Awful Moments or Monkeys of Honour!! N.o 37.How many Cowards, whose hearts are all as false, As stains of sand, wear yet upon their chins, The beards of Hercules and Frowning Mars; Who inward search'd have livers white as milk: Shakespeare.
M.arks fc.
[London Published by J.L. Marks, 17, Artillery Street, Bishopsgate] [n.d c.1824]
Etching with colour, 180 x 205mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Slight loss lower left.
A caricature of a duel fought in 1824 between Cornet William Battier (fl.1824-) and Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854), both of the 10th Hussars. With a Shakespeare (1564-1616) quote from the 'Merchant of Venice. Act III. Scene 2.' Battier, Londonberry and their seconds Lt-Col. Thomas Weston (-c.1824) and Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785-1856) are depicted as monkeys wearing military uniforms.
[Ref: 58441] £60.00
[London Published by J.L. Marks, 17, Artillery Street, Bishopsgate] [n.d c.1824]
Etching with colour, 180 x 205mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Slight loss lower left.
A caricature of a duel fought in 1824 between Cornet William Battier (fl.1824-) and Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854), both of the 10th Hussars. With a Shakespeare (1564-1616) quote from the 'Merchant of Venice. Act III. Scene 2.' Battier, Londonberry and their seconds Lt-Col. Thomas Weston (-c.1824) and Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785-1856) are depicted as monkeys wearing military uniforms.
[Ref: 58441] £60.00