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![[Judge George Jeffreys] The Lord Chancellor taken disguis'd in Wapping.](jpegs/64203.jpg)
[Judge George Jeffreys] The Lord Chancellor taken disguis'd in Wapping. Engraved for the Devills Broker.
[n.d., c.1688.]
Etching. Sheet 320 x 205mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed into plate, to printed border lower right, worn hole lower left, laid on album paper.
George Jeffreys (1645-89), 1st Baron Jeffreys, Judge and Lord Chancellor, captured while attempting to flee England after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He stands disguised as a sailor saying, "Tear me to pieces" as he is arrested by constables, an angry crowd behind with various speech balloons: "Remember ye West", "Remember Mr. Cornish", "Remember ye Bishops", "Remember Maudlin College", "Knock his brains out". At the top of the sheet at left bust and shoulders of a Quaker saying "Brother Peters what doest thow say" and opposite Father Edward Petre (1631 - 1699) in a Jesuit's cap, says, "Thou wilt be hang'd by yee & nay". At the foot of the sheet, a devil emeges from a flaming hell-mouth to attack the dismembered torso of a Jesuit who lies on the ground. Jeffreys, nicknamed "the hanging judge", is best remembered for his part in suppressing the Monmouth Rebellion against James II's rule in 1685, and for conducting the so-called 'Bloody Assize' in the West Country, at which harsh sentences were handed out to the Duke of Monmouth's followers. Nearly 200 people were hanged, and more than 800 transported to the colonies as indentured labourers.
BM Satires: 1179a.
[Ref: 64203] £1,800.00
[n.d., c.1688.]
Etching. Sheet 320 x 205mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed into plate, to printed border lower right, worn hole lower left, laid on album paper.
George Jeffreys (1645-89), 1st Baron Jeffreys, Judge and Lord Chancellor, captured while attempting to flee England after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He stands disguised as a sailor saying, "Tear me to pieces" as he is arrested by constables, an angry crowd behind with various speech balloons: "Remember ye West", "Remember Mr. Cornish", "Remember ye Bishops", "Remember Maudlin College", "Knock his brains out". At the top of the sheet at left bust and shoulders of a Quaker saying "Brother Peters what doest thow say" and opposite Father Edward Petre (1631 - 1699) in a Jesuit's cap, says, "Thou wilt be hang'd by yee & nay". At the foot of the sheet, a devil emeges from a flaming hell-mouth to attack the dismembered torso of a Jesuit who lies on the ground. Jeffreys, nicknamed "the hanging judge", is best remembered for his part in suppressing the Monmouth Rebellion against James II's rule in 1685, and for conducting the so-called 'Bloody Assize' in the West Country, at which harsh sentences were handed out to the Duke of Monmouth's followers. Nearly 200 people were hanged, and more than 800 transported to the colonies as indentured labourers.
BM Satires: 1179a.
[Ref: 64203] £1,800.00
The Great Madiai Meeting of 1853, of the Protestant Alliance in Exeter Hall. Francesco and Rosa Madiai in their Prison Cells. Engraved from the Original Picture by W. Henry Fisk, Esq., and respectfully dedicated to the Right Hon. The Lord Mayor, M.P. &c. &c. &c.
W.H. Fisk, delt. G. Meason, Sc.
Published for the Proprietors by Messrs. Partridge & Oackley, 34, Paternoster Row; and to be had of Messrs. Fisk & Co., 163, Strand; and of all Stationers.
Wood engraving. Sheet 380 x 430mm (15 x 17"). Laid on card, slight staining.
A view of the large meeting of the Protestant Alliance in Exeter Hall in support of Francesco and Rosa Madiai, who had been imprisoned in Florence for their Protestant faith, having been caught with an English Bible. Two vignettes show the pair in prison, Francesco in solitary confinement. In 1853, after an international outcry, their punishment was commuted to exile. Such was their fame that Phineas Taylor Barnum requested they tour America.
[Ref: 63926] £390.00
W.H. Fisk, delt. G. Meason, Sc.
Published for the Proprietors by Messrs. Partridge & Oackley, 34, Paternoster Row; and to be had of Messrs. Fisk & Co., 163, Strand; and of all Stationers.
Wood engraving. Sheet 380 x 430mm (15 x 17"). Laid on card, slight staining.
A view of the large meeting of the Protestant Alliance in Exeter Hall in support of Francesco and Rosa Madiai, who had been imprisoned in Florence for their Protestant faith, having been caught with an English Bible. Two vignettes show the pair in prison, Francesco in solitary confinement. In 1853, after an international outcry, their punishment was commuted to exile. Such was their fame that Phineas Taylor Barnum requested they tour America.
[Ref: 63926] £390.00
![[Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell] The Sad Historian.](jpegs/64098.jpg)
[Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell] The Sad Historian.
John Bewick, del. et sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Wood engraving. Printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Mounted in album paper.
An old woman wearing a broad-brimmed hat, cloak and tattered clothes, standing at the edge of a stream, poking with her stick in the shallows, gathering watercress. It illustrates 'The Deserted Village' in the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795. John Bewick (1760-95) was the younger brother and apprentice of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), from whom he learned wood engraving. He died the year this plate was first published.
See BM 1925,0305.9 for a proof.
[Ref: 64098] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
John Bewick, del. et sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Wood engraving. Printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Mounted in album paper.
An old woman wearing a broad-brimmed hat, cloak and tattered clothes, standing at the edge of a stream, poking with her stick in the shallows, gathering watercress. It illustrates 'The Deserted Village' in the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795. John Bewick (1760-95) was the younger brother and apprentice of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), from whom he learned wood engraving. He died the year this plate was first published.
See BM 1925,0305.9 for a proof.
[Ref: 64098] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
![[Four illustrations from 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell']](jpegs/64103.jpg)
[Four illustrations from 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell'] The Departure. [&] The Traveller. [&] The Hermit at his Morning Devotion. [&] The Hermit, ANgel, and Guide.
R. Johnson, del. T. Berwick, sculp. [3] [&] T. Berwick, sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Four wood engravings mounted in one album sheet. largest printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Four illustrations from the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795, all engraved by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), regarded as the 'founder of wood-engraving'. 'The Departure' shows a family leaving Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village'; 'The Traveller' illustrates Goldsmith's poem of the same title, the scene after John Thurston; and two scenes from Parnell's 'The Hermit'.
See BM: 1925,0305.1, 1882,0311.2878, 1925,0305.3 & 1925,0305.4.
[Ref: 64103] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
R. Johnson, del. T. Berwick, sculp. [3] [&] T. Berwick, sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Four wood engravings mounted in one album sheet. largest printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Four illustrations from the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795, all engraved by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), regarded as the 'founder of wood-engraving'. 'The Departure' shows a family leaving Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village'; 'The Traveller' illustrates Goldsmith's poem of the same title, the scene after John Thurston; and two scenes from Parnell's 'The Hermit'.
See BM: 1925,0305.1, 1882,0311.2878, 1925,0305.3 & 1925,0305.4.
[Ref: 64103] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)