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Christmas Pantomime, N.º 2. Extraordinary Harlequin Leap! HB. Sketches N.º 852.
HB [John Doyle]. Printed at 70 S.t Martins Lane.
Published Jan.y 21st 1846, by Tho.s M.cLean, 26 Haymarket.
Lithograph, sheet 310 x 440mm (12¼ x 17"). Small repaired tear in left margin.
Peel as Harlequin, jumping head first through a screen inscribed "PROTECT AGRICULTURE CORN LAWS", while Wellington as Pantaloon and Graham as a clown look on in admiration, Russell and Morpeth in envy, the Duke of Norfolk in a fainting fit of horror. See BM 1882,1209.600 for the original ink sketch.
[Ref: 64711] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
The City Train'd Bands marching to the Artillery Ground. Behold the matchless guardians of our Isle...
[n.d., c.1770.]
Etching, 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at top, some toning, laid on album paper.
The much-caricatured City of London militia amble along a street, led by a mounted officer. They walk out of step, chatting, and one accidently discharges his musket as it leans on his shoulder. BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 65150] £160.00
A Rigmaroll.
M.E. [Egerton]. Engraved by G. Hunt.
Pub. Jan.y 1825, by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock St.t Cov.t Garden.
Coloured aquatint. 200 x 240mm (8 x 9½"). Narrow bottom margin, a little staining in inscription area.
The last plate of Egerton's 'Airy Nothings', with 17 of the characters of the book dancing around 'Olio Rigmaroll', a bespectacled man with a green umbrella. They are probably dancing a rigmarole, a Scottish reel. Hickman p.19, first issue, later published by Thomas McLean.
[Ref: 65313] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Massa Out. ''Sambo Werry Dry''. From the Original Picture in the collection of the Right Hon.ble Lord Charles Townshend to whom by Permission this Plate is most respectfully dedicated by his Lordships obliged and very humble Servant, Henry Pidding.
Painted and Engraved by Henry Pidding.
London, Published for the Artist Dec.r 8.th by Pidding & C.º, N.º 1, Cornhill.
Rare mezzotint. 400 x 285mm (15¾ x 11¼"). Some damage, mostly to margins, restored.
A black servant, seated by a table on which are keys marked 'cellar', is pouring wine from a bottle into a glass, and addressing a dog that is watching him. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his second state with publication line added.
[Ref: 64748] £360.00
[The Sportsmen Resting.] [&] [The Sportsmen's Departure]
I.Cruikshanks del et sculp.
[Publish'd Mar. 30. 1801, by, S. W. Fores, N°.50, Piccadilly.]
Pair of stipples, sheets 360 x 265mm (14 x 10½"). Trimmed around circular border.
Two hunting scenes in oval compositions. Two gentlemen, returning from a hunting trip, sit in a well-furnished room surrounded by game and guns. One of them playfully lifts a woman's chin with his hand. A huntsman waves farewell with his dogs by his side, while a second man kisses his wife goodbye.
[Ref: 65166] £220.00
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