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	General caricature by Marks. PHRENOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, OR THE SCIENCE PRATICALLY DEVELOPED. Dedicated to the Commander in Chief as a sure guide to appropriation !! Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly May 15th 1822. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour, trimmed to the border with some creasing and small nicks in the paper at the bottom. The list of on the wall says, “Craniums examined and developed”. The comment about the officer on the left is, “No. 9 Conspicuously”. The one on the right is, “Heres the 10th the 10th the 10th to a demonstration”. No 9 on the list is, “Brutality”, whilst No. 10 is, “Pride with Ignorance!” The comments on the central figure are. “No, wont do for the 10th, too much of No 1 – 5 and 7”. The list for these numbers is, “Penetration; Benevolence; Civility”. One of the many caricatures making fun of the 10th Hussars, who were known for their snobbery. Not in the B. M. £385.
	General caricature by De Wilde. THE OPPOSITION HYDRA, OR BRITANNIA’S WORST FOE. Published for the Satirist January 1st 1806, by S. Tipper, Leadenhall Street. 13½ x 7¼. Original colour with the usual folds. Thread margins. The ghost of Pitt attacks members of the late Ministry for their promotion of the Catholic Bill, which is seen as an attack on the Crown. B. M. 10961. £75.
	General caricature. Little Johnny Rouse-Hell or The Ministers Last Shift. Published April 28. 1831 by T. McLean. 26 Haymarket. 13¼ x 9¼. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark and paper loss on the title – part of the T. McLean is missing. Slight surface marks, uncoloured. Set in the House of Commons Lord John Russell is thrusting ‘Magna Charter’ ‘Bill of Rights’ and other similar documents into the gaping jaws of the monster. Various radicals (Wilkes, Hunt, Cobbett, and Brougham) are in the smoke and flames, and the Ministerial benches are crowded. This is both an attack on the Reform Bill and on the radicals – both past and present. B. M. 16643. £50.
	General caricature by (? T. Lane). THE C-R-L-E COLUMN. Published by G. Humphrey 17 St James’s St. February 28th 1821. 9½ x 15¼. Uncoloured and with thread margins. A small tear, two inches on the left, which just crosses the engraved border. An un-caricatured Caroline stands at the top of the column. Below five scenes of her debauched life. This is one of a series of gross attacks on the Queen. B. M. 14129. £85.
	General caricature by De Wilde. Truth in Jeopardy, or Power, versus Freedom. Published April 1st. 1811. by M. Jones. 5 Newgate Street. 15 x 9¾. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark. An image from the ‘Scourge’ and thus the usual folds. Lord Holland supports the naked body of Truth, and her assailants include Ellenborough, Perceval and Eldon. The government had been increasing the number of trials without juries in libel cases. B. M. 11717. £120.
	General caricature. A. DISAPPOINTMENT!!! Published by G. S. Tregear. 123, Cheapside, London. c.1830. Top right is printed Tregears Flights of Humour No10. 7 x 10. Lithograph with original colour. An angry clergyman holding a pan of soot is exclaiming. “Ollo!!! The devil take the soot it’s spoi’d all my eggs and bacon!!! This is enough to make a Parson Swear." Not in B. M. £90.
	General caricature. OLD BAGS AT FAULT, at the sound of the chancery BELL. Published by E. King Chancery Lane, London. Marks fecit. The B. M. has a date of (1826). 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark and with slight browning of the margins. Eldon, in his chancellor’s wig and gown, sits at a table leaning his elbow on the Great Seal. He looks up at his visitor, John Bell K. C. who stands before him, in wig and gown. Bell is saying, “My Lord I’ve call’d to acquaint you of my intention of retireing from the court of the Chancery.” Eldon replies, “Mr Bell, let me remonstrate with you on the impolicy of putting your intentions into immediate execution.” Bell replies, “My Lord I am growing old.” Eldon answers, “I am your senior by some years.” Bell says, “My Lord I feel myself growing weaker.” Eldon, “I am much weaker Mr Bell.” Bell, “I have a swimming in my head.” Eldon, “And so have I.” Bell, “My Lord I have made enough money.” Eldon says nothing but exclaims, “----!!!” B. M. 15145. £165.
	General caricature. MATRIMONIAL ALMANACK. Published by Laurie and Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London. December 12th 1804. 8 x 10. Uncoloured print with good margins. An angry husband, having discovered his wife and her lover, is kicking the distressed pair out of the bedroom in which they were found. The script beneath the image shows a year in the life of the gentlemans' marriage. Not in B. M. £45.
	General caricature. A FARMERS PHILOSOPHY IN DEATH. Published by T. Tegg, 111, Cheapside. With a Tegg number of 299. Woodward Delin. The B. M. has a suggested date of 1809. 13½ x 9½. Good original colour, with small margins. A farmer in night gown and cap sits in a chair, around which stand, a lawyer ready to write The last will and Testament of... A doctor, sucking his cane. His eldest son in a smock. A parson, with a grog-blossom nose. A weeping wife. A little girl holding a handkerchief, and a small boy yelling. The farmer is saying, “I bequeath my House and Lands to my eldest Son Dick – the rest of my property to my Wife and younger Children – I leave Six and eightpence to the Lawyer – all his galipots and phials to the Doctor and half a years tithes to the Parson – Therefore March off Doctor! – Write Lawyer! – Pray parson cry Wife! and bellow Children! – for it is all over with me.” B. M. 11472. £145.
	General caricature. A TENDER SALUTE & PLEASANT REPLY. Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London. July 25th 1804. 7¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured with good margins. The script beneath the image reads: A Celebrated Scotch advocate happening some Years ago to meet Lady W____ at a place in Edinburgh complimented her Ladyship on looking so well “Lord!” said she “I am as fat as a Whale!” ____ “I wish I were Jonah”______ Not in the B. M. £45.
	General caricature. THE DIGNIFIED CLERICAL MACARONI. Published according to Act, Oct. 6. 1772, by M Darly 39 Strand. 10 x 7. Original colour (?) and small margins. On laid paper. The servant points at the bird on the ground and says, “Run my Lord Run”. Not in the B. M. £100.
	General caricature by (? Lane). THE WHOLE TRUTH, or John Bull with his eyes opened. Published by G. Humphrey 27 St James’s St. February 1st 1821. 9 x 12. Uncoloured and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. A small nick at the bottom edge, but not reaching the engraved border. Caroline’s dress has figures of her supporters, including Wood and Bergami. Not in the B. M. £45.
	General caricature. A SKETCH IN HUMBLE LIFE. Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London. January 1st 1805. 7¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured with good margins. The script beneath the title reads: Three Old Women gossiping about the hardness of the times____ One said Bread was rising very fast ____ the second said and Beer ____ the third observ’d if this is to be the case, they’ll soon tax every NECESSARY! ____ Oh! Then reply’d the first, We must all go to POT! Not in the B. M. £35.
	General caricature. A BROKEN LEG, OR THE CARPENTER THE BEST SURGEON. Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London. February 24th 1800. 7¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured with good margins. The script beneath reads: Halloo! Young Glewpot ____ de ye see Jack Junk has Shivered his Timbers ____ and wee want a Splice here. Not in B. M. £40.
	General caricature. ROMPS IN THE HAY FIELD. Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street London. April 14th 1801. 7¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured with good margins. A happy hay-making scene. Not in the B. M. £40.
	General caricature, Roberts. A TENDER PARTING at the GRAND JUNCTION CANAL. Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. January 1st. c.1810. With the Tegg number top right 281. Etched by Roberts. Woodward Delin. 14¼ x 10¼. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark top and bottom but with reasonable margins to the sides. Some staining to the title and some small tears in the margins, not reaching the engraved area. A wife is warning her husband of all the dangers that he might meet by taking a trip on a canal. The husband having purchased sailors trousers for the trip is determined to go aboard. Whilst the daughter weeps, saying, “O my poor Pappa – what a sad thing it is to have too much courage – always drawing one into danger.” Not in B. M. £160.
	General caricature. THE GHOST ____ or POOR PADDY and the BLACK CAT. Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London. January 24th 1801. 7¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured with good margins. The script beneath the print reads: Then gently stepping from his bed, And peeping round o’erwhelm’d with dread! Behind the door, low couch’d he spies A hugh black cat, with saucer eyes! “I’ll give thee something in a trice, “Not quite so good as catching mice! “Something not quite so sweet as amber, Then thrust him in the Pot de Chambre. And now his heart no longer quails, When thus Grimalkin he assails: “What devil put in thy head, “To take thy station near my bed; Not in the B. M. £55.
	General caricature. Lady’s Toilette. Stays and Trousers. No publication line present. (Probably an Irish copy of the Gillray image). c.1815. 9¼ x 11½. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Some wear outside the image, and a tear at the lower edge just reaching the E at the end of ‘Toilette’ Not in the B. M. £75.
	General caricature. WRINGING WET. T. Jones. Published February 22nd 1828 by S. W. Fores 41 Piccadilly. 10 x 13¾. Aquatint with original colour. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Under the title is, It rain’d a deluge; poor Joseph came home late; Long at the bell he tugg’d (at last out popp’d a pat “Who’s that there ringing now?” Cried sleepy Bet; “’Tis I you fool” said Joe I’m WRINGING WET!!! Not in the B. M. £175.
	General caricature. THE WISH GRANTED. Published by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket. c.1830. 9¾ x 13¾. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark. The heading to the music she is playing is, ‘I’d be a Butterfly’, This is also the heading at the top of the print. Not in the B. M. £240.
	General caricature. SHROVE TUESDAY ALL THE YEAR ROUND – A COCK WOT EVERY ONE THROWS AT. No publication line, but probably July 1829. Possibly by R. Seymour. (The B. M. example also has no publication line). 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour, with large margins on Whatman paper with a watermark of 1829. At this time, Cock-throwing was still legal. Here the cockerel has the head of Wellington and his opponents are ready to throw their sticks. An angry cleric, with a bundle of stick under his arm says; I’ll have every tenth throw. The next figure is ‘Paul Pry’ and on the top of his stick is a small figure of Wellington. Behind are men with sticks on which is written Chronicle, Times, and Herald. In the left foreground is Eldon in conversation with Cumberland. B. M. 15842. £200.
	General caricature. WIGS. Published Accord. To Act October 12 1773 by M Darly 39 Strand. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour on laid paper with large margins and a faint old vertical fold in the centre. In the top left is the number 29. The fourteen heads show different types of wigs. Most appear to be portraits and one is a caricature of Lord Chancellor Bathurst. B. M.5169 £275.
	General caricature. HATS. Published Accord. To Act October 8th 1773 by M Darly 39 Strand. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour on slightly yellowed laid paper with large margins and faint old vertical fold in the centre. In the top left is the number 28. The twelve heads show different types of hats worn by men. B. M. 5170. £275.
	General caricature. COMFORT FOR AN OLD MAID. Roberts. Published by T. Tegg (c.1810). Bearing the number 127 top right. 13¾ x 10½. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Small repaired tear top left going ¼ inch into the image. An old woman sits on a chair and says to her servant, "John – how do you like my fashionable Muff and Tippett – don’t you think I look charmingly to day". – The servant replies, "Why Ma- am I be but a Sarvant and Sarvitude they say is no inheritance – but as a Yorkshire – man – I like to speak my mind then I do think you look for all the world like a Hog in Armour and I think it a sheame an Old Woman like you should be running after the Men at your time of life – you had better think of summat else – for you look Nation Sickly that’s for sartain". Not in the B. M. £150.
	General caricature. AWFUL MOMENTS OR MONKEYS OF HONOUR!! 7¼ x 6¾. Trimmed onto/within the image. Original colour. To bottom right is Marks Fec. (Marks was publishing c.1817 – c.1830). Beneath the image is, 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. Beneath the lines of verse is SHAKESPEARE. Not in B. M. £85.
	General caricature. Sooty Dun the Devil’s Meal man. Published October 30th 1772 by M. Darly 39 Strand. 5 x 7. Uncoloured with very small margins and on laid paper with slight marks. He wears ragged cloths, broken shoes, a lamb’s fleece as a wig and two pieces of wood as his sword. He is a chimney sweep dressed as for the first of May celebrations, which were a feature of London life. Another from the S,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, collection. B. M. 5042. £30.
	General caricature after Bunbury. PISTOL EATING FLUELLENS LEAK. No publication details on this item, (nor on the one in the B. M.). Probably published by Palser in about 1812. 13 x 9¾. Original colour. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark, but outside the engraved area. Some crinkling of the paper with very slight marks. A copy of the 1795 Bunbury image. B. M. 11835. £75.
	General caricature. A BENE – FIT. Published by Thos. McLean 26, Haymarket London, 1826. 13¼ x 9¾. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark. The right hand edge has some creases. A group of unhappy people, (having queued for entrance to the Pit in the theatre), find that the Pit is full. The poster on the wall has had the Drury Lane of the address of the Theatre scratched out. I have had this print a number of times all have had the Drury Lane removed. Not in the B. M. £140.
	General caricature. THE LAST STAKE. Published Dec. 6th. 1770 for J. Alman in Piccadilly London. 13¼ x 10. Uncoloured on laid paper and trimmed outside the image, title and publication line. North sits on the bull, which is being baited by France and Spain, while Bute holds on the restraining rope. George III stands placidly in the doorway as a chamber pot is just about to be emptied on his head. In the foreground a Dutchman is urinating on a paper inscribed "British Memorial”. B. M. 5571. £120
	General caricature. MY SWEETHEART. Love’s Vagaries No. 2 6 ¾ x 9. A lithograph with, original colour, and minor surface staining. No publication line present. c.1835. Not in B. M. £40.
	General caricature. HOUSEHOLD TROOPS PREPARING FOR AN ATTACK. London published by Rowe & Waller 49 Fleet St. May 1826. 9¾ x 7½. A lithograph, trimmed to image, with original colour. Slight crinkling of the paper. Not in B. M. £70.
	General caricature by (? T. Jones). WILEY FORRESTERS en Chasse. Published by S. W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly May 13th 1828. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with small margins and bearing a watermark of 1828. Small tear bottom centre, stain in the word bubble on right. Three designs side by side; the same pretty girl with three suitors. In the first Accepted. An elderly man kneels at her feet kissing her hand; in his pocket is a Marriage Licence. Behind him, large bags of money are stacked on the table and the floor. He is saying to her, Oh! Lady fair I Bid up for the prize Do thou but smile Consent from those bright eyes Then firm as Bank are all our destinies- In the second Rejected. A man bows, his hat in his hand, note the lack of moneybags as he smilingly accepts dismissal. She is saying, No my Lord it is not Apt – to join January and May! – In the third Prefered. The woman is addressing a handsome young officer, whose empty pockets hang inside out. She says, Left to my own taste I should give you the preference. B. M. 15595. £95.
	General caricature, after Woodward. The Gretna Green tobacconists address to the Gentlemen of the Long Robe. Published by R. Ackermann 101 Strand. August 1806. 14¼ x 10½. Original colour, trimmed to the engraved border. A Scottish man addresses ten legal gentlemen and is saying, “As I find Gemmen ye aw smok’d a my proceedings you think aw ame that I should shut up my Tobacco Box, but though I am a boney lad of the short cut robe – I can make a farewell speech as weel as ye G Gemmen of the long cut robe – I dinna care a pinch of snuff for your verdict for, I know your amorous couples O’th south canna do without me. – this like waxing a pipe it makes it look smouth and pretty though tis liable to be broken the next minute and say what you will after I have put my tobacco stopper on their Certificate they will lig together as choose as tonquin beans in a snuff box – Gemmen I wish you now a merry and may you never want a pinch of snuff – or a whiff of Tobacco.” Not in the B. M. £145.
	General caricature by H. Heath. PIGEON SHOOTING. Published by Sam Maunder10 Newgate St. London.1829. 7¾ x 5½. Original colour Trimmed onto/within the image. A satire on poor shooting abilities. Not in the B. M. £60.
	General caricature by G. Spratt. POULTRY. Printed by G. E. Madeley, Wellington St. Strand. Published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, 1830. 8 x 9½. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark, and set into a sheet. An image of a man constructed with poultry. Not in B. M. £140.
	General caricature by G. Spratt. THE FRUITERER. Printed by G. E. Madeley, Wellington St. Strand. Published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, c.1830. 8 x 9½. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark, and set into a sheet. An image of a woman made up of fruit. Not in B. M. £140.
	General Caricature by H. B. THE LAMENT OF LORD BAGS. Published by Thos. McLean. 26 Haymarket. 1827. 9¾ x 13½. Original colour with small margins. Slight paper loss lower right corner. Eldon stands in deep dejection and the first two lines of the comments are, “Do I then dream, in sooth? Or can it be? Am I foreclos’d from ‘mine own Chancerie” There are a number of caricatures about Eldon’s resignation and on his reluctance to abandon the Seals he had held for so long. George IV’s name for Eldon was Bags. B. M. 15419. £40.
	General caricature. THE MACARONI SPORTSMAN. Published as the Act directs, Oct. 21, 1772. by M. Darly, 39 Strand. 10 x 7. Original colour (?) and trimmed onto the margin at the top otherwise reasonable margins. Slight surface marks. On laid paper. Not in the B. M. £100.
	General caricature after Woodward. RUMOURS of PEACE, or JOHN BULL dabbling in the FUNDS!! Published by R. Ackermann, Strand London. July 1800. 14¾ x 10¾. Original colour, trimmed to the engraved border. Some slight staining and creasing on the title and top left. John Bull stands at a desk deciding whether to buy bonds. He is saying to the young man, "Ah – ah whats that a Dove with an olive branch, if I thought ------- I should not be deceived I would not mind venturing – come – come – in for a penny – in for a pound – give me some more Omnicorn". The young man replies, "Depend upon it Mr Bull – you are very right – I say nothing – but though I am a young practitioner in the business I know very well how to make the best use of your money". Not in the B. M. £145.
	General caricature by Newton. AN UNDERTAKERS VISIT! Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. (26 Feb. 1807).Date missing from caricature, See ref. below. 14 x 10. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark on three sides, at the top trimmed into the image. Old glue spots on the back where the print was fitted into an album. On watermarked paper. An undertaker with a coffin strapped to his back is speaking to a large elderly gentleman sitting in an armchair smoking his churchwarden pipe. The undertaker is saying, “Sir I am an Undertaker recommended by Doctor Grissell, if your not engaged, shall be proud to Inter you”. The old gentleman replies, “Inter me! the Devil you will!! I only wish I could catch you at it”. Not in the B. M. Ref. Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s, by David Alexander. £200.
	General caricature by Roberts. NAUTICAL EXPERIENCE. Published by T. Tegg January 1st 1818, 111 Cheapside London. 10¾ x 13¾. Original colour, reasonable margins to the sides, trimmed to the plate mark top and bottom, on paper with a watermark of 1819. A re-issue of this Roberts image first published in 1803. The seamen explain why they are giving freedom to (or stealing), the donkey. B. M. 10192. £160.
	General caricature. 36 Pr.CENT DISCOUNT AT CALCUTTA. Published Feb. 1811 by William. Holland No II Cockspur Street. 14 x 9¾. Original colour with reasonable margins. A companion (?) to the above item, although here it is two Europeans doing the financial deals. Not in the B. M. £350.
	General caricature. RUNNING TO COVER with the BORE FAMILY in FULL CRY. Published by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket London. c.1830 9½ x13½. Trimmed to the engraved boarder, with three minor repaired tears to the edges. Original colour very small paper lose top right. A rather unattractive family are obviously purusing to handsome gentlemen. They rather worriedly escape into a hotel entrance. Not in B. M. £145.
	General caricature. MONEY LENDERS IN CALCUTTA. Published by Will. Holland, Cockspur Street. (c.1811). 9¾ x 13¾. Original colour with very small margins and on paper with some creases. An unusual subject although below the title Holland states that the has other ‘East and West India Caricatures’ Not in the B. M. £380.
	General caricature. Three Friends going on a Visit. The B. M. states that," this is from a series published by Fores in 1806 of reduced copies (coloured) by Williams (unsigned) of prints by different artists". 10 x 13½. Original colour with reasonable margins. Death, a skeleton wearing a crown rides a white horse between a fat doctor on his right and an undertaker with a scarf around his hat. All gallop from the left to the right. This is probably an Irish copy of the English original. B. M. 10665. £185.
	General caricature. THE STEAM BOAT. Published by Thos. McLean 26, Haymarket. 1827. 10¼ x 14¾. Original colour, trimmed to the plate mark on the right, small margins on the other three sides. On paper with a watermark of 1822. An image of two, seasick looking, people standing on the deck. The woman is saying, “Its werry pleasant a board a steamer Sir?” He replies, “Werry indeed marm – but I likes a vun hoss shase better it doesent rumble vun so-“ Not in the B. M. £95.
	General Caricature. A PEEP INTO THE OLD RAG SHOP IN THREADNEEDLE STREET. No publisher line on the print. c.1815 (?). 15¼ x 9¾. Original colour on paper with a watermark of 1814. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark and with slight marks. The four bankers are examining a bond/bill of exchange/bank note. The three comments are, “Upon my soul I have my doubts but at all events – we had better declare it bad.” “Take him out Thomas !!! he has a d----d hanging lok.” “Away with the Vagabond! Do you think we sit here for nothing!” Not in the B. M. £185.
	General caricature by J. Nixon caricature. MAIDEN SPEECHES in the NEW PARLIAMENT of 1796. London published by William Holland No 50 Oxford St. February 18 1797. 11¾ x 17. A trimmed and probably incomplete image, the plate mark visible at the bottom. Central fold, with original colour, some minor staining. An image of four Politicians all speaking to the other members of Parliament. The suggestion is all the speeches are saying nothing. Not in the B. M. £80.
	General caricature by Hodgson, “Now Tomkins….” Lithograph published by O. Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street London. c.1830. 9¾ x 6½. Original colour. Two men both with red noses are holding guns, which are pointing vaguely towards a bird in a bush. One is saying to the other, “Now Tomkins stop till I say Fire!! another go I think will do him up”. Not in B. M. £40.
	General caricature by Giles Grinagain. SEEING THE WILD BEASTESSES. Published Feb. 12. 1802. by S Howitt, Panton Street. 9¼ x 8. Original colour with very small margins. One of the many satires, which use ‘Cockney’ language for their humour. Here the visitor says, “Pray Mr Keeper does Helephants heat A?” The answer is, “No Sir, they live upon Cockneys.” Not in the B. M. £140.
	General caricature. ADMONITION and GRATITUDE. Published December 1st 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. 12¾ x 9¼. Original colour, trimmed almost to the image. A lawyer is saying to his client, “Yes, Yes, you have brought yourself into a pretty scrape – here it is – Burns Justice, Page 22 – if you are not hang’d for this, I’ll be hang’d for you!!” The client replies, “Sir you are very good and speak like a Gentleman – I humbly thank you – and I hope when the day comes you will not be out of the way!” Not in the B. M. £80.
	General caricature. A MILITARY SALUTATION. Possibly published by Tegg, (see B. M. ref.), by Roberts 22, Middle Row, Holborn. Publication line partially obliterated by heavy engraving near to the base. c.1810 13¾ x 10. Original colour, good margin to the left, small margin to the right with a small tear to the right outside the plate mark. Trimmed within the plate mark at the top and at the bottom trimmed through the title. A fashionably dressed young man stands in front of an old man sitting in a chair; he is saying, “Stand at ease”. The gouty old man is replying, “yes – its very fine talking – but if you had such a Confounded Gout, as I have young man you’d find it d---d difficult to sit at ease”. B. M. 10912. £130.
	General caricature by Roberts. THE SAILOR AND THE JUDGE. No publication line. On laid watermarked paper with original colour Etched by Roberts in lower right. 12¼ x 9½. Small tear top left. Trimmed to the image. c.1810. A Judge is sitting and a chair saying, “Are you certain, in respect to your being sober at the time the circumstance happened”. The sailor who is standing in a respectful pose is saying, “Sober – come I like that – may I never again weigh another anchor if I would not call him a Lubber be he who he would that would say I was drunk. please your grave and reverend worship. I had only shipp’d in eight grogs and a gill not enough to make a Lawyer merry – in short your honor, - I’ll be d—nd if I was not as sober as a Judge”. Not in the B. M. £50.
	General caricature. The FRENCH SPY, taken Prisoner by English Girls. Publication line is erased and is no longer readable. This is a later printing c.1860. 12¾ x 9¾. Small margins, with a few minor marks. Original colour. Five women besiege a French officer. One holds his nose with some fire tongs, one pulls at his hair a third brandishes a mop, whilst the forth waves a fire brush. The fifth, a maid carries two pails towards him. Amongst all the fuss, a dog adds to the mayhem by fiercely growling at the Frenchman. Not in the B. M. £50.
	General caricature. A HIT, AT BACK-GAMMON. No publication line, Woodward del. under image lower left. 11¼ x 8½. Original colour, trimmed almost to the image, with other marks. Small repaired cut almost to the back of the chair of the slim seated man. On laid paper with a watermarked date of 1794. Two gentlemen have been playing Backgammon. The large gentleman appears to be celebrating a win. The slim gentleman appears upset and is clenching his fists. Not in the B. M. £75.
	General Caricature by J.C. fecit. RIVAL CANDIDATE FOR THE VACANT BAYS. Published Oct 1st 1813 by N. Jones 5 Newgate Street. 21¼ x 8¼. Original colour with the usual folds for this item was published in the ‘Scourge’. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark. The colours on this item are not as strong as usual from this production. This is a satire on the Laureatship. On the left is the Regent shown as Apollo and the competing poets run towards him. They are headed by Byron followed by Skeffington, ‘Monk’ Lewis, and Scott'. B. M. 12082. £180.
	General caricature. ZEALOUS ADVOCATES FOR A RE-FORM. Published by W. H. Isaacs, Charles Street, Soho Square, May 11th 1831. Printed by C. Ingrey 310 Strand. It is signed H. H. R. (The B. M. has 8 H. H. R. listed for 1830 – 1832). 15½ x 10. Original colour, trimmed almost to the image, with slight marks. A sailor with one eye and wooden legs stands centre and is saying, “Re-form! Re-form!! Re-form!!!” To his far left is a man with amputated legs, he is on a wheeled cart and is saying, “We must have Re-form by hook or by crook.” The man next to him has a humped back and is saying, “Yes! and if you stir your stumps we shall.” To the sailors far right is a man crawling with the help of wooden hand supports. He is saying, “We only want up right characters to support it.” Next to him a man with twisted legs is saying, “You will be sure to see out of your other eye when the Bill passes.” Not in the B. M. £140.
	General caricature Daumier. Lithograph published c.1840. Good condition apart from a slight stain bottom right corner. 10¼ x 13. A good impression with blank paper on the verso. Not in B. M. £160.
	General Caricature (anon). THE CHURCH IN DANGER, or a very uncommon Parish Dinner. Published by Thos. McLean. 26 Haymarket. (c. 1830). 10½ x 15. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Very slight marks. The words in the speech bubble are, “The Churchwardens are requested to meet in the Vestry to consult on the best method of Eating the Church !!! and digesting other matters.” Not in the B. M. £90.
	General Caricature by Sayers. BORING A SECRET OF ST---E. (State). Published 7th July 1785. 9¼ x 6. Uncoloured on laid paper with large margins and slight marks. This satire is a comment on a debate in the Lords on the Irish Propositions. Which involved protection for some Irish goods. Loughborough on the right holds the auger. (The back of his head was frequently used in satires to show his political character). The point of the auger is Lord Stormont and the head in the log is Lord Sydney. B. M. 6796. £70.
	General caricature. A MARVELLOUS STORY- or THE ADVANTAGE of TRAVELLING. Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street London. Dec 1st 1803. 7¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured with good margins. Under the title, the following is written: “It was in Switzerland I recollect during a servere Winter that a Peasant his wife & four Children, a Cow, Three Goats & a Jack Ass, subsisted four months in a Heart of a Turnip”___You are very right, I was at Zurich, at the same time & there was then making a Copper Boiler of such magnitude that alth’o 30 Men were employ’d hammering in the inside, they were at such a distance as not to hear the sound of each others hammers” ___ “Bless my soul, what did they want with such a large Copper” ___ Why to Boil your Turnip in”. Not in the B. M. £40.
	General caricature. The Taylors Race or Who’s in first for the Cabbage. Published by W. Holland No 50 Oxford St. Jan 11th 1786. 10 x 7. Original (?) colour on laid paper with small margins. Not in the B. M. £75.
	General Caricature. ENGLISH BROADSIDES AND FRENCH QUARTERS. No publishers line is present on the print. c.1810 (?). 12 x 10¼. Original (?) colour on laid paper, which has been laid down on card. Thread margins on three sides and trimmed just within the plate mark at the bottom. There are the initials J. W. H. in the lower right corner. These initials don’t seem to appear in the B. M. volumes. Not in the B. M. £80.
	General caricature. Nothing Extenuate nor aught set down in Malice. Published 28th Aug 1827 (then indistinct name and address). 9¾ x 14. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Crinkling on the corners as a result of being in an album. Not in the B. M. £180.
	Caricature by Boilly. Les Papillotes. Lith de Delpech 1824. 8 x 10. (Sheet size 9 x 12½). Lithograph with original colour. Not in the B. M. £70.
	General Caricature by Cawse. OLD HAT or a Serious Divertisment as Performed at the Chapel Royal!!! Published by S. W. Fores No 50 Piccadelly March 25th 1800. 13½ x 9½. Uncoloured and on wove paper and trimmed almost to the image. Two constables examine an old hat, while on the right a smartly dressed man carrying a better hat says, “A Fair Hoax – however – I’m off.” The King is watching through a spyglass. B. M. 9527. £75.
	General caricature by Sharpshooter. THE BULL IN JEOPARDY; or, The Curs Triumphant. Published Oct. 19 1829 by S. Gans 15 Southampton Street Strand. 14 x 9¼. Original colour and trimmed to the border with very slight crinkling of the paper. Wellington, Peel, and O’Connell pull on the, ‘Catholic Bill’, rope that tethers John Bull. B. M. 15888. £165.
	General caricature by M. Darley. An English Macaroni at Paris. changing English Guineas for Silver. Published M. Darly, 30 Strand March 17th, 1774. 9¾ x 7. Early if not original colour. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark at the top and reasonable margins on the other three sides. On laid paper and an old crease top left corner. B. M. 4650. £85.
	General caricature by H. B. (John Doyle) COBBETT’S LECTURE. Published March 17th 1830 by Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket. 13½ x11½. Lithograph set into a clean album sheet. Slight marks. The audience seem amused by Cobbett’s suggestion that he should be made a Member of Parliament. B. M. 16071. £30.
	Caricature by Jones (?). The Ghost of a Silk Gown !! or Will ye Buy a Broom ? Published June 1825 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. 13¼ x 9¾. Original colour with large margins. A watermark of 1822. The head of Brougham stares at the K. C’s gown. He was known to be ambitious and was seen as unprincipled. B. M. 14781. £150.
	General Caricature. THE FOLLIES OF THE DAY OR THE MARIAGE OF FIGARO. No publication line present, but published by Fores on March 13th, 1786. 14½ x 10¼. Original colour, trimmed within the image and around the title. On laid paper and sight spotting of the background colours. The very secret marriage of the Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert took place in December 1795; this event became the talk of the town Here the couple are in the centre, and on the left stands Weltje holding a book, faintly inscribed “Matrimony”. A corkscrew and another implement hang from his waist looking like a cross. On the other side stands Hanger ready to give Mrs Fitzherbert away. B. M. 6924. £135.
	General caricature by (Darly?). OPTIMUS. To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford Strand. (1756). 3 x 4½. Uncoloured on laid paper with small margins. A portrait of George II B. M. 3537. £35.
	General caricature. A Bird In Hand, Is Worth Two In A Bush. Published by Tregear & Lewis. 96. Cheapside. London. (c.1830). 9 x 11. Lithograph in original colour. (Sheet size 14¼ x 10¼). Not in the B. M. £150.
	General caricature. BAISE – MON - Q Published Oct 21 1820 by S. W. Fores, 41 Picadilli (sic). 9½ x 13¾. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. An old horizontal fold goes across the heads, (with a small repaired split in the fold). There is another slight fold just above the first. On laid paper with a watermark of 1820. There is some paper loss top right, but well outside the image. George IV is with Mrs Quentin. Their relationship was the subject of much gossip. She was the wife of Colonel George Quentin of the Tenth Hussars and it was said to be on her account that the officers of the regiment were court martialled for preferring a complaint against Quentin. All around the couple are signs of the Brighton pavilion. B. M. 13897. £150.
	General caricature by Lewis Marks. R----L ADVICE. Published by T. Tegg. 111 Cheapside. June. 6th 1814. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark, but well outside the image. The Regent faces Queen Charlotte who is shown as an ugly old woman taking snuff. The Regent says, and this is in relation to the arrival of allied sovereigns, “Madam I am at a loss what to tell the allied sovereigns, if they should make bold to ask how and where is my R___L Wife.” She answers, “I advise you, my Son, to say as little as convenient, or d—n it: say I am your R___L Wife.” From the collection of Lord Kenneth Baker. B. M. 12278. £180.
	General caricature by R. Cruikshank (?) A LATE ARRIVAL AT MOTHER WOOD’S. Published June 19th 1820 by G. Humphrey 27 St James’s Street. 15¼ x 10. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Slight crinkling at the corners. Queen Caroline stands with Alderman Wood on the balcony of his house in South Audley Street. The Street is filled with a large crowd, which cheers her appearance. She arrived at Wood’s house on June 6th after a triumphant procession from Dover. B. M. 13734. £225.
	General caricature by Jones. THE CATHOLIC SOVEREIGN, Safety-Coach. A new Start from the castle Windsor-a regular OUT AND OUTER. Published, 1829 by S. W. Fores 41 Piccadilly. 14¾ x 9¾. Original colour and trimmed to the border with slight surface faults, and a very small worn hole in the centre grass. Wellington is shown driving the carriage. The horses are Lyndhurst, Scarlett, Brougham, and Burdett. Lady Conyngham is the guard and Peel, sitting behind her thumbs his nose at Eldon who lies by the side of his overturned cart, which was loaded with ‘anti-catholic petitions’. B. M. 15720. £130.
	General caricature by V (owl) es. THE HEAD OF THE POLE!!! Published Aug. 1820 by One of the Society for exposing of VICE. 9¾ x 14¾. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. George covers his face while he holds the pole, which is headed, “To every CLASS of WOMEN HATERS”!!! Not in the B. M. £200.
	General caricature by V (owl) es. WHEN A PRINCE, few were like HIM!!! Now a KING, completely, without his EQUAL!!! Published 19, Aug 1820 by one of the Society for Exposing of VICE. 13 x 9½. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark, both top corners trimmed just to the border. Some surface marks. Prints by Vowles do not appear very often in the market. He is only represented in the B. M. catalogue by some half dozen entries. The colouring of these prints has quite a different feel to almost all the other publishers. There is a coloured illustration in Kenneth Baker’s latest book, (page 158), which shows the same colouration as this and the following example. George is here defending himself against John Bulls criticisms. George says “…..in short am I not the BEST, most TENDER, and CONSTANT of HUSBANDS”. Not in the B. M. £170.
	General caricature by C. Mosley. THE EUROPEAN RACE. Heat IIId. ANNO DOM. MDCCXXXIX. Published April the 9th. 1739. according to the late Act. 15¼ x 10¾. Uncoloured on laid paper and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. A slight stain top left. The last of the series of ‘The European Race’ and the race is over with, Fleury standing in the centre of the image, collecting his trophies from the figures representing Europe, Asia, America and Africa. Russia and Turkey are still fighting and it seems that Austria is about to join in against the Ottoman elephant. Among the mass of detailed allusion, the British Lion is held by a monkey, which is being mounted by the French Fox. A Frenchman and a Spaniard are robbing a seated Britannia. Benjamin Keene, the British representative at Madrid has the Convention rammed down his throat and the British Bulldog reposes on a French carpet. In the sea on the left an English fleet defeats the Armada beneath a bust of Elizabeth 1st, whilst on the right, Hanover lies inactive before Minorca. B. M. 2431. £240.
	General caricature after Woodward. REASONABLE CHARGES Published by T. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside (c. 1810). 13¾ x 10. Original colour with good margins. With a Tegg number top right of 230. Outside the plate mark is an old brownish line resulting from a non-acid free mount. The customer complains about the charges for his duck he says, “ducks!!! why my good friends they are Guinea Fowls!!” Not in the B. M. £75.
	General caricature. THE CELEBRATED OLD HORSE BLISTER Rode by Patch doing a Match Against Time. Published by G. Tregear 123 Cheapside. c.1830. 10 x 7½. (Sheet size). Lithograph with original colour. Above the image is ‘Tregears Rum Jokes No 23”. Not in the B. M. £45.
	General caricature. SPIRITED SUBJECTS. Lithograph with original colour. 8 x 10. With no publication line present, but c.1830/35. The words under the title reds, “Well wot are you flaring up about? Vy yer only a couple o’Shampains arter all !” Not in the B. M. £100.
	General caricature. A DISAPPOINTMENT. Published by G. S. Tregear 123 Cheapside. (c.1830). 11 x 15 (sheet size). Uncoloured lithograph. The rest of the title is; Every Man his own cook A DISAPPOINTMENT!!! "Hello!!! The Devil Take The Soot it’s Spoid (sic) All My Eggs And Bacon. This is enough to make a Parson Swear". Not in the B. M. £70.
	General caricature. THE PARISH OVERSEER. No publication line. (Published c.1828). 9x14. (Image size). Original colour. Outside the image are three black lines constituting the border, the top right and bottom left corners have been cut off, but outside the image. J. Grant is written in ink lower right and although this could be a correct attribution I would suggest that if Grant was involved with this image it would be more likely that he copied the design for another publisher. Not in the B. M. £130.
	General Caricature. A LUNCHEON A L’ANGLAISE. Published by Messrs. Fores, 41 Piccadilly. (c.1835). 14 x 11. Original colour and small ‘margins’ Above the image is ‘The Parisian Trip’ Victoria and Albert with guests. Albert says “Letter me perswader your Majeste to do as we Englishmens do, drink out of de Pewtere!” Not in the B. M. £60.
	General caricature by Ansell (?). THE VISION of the THREE CAT’S a Fable. Published by S. W. Fores 50 Piccadilly December 8th 1800. 15¼ x 10. On laid paper with a watermark of 1799. Trimmed within the plate mark, with a very small repaired tear into the Sultans pillow. Crease lower right and a small loss on the corner lower left. George III is dressed as a Turkish Sultan reclining on a pile of pillows. In his left hand is a book on which is written, “A LIST OF PLACES AND PENSIONS. &&&”, and, “This red book will partly shew; How it is Our Millions Go”. To his right sitting on a cloud are three cats. One is very fat; one is very thin whilst the third is a very sturdy animal with its eyes closed. Beneath the image is, “Many years ago a Persian Sultan dream’d he saw three Cats – one of which was very fat – another very lean, and the third blind – The next day reflecting on the oddity of the Vision – he sent foe a certain learned Dervis, (sic), who gave the following brief explanation. – The fat Cat represents the thriving sate of your Ministers, - the lean Cat is a symbol of the People – and the blind Cat, is an emblem of the most magnificent Sultaun (sic) himself. – ” This is a satire on the old theme of ministerial corruption. B. M. 9551. £80.
	General caricature by M. Darly. THE MASQUERADE DANCE. Published by M. Darly (30 Strand), December 8th 1771. 13¾ x 10. An engraving, with original colour. Very small margin to the top reasonable margins to the sides, on laid watermarked paper. The masqueraded figures include a tonsured Roman Catholic monk, a Jew and a Turk. All are dancing to the tune of a cloven-footed devil. This print provides a visual echo of the phrase ‘Jews, Turks, Infidels and Heretics’, first found in the book of common prayer. B. M. £220.
	General caricature by Roberts. CELIA RETIRING. First published by P. Roberts 28 Middle-row Holborn London. Republished by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London December 29th (the year having been obliterated). With a Tegg number of 298. (c.1812). 10 x 14. Original colour with good margins top and bottom, but trimmed to the plate mark at the sides. An elderly old woman sits on a chair directing her maid. She is saying, “Molly – mind what I say to you – lay my wig on the top of the drawers – take care of my bosom – and don’t rumple it – lay my eye in the dressing box – and the row of teeth by the side of it – and call in again for my eye brows – lay every – thing in such a manner that I may easily find them in the morning – as I wish to be made up by twelve precisely – in order to meet my Lord Ban–dash”. Not in the B. M. £145.
	General caricature by H. B. (John Doyle). A TOUCH OF THE PALPABLE OBSCURE. Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, 31st March 1830. 10¼ x 12¼. Lithograph with original colour and reasonable ‘margins’ Peel and Wellington are back to back and the ghost of Liverpool rises above their heads. Various financial changes were being debated. Attwood wanted rigid retrenchment and there was a demand for reduced taxation and retrenchment. Cobbett had demanded the liquidation of the National Debt. B. M. 16078. £50.
	General caricature after Bunbury. THE DEPARTURE OF LA FLEUR. No publication line. 7½ x 9½. Original colour with large margins, and on paper c.1828. Although ‘H. Bunbury del’ is on the image there are no references found to document this. It appears with a number of other images – many re prints – on paper, some of which have a watermark of 1828. Not found in B. M. £35.
	General caricature by Robert Cruikshank. ALLS RIGHT a farce, as Performed at the Haymarket!!!! May 1828 Drawn & Published by D Smith, 6 Castle Street Leicester Square. 12 x 8¾. Original colour with reasonable margins and slight marks. A scene outside the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket. The B. M. suggest this is perhaps a satire on the wines provided for the “grand masquerade at the Italian Opera” on April 21st. Charles Wright, whose name is punningly alluded to, and who advertised his champagne at 5 shillings a bottle, bought the catering rights for a reputed £250. B. M. 15594. £175.
	General caricature after Bunbury. EVENING OR THE MAN OF FEELING. No publisher’s line is on this item. (c.1818). 14 x 9¾. Original colour on laid paper with a watermark of 1816. Reasonable margins with a crease lower left. A general social scene taken from a Bunbury design. Not in the B. M. £140.
	General caricature. A Macaroni Liveryman. Published by M. Darly, Strand. 5 x 6½. Uncoloured and on laid paper. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark and within the plate mark at the top. Note the combined knife and spoon. This is another print from the S,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, collection. B. M. 5000. £35.
	General caricature. The Breeches in the Fiera Maschareta, and The Petticoat at the Fieri Maschareta. Both published by M. Darly 39, Strand 25th April 1775. 5 x 7. Uncoloured with thread margins and on laid paper. The B. M. suggests that these two items are caricatures of a Ducal pair where the woman was an overbearing wife. They were probably the Duke and Duchess of Gordon. B. M. 5314 and 5315. £100. The pair.
	General caricature. JOHN BULLS ALTERNATIVE. (Published by M. Darly? 1781). 9½ x 7. Uncoloured on laid paper and trimmed onto/within the plate mark and very slight marks. The suggestion is that John Bull must either eat the leek, which the Frenchman is offering, or he will be hanged. This is perhaps a satire on the surrender of Cornwallis at York Town on October 19th, news of which reached London on November 25th. B. M. 5860. £80.
	General caricature. THE CHEVLIER D’---N PRODUCING HIS EVIDENCE AGAINST CERTAIN PERSONS. (Oxford Magazine 1769). 7 x 4¾. Uncoloured on laid paper with small margins. The Chevalier D’Eon, shown with the head of an ape vomits against Bute and other members of the Grafton administration. D’Eon is supported by Dr Musgrave, Horne Took and Beckford who fires a blunderbuss at Lord Holland. A Native American points his bow at the Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the American colonies who cries out, “Arrah, by Jesus that D---n’d American will shoot me.” B. M. 4308. £60.
	General caricature by Robert Cruikshank. DANDIES HAVING A TREAT. Published January 1st 1818 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with reasonable margins. Tears along the lower edge, two of which just enter the image area. The Dandies are enjoying their treats and their image in the mirror, while at the door a sweep, a sailor and a soldier talk of the retribution they could give if they were in charge and thus the soldier says, “I wish we had them on board the Thunder, split me.” Not in the B. M. £145
	General caricature by Sharpshooter (?). THE MAN WOT DRIVES THE SOVEREIGN. Published by E. King Chancery Lane, April 1829. 9½ x 13½. Original colour though some what faded, with some handling marks. A good copy of the famous image of Wellington done by William Heath. B. M. 15731A. £70.
	General caricature. Where Are you A Driving Too Spooney ? No publication line present. c. 1830. 6¼ x 8½. Original colour. Trimmed to the border and slight crinkling of the paper. A fashionably dressed gent, wearing spectacles, is in danger of having his eye poked out by the butcher carrying a tray of meat on his shoulder. Not in the B. M. £45.
	General Caricature. Mercifull Nell. Published Nov. 10. 1786 by Robert Sayer. …No. 53 Fleet Street. 7 x 10. Original colour (?) and with large margins. The verse below starts with “ A Butcher with a heart as hard as stone” and goes on to have Nell grieving over the lambs death while all the time she is skinning live eels!! Not in the B. M. £60.
	General caricature. JOHN BULL ASK’D AT SAINT STEPHENS !!! Published April 20th 1800 by S. W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly. 13 x 9¼. Uncoloured and on laid paper. Trimmed within the plate mark but outside the image and border. The Commons changed into a church with Pitt preaching from the pulpit. On the Opposition bench facing him sits a grinning John Bull, a demure looking Hibernia and an Irishman. Pitt says, “I Publish the Banns of Union Between ---Jn. Bull of this Parish & Miss Hibernia……” B. M. 9532. £70.
	General caricature. DEBUCOURT AFTER C. VERNET. PROMENADE ANGLAISE. A Paris, Ch Bance, rue J. J. Russeau, No 10. (c.1820). 10 x 13½. Original colour with very slight marks. Trimmed onto within the plate mark but well outside the border. Not in the B. M. £70.
	General caricature by Boilly. STEEL BALSAM. Drawn on stone and published by. D. Alexander. 10 Belgrade Place, East Lane, Walworth. (c.1824). Lithograph with original colour. Image size 8 x 9¾. Sheet size 9¾ x 14. Not in the B. M. £250.
	General caricature by Boilly. PERFECT FELICITY. Drawn on stone and published by D. Alexander. 10 Belgrade Place, East Lane Walworth Rd. (1824). Lithograph with original colour. Image size 8 x 9¾. Sheet size 9¾ x 14. Not in B. M. £180.
	General caricature by Boilly. OH! THE PLAGUE!. Published by D. Alexander, 10 Belgrade Place, East Lane, Walworth Road, October 1824. Lithograph with original colour. Image size 8¼ x 10. Sheet size 10 x14. Not in the B. M. £100.
	General Caricature. SUSPENSION Published August 21. 1794, by J. Aitkin. 14 Castle St, Leicester (?) Sq. 9½ x 13½. Original colour with reasonable margins and on laid paper. Under the title is, “Lord Port farewell! Dundas adieu I’ll no longer trust to you: Standing thus on Portland Stone I’m Head and I’ll secure my own.” Not in the B. M. £180.
	General caricature by William O’Keefe. FARMER GEORGE’S WONDERFUL MONKEY. Published by J. Aitkin Castle Street, Leicester Fields, July 2nd 1795. 9½ x 13½. Uncoloured and on laid paper with a 1797 watermark. Small margins on three sides and trimmed onto/within the plate mark at the lower edge. Pitt and the King were unpopular, Pitt had been portrayed as a pig, a locust, a caterpillar and here he is shown as a monkey. Not in the B. M. £225.
	General caricature by Wells. THE GIG. Published, May 8 1781 by W. Wells. No 132 Fleet Street. 10½ x 9. Uncoloured and on laid paper with reasonable margins. A slight abrasion to the right of the title and some creasing. The unhappy looking Dutchman says, “Mine head be very Giddy indeed.” The figures on each side hold banners saying ‘Rodney’ and the one on the right says “Dam ye Jack round with him I am just in sight of Curassco.” On the top there are place references, including to St. Eustatius, which was captured by Rodney and Vaughan in February. Rodney confiscated much property as well as deporting many who lived on the island. Charges and counter charges filled the papers and Burke was defeated in his motion for an official enquiry. One of the many satires on the Dutch in connection with the declaration of war, 20th December 1780. Not in the B. M. £100.
	General caricature after G. Cruikshank. LE PALAIS ROYAL DE PARIS. Published by McLeary. 32 Nassau St. (c. 1820). 13½ x 9½. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Some marks. A reversed image of the Cruikshank, which had been published in September 1818. Two English tourists walk arm in arm and are very interested in the promenading courtesans. See B. M. 13054. £100.
	General caricature by J. H. (Hughes). THE OLDENBURG PROCESSION THROUGH OXFORD. May 1814. (Published c.1816, no publication line on the print). 13¼ x 8¾. Uncoloured with very small margins. Some crinkling, mainly in the corners. This satire relates to the honorary degrees given to the allied sovereigns at Oxford. A very fat don heads the group of ugly members of the university. Centre, and facing them, is the Duchess of Oldenburgh, her head concealed in an ‘Oldenburgh’ bonnet. On the right, hat in hand, walks Prince Gagarin. B. M. 12820. £100.
	General caricature by (Darly?). THE LYING HYDRA. (Published by Darly c.1757). 4½ x 3½. Uncoloured on laid paper with small/reasonable margins. Fox as a man with the numerous heads of a hydra, as he tramples on the broken spear of liberty. B. M. 3633. £40.
	General caricature by Roberts after Woodward. A SOLO. Published P. Roberts 28 Middle Row, Holborn (1803). 7¾ x 10½. Original colour on laid paper with slight handling marks. One of a series all headed ‘Musical Amateurs’ At the top of the design is “Sweet Bird, that shun’st the Noise of Folly. Most Musical – Most Melancholy !” B. M. 10203. £60.
	General caricature by Seymour (?). THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOUR – or. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Published by Thos. McLean, 26. Haymarket. March 2.1829. 13½ x 9¾. Original colour with large margins. The ‘Times’ had recently urged concessions for the Catholics. Here Peel, as the doctor/nurse and Wellington, represent the Ministry. The bishops, lower left, and Cumberland, top right fear this will become “a popish Country”, whilst O’Connell’s followers, shown above the bishops on the left, ask. “I say Dan, will Mancipation make the Prates grow.” B. M. 15677. £225.
	After James Gillray. ELEMENTS OF SKATEING. (Attitude! Attitude is every thing. The Consequences of going before the Wind. A Fundamental Error in the Art of Skaiting. Making the most of a passing Friend in a case of Emergency). (Humphrey published the Gillray set in 1805). This set has no publication line present. Each of the four images 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with good margins, and three of the images have a watermark of 1809, and the paper quality of the other print is the same as on the other images. The B. M. has two copies of the Gillray set, but not the one being offered here. See B. M. 10474/5/6/7 for the Gillray set. £450.
	General caricature by H. B. (John Doyle) RUSSIAN DEPLOMACY, OR A NEGOTIONATION A LA MILITAIRE. Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, October 23, 1829. 13½ x10½. Uncoloured lithograph and set into a McLean album sheet. A Russian officer points his sword at the Turkish Sultan whilst another officer points his pistol at him. The treaty of Adrianople was sighed under duress with the Russians only giving a limited time for the Turks to agree because they were also seen to pose a threat to Constantinople. B. M. 15892. £40
	General caricature by Robert Cruikshank. The Time Piece! & Canning Jack O’ Both Sides. Published June 1820 by G. Humphrey. 27 St James’s St. 10 x 15½. Uncoloured with very small margins. Small tears, the worst being on the right side near the top and just crosses the engraved lines of the border. Caroline kneels in the clock face and Canning is shown in the pendulum. On the left of the image the army, the Church and Crown are represented. On the right are bonnets rouges and instead of the representative of the forces, are two armed and ragged individuals. A satire on Canning and his attitude to the proceedings against the Queen. The image is unusual in that it seems to be negative towards both sides in the dispute. B. M. 13738. £85.
	General caricature by Seymour. LIVING MADE EASY. BODY FANNER, NUT CRACKER & WINE HELPER FOR THE HEATS OF THE SUMMER. Published by T. McLean. 26 Haymarket. January 1st 1830. Image size 10 x 6¼. Sheet size 14¾ x 10½. With a watermark of 1829. This item comes from a rare series of twelve by Seymour. These engravings do not have a plate mark showing and thus the copper plates used would have been even larger than the paper size. Original colour. The title explains the various uses of this machine. Not in the B. M. £475.
	General caricature by Seymour. LIVING MADE EASY. REVOLVING HAT. Published by T. McLean. 26 Haymarket. January 1st 1830. Image size 10 x 6¼. Sheet size 14¾ x 10½. With a watermark of 1829. This item comes from a rare series of twelve by Seymour. These engravings do not have a plate mark showing and thus the copper plates used would have been even larger than the paper size. Original colour. Below the image is ‘Which by a slight touch presents its Wearer with, Eye-Glass, Cegar, Scent Box, Hearing-Trumpet, etc etc without the intolerable trouble of holding them.’ Not in the B. M. £475.
	General caricature by T. Lane (?) A Wooden Substitute, or Any Port in a Storm. Published by G. Humphrey 27 St James St January 19th 1821. 8¾ x 11¼. Uncoloured and trimmed onto/within the plate mark, but a quarter of an inch outside the engraved border lines. Slight marks and creasing. Wood and Queen Caroline stand together. Bergami stands in the distance. B. M. 14109. £45.
	After James Gillray. THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Published in ‘London and Paris’ in 1805. 10½ x 14¾. Original colour, and as this comes from ‘London and Paris’ there are the usual folds, with small margins. Laid onto backing card. Mrs Fitzherbert flies aloft with her arm around a young woman. A satire on the prolonged legal battle between Mrs Fitzherbert and the Seymour family over the guardianship of Mary Seymour and Mrs Fitzherbert had promised to raise her as a Protestant. B. M. 10389A £165.
	General caricature after Rowlandson. SAILORS ON HORSEBACK. Published by McLeary, 32. Nassau St. (Dublin. c.1811). 13½ x 9½. Original colour. Plate mark showing on three sides, and trimmed onto/within on the left. Marginal tears, but not into the image. Slight marks. All the sailors are having difficulty and their comments reflect this. This was the caricature illustrated on page 53 of Klinginder’s book ‘Hogarth and English Caricature’ published in 1944; much of his collection was sold after the death of his wife. See B. M. 11801. £185.
	General caricature by Roberts after Woodward. (John Bull and his Friends Commemorating the Peace). (Published by Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn, 1802). 13 x 9½. Original colour. Trimmed to the image with slight creasing. This was the print illustrated in Klinginder’s ‘Hogarth and English Caricature’. On page 67 – and has his brown tape on the back, as many of his prints had, presumably from being fixed onto a backing /display sheet. (Klinginder died in 1955, his collection was sold after the death of his wife). This print was published after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and expresses the short-lived feeling of relief, which swept through the country. . B. M. 9850. £95.
	General caricature, (anon). THE TRIUMPH OF SENTIMENT – THE PROSPECT OF HAPPINESS – OR A PICTURE FOR DOTARDS. Published November 1st 1800 by S. W. Fores. No 50. Piccadilly. 14 x 9¾. Original colour with small margins. The handsome young groom leads his elderly and infirm wife to the alter. She says, “Now I shall experience the comforts of matrimony.” He looks over his shoulder at two pretty young women and says, “Yes my dear & so shall I or these papers deceive me devilishly.” The paper in his pockets refers to Funds, Jewels and Estates. B. M. 9605. £140.
	General caricature by Roberts. TEMPTATION FOR LAWYERS. Published by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside January, (date erased though the B. M. suggests 1803 for the Roberts printing). 13 x 9¾. Original colour. Trimmed almost to the engraved area and into the edge of the title. Small repaired tear on left and slight marks. The words above the advancing lawyers are “Start fair Gentlemen, if you Please.” B. M. 10198. £240.
	General caricature after J. West. AN ADDRESS OF THANKS from the Faculty to the Right Hon, Mr. INFLUENZY for his Kind Visit to this Country. Published April 20th 1803 by S. W. Fores 50 Piccadilly. 13¾ x 9½. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Printers crease going down into the hat of ‘Mr. Influenzy’. A group of doctors are presenting an, ‘address of Thanks’, and the comments include, “I humbly hope when our worthy Friend takes his departure, he will leave some of his relics behind, for our future Benefit”. Not in the B. M. £250.
	General caricature by Sharpshooter. THE POLITICAL TOM THUMB; or, Doodle in a Doldrum. Published by J. Fairburn, Broadway Ludgate Hill. Mar. 1829. 14½ x 10. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. A number 56 added in ink to the top border. Eldon, with large bags of anti-Catholic emancipation petitions to support him says, “Dread liege! This petition.” The King kicks away a ‘Petition against Catholic Emancipation from Lunatic Asylum’ and he says, “Petition me no petitions, Sir today. Today it is our pleasure to be drunk and mighty Tom Thumb shall be as drunk as we. Emancipation. Glorious Emancipation!” The miniature Wellington says, “Emancipation! It can, it must, it shall be given.” Not in the B. M. £160.
	General caricature by Phillips. DISPOSING OF THE OLD STUFF. Published by E. King, Chancery-lane June 18th 1827. 14 x 10. Original colour with small margins. Small repaired tear lower left not reaching the engraved area and ‘Brougham’ written in an early hand below the image. Slight marks in the corners. Brougham was well known for his supposed venality and here he is burning his ‘Old Stuff’ while his ‘New Silk’ is waiting on a ‘Treasury’ stand. This had been withheld through the opposition of George IV and Eldon until he obtained it for his support of Canning’s Ministry in 1827. B. M. 15406. £125.
	General caricature by Seymour. LIVING MADE EASY. RIDING APPARATUS FOR TIMID HORSEMEN. Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket. January 1st 1830. Sheet size 14¾ x 10½. Image 10 x 6¼. Original colour One of a series of (?) twelve. Two of which were in the catalogue last year. Not in the B. M. £425.
	General caricature, (anon). COME MARIA, DO WALK FASTER, FOR THE YOUNG MEN DO STARE SO ! Published by W. Spooner 377 Strand. (Mid/late 1830’s). 10 x 13½. Lithograph with original colour. The corners are grubby. One of a series of ‘Fancy Characters’ this is No. 3. Not in the B. M. catalogues as this is after 1832. £50.
	General caricature by Terry. MODERN MOONSHINE OR THE WONDERS OF GREAT BRITAIN Engraved for the Whimsical Repository September 1st 1774. 10½ x 8. Uncoloured on laid paper with two vertical folds and some creasing. The cow is being operated on for bloat, while the dying women is attended by three doctors. This is a satire on the high food prices and the financial failures of 1773-74. The cow is suffering from an abundance of food while the women is dying for lack of provisions. It is likely that Mr. Blake, (see the letter lying on the floor), and a Mr. R. are parish officers who have allowed the women to starve to death. In the distance is ‘A view of Portsmouth’ where the events presumably took place. B. M. 5275. £50.
	General caricature, (anon). THE KINGS EVIL. Published by S. W. Fores September 28th 1786 at the Caricature warehouse No. 3 Piccadilly. 8½ x 11¼. Uncoloured on laid paper with reasonable margins. Stain on the face of the Prince. A rather blousy looking Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales. He stands, his expression suggesting that he is already regretting his impetuous love. B. M. 6986. £65.
	General caricatures after Bunbury. THE OVERTHROW OF DR SLOP.                                                           THE SIEGE OF NAMUR BY CAPT SHANDY.                                                           THE DAMNATION OF OBADIAH.                                                           THE BATTLE OF THE CATAPLASM. All are 12¼ x 9. With original colour and trimmed within the image and with no publishers details. Surface dirt, some creasing etc. They are later (probably c. 1810) copies of Bunbury images published by Bretherton in 1773. These were a series of illustrations to Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ These came out of an album where most items were trimmed within the image, and in many cases stuck partly over another image. Thus the overall condition is not good, but the price for the four reflects this. B. M. 5213, 5214, 5215, 5216. The four. £180.
	General caricature by Marks. THE MINISTER OF VICE, OR THE GREAT GO, PARENT OF ALL THE LITTLE GOES. Published May 15th 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour on laid paper with quite good margins. Vansittart stands in the centre wearing his Chancellor’s gown and carries many lottery bills. On one side is a Quaker opposing the vice of the lotteries and on the other is Thomas Bush, the chief lottery contractor who says, “….we will do the dirty work for you as long as we are allowed by Law to make up the Lotteries our own way ….” On May 4th, Lyttelton made his third and last motion against State Lotteries; he denounced the trickery of the Lottery operators. Private, illegal lotteries were called ‘Little Goes’. Vansittart was a prominent supporter of religious and philanthropic societies and was President of the Bible society, founded in 1804. B. M. 13236. £140.
	General caricature by Roberts. A SAILOR SITTING FOR HIS MINIATURE. Published January (date erased). T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. 13¾ x 10¾. Original colour. Plate mark showing on three sides, though only just and trimmed within the plate mark at the lower edge. The Tegg imprint has the date erased, though the B. M. example has it as 1807. Here the original Roberts imprint is intact, although it gives no date, whereas the B. M. example has this ‘almost obliterated’. B. M. 10894. £135.
	General caricature, (anon). (After Woodward). CARICATURE CURIOSITY, Plate, 1, Published 1806 by Wm. Holland No 11 Cockspur Street. 9¾ x 12. Original colour with good margins. Another example of a Holland satire, well engraved but with no indication of who did the engraving. Not in the B. M. £225.
	General caricature. After Heath. A QUARTETTE IN CHARACTER. Published by T. Read, Sermon Place, New Cut. (? May 1829). 12¾ x 8¾. Original colours with thread margins. A copy of the McLean image by W. Heath. The King, Wellington, Lady Conyngham and Peel. The B. M. has McLean image, (15746) and a copy published by Gans, but not this item. £145.
	General caricature, (anon). THE DREADFUL RIOTS OF NOVEMBER 1830: THE TOWER IN A STATE OF SIEGE. Printed by C. Motte, 26 Leicester Square. 14¼ x 11¼. Uncoloured lithograph. Old vertical fold as this item has been in an album and some small nicks along the lower edge but with no loss. Slight marks. The Tower is defended by soldiers, while the mob, in the foreground are armed with peashooters and wooden swords for the children. Among the cries of the crowd is, “We will make you reform.” Serious rioting had been predicted and the Lord Mayor, (John Key), had cancelled an important dinner for fear of the mob. Although there were some attacks on the police they were fairly easily controlled and the ‘Times’ was able to say in its report that the rioters were, “a wretched ragged set.” B. M. 16319. £60.
	General caricature, (anon). INCUBATION BY COMMISSION, or the Church Egg in Danger. Published by Fores. (Mid 1830’s). 14½ x 10¼. Lithograph with original colour. Small tear at the bottom not going into the lithograph. The initials at the lower left would seem to be meant to confuse purchases with the prints produced by H. B. The egg is labelled ‘Church Reform.’ The comments just above and to the left are, “If it were a small one, we could swallow it, but it is so monstrously large !! Shall we hatch it?” The figure on the right says, “I wish they would allow me to hatch it for them.” £70.
	General caricature, (anon). THE POLITICAL CHARIVARI. Published by Mess. Fores, 41 Piccadilly. 9¾ x 14¼. Lithograph with original colour. Mid 1830’s. Punch is holding a baton of ‘Opposition’. £70.
	General caricature by Marks. HOW TO GET UN-MARRIED, – AY, THERE’S THE RUB. Published by J. L. Marks No 2 Sandy’s Row Bishopsgate. 1820 (? July). 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with reasonable margins. Slight stain above the ribbon of the ‘Matrimonial Knot’. A satire, which represents the popular view of this affair. Thus Caroline is not pulling away as is George, Justice stands beside her and holds her hand. Castlereagh helps to pull George and Lady Hertford also helps, (it could be her successor as the populace were unaware of the change), Sidmouth is on the far right. B. M. 13770. £165.
	General caricature by Sharpshooter. A PREMIER POP AT A PROTESTANT; OR, THE BATTERSEA- FIELDS HEROES. Published by J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill, March 1829. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with good margins, and a printer’s crease at the bottom left going through the first m of the title. Wellington and Winchelsea fail to make a hit during their duel. The surgeon in the centre says, “This will produce no job for me”. Not in the B. M. (But see B. M. 15696 and 15697 for the duel). £275.
	General caricature. THE TORY BAND. Published by S. Gans 15 Southampton Street Strand. (c.1827). 13¾ x 10. Original colour and trimmed to the engraved border. Some crinkling of the paper on the right. Under the title is “Concerting an Overture to the Serio, Ludicro Tragico. Comico Whimsiculo. Burletta, called the Resignations”. McLean published the same design, again without a date and with no artist’s name. Which one was the first is debateable, but April 1827 is the likely date. Those present include Wellington, Eldon, Londonderry, Bathurst, Westmoreland, Melville, Peel, and Goulburn. See B. M. 15382. £190.
	General caricature. The London Sparks. Published 1830, by S. Gans, Southampton Street London. 9 x 12¼. Original colour and trimmed almost to the image. Set in an elegant and surprisingly empty London Street, the two very fashionable smokers eye each other up while enjoying their cigarettes. Not in the B. M. £100.
	General caricature by anon. THE MIRROR. Published by Fores No 3 Piccadilly May 17th 1784. 12¼ x 8¼. Uncoloured on laid paper and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Under the title is: The Mirror of truth is here held up to view A Candidate Right Honourable & true. Who always has been the Peoples Protector A staunch friend to the rights of every Elector Yet Envy & Avarice has made a great rout Because the Shoe pinches they’r heard to cry out. Fox is addressing an election meeting in Covent Garden. B. M. 6582. £145
	General caricature anon. A PUBLICAN AND SINNER. Master of the King’s Head. } A BLOW UP! { A Chamber Maid in the King’s Arms. Published by S.W. Fores, 41. Piccadilly London. (c. October 1829). 14½ x 10½. Lithograph with original colour. Tear top left. Wellington says, ‘Cease your bother, pert Hussey, nor boast of your charms- Where else would they shine but in the King’s Arms?’ Lady Conyngham replies, ‘Proud Arthur the first of the Nobs in the Land, You are wholly unfit the King’s Head to command.’ B. M. 15872. £60.
	General caricature anon. DANDY’S TOILETTE. Stays. Published by J. Le Petit, 20 Capel St. Dublin. (c. 1810). 10¼ x 12½. (Image 7½ x 10). Original colour with thread margins. Small tears just past the plate mark but over one inch from the image. A dandy being helped by his servant in readiness for the ‘morning amusements’ as advertised on the paper below the mirror. Not in the B. M. £75.
	Robert Cruikshank. DANDIES AT TEA. Published November 1818 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. 10 x 14. Original colour with small margins and with a watermark of 1823. Holes in the top corners where this item has been sewn into an album. The elegant clothes and the dainty manners of the tea drinkers are in contrast to the ragged tablecloth and the other items in the small room. B. M. 13065. £200.
	General caricature by Knight. A RUMMAGE FOR DOCUMENTS OR MORE IMPE----NTS. Invt. Engd. & Published by Knight, Lambeth. May 1806 and sold at No.7 Cornhill. 13¼ x 9¼. Original colour and trimmed to the border. Paull sits at the table and is terror struck by the beam of light coming from the head of Wellesley. Paull was the M. P. for Newport, he had returned from India the previous year with a reputed fortune and was determined to attack Wellesley, the Governor General from 1798-1805. It was a condition of Grenville’s taking office that these proceedings would not have Government support although Paull tried repeatedly to move for impeachment. B. M. 10561. £120.
	General caricature by Knight (?). ISRAELITES PASSING THROUGH THE RED SEA. Eng.d. Published May 15th 1806 by C. Knight, Lambeth. 9¼ x 13¼. Original colour and trimmed to the border. Trotter carries Lord Melville, who is wearing his highland dress. Heavy seas threaten them, but Trotter says, “….Harry dona be afraid mon I will carry you safe.” This satire deals with Melville’s impeachment that began at the end of April in Westminster Hall. B. M. 10565. £100.
	General caricature by Sharpshooter (?). RARE FAVOURITE BIRDS. Published by G. Humphrey 24, St James’s Street. April 9th 1829. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with good margins. A tear at the bottom going into the last word of the title. A watermark of 1828. A reclining George IV holds a parrot with the head of Lady Conyngham. The other two birds have the heads of Wellington and Peel. The cat has Eldon’s head and the Giraffe has the head of Brougham (?). B. M. 15726. £135.
	R. Cruikshank (?). A VISION OF JUDGMENT !!! Published by Tregear Cheapside. (? February 1830). 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with good margins. A printer’s crease on the right going down to the King. A tear at the bottom going into the first ‘O’ of the title but not into the image. One of the many attacks on Wellington who is seen as coveting too much power. He looks haggard and tired and looks up at the vision that contains a boat on the River Styx, which holds Canning, Perceval and Castlereagh. Wellington says, “…. what can they want? Resign my mighty power! No that I shant – and yet – I am half afraid that I shall fall…” B. M. 16049. £175.
	R. Cruikshank. “IT WAS THE FIRST AND LAST TIME I WAS EVER ON A CAUYMANS BACK. Published January 1827 by G. Humphrey 27 St James’s Street. 15¾ x 9¾. Original colour on paper with a watermark of 1825 and with good margins. Some slight creasing and an old central vertical fold Under the title is “vide Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton Esq. Page 232.” Waterton’s ‘Wanderings in South America’ was published in 1825 where a desperate struggle between Waterton and a Cayman, (a South American alligator), is described. B. M. 15441. £240.
	De Wilde. THE PORCUPINES DEN. Published for the Satirist November 1st 1808 by S. Tipper 37 Leadenhall Street. 12¾ x 8. Uncoloured with the usual folds. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark but well outside the image. The right wing ‘Satirist’ had a violent quarrel with Cobbett who is shown as a monster with a scaly serpent like tail. He flinches from the rays of the sun and the cave has revolutionary tracts on the floor, and further into the cave are Horne Tooke and Burdett. B. M. 11049. £100.
	De Wilde. OPPOSSITION LIGHTS. Published for the Satirist December 1st 1808 by S. Tipper. 37 Leadenhall Street. 13¼ x 7½. Uncoloured aquatint from the ‘Satirist’ with the usual folds and trimmed onto/within the plate mark, but well outside the image. Members of the Opposition are shown in the guise of candles, lamps etc. Grey is in the centre shown as a firebrand surrounded by flames. Others include Whitebread, Sheridan, Petty, Norfolk, Windham, Burdett and Grenville. B. M. 11056. £85.
	Peter Pry (De Wilde?) MILLERS ASSES. Published for the Satirist September 1st 1808 by S. Tipper 37 Leadenhall Street. 14 x 7¾. Uncoloured aquatint with the usual folds and thread margins on three sides and trimmed just below the title, and above the publication line. William Miller was a publisher and he had recently published a book by Fox. Here a procession of Asses enters Miller’s shop in Albermarle Street. Lord Holland leads the first and Fox’s widow leads him. Across the ass is a shroud with the head of Fox hanging down. B. M. 11082. £80.
	De Wilde. LOVE FEAST Published for the Satirist. October 1st 1808 by S. Tipper 37 Leadenhall Street. 13½ x 7½. Uncoloured aquatint with the usual folds and very small margins. A satire on the marriage between Huntingdon to the rich widow of Sir James Sanderson, the Lord Mayor of London. The ‘love feast’ has the devil in prominent position. In the background are smaller devils emptying bags of coal and filling them with gold to indicate the new wealth of Huntingdon who had been a coal merchant. B. M. 11083. £75.
	R. Cruikshank. (?). FUNERAL OF THE CONSTITUTION. Published March 1829 by T. McLean Haymarket. 14¼ x 10¼. Original colour with reasonable margins. A tear lower centre not reaching the title but crossing the plate mark. Two brown marks on the title. Emancipation is attacked in this satire as fatal to the Constitution. Peel and Wellington are the gravediggers while Eldon looks on. On the right, the leg and backside of the King are seen leaving and there is a sign, ‘To Hanover.’ York cathedral is going up in flames and in front of St Paul’s (the name changed to St. Patrick’s), the Pope dances with O’Connell. On the right is a funeral procession, ‘Constitution 1829’. B. M. 15690. £150.
	General Caricature, unsigned. THE OLD COMPLAINT. Published by Tregear 123 Cheapside. 8 x 12. Lithograph with original colour. Underneath the title is, “Times are horrid bad” – a comment which could be made at many times since this print was issued. Not in the B. M. £40.
	General caricature anon. A CONNOISSEUR IN BROKERS ALLEY. No publications details on this print. (c. 1811). 11¾ x 9½. Original colour on laid paper with a watermark of 1811. Thread margin at the lower edge otherwise reasonable margins. This image has not been found in the B. M. though many prints have the theme of elderly collectors keenly gazing at pictures of naked women. Not in the B. M. £245.
	General caricature (?) Sharpshooter. BUM PUFF, THE GREAT LORD PROTECTOR – A RARE SPECIMEN OF ARISTOCRATIC ELOQUENCE. Published by H. Fores, Panton St. Haymarket October 26th 1831. 13½ x 9½. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Slight marks near the top speech bubble. Lord Munster, (George Fitzclarence, the eldest son of William IV and Mrs. Jordan), is arrogantly berating his tailor, saying, “Vile Tailor ! you’re late – you forget your station….” He was created Earl of Munster on June 4th 1831. His pretensions and vanity on William’s accession were extreme. B. M. 16802. £120.
	General caricature anon. CATHOLIC ASCENDENCY, or ST PATRICK’S DAY IN THE MORNING                                          A SCENE IN THE HOLY LAND !!! March 17. 1829. Published 1829 by Tregear 123 Cheapside. 14 x 10¼. Original colour with reasonable margins. Slight marks top left. O’Connell holds a shillelagh, it has the head of Wellington who wears a mitre and he is born aloft by his supporters. The one on the right says, “Daniel O’Connell for ever and a day after ! fait and its himself will see us all righted now, any how !” Not in the B. M. £180.
	General caricature by James Sayers. ******** (Burke) ON THE SUBLIME & BEAUTIFUL. Published 6th April by Thos Cornell Bruton Street. 9 x 13. Uncoloured on wove paper with thread margins. Small hole top right corner and slight crinkling. Set in the House of Commons Burke stands on the shoulders of Powys and Sawbridge. Burke is represented as the chief bore of the House, standing on two other bores. B. M. 6788. £80.
	General caricature by James Sayers. THE REGENCY TWELFTH CAKE NOT CUT UP. Published By Thos. Cornell February 1789. 12¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured aquatint with good margins on laid paper. Fox and his party surround a Twelfth Night cake, which Weltje is about to cut up into portions. A broad ray of light makes him drop his knife and the scroll at the top of the light says, “The King shall enjoy his own again”. A satire on the dismay of the Opposition at the King’s recovery. B. M. 7509. £140.
	General caricature by James Sayers. A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN AT DRURY LANE. Published by Thos. Cornell 14 January 1789. 6¾ x 7¾. Aquatint on laid paper with good margins. A printers crease lower left – more obvious in the margin than on the print. One of the many satires on the Regency crisis. Here Sheridan looks through a small hole in the curtain and says, “ D—n em don’t play God Save the King.” Some of the audience shouts “Play God Save the King.” B. M. 7484. £75.
	General caricature by James Sayers. THE CONTENTS OF; THE SNEEZING BAG ANALYSED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE KING’S ARM’S COMMITTEE. Published the 27th Feb. by Thomas Cornell Bruton Street. (c.1784). 6 x 8. Uncoloured on laid paper. Plate mark visible all round, but trimmed close to it. Fox had a bag of euphorbium thrown into his face at the hustings in Westminster Hall on February 14th where there was a struggle to take control of the hustings between the supporters of Wray and Fox. The words radiating from Fox are, “Euphorbium, Coalition, Capsicum, Receipt Tax, India Bill,. …Machiavels Politics”. B. M. 6426. £75.
	General caricature by James Sayers. DELPINI A LA ROSSI. Published 26th April 1785 by Jas. Bretherton. 8 x 10¾. Uncoloured on wove paper with reasonable margins. Very slight marks, and some thinning of the paper where the print was glued into an album. Delpini, a well-known performer at the Haymarket, is dressed as a woman. Mme. Rossi was the leading dancer at the opera in the spring of 1785 and beneath the title is etched “Grace was in all her Steps.” B. M. 6873. £50.
	General caricature by James Sayers. (LORD SACKVILLE ATTACKING THE IRISH PROPOSITIONS). Published by Thos. Cornell 22nd July 1785. 5½ x 7½. Uncoloured on laid paper and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Although Sackville had virtually retired from politics in 1782 he created a sensation by speaking in the Lords to oppose the Irish Propositions. Below the design is etched “Head Quarters Brookes’s, 18th July 1785. You are to attack the Enemy’s Propositions at six o’clock this evening”. B. M. 6802. £100.
	General caricature anon. PIGMY REVELS !!! or JOHNNY BULL PUFFED UP WITH PEACE.                                           Completely – puffed up – like an over fill’d Sack                                            He never once thinks, of the load on his back. Published by M. MakePeace October 25th 1796 Malmesbury Square. 9¾ x 9¾. Original colour with reasonable margins. Slight marks around the signpost. John says, “Peace, Peace, Peace”, while carrying overfull sacks naming many of the taxes he has to pay and the last one is ‘Tax on Tax’ The signpost on the right is ‘To Dover’. Not in the B. M. £260.
	General caricature by West (?). A DRAFT OF SWEET WORT. From the Princes Head on the Road to London. Published April 21st 1797 by W. Brown N 34 King Street. 7½ x 9½. Original colour and good margins. The Prince of Wurtemberg seen in a heavy traveling coach. He had landed at Harwich on the 9th of April. B. M. 9008A £95.
	General caricature anon. IN SPITE OF US VIRTUE HAS THE CONTROUL. THE HEADS NEW REVIVED. Published October 6th 1806 by J. D. Montague Market St. Borough Rd. 9½ x 12½. Uncoloured, with large margins. A mezzotint that is a burlesqued coat of arms, relating to Tierney’s re-election for Southwark. Tierney had become President of the Board of Control after the Ministry was reconstructed following the death of Fox. B. M. 10603. £70.
	General caricature after Marryat (?). A MARGATE PACKET, The Effects of a Squall, or a sudden Shift of Ballast. Published by G. Humphrey. 27. St. James’s St. London November 6th 1821. 12¼ x 9. Aquatint with original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. With the turbulent seas it is not surprising that people are being sick, but it is surprising that the two tables are laden with food. B. M. 14288. £145.
	General caricature anon. PLEASING PASTIME or a CHRISTMAS QUADRILLE PARTY. Published by Thos. McLean. 26 Haymarket. 1826. 10¼ x 8. Aquatint with original colour and good margins. Not in the B. M. £120.
	General caricature anon. A CORONERS INQUEST. Published by Thos. McLean. 26 Haymarket.1826. 9¼ x 8¼. Aquatint with original colour. Trimmed within the plate mark. Juror – “The man’s alive Sir, for he has opened one eye”. Coroner – “Sir. The doctor declared him Dead two hours since & he must remain Dead Sir, so I shall proceed with the Inquest”. B. M. 15361. £180.
	General caricature anon. COUNTRY CHRISTENING. (Published by McLean c.1826). 9¾ x 8. Aquatint with original colour. Trimmed within the plate mark. Parson – “Wilt thou cause this Child to be taught & & - in the Vulgar Tongue? –” Godfather – “I Wooll”. Not in the B. M. £90.
	General caricature anon. A COUNTRY BURIAL. (Published by Thos. McLean c.1826). 9¾ x 8½. Aquatint with original colour and trimmed within the plate mark a tear lower left but not reaching the image. ‘Running to Earth – or in at the Death’ Not in the B. M. £70.
	General caricature anon. A COUNTRY WEDDING. (Published by Thos. McLean c. 1826). 10¼ x 8½. Aquatint with original colour and trimmed within the plate mark. A watermark of 1826. “O Pan, Tegean God – be here Propitious”. Not in the B. M. £140.
	General caricature anon. THE SUNDAY BEFORE CONFIRMATION. (Published by Thos. McLean c. 1826). 10 x 8¼. Aquatint with original colour and trimmed within the plate mark. With a watermark of 1825. Parson – “What did your Godfathers & Godmothers then for you?” Boy – “Nothing Sir, Rot ‘em for I never had none.” Not in the B. M. £100.
	General caricature anon. A MISSIONARY SOCIEITY MEETING. Published by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket 1826. 9¾ x 7¾. Aquatint with original colour and trimmed within the plate mark. President - “to conclude, we have preach’d the word in all the uninhabited parts of the Earth & have Translated it into 500 unknown Languages & have not the least doubt that we shall be enabled to render it equally intelligible in as many more, aided by the liberal subscriptions of this evening.” B. M. 15362. £100.
	General caricature anon. THE SELECT VESTRY. Published by J. S. Thomas, 2 York Street, Covent Garden. 1829. 14 x 10. Lithograph with original colour and good ‘margins’. A tear at the top not reaching the lithographed image. The prosperous looking monkeys have a servant keeping out the ‘Poor Monkeys’ at the door on the right. There had been an on-going campaign to replace the select by an open vestry in St. Paul’s Covent Garden. This long struggle was in many ways similar to the struggle for parliamentary reform. While the office of the Constable was a potential burden on the householder, the position of Overseer was one of profit, with opportunities for graft and favouritisms. Not in the B. M. £150.
	General caricature by (?) Seymour. THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOUR – OR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Published by Thos. McLean. 26 Haymarket, March 2nd 1829. 13¾ x 9¾. Original colour and good margins. This relates to the debate over Catholic Emancipation and the role of, ‘The Times’, which had urged concessions to the Catholics and was known to have close relations with the Ministry, and had been called the ‘hireling of Popery’ by the, ‘Protestant’ opposition. All the leading political players are depicted, including Wellington, Peel, Eldon, two Bishops, and O’Connell. B. M. 15677. £185.
	General caricature anon. (after W. Heath). AN OUTSIDE JAUNTING CAR. Sketches of Irish Character. No publication line but this is an Irish copy and based on a McLean published print c.1830. 14¼ x 9½. Original colour with thread margins. Slight marks near the broom. The signpost is ‘To Donnybrook’. The notice below is ‘Don’t go over the Bridge because its Pulld Down’. As the cart races past the Inn, the women shouts, “the Devil cure your Soul you Blackguard are ye go’n to Murther all the Poultry – long bad luck and plenty of it to the likes of ye.” Not in the B. M. £165.
	General caricature anon. HERE WE GO UP UP UP AND THERE HE GOES DOWN DOWN DOWNE. Published by O. Hodgson 10 Cloth Fair. (c. 1830). 12¼ x 9½. Lithograph with original colour. Laid onto a linen-backing, and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Wellington is weighed down by ‘anti-reform’ petitions. Not in the B. M. £90.
	General caricature anon. THE FINISH. Published by O. Hodgson 10 Cloth Fair. 12 x 9¼. Lithograph with original colour, laid onto a linen-backing sheet with some surface marks, and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Wellington and Peel escape from a door, with 29 above it. Under the title is, “Oh, what a thing for a man of renown. To make an escape with the loss of his gown.” Not in the B. M. £90.
	General caricature anon. LOVE’S LAST SHIFT. Published February 26th 1787 by S. W. Fores at the Caricatures Warehouse N 3 Piccadilly. 13¾ x 9½. Original colours on laid paper with thread margins. A foxing mark in front of the Prince. A satire on the results of the Princes ‘marriage’ to Maria Fitzherbert, showing the difficult, debt laden position that he was now in. Weltje and Hanger are on the right. This is the print used in Kenneth Baker’s ‘George IV'. B. M. 7143. £160.
	General caricature anon. THE RIVAL QUEENS. OR A POLITICAL HEAT FOR REGE & GREGE. Published February 1st 1789 by S. W. Fores N 3 Piccadilly. 13¼ x 9¼. Original colour on laid paper and with some surface marks. The Prince of Wales was led to believe that the, Queen via her Mistress of the Robes, Mrs. Schwellenberg, was about to send the royal jewels to Germany. In this print Mrs. Fitzherbert supported by the Prince confronts Mrs. Schwellenberg who is supported by Pitt. B. M. 7501. £165.
	General caricature by I.B. THE PETITION. (Brookes), New Bond Street. (July 1831). 13¾ x 10½. Lithograph with original colour. Creasing in the top corner. Brougham kneels before the King. Through the window can be seen St. Luke’s Hospital and Bedlam. This relates to the case where Brougham had successfully argued for the sanity of a tea-dealer, against the evidence of his relations and doctors. Interestingly this was advertised in, ‘The Satirist’ of July 1831, in a list of ‘Anti-Reform and Reform caricatures’ published by Brook’s at a price of two shillings. B. M. 16737. £90.
	General caricature after Heath. A KICK UP AMONG THE WHIGS. (The Heath published by McLean in early 1828. This is a pirated copy without a publication line and was probably published in Dublin). 12½ x 9¼. Original colour with good margins. Staining in the margins. A satire on the formation of a Tory ministry by Wellington, who is shown scattering a large number of, ‘wigs’. George IV stands behind and is laughing. See B. M. 15505. £150.
	General caricature by (? Cawse). ARMING JOHN BULL TO FIGHT THE BUGGOBOOS !!! August 6th 1790. Published by S. W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly. 13½ x 9½. Original colour on laid paper and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Lower right corner missing that has been replaced with plain paper, and some creasing. Pitt is about to place a helmet inscribed, ‘Glory’ on the head of John Bull who is armed to the teeth. John says, “O d—m the glory I shall never be able to bear it all”. This print came from the collection of the Cambridge Pitt Club, which was sold at Sotheby’s some twenty years ago. B. M. 7666. £145.
	General caricature anon. MAD BULLS. Published by Sidebotham Sackville St. (c. 1810). 13½ x 9¼. Original colour on laid paper with large margins. In addition to the publication line is, ‘the greatest variety in Europe constantly on sale.’ Not in the B. M. £140.
	General caricature anon. (THE GAMBLERS). (Published by Fores in June 1786). 12½ x 8¾. Original colour on laid paper and trimmed to the image with some marks. This item is set into an album sheet and the title and publication line have been cut off. The prince is gambling for high stakes with Fox and he is prepared to pledge his Star, (the sign of his Princely Authority). Not in the B. M. £85.
	General caricature anon. LISLE’S PLAY UPON WORDS. Published by Thos. McLean 26, Haymarket London. c.1830. 6 x 4¾. Good original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark, with slight marks. A Jewish satire, under the image is A Jewel. (A Jew-Ill). Not in B. M. £45.
	General caricature anon. BONEY’S VISIONS OR A GREAT LITTLE MAN’S NIGHT COMFORTS. Published for the Satirist September 1st 1811. 13½ x 8. Uncoloured aquatint, trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Some offsetting of text showing on the right hand side. Usual fold as this is from the ‘Satirist’. The paper bears a watermark of 1808. An elaborate design with a terrified Napoleon leaping from his bed as he is faced with various demons and ghosts who surround him. Above his head is a large imperial eagle saying, “Wretch I leave thee for ever”. Facing him is the largest monster with smaller ones issuing from its mouth. Bottom left is a horned demon sitting on the back of an emaciated man and holding a placard inscribed, ‘Morning Post – Courier (two ministerial papers) – Peltier –Ambigu Satirist – Gilray’s caricatures Etc Etc. Etc’ B. M. 11736. £75.
	General caricature anon. A SCENE AT BOULOGNA OR NEEDS MUST WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES. Published in the ‘Satirist’ 1st November 1811. 13 x 8. An uncoloured aquatint, trimmed onto/within the plate mark and with the usual folds. The paper bears a watermark of 1807. Napoleon on the left drives forward a marine saying, “Rascal – F---e, go fight dem dam English.” The marine answers “Sire me like fight men dem English me Diables.” Below Grenadiers with fixed bayonets drive sailors towards a small boat. On the horizon are English ships, two of which are firing. B. M. 11742. £85.
	General caricature by Roberts. JOHN BULL PLAYING ON THE BASE VILLAIN. Published January 1st 1807 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. 10½ x 14. Original colour with large margins top and bottom and small margins at the sides. Browning, mainly on the back and in the border. This was engraved and originally published by Roberts in 1803. Tegg purchased the plate in 1807 this printing has a watermark of 1817. Napoleon is shown as an elongated puppet in the position of a bass viol, (viol da gamba), John Bull’s sword is drawn like a bow across the instruments body. ‘Britons Strike Home’ is written above John Bull’s head. B. M. 10142. £275.
	General caricature by Roberts. A STOPPAGE TO A STRIDE OVER THE GLOBE. Published by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside January 1st 1807. 10 x 14. Original colour with reasonable margins. Some browning, especially on the back of the print. This was engraved and originally published by Roberts in 1803. Tegg subsequently purchased the plate. Napoleon bestrides the globe and says, “Ah. Who is it dares interrupt me in my Progress.” The reply is, “Why ‘tis I little Johnny Bull. Protecting a little spot. I clap my hand on and d—m me if you come any Farther that’s all.” B. M. 9981. £400.
	General caricature by Roberts. JOHN BULL ARMING. Published by Roberts Middle Row. (c.1803). 13½ x 9½. Original colour and trimmed around the image and title and tipped onto an early backing sheet. Some marks including a very small tear top left. The wife says, “I knew my dear – it would not be long before you wanted your Regimentals depend upon it they are well aired – bless your jolly face how those large whiskers become you”. The son says, “Farther – I have brought you two Guns. For they say that master Bonny is a terrible fellow”. The reply is “That’s right my Lad – and d’ye hear – bring me three brace of Horse Pistols – I’ll Bonny him I warrant ye.” Not in the B. M. £125.