Grosvenor Prints

Answer to John Bulls Complaint. 233.
T Tegg Cheapside [n.d.]
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark 1819; Plate 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾").
The Regent, seated sideways on his chair, is in back view, holding out his hand in an oratorical gesture towards a ragged and despairing John Bull, who stands hat in hand addressing him. He says: "Why you unatural Grumbler after I have done all I could to get rid of your Money you Still grumble did I not give you a Fète did I not Build you a Bridge did I not Treat you with a Smell of all the nice things at my Feast did I not sign the Corn Bill did I not refuse the [scored through] your Address have I not drank whole Pipes of Wine for fear it should be waste'd have I not spent all your money because you should not spend it your self have you not got the Income Tax to keep you sober, & as for your Dress the Thinner the better for the Sumer Season so Johnny go Home to work its all for the good of your Country." The Regent wears a powdered wig and whiskers, a tight-waisted coat with small pointed tails over very tight breeches, sleeves puffed at the shoulders. John has no coat, wears a tattered waistcoat, shirt, and breeches, has one ragged stocking with a pad over the knee, and one bare leg covered with a twisted straw rope, with dilapidated shoes, thus resembling a destitute day labourer instead of a 'cit' or farmer. He registers despair and alarm.
BM Satires 12556. W: 395.
[Ref: 52272] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Ars-musica.
[After Brownlow North.] [By James Gillray.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Rare hand-coloured etching with aquatint. 180 x 238mm (7 x 9½"). Damaged. Trimmed. Small hole left, right & centre.
Ars-Musica; a grinning woman playing a square piano, at her feet is a dog, two men on either side playing a violin and cello respectively.
BM Satires: 9586.
[Ref: 52244] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Between Two Stools the Bottom goes o the Ground. There is no trusting I find to that deceitfull Ceylon Manufacture.
Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening. [Charles Williams.]
Pubd March 1t 1802 SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching; 18th century watermark. Plate 248 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins.
Tierney has fallen between two (upholstered) stools: 'Whig Stool' [tattered] and 'Tory Stool' [in good repair]; he holds out his arms, saying, "There is no trusting I find to that deceitfull Ceylon Manufacture". On the extreme left and right stand Fox and Addington both clasping their sides in amusement at the mishap; the latter wears robes and wig.
BM Satires 9844.
[Ref: 52270] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Boot & Shoe Shop.
J. Green del.t J.C. Stadler sculp.t
[Pub. 1813, at R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 132 x 222mm (5¼ x 8¾").
Boot and shoe shop: Women customers try on shoes and boots at Leatherhead cobblers. From 'Poetical Sketches of Scarborough', illustrated by James Green.
[Ref: 52404] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Boring a Secret of St-e a hasty sketch of Yesterdays Business.
JS f.
7th July 1785.
Etching. Plate 151 x 236mm (6 x 9¼"), with very large margins
The trunk of a tree projects horizontally from a trestle on which it rests. Within its circumference is the head of Lord Sydney, in profile to the right, facing the point of an auger with which a judge (Loughborough), whose head is in back-view, is boring into the transverse section of the log. The point of the auger is the smiling head of Lord Stormont, in profile facing downwards, the top of his wig being the point of contact. Two small stumps of branches are inscribed 'Ist Proposition' and '2d Proposition'. Corkscrew image.
BM Satires 6796.
[Ref: 52267] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Bull in Jeopardy; or, The Curs triumphant.
A Sharpshooter fec.
Pub. Oct. 19 1829 by S. Gans 15 Southampton Street Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. 240 x 362mm (9½ x 14¼") Cut. Remains of album sheet verso.
A large bull, with the head of John Bull, is held down with difficulty by Wellington, Peel, and O'Connell who strain at a thick rope inscribed 'Catholic Bill', which encircles the bull's horns and head and is drawn through a staple so that its head is almost on the ground. The furious animal tries to get at four dogs with human heads who menace a turkey with the turbaned head of the Sultan. The largest cur, with [N]'icolas' on its collar, savages the bird which is on its back. The others are 'Miguel'; a puny dog clipped in the French manner, evidently Charles X, and one in a cocked hat who is probably Francis I. All watch the bull apprehensively. Wellington and Peel, the latter in a battered top-hat, wear long gaiters and short jackets, O'Connell wears a barrister's wig and an apron over breeches; he grasps the end of the rope and looks over his shoulder at the bull with fierce satisfaction.
BM Satires 15888.
[Ref: 52314] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Caricature Curiosity, Plate, 1,
Woodward, del.t
Pubd, 1806 by Wm, Holland No.11 Cockspur Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 305 x 246mm (12 x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A satyr stands smilling, whilst holding a mirror up for a grinning monkey to stare into. A broken staff lies on the floor with a head of a Punch. Above the image are scribed the words: "To shew Folly its own image "And the very age, and body of the time, "Tis form and pressure._
[Ref: 52229] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Coaxing Wife.
[Engrav'd from an Original Picture Painted by Mr,, John Collet.] Morris Sculp.
[London Printed for Rt. Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street and Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 241 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Cut inside the plate mark with some staining.
Sat at a table are a husband and wife; he drinks whilst she caresses his chin engaging his gaze so that she can pass a note to a younger gentleman caller stood to the right, who receives the note graciously and boldly kisses her hand. In the foreground are two dogs, one with the collar engraved 'Capt. Winwite.' and the other 'the Rev.d Mr Dupe'. A cat scrambles on the table knocking the jug of beer or cider. Another woman peers in through the door on the right. Two prints on the wall "Cuckolds Point" and a Map of Cape Horn.
BM Satires: 4596.
[Ref: 52234] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Contractor of the Contracted of 195 more than 186.
Pub Feb 4th 1810 by SW Fores.
Hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked: John Hall 1805. Plate 356 x 248mm (14 x 9¾"). Small repaired tear into lower right plate. Bit messy.
Curtis (left) and Perceval (right) face each other in front of the Speaker's Chair; the Speaker (Abbot) watches Curtis with quiet amusement. Curtis, dressed as a sailor, stands with his hat in his right hand, extending a huge clenched fist towards the trembling and much smaller Perceval; a bottle of 'Brandy' projects from his coat-pocket; his bottle-nose is much exaggerated. Perceval stands on the Opposition side of the House. Above his head is a placard: 'Whereas P-l and Co Bankrupts to Surender & Partnership Disolved'
BM Satires 11530.
[Ref: 52315] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Craniology. What a charming Field for Scientific observation.
[after Edward Stanley.]
[n.d. c.1825.]
Coloured lithograph on card. 196 x 252mm (7¾ x 10"). Foxing.
A man is sat down having removed his wig to reveal a large bare head; a scientist with a look of glee, stands over fingers poised to examine. From a collection of Six amateur caricatures, drawn by Edward Stanley (1779-1849), who served as Bishop of Norwich 1837-1849. At the time of publication he was rector of Alderley, Cheshire, a position he held for 32 years. This and the two other satires he produced ('Bustle’s Banquet' & 'Dinner of the Dogs') were probably published locally, accounting for the absence of these caricatures in our national collections. His authorship is only confirmed by the 1907 publication of his collected letters.
[Ref: 52345] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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

The Dignifyd Clerical Macaroni. 19.
Pub.d accor.g to Act Oct.r 1772 by M Darly 89 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 178 x 249mm (7 x 9¾"). Small margins.
An obese bishop in a hunting jacket worn on top of a short black smock, advances cautiously from the left on a partridge on the right, trailing its wing. He is being encouraged in his progress by his game keeper who stands in the background pointing to the bird.
[Ref: 52265] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Every Man his own cook. A Disappointment!!! Hollo!!! The Devil Take the Soot It's Spoi'd all my Eggs and Bacon!!! This is enough to make a Parson Swear,
London Pub.d by G.S. Tregear 123 Cheapside.
Lithograph. Sheet: 380 x 275mm (15 x 11''), with very large margins.
A comic scene showing an old man trying to cook for himself.
[Ref: 51099] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Why you infernal rascal _ how dare you stand there making such horrible Ugly Faces! - Make the Fly leave my nose alone Serjeant. Drill.
Drawn & Etched by W Heath.
Pub April 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 190 x 247mm (7½ z 9¾").
A sergeant addresses a line of soldiers on parade, one of whom is being stung on the nose by a bee.
[Ref: 52331] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Entomology. Bless me what a surprising Beetle.
[after Edward Stanley.]
[n.d. c.1825.]
Coloured lithograph on card. 196 x 252mm (7¾ x 10"). Foxing.
A Victorian entomologist creeps up on an unsuspecting stag beetle; he grins with excitement as he holds out his net and other Victorian capturing instrument. See Ref: 37175 for complete set. From a collection of Six amateur caricatures, drawn by Edward Stanley (1779-1849), who served as Bishop of Norwich 1837-1849. At the time of publication he was rector of Alderley, Cheshire, a position he held for 32 years. This and the two other satires he produced ('Bustle’s Banquet' & 'Dinner of the Dogs') were probably published locally, accounting for the absence of these caricatures in our national collections. His authorship is only confirmed by the 1907 publication of his collected letters.
[Ref: 52342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The European Race Heat II.d Anno Dom MDCCXXXVIII. Inscrib'd to the Politicians of the Universe By their Humble Servt: An Englishman. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole Duty of Man. Ecclesiastes the 12th: Verse the 13th:
C. Mosley Sculpt.
Publish'd November the 26th, 1738, according to the late Act.
Engraving. 280 x 400mm (11 x 15¾"), 18th century watermark. Some staining and creasing. Trimmed to the plate.
Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in the late 1730s, and in particular on the unwillingness of Walpole's government to go to war; this is the second of four "Heats" in the Race. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different countries: first comes France in the form of a fox ridden by Cardinal Fleury with a serpent for a belt indicating wisdom; he is pursued by Theodore of Corsica in full armour having remounted since the first Heat and now threatening Fleury with a sword and pistol; next comes Don Geraldino (Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, Spanish envoy to London) riding a bucking wolf, no longer led by France. The Turkish elephant has dropped its spectacles and overtaken the Russian bear; the pasha stands on the its back holding a flag with three tails; four Russian flags are stuck into the animal's hindquarters and it has a wooden leg replacing one lost in the war (allusions to the terrible losses sustained by Turkey in the course of victorious battles against Russia); the Russian bear's forepaw is carried in a sling. These wolf, elephant and bear are all branded with the fleur-de-lis. Austria follows in the form of a jockey riding an eagle, its clipped wings repaired with a fleur-de-lis and its heavy orb lying on the ground. A monkey is perched on the distance post as before, but no longer holds the fleur-de-lis. Next comes a Dutchman mounted on a boar its progress hampered by a fleur-de-lis chained to its leg. The race approaches the grandstand from which hangs the prize, now a laurel wreath; the flag is now the Union flag, lettered "Made in France of true English Wool"; a raven, bird of ill-omen perches on the cross-bar.
[Ref: 52261] £480.00

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

A Farmer's Philosophy in Death. 299.
Woordward Delin. Bunbury Sc.
Pub. by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. One Shilling Colour'd. [n.d. c.1809.]
Hand-coloured etching; watermarked Charles Wise 1812 or 19. Plate 242 x 343mm (9½ x 13½"). Small margins.
The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling.
BM Satires: 11472.
[Ref: 52231] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Genial Rays, or John Bull enjoying the sunshine.
Tegg's Caricatures 111 Cheapside.
Pub.d June 1810 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured. Plate 248 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate at top.
John Bull (left), a fat 'cit', his hat and bludgeon beside him, reclines on his back against a grassy bank covered with roses. He looks up ecstatically to the sky where the profile head of Burdett is enclosed in a circle or sun inscribed 'Clarior e Tenebris'; this is irradiated, the rays illuminating a distant view of London and John himself. These passions set—and the great Patriot shines" The rays are inscribed: 'Magna Charta', 'King and Constitution', 'Loyalty', 'Reform', 'Good of the People', 'Integrity', 'Laws of the Land', 'Trial by Jury', 'Lords', 'Habea[s Corpus]', 'Liberty', 'Candour', 'Justice', 'Truth', 'Freedom of the Pr[ess]', 'Bill of Rights', 'Commons', 'Free Representation'. A circle of clouds is still not entirely dispersed by the rays: on the right they are over the Tower of London and on the left they surround three evil stars: 'Corrupti[on]', 'Imbe[cillity]', 'Democ[racy]'.
BM Satires 11563.
[Ref: 52292] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[George II] Optimus. Britons Behold. The Best of Kings. 41.
To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand. [Edwards and Darly. n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving. Plate 114 x 82mm (4½ x 3¼"), with large margins.
A caricature portrait of George II, from 'A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of...prints', London: Printed for E. Morris.
BM Satires 3537.
[Ref: 52329] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Incubation by Commission, or the Church Egg in Danger. No.9.
IH [inside image.]
also just Published by Fores, Incubation, or the Game Cock wot hatched a motley, & speckled brood, after 21 Days close sitting. [n.d. c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph. 285 x 407mm (11¼ x 16"). Small repaired tear bottom left.
Satirical imagery connected to the position of the Church of England in relation to the Catholic Emancipation of 1829 and the 1832 Reform Act. Peel, the incoming Conservative Prime Minister, was concerned to strengthen the church as an established institution and to therefor established the Ecclesiastical Commission of 1835 was set up to enquire into church revenues - it was intended that they uncover defects, propose remedies to the legislature, and supervise their administration. Three Ecclesiastical birds guard the egg as a clergyman approaches; Lord Melbourne? peers around the corner
[Ref: 52357] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Monument consacré à la postérité en mémoir de la folie incroyable de la XX année du XVIII. siècle / Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX jaar der XVIII. eeuw.
B. Picart fecit 1720.
Etching and engraving. Plate 279 x 361mm (11 x 14¼").
Satire on Law's Mississippi scheme: personifications of various elements involved in the scheme (Mississippi, Compagnie des Indes, Bank, etc) dragging a chariot driven by Madness and running over True Trade; on the chariot stands Fortune, who is throwing shares, snakes and fool's hats at the crowd; above her, the devil blows bubbles; the chariot leads a crowd to a building with three doors (hospital for the mad, the sick and the poor); on the left people gathered around a standing man holding a project for a trade company.
[Ref: 52254] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Solo. Musical Amateurs. Sweet Bird, that Shun'st the Noise of Folly, Most Musical, _ Most Melancholy. Vide Milton.
Woodward del. Etch'd by Roberts.
London Pub.d P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn. [n.d. c.1803.]
Hand-coloured etching. 274 x 198mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed to the plate.
A man stands in a country road, pointing at an enormous owl perched on the wall of a ruined Gothic church. Behind there are trees, with a full moon.
BM Satires: 10203.
[Ref: 52230] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ornithology. Well! If ever I saw such a love of an Owl before, in all my life!
[after Edward Stanley.]
[n.d. c.1825.]
Coloured lithograph on card. 196 x 252mm (7¾ x 10").
An owl sits upon a green perch, staring at a man who sits behind him on a green stool with the same tufted ears of the owl, bent over hand like talons and a coat that represents the tail. See Ref: 37175 for complete set. From a collection of Six amateur caricatures, drawn by Edward Stanley (1779-1849), who served as Bishop of Norwich 1837-1849. At the time of publication he was rector of Alderley, Cheshire, a position he held for 32 years. This and the two other satires he produced ('Bustle’s Banquet' & 'Dinner of the Dogs') were probably published locally, accounting for the absence of these caricatures in our national collections. His authorship is only confirmed by the 1907 publication of his collected letters.
[Ref: 52344] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

a Riddle Expounded or the Dignity of a Parsons Horse.
Woodward del.t.
London Pub.d [July 6th. 1807] by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside. Price 1sh Collored.
Hand coloured etching. Plate 241 x 344mm (9½ x 3½"), with large margins.
A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing addressing a fat elderly parson on horseback. He asks "Ha! Ha - the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, - Canst thee tell me - why - a Parsons Horse be like a King?" The parson answers with a grin: "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a Minister." Etched by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830; active) after George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809).
BM Satires: 11617.
[Ref: 52228] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

"The Person" in Parliament __ Chairing the New Member.
[n.d. c.1900.]
Coloured engraving. 120 x 234mm (4¾ x 9¼").
Punch astride one horse, as two horses pull a carriage through a crowd of women campaigning for Justice for Women, Connubial Rating, Stop with the Malt Tax and Cheap Tea, The Free and Independent Burgessesses of Cackleborough.
[Ref: 52352] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Political Balances_Unexpected Inspection_or A Good old Master takeing a peep into the state of things himself. 204.
[Charles Williams.]
by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside [n.d.]
Hand-coloured etching, watermark 1818. Plate 248 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Small margins.
A pair of scales hangs in a landscape, suspended from a hook in a block against the upper margin inscribed 'Constitution', the central pivot inscribed ('Equilibrium'). The left scale is weighted only by a document headed 'Acts for the more effectually Sarving' [sic], on the right scale, inscribed 'Prices of Provisions.', are a leg of mutton, a frothing tankard, and a loaf; it is much outweighed by the other, inscribed 'Old England', which descends below the level of the ground into a rocky pit or 'Abyss of Corruption'. On the ground below the right scale lies a starving and half-naked peasant who raises his arm to touch it. A well-dressed man, his hands on his knees, stoops in profile to the left over the descending scale. He is watched by George III who leans from a crenelated tower inscribed 'Windsor', on the extreme left, with his spy-glass to his eye. He wears a round hat topped by a small crown, and shouts: "Heigh! Heigh! Fellow! pull away those d—d heavy Corn Laws, and Butter and Cheese Laws; let the prices find the level & come within the reach of my distress'd people; I say pull them of directly Fellow, d'ont you see Old England is sunk almost out of sight, you thought I could not see did you Fellow Heigh! Heigh!" A face within a sun dipping behind the skyline sheds tears. A scale of (corn) prices explains the tilt of the scales by lines intersecting at the pivot, representing the tilt of the beam of the scales, downwards or upwards; the right end is inscribed with the price, the opposite end by a word expressing its result in social conditions.
BM Satires 13497 (addenda).
[Ref: 52294] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Private Rehearsal. ["But soft! What light through younder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!]
[n.d., c.1836.]
Coloured lithograph. 209 x 229mm (8¼ x 9"). Trimmed.
A chimney sweep reads from Romeo and Juliet to a scullery maid who sits on a barrel holding a candle. On the ground, a playbill for Othello Theatre Royal, Drury Lane performed with Edwin Forrest, November 22, 1836.
[Ref: 52223] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Nap near Nab'd or a Retreating Jump Just in Time. 203.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d June 1813 by Tho.s Tegg No.11 Cheapside - Price one sh col.d
Hand-coloured etching; J. Whatman, Turkey Mills 1820 watermark. Plate 248 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Some damage.
Napoleon leaps in terror from a window, his large bicorne falling off; another French officer steps on to the sill, about to follow. They will inevitably drop into a wash-tub below. The house is a neat log cabin with casement windows. Two flowering plants in pots fall from the sill, pigs scamper off, a cock and hen fly away. A woman scouring a pot looks out in alarm from a lower window. A cat miaows on a pent-house roof. Behind a paling (left) a Cossack with his long spear has dismounted, and hastens towards the house with a satisfied grin; in the background Cossacks gallop across a snowy landscape.
BM Satires 12058.
[Ref: 52299] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Rummage for Document for more Impe ------nts.
Invt Engd & Published by Knight La.beth May 1806 and sold at N° 7 Cornhill.
Hand-coloured etching. 235 x 342mm (9¼ x 13½"). Cut to platemark.
Paull's head and shoulders emerge from a long table, covered with papers, at which he has been writing; he is terror-struck at a beam of light issuing from the head of Wellesley which appears among clouds in the upper right. Wellesley looks down at Paull with raised forefinger. The papers on the table are blown about by a blast from Wellesley. Under the table partly raised cloth reveals sacks of money: '10-000 L R' and '20-000 Lac Rup'. An enormously long scroll hangs from the table by Paull, lying in fused folds on the ground. Piled up on the left of the table are two large bundles; a large bundle of 'Love Letters' lies on a package of 'Eastern delights or the Loves of India Manuscript'; this stands on a large volume: 'Portr[aits of t[he] Beauties of India'. Against it lies a small book: 'Man of Feeling [by Mackenzie]'. A paper is 'the Revenge'. With these is a small picture of an Indian woman holding a sword. Behind these piled-up objects stands a figure of 'Wisdom' with wide eyes, enormous ears, and two fingers held to his mouth to keep it closed. Above, discarded on a shelf, is a battered volume: 'Duty of Man'. On the wall behind Paull is a long framed picture of the Woman taken in Adultery: three-quarter length figures of Christ, the Elders, and the woman, with a bold inscription: 'He that is without sin among you let him cast the first stone.' A signature, 'Coricio', is perhaps intended for Correggio.
BM Satires 10561.
[Ref: 52284] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Russian Colossus after Making the Tour of Italy, France & carrying home a few Presents for the Empress.
IC. Folios of Caricatures sent.
Published July 15 1799 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Very rare etching. 395 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"). Damaged. Trimmed.
Suvóroff (Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, 1729-1800; Russian military commander), holding a French army in each crooked elbow, his right foot planted on Paris (left), a fortified town, is about to put his left foot on 'Peters[burg]. His appearance and dress, though caricatured, are less grotesquely untrue to life than in earlier prints. In his cartouche box, inscribed 'Les Directoire', are the five Directors; he removes a long pipe from his mouth to emit a blast of smoke at them, saying, "There now, be quiet will you". They say: "This Monster will be the Destruction of us all". In his right arm is 'Moreau's Army'; in his left, 'Macdonalds Army' (men, horses, flags, cannon, and bayonets). Through his legs is seen 'Turin'. On the extreme left 'Spain', at which he emits a blast from his posteriors. From Petersburg issue the words: 'here he comes - here he comes got them all in his knapsack.'
BM Satires 9408.
[Ref: 52251] £360.00

A Russian Cossack.
[T. Palser.]
[n.d. c.1815.]
Fine hand-colorured etching and engraving, watermark 1815. Plate 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins.
A Russian Cossack on horseback hodling a spear facing forward; a sword around his waist and a rifle pointing out fro his saddlebag. Three soldiers on horseback, to the left, charge towards other mounted troops to the right.
[Ref: 52340] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sailors in Westminster Abbey.
Folios of Caracatures lent our For the Evening. [Charles Williams.]
Pubd. Aug.t 27th 1804 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching on watermarked paper. Plate 349 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Two burly, tough-looking sailors stand before Kent's monument to Shakespeare (r.). They read the inscription to which the figure of Shakespeare points: 'The Cloud Capt Towers, The Goreeous Palaces, . . . Leave not a Wreck [sic] behind' ['Tempest', IV. i]. One (l.), who wears his hat, in which is a tobacco-pipe, says: "Captain Towers!! who the Devil can this Capt Towers be? - Rot me if ever I heard of his Name or that of the Ship, did You Jack?" The other, who holds his hat, answers: "No, but I take it the Cloud must have belonged to the Mounseers, for you know that's what they call the place Boney lives at" [i.e. St. Cloud], Both hold heavy cudgels.
BM Satires: 10330.
[Ref: 52241] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Lament of Lord Bags. Do I then dream in sooth? or can it be? Am I foreclos'd from mine own Chancerie? Oh senseless Woolpack! [...] Oh Bags! Bags! Bags! O! O! O! O! O! O!
[by John Doyle]
London. Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. 344 x 253mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed to platemark on the left edge. Small margins on 3 sides. Tear in margin bottom right.
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, stands in deep dejection, hands thrust in his breeches pockets, head slightly tilted. He wears plain dark suit with knee-breeches and buckled shoes, legal bands, and small wig. He resigned as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1827 when George Canning became Prime Minister, being deeply opposed to the new prime minister's more liberal principles.
BM Satires 15419.
[Ref: 52323] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Snips.
Rowlandson Invenit 1815.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
A woman and man are hard at ironing inside a room; another man sits by an open hearth warming the irons ready to swap; a yawning cat is sat behind him. At the window a woman shouts.
[Ref: 52347] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldiers in the Field.]
D. Redman Lithog. W Heath 165 New Bond Street.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 400 x 292mm (15¾ x 11½"). Trimmed to the image with damage at the bottom.
A very scarce print of French infantry soldiers drinking in the foreground with a barrel of beer to the side; more soldiers relax to the left-hand middle-ground; an officer on horseback appears to the left middle-ground. In the background infantry troops march.
[Ref: 52221] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Spirited Subjects No.4. Vell wot are you flaring up about? Vy yer only a couple o'Shampains arter all!
[London: W Spooner, n.d. c.1835.]
Lithograph with fine hand-colour. 255 x 222mm (10 x 8¾"). Cut.
Two snooty champagne flutes, with cigar and cane, in conversation with a humble jug; an illustrated pun, the vessels given human characteristics and faces. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
[Ref: 52355] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Steam Boat.
[H. Heath.]
Pubd. by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked: 1822. Plate 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed on right. Small margins on 3 sides.
Satire; a fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'; a more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes a vun hoss shase [one-horse chaise] better it doesen't rumble vun so-'.
[Ref: 52320] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

It wur lucky I got shelter at all. Thought would destroy his Paradise where ignorance is bliss!! Tis folly to be wise.
[Paul Pry.] Invt.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d. c.1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. 350 x 242mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to border.
A traveller tries to shelter under a tree which has no branches; a soggy dog stands under the other side of the tree. Lightning flashes with Stonehenge visible in the background.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 52249] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Taking Notice.
R. Dagley del. et sculp.
London, Publisehd by John Warren. Old Bond Street, and G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane. [n.d. c.1821.]
Hand-coloured etching. 244 x 142mm (9½ x 5½"). Some slight scuffing to the sheet.
A man in suitable dress peers through his hand-held eyeglass at a lady who peeks back at him, hidden by the door frame, whilst raising her dress to reveal her ankle.
[Ref: 52213] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Temptation for Lawyers. 266
Etc by Roberts.
London Pubd. by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside Jan. [1803 scratched out.]
Hand-coloured etching. 247 x 356mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed inside the platemark. Back board stain.
Two demons (r.) hold up a long scroll headed ' A Suit in Chancery'; the rolled end rests on the ground. Five lawyers (l.) jostle each other to get places for the race towards it. The foremost presses the others back, saying, "Start fair Gentlemen, if you Please". Three of them wear long gowns; the others are in ordinary dress, but one of them wears bands.
BM Satires 10198.
[Ref: 52256] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Tower in a State of Siege. The Dreadful Riots of November 1830.
Printed by C. Motte, 23, Leicester Square.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph, unique with added comments in black ink. 290 x 368mm (11½ x 14½"). Fold in image. Time stained.
Starting on 5 November 1830, the middle classes began to petition parliament for reform. A mob, chiefly of women and children, assails the Tower, the outer battlements of which are defended by soldiers; the embrasures bristle with cannon, and the commander declares [in black] " 'We will never Surrender'. Clouds of smoke or dust divide these (small) figures and the White Tower from the mob in the foreground, who are unarmed except for the pea-shooters and wooden swords of little boys, and the chamber-pots of one or two women. A fat fellow with eggs shouts 'Nothing like Rotten Eggs'. A woman with two buckets says: 'Get your Squirts ready here . . . Stuff.' A man prepares to hurl the contents of a bucket, saying, 'here's some that will stick by you'. A child says: 'Here I come with plenty of Peas'. Others shout 'Peas' and 'More Peas'. A ragged man spits, saying, 'here is some of Wisharts best Shagg'. Other shouts are: 'Let the Women have plenty of Gin we shall do them'; 'We will make you Reform'; 'heres plenty of rotten Oranges for nothing'."
BM Satires 16319.
[Ref: 52313] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Triumph of Independence over Majesterial Influence and Corruption.
Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening. [Charles Williams.]
Pub.d March 8th 1805 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly.
Fine hand-coloured etching, watermark J. Whatman. Plate 241 x 348mm 9½ x 13¾").
A street scene. Sir Francis Burdett, tall, handsome, and distinguished but a poor portrait, stands (r.) turning his head in profile towards Mainwaring and extending his right. arm with a gesture of dismissal. In his left hand is a paper: 'Constitution of England'. Mainwaring, fashionably dressed, but mean and vulgar, stands with flexed knees and wrists crossed over his breast. He squints towards Burdett and clutches a paper: 'Mar . . List'. Burdett says: "Go Hireling! retire to thy original Nothingness, nor suffer Ministerial Influence to hold thee up to ridicule again, nor dare oppose the legitimate Choice of the Electors of Middlesex." Mainwaring soliloquizes (mis-quoting 'Paradise Lost', iv. 37-9): "Oh how I hate those Beams which bring to my remembrance from "What State I am Fallen.' A stout bailiff or constable (l.) addresses him: "I have got a Writ of Bastardy for Justice Juggle".
BM Satires 10372.
[Ref: 52296] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ways and Means Why they don't Marry. Because [as symbol] Several letters had appeared in the Times complaining of the prevalent extravagance which rendered it impossible for people of moderate means to marry. - July, 1861.
[Punch, 41, 13 July 1861.]
Engraving. 354 x 526mm (14 x 20¾"). Foxing; folded as normal.
Two images showing the extravagence of marriage. A woman to the left holding a print of a carriage, whilst her chamber-maid attends to her hair; the room contains ornate furniture, prints of horses and of a 'Design of a Cottage'. In the opposite image, a gentleman sat in a reading chair holding The Times newspaper; his butler appears with a tipple.
[Ref: 52371] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Whistling Shop. Tom & Jerry visiting Logic, "on board the Fleet".
Drawn & Engraved by I.R & G. Cruikshank.
[Pub.d by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, May 1, 1821.]
Fine hand-coloured aquatint and etching. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"). Trimmed to the plate.
Corinthian Tom, Jerry Hawthorn and Bob Logic seated and drinking at a table in a 'whistling shop' in the Fleet prison, the former two visiting the latter who has been imprisoned for debt, prisoners and other rough-looking men drinking, gambling and smoking in the dingy room, some standing by the fire, a man entering the room to the right with tennis rackets under his arm and a warden talking to a lady with two children. Tennis interest.
[Ref: 52219] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Wringing Wet. It rain'd a deluge; poor Joseph came home late; Long at the bell he tugg'd (at last our popp'd a pate;) "Who's that there ringin now?" Cried sleepy Bet; "'Tis I you fool" said Joe I'm Wringing Wet!!!
Etching by T. Jones.
London, Pubd. Feb.y 22.th. 1828 by S.W. Fores 41, Piccadilly.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. 355 x 253mm (14 x 10").
Satire with a young man caught by the rain at night rings the bell of his house to wake sleepy wife.
[Ref: 52260] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Wrymouth Candidates or the Strangers at Home. Plate 1 Dedicated to every Indepent Elector.
June 1808.
Hand-coloured etching; 1808 watermark. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Three candidates for Weymouth are displayed on a table to the electors, whose heads and shoulders form the base of the design. One is a tiny figure standing on the hand of a man who stands on the table; a military officer stands beside the table (left), pointing to the tiny candidate; he bows to the electors. Cranborne bows, hat in hand. The second candidate stands hat in hand; under his arm is a book: 'Slavery vindicated'. None of the electors looks towards him. The third (right) stands hat in hand with both arms above his head; papers inscribed 'Contract' project from both pockets. Only the two electors on the extreme right look up at him. A man stands behind the table (left) addressing the electors. A poll-clerk sits behind the table, putting a finger knowingly to his eye. On the table is an open book (? Bible), each double-columned page headed 'Kings'. Ten electors constitute the audience; all but two gaze up at Cranborne.
BM Satires 12284.
[Ref: 52303] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Yorkshire Concert._Sung by Mr. Emery, at Covent Garden Theatre.
Published 12th April, 1805, by Laurie and Whittle, No.53, Fleet Street, London.
Engraving. 222 x 247mm (8¾ x 9¾").
A footman in livery stands, one hand in his coat-pocket, the other pointing behind him at country people in gala dress seated round a table on which has a punch-bowl. Three musicians play on a platform (1.). The footman, 'a Yorkshire man just come to town', describes the glories and humours of a 'rout' given by the grocer's wife, 'Madam Fig', at home. An ass brays, and a man falls into a tub. The guests sing.
BM Satires 10502.
[Ref: 52245] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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