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Elmes. JACK FROST ATTACKING
BONY IN RUSSIA.
Published November 7th 1812. By Tegg 13 ¾ x 9 ¼
. Good original colour. Trimmed almost to the image and with
very small stain just below the publication line. Jack Frost,
astride the Russian bear throws snowballs at the retreating
Bony.
B.M. 11918
£300. |
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Elmes. Scotch Training for a Milling
Match.
Published by Thos. McLean No.111 Cheapside London. 16th October
1811.
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with good margins and
a Tegg number, 99. Two tears at the lower edge. The first just
below the title and the other through the publication line and
just into the image. A stain on the word ‘Milling’
in the title.
The figure on the left says “Oh – my Guts –
Capt. – don’t you think I am reduced enough”
The reply is “Hoot awa’ man, another muckle
mess of Crowdy, and a few Doses of Scotch Pills, will do your
business”.
Not in the B. M.
£185. |
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Elmes.
JOHN BULL READING THE EXTRAORDINARY RED BOOK.
Published by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. (c.1810). 9¾ x 13¾.
Good original colour, with good margins. Two small repaired
tears, one into the E of Red Book the other under the J of John
Bull. John Bull sits on a chair frantic with anger. He is reading
from an ‘Extraordinary Red Book’. He shouts, “Oh!!-Monstrous!!!-that
twenty six State Cormorants should swallow annually an aggregate
sum: under the name of salaries independent of the indefinable
emoluments which result from other sources of gain amounting
to-£453,692. Can we any longer wonder that the love of
Place in these men should supersede every more exalted consideration”.
Behind John Bull, sit ministerial members in close rows. One
stands holding a scroll whose coiled end is under John Bulls
chair. It is a ‘list of Placemen pensions and sinecures’.
BM. 12781
£160.
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Elmes. THE GAY LOTHARIO. the Great and
Celebrated Amateur of Fashion.
Published – March 6th 1813 by Thos Tegg. No.111 Cheapside.
13½ x 9½. Good original colour and with reasonable
margins. However – there is some crinkling of the paper
and there is a tear at the top, which goes one inch into the
word bubble and there is staining outside the image from an
old mount.
Coates on the stage is declaiming Lothario’s speech when
he is dying. The people in the box are all applauding.
B. M. 12128.
£135. |
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Elmes. JACK, HOVE DOWN - WITH A GROG
BLOSSOM FEVER.
Thos. Tegg No 111 Cheapside (August 1811).
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with small margins.
Some staining on the left of the print.
A carbuncled bed ridden sailor who is clutching a bottle of
‘grog’ is faced with a doctor offering
him medicines, bloodletting and no drink.
Jack says, “Stop [my Grog - Bellay there Doctor -
Shiver my timbers but your lingo bothers me - You may batter
my Hull as long as you like, but I’ll be d—‘nd
if ever you board me with your Glyster pipe.”
B. M. 11825.
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