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Was "stirring with the lark," bent on fixing myself for a month's sponge on a friend who was going to Rusticate; way laid him and accepted a seat in his gig, or rather balance room on the edge of it; had not proceeded far before he spilt me, by accidentlly coming in contact with a post, & then drove on laughing, nothing daunted, however, rose, put a good face the matter, & exclaimed "Go on I'll follow thee".
London, Published by W. Egerton, 1824.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 215 x 274mm (8½ x 10¾"). Some time staining in margins at top.
A satire on a man falling off the back of a cabriolet.
Abby 289 Plate 1 "Sponge". See also [Ref: 21565].
[Ref: 58443]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Coming it! _
Coming it! _
I. _ etched by G. C_k.
London Pubd by G Humphrey 24 St James's Street _ Nov.r 24th 1824.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Trimmed within plate.
Amateur whips, ostentatiously or ineptly negligent, drive outré vehicles with showy horses.
BM Satires 14721.
[Ref: 58274]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Storming the Curricle in Queens S.t
Storming the Curricle in Queens S.t No.140
J Jenkins Fecit 1805.
Rare etching, plate 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), with large margins. Staining and some surface dirt.
A woman clings on to the reigns of a carriage and starts to hoist herself on board, the driver protests, "Let go the Reigns you shall not come into the Curricle this day as I have no servant with me." "No matter for that I am determined to be along side of you so up I come," the woman replies. A rare Edinburgh satire. J. Jenkin(s) 1794-1812.
See National Library of Scotland.
[Ref: 58431]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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