell / And get so nice a drenching.
Published 20th March 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 58 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"), with margins. Framed. Paper lightly toned, unexamined out of frame.
A Jewish clothes merchant has fallen to the ground, with water from a stand-pipe spraying into his face, as passers-by, including the two girls, laugh. Jewish interest.
BM Satires 8592.
[Ref: 60667] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Spirited Subjects No5. Screw as I am, I could pretty soon draw your Cork, old Belly-wengence!
[London: W Spooner, n.d. c.1835.]
Scarce lithograph with fine hand-colour. Sheet 265 x 225mm (10½ x 9"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A corkscrew with human face and legs squares up to a similar bottle labelled 'Gooseberry'. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
See Ref: 52355
[Ref: 60625] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute] The Cat's Paw.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A satire on William Pitt's return to office in 1766: The Earl of Bute, depicted as a monkey, uses the paw of the Earl of Chatham (a cat) to extract chestnuts from a fire, with Chatham urinating in fear. Their respective supporters stand under paintings 'A View of Chatham' and 'A View of the Isle of Bute'. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713 - 1792), was a Scottish nobleman who served as Prime Minister under George III, and was arguably the last important favourite in British politics. Bute was initially a favourite of the king, but George turned against him after being criticised for an official speech which the press recognised as Bute's own work. This print satirises Bute's political relationship with William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708 - 1778).
BM Satires: 4148.
[Ref: 60483] £380.00

Tregear's Flights of Humour No 22. (A Song.) Come Where the Aspens Quiver;;
Published by G.S. Tregear 123 Cheapside London [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9"). Laid on album paper. Printer's stone damaged on tree.
A ragged ruffian lurks behind a tree, bludgeon in hand. Mushrooms grow at the base of the tree. The song 'Come Where the Aspens Quiver,' was originally composed for voice and guitar by English musician George Alexander Lee (1802–51), and dedicated to the popular singer and actress Harriet Waylett (1798 –1851), who would later become his wife. Many of his songs have Irish subject matter such as "Kate Kearney", "Maid of Kildare", "Old Irish Gentleman", and "Rose of Killarney", linking back to his time in Dublin the late 1820s.
[Ref: 60530] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Tregear's Flights of Humour No 31. An Optical Delusion. Never Mind Billy What Others May Say, You are Very Pretty in My Eye.
Published by G. Tregear 123 Cheapside London, 1833.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 310 x 220mm (12¼ x 8¾"). Laid on album paper at corners; cockling in these areas.
A pretty young girl hangs on the arm of a man with simian features.
Wellcome 107401.
[Ref: 60529] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Tregear's Flights of Humour No 58. Going to Mass. It's Botheration Lucky that I put on my Sunday Shoes or by Saint Patrick I Should have got my fate wet.
London Pub.d by GS Tregear 123 Cheapside [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 315 x 235mm (12½ x 9¼").
A ragged Irishman with clay pipe in hand, corked bottle protruding from his broken-topped hat and mis-matched and ruined shoes.
[Ref: 60525] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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

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

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

Take Care of Your Pockets_A Hint for the Orthodox. "Take heed, have open eyes; for thieves do foot abroad. Shakespeare "Render unto Seizer those things which are Seizers.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub June 2d.1829 by T.McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of Paul Pry Caricatures.
Hand-coloured etching, 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed to border.
Satire on the Ministries' alleged interference with the property and doctrine of the Church, which was alleged during a press campaign against the Ministry. Here Peel and Wellington are ragged street urchins trying to pick the pocket of an old parson.
BM Satires: 15791.
[Ref: 60544] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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

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

[Duke of Wellington & William Huskisson] Druming Out. Or Making an Example of a Mutineer.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] inv del.
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket [n.d., 1828].
Hand-coloured etching. Framed. Plate: 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15") Unexamined out of frame, slightly faded.
The Duke of Wellington, in uniform with drum, kicks William Huskisson on the behind, watched by a rank of soldiers from different regiments. Huskisson (1770-1830) had voted against the disfranchisement of East Retford (a rotten borough) contrary to a cabinet decision and was ejected from the government, alongside Lords Palmerston and Melbourne. In 1830 Huskinson attended the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Leaving his carriage to greet Wellington, hoping to repair their relationship, he realised he was on the tracks in front of the oncoming 'Rocket', George Stephenson's pioneering locomotive. He attempted to climb back into the Duke's carriage, but the door swung open, leaving him dangling. He was hit by the Rocket, mangling one of his legs, dying several hours later, becoming the world's first widely reported railway passenger casualty.
BM Satire 15531.
[Ref: 60638] £220.00

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