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James Gillray.
Sketch of the Interior of St. Stephens, as it now Stands.
Published March 1st 1802. by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James’s
Street.
10 x 14. Original colour with very small margins.
Addington stands in the House. Abbott is the Speaker.
This is a satire on the inadequacy of the Ministry.
B. M. 9843.
£370. |
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James Gillray. FORTUNE HUNTING.
Published, November 20th 1804 by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James’s
Street, London.
15 x 10. Good original colour with small margins. Old glue marks
and slight damage on both right hand corners. On paper with
a partial watermark of 1804.
An elderly fat gentleman is having his fortune told by a ragged
old gipsy. Behind him, another gipsy is picking his pocket.
Further into the woods is the groom who is also having his fortune
told, this time by a very attractive young girl. Whilst the
groom is thus occupied, so a young boy is rifling the contents
of the bags on the horse.
B. M. 10301.
£650. |
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James Gillray. an illustrious Character.
Published Nov 1st 1802 by H. Humphrey. 27. St James’s
Street.
8 x 10 with good original colour and good margins.
An unflattering caricature-portrait of the Duke of Clarence.
B. M. 9910.
£250. |
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James Gillray. A Cockney & his wife
going to Wycombe.
Published June 10th 1805 by H. Humphrey. 27 St James’s
Street.
14½ x 10. Original colour with good margins.
On the side of the gig is a pestle and mortar suggesting that
the occupant is an apothecary.
B. M. 10471.
£360. |
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James Gillray. Political Amusements for
Young Gentlemen. – or, - The Old Brentford Shuttlecock,
between Old Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens.
Published March 15th 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James’s
Street.
14¼ x 10. Very good original colour with reasonable margins.
Horne Tooke is the shuttlecock that Lord Temple and Lord Camelford
are hitting. The feathers of the shuttlecock say; Deceit,
Vanity, Jacobinism, New Morality, Envy.
Lord Camelford owned a borough with only seven electors, and
thus could determine who would become the member, he decided
on Horne Tooke. Lord Temple opposed his return to Parliament
on the basis that as a member of the clergy he was barred from
the Commons. Horne Tooke claimed that as he was no longer a
vicar, and as he was now a layman that he should take his seat.
Behind Temple is the door of St. Steevens and the opposition
benches can be seen.
B.M. 8716.
£1200. |
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James Gillray. A GREAT MAN OF THE TURF
– or – sir Solomon in all his Glory.
Published July 7th 1803.by H. Humphrey, 27, St James’s
Street.
10 x 13¾. Original colour with small margins. There is,
in the top right corner, a repair, which is just touching the
grey wash area.
‘Sir Solomon’ was
a noted race horse. The standing figure is the Duke of Bedford.
B. M. 10164.
£480. |
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James Gillray. FRENCH HABITS. No. 2.
Les Membres du Conseil des Anciens.
Published April 18th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s
Street.
7½ x 10¼. Original colour with small margins.
Slight creasing top left corner.
Landsdowne, Norfolk and Grafton are wearing the dress of the
Conseil des Anciens.
B. M. 9197.
£240. |
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James Gillray. BONUS MELIOR
OPTIMUS.
Published April 22nd 1783 by W.Humphrey. This is a reissue on
1820`s paper, and although coloured at the time of issue the
price is, about one quarter of what an earlier issue would be
- even though the Humphrey publishing firm was still in operation
at this date. 14 x 10 with large margins. Coloured at the time
of issue. The three characters are, Fox, North, and the Devil.
B.M. 6219.
£140. |
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James Gillray. A STANDING
DISH AT BOODLES.
Published May 28th 1800 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s
Street.
8 x 9¾. Original colour and large margins.
This aquatint shows Sir Frank Standish of Duxberry, Lancashire
sitting in the windows of Boodles, St. James’s Street.
The amateur watercolour for this image is in the Print Room,
and Gillray has made some changes, but not as many as he often
did.
B. M. 9563.
£480. |
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James Gillray. John Bull
and the Sinking Fund – a P(r)etty scheme for Reducing
the Taxes & paying off the National Debt.
Published Feb. 29th 1807, by H Humphrey 27 St. James’s
Street.
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with large margins.
A line just outside the image resulting from an old mount.
Petty stands above the kneeling John Bull throwing guineas towards
the members of the government who stand in front of the Treasury.
On the other side are members of the Pittite opposition.
This relates to Petty’s “New Plan of Finance”
B. M. 10704.
£800. |
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James Gillray. Metallic-Tractors.
11¾ x 9¼. Trimmed onto the border. Traces of glue
on the verso as this has come from an album.
Perkins metallic tractors, patented in 1798 by the American,
Elisha Perkins, who unfortunately dies of yellow fever in New
York the following year, whilst demonstrating his cure for the
disease. The Tractors had only to be, ‘regularly drawn’
across the affected area of the body for a cure to be achieved
through electricity. His son brought the invention to Britain,
where the craze for the Tractors was such that even a ‘Perkinean
Institution’ was established, for the free treatment
of the poor who could not afford the priced of five guineas
for a pair of the miraculous Tractors. Perkins eventually returned
to America with a fortune said to be £10,000.
B. M. 9761.
£680. |
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James Gillray. PATRIOTS
deciding a Point of Honor! - or – an exact Representation
of the celebrated Rencontre which took place at Combe -Wood
on May 2nd 1807 – between Little – Paul the Taylor,
& Sir Francis Goose.
Published May 4th 1807 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street.
9½ x 13½. Good original colour, trimmed to the
image.
A duel between a goose, with the head of Burdett and Paull dressed
as a tailor. Both pistols have been fired, the bullets hitting
both on their legs. Burdett is saying; What must I be out!
– a Taylor get in, to Parliament! – You’re
a Liar! – I never said that I would sit as Chairman on
your Shopboard!!!
To which Paull replies; a Liar1 – Sir I’m a
Taylor & a Gentleman! – and I must have Satisfaction!
Between the two duellists lie two papers, ‘Sir Francis
Goose’s letter to the Electors at the Crown & Anchor’
and ‘Mr Pauls Advertisements’. In the foreground
near Paull lies a (green) bag disgorging a bundle of papers
inscribed Westminster Election Paul, beside it are a cabbage
and cucumbers with two papers; ‘Dangers of indulging
Political Envy by Sir F… Goose’ and ‘Cobbetts
Charature of Paul the Taylor May 2nd 1807’.
B.M. 10725.
£460. |
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James
Gillray. an Old English Gentleman pester’d by Servants
wanting Places.
Published by H. Humphrey. May 16th 1809.
14¼ x 10. Original colour and trimmed onto within the
plate mark.
George III with his, eyeglass, (a depiction, which Gillray had
used before), looks at various contenders for office. The three
Grevilles, bow low before the king, others present include,
Lord Henry Petty, Cobbett, Horne Tooke, Moira, Erskine, Windham,
Grey, Percival, Canning, Castlereagh and Liverpool. The King
says, “Well Gentlemen, I have taken a peep at you
all; but I am afraid that you wont do, for some of you are too
Heavy & Broad-Bottom’d for Service, & the rest
seem to have no Bottom at all. – so Gentlemen, I think
I shall be content with my old Servants”.
B. M. 11330.
£750. |
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James Gillray. Inspecting
a Volunteer Corps, in Hyde Park.
Published December 4th 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27- St. James’s
Street - London.
10¼ x 8. Reasonable original colour, with large margins,
on paper with a watermark of 1811.
The Earl of Harrington sits erect on horseback in profile, his
left leg thrust out awkwardly. He is wearing a huge cocked hat
and a full-skirted coat. In the background ranks of infantrymen
are freely sketched, they are firing their muskets and are partially
concealed by clouds of smoke. Harrington (1753 – 1829)
was gazetted general in 1803.
B.M. 10165.
£250. |
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James Gillray. A Slice of
Glo’ster Cheese.
Published June 29th 1795 by H. Humphrey No 37 New Bond Street.
5 x 10. Good original colour with large margins, and with a
watermark of 1794.
A caricature-portrait of William Frederick of Gloucester, (1776
– 1834). Below the plate mark is a note in a contemporary
hand saying who the person is.
B. M. 8716.
£225. |
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James Gillray. A Block for
the Wigs – or, the new State Whirligig.
Published May 5th 1783 by W. Humphrey. No 227 Strand.
14 x 10. Thread margins and on laid paper.
The bottom of the whirligig is held in place by wedges, “Treasury,
Army, Navy”. The King is in the centre and those
going around him include Fox, North, Burke, and Keppel.
There are indications within this image that John Bull is being
robbed, and there were other satires on the Coalition on this
theme.
B. M. 6227.
£300. |
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James Gillray. THE WOUNDED
LION.
Published July 16th 1805. by H. Humphrey 27 St James’s
Street.
14¼ x 10¼. Original colour. Thread margins at
the sides and trimmed onto/within the plate mark at the top
and bottom.
The lion has the face and wig of Melville and he is being fired
at by St. Vincent. Some of the blast strikes Britannia in the
heart she leans against the tree. Wilberforce is the monkey
sitting on the tree on the left and from his backside comes
a blast of “Cant!-Envy!-Abuse!-Hypocrisy!-Cruelty!”
The lion is also attacked by a fox and a serpent which has the
head of Grey.
Melville was being attacked for his implication in the financial
scandal that had seen navy funds misused by Trotter who was
the Paymaster of the Navy.
B. M. 10421.
£900. |
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James Gillray. The State
Waggoner and John Bull – or – The Waggon too much
for the Donkeys----
Published by H. Humphrey, 27, St. James’s Street, London.
March 14th 1804.
14½ x 10½. Reasonable original colour, with small
margins.
The title continues: together with, a distant view of the New
Coalition among Johnny’s Old Horses.
The cart labelled The British State Waggon 1804 is stuck fast
in the mud, as are the eight asses that were trying to pull
the cart. This is a satire on the dangerous incompetence of
Government, especially in defence and finance, and on the prospect
of a new Ministry.
B. M. 10232.
£780. |
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James Gillray. The Introduction
of the Pope to the Convocation at Oxford, by the Cardinal Broad-Bottom.
Published by H Humphrey, 27, St. James Street, London. December
1st 1809.
14¼ x 10¼. Reasonable original colour, trimmed
to the image.
A satire on the approaching election for the Chancellorship
of Oxford University. Grenville is dressed as a cardinal. On
Portland’s death in October 1809, Grenville and Eldon
were candidates. The later supported by the Ministry and the
Protestant interest. The Duke of Beaufort was a third candidate.
The votes: Grenville 406, Eldon 390, Beaufort 288. “The
No-Popery Yell” was said to have ‘completely recoiled
on the heads of those who made it.
B. M. 11384.
£300. |
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James Gillray caricature.
Overthrow of the Republican Babel.
Pub. May 1st 1809 by H. Humphrey. 27. St. James’s Street.
12¾ x 15½. Good original colour with small margins.
Slight creasing with very slight surface marks.
This satire is an attack on the radicals and the acquittal of
the Duke of York after Wardle’s motion was defeated, is
here shown as representing the deathblow to reform. In many
ways, the opposite happened and the radicals saw this defeat
as conformation of the injustice in society, and of the need
to intensify their efforts.
B. M. 11327.
£950. |
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James Gillray. Dreadful
Hot Weather.
Published February 10th 1808. By H. Humphrey. 27 St. James’s
Street.
8 x 10. Original colour, trimmed to the engraved boarder, with
slight marks.
One of the Gillray Weather series.
B. M. 11095.
£195. |
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James Gillray. A PEEP INTO
THE CAVE OF JACOBINISM.
Published Sept.1st 1798 by J. Wright, 169 Picadilly for the
"Anti-Jacobin Review". 10 x 7 ½. Uncoloured,
small margins with the usual folds, as it is an image from the
"Anti-Jacobin Review". Very slight staining. Here
"Truth" comes forward holding her torch,
which shines on "Jacobinism", who is shown
as a creature with scaly legs and a long serpent tail.
B.M. 9243.
£100. |
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James Gillray. BILLY THE
GAMEKEEPER. – W. S.
(Publish’d April 23rd 1810. by H. Humphrey 27 St James’s
Street.)
10 x 14. Original colour with large margins.
This was after a design by R. Frankland. The gamekeeper has
not been identified. This example is before the publication
line has been added.
B. M. 11592.
£575. |
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James Gillray. THE AFFRIGHTED
CENTAUR, & LION BRITANIQUE.
Published May 7th 1799. by H. Humphrey. 27 St. James’s
Street.
8 x 10¼. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the
plate mark, but outside the border.
This is No. 6 of the ‘New Pantheon’ series
of leaders of the opposition. Here the centaur with the body
of the Duke of Bedford flees in terror from the British lion.
B. M. 9380.
£200. |
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James Gillray. Pity the
Sorrows of a Poor old Man. Vide, Scene in Bloomsbury Square.
Published by H. Humphrey New Bond Street. February 25th 1796.
9½ x 13½. Good original colour, trimmed onto/
within the plate mark.
In November, the Duke of Bedford had attacked the pension given
to Burke. Here Burke is shown wearing tattered clothes and begging
at the gate of Bedford’s mansion. On his back is a bag
inscribed, £4000 pr Annum indicating his pensions.
He is pleading, Pity the Sorrows of a poor Old Man add a trifle
to what has been bestowed by Ministry to stop my Complaints:-
O give me opportunity of recanting once more……
B. M. 8786.
£780. |
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James Gillray. POSTING in
IRELAND.
Published by H. Humphrey St. James’s Street. April 8th
1805.
15¼ x 11¾. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark,
on watermarked paper with a small tear top left, just reaching
the picture area.
This is after a design by C. Lorraine Smith, and fits into the
genre of London based caricatures of the Irish. With good original
colour. The script beneath reads; “Forward immediately
your Honour; But sure a’nt I waiting for the Girl with
the Poker, just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, tis just
to make her start your Honour!”
B. M. 10478.
James Gillray. POSTING IN SCOTLAND.
Published by H. Humphrey St. James’s Street. May 25th
1805.
14¾ x 11¼. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark,
good original colour.
This is a design by C. Lorraine Smith, and fits into the genre
of London based caricatures of the Scots, a pair to the above.
The script beneath reads; “_Hald your Haund Mun, hald
your haund! – en troth mun: en gin you na mind yoursel
youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his creels.”_
B. M. 10479.
£900. The pair. |
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James Gillray. THE UNION
CLUB.
Published Jan 21st 1801 by H. Humphrey St. James’s Street.
17½ x 12. Original colour and trimmed onto the plate
mark with a thin acid free backing has been added to enable
the print to be handled without touching the image.
The famous image of the dinner to celebrate, 'The Union'.
Gillray has turned a convivial dinner into a debauch, with
drunken politicians and even the Prince of Wales lying in a
drunken state on the floor underneath the table.
B. M. 9699.
£1,400. |
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James Gillray. FARMER GILES
& HIS WIFE shewing off their daughter Betty to their Neighbours,
on her return from Schools.
Publish’d January 1st 1809. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James’s
Street.
18¼ x 12¼. Original colour, trimmed onto/within
the plate mark but outside the image. A small paper loss on
one of the curtains, which has been repaired.
Gillray etched this image after a design by an amateur, possibly
Col. Braddyll. Although Gillray has elaborated the faces and
made the room more fashionable. (The original watercolour is
in the print room of the B.M.).
B. M. 11444.
£425. |
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James Gillray. A BROAD HINT
OF NOT MEANING TO DANCE.
Published November 20th 1804, by H. Humphrey No 27. St James’s
Street.
15 x 10. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark.
Slight marks centre top.
One of the satires that were based on an idea by North. Much
of his output, especially the social caricatures were based,
(in many cases very loosely), on ideas or designs of others.
Four prints by Gillray all after amateurs were published on
the same date. (Fortune Hunting; Broad Hint; Company Shocked
and An Old Maid on a Journey).
B. M. 10302.
£385. |
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James Gillray. A SPENCER
& A THREADPAPER.
Published May 17th 1792 by H. Humphrey N 18 Old Bond Street.
9 x 11. Original colour and trimmed onto the plate mark, (over
half the plate mark is showing). On the left just inside the
plate mark is some creasing as it was glued into an album down
the left side of the print.
The figure on the left is wearing a coat called a ‘Spencer’.
This was a short double-breasted overcoat without tails called
after Earl Spencer, (1758- 1834), who had a bet that he could
invent a coat which then would become the fashion.
B. M. 8192.
£400. |
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James Gillray. Meeting of
the Monied Interest.
Published December 13th 1798 by H. Humphrey 27 St James’s
Street.
14½ x 10¼. Original colour with very small margins.
A ragged Fox is surrounded by his supporters. The proclamation
he holds says, “Ruination – New Tax one Tenth
of Income & Property, to Support the accursed War, of the
Infamous Minister.”
B. M. 9282
£600. |
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James. Gillray. MISS, I
HAVE A MONSTROUS CROW TO PLUCK WITH YOU!!
Published November 1st 1794 by H. Humphrey No. 37 New Bond Street.
11¾ x 9¾. Original colour and trimmed onto/within
the plate mark but 3/8 of inch of paper showing outside the
border. The colour on this example is not as strong as the one
in catalogue 2008, which is why it is less expensive.
Mother and pregnant daughter with a crow under the table who
says, ‘Oh! Too Bad.’
B. M. 8557.
£280. |
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James Gillray. ONE OF THE
ADVANTAGES OF A LOW CARRIAGE.
Published June 1st 1801, by Humphrey.
14 x 10. Original colour with large margins. A tear top right
going into the border but not touching the image area.
The fat countrywomen has been frightened by the dog, she has
fallen face first onto the ground and caused the horse to stop
and the ensuing accident to the carriage.
B. M. 9767.
£500. |
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James Gillray. “Be
gone dull Care, - I prithee begone from Me !
Published June 16th 1801 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s
Street.
10¾ x 8¾. Original colour. Trimmed to the border
and slight crinkling in the corners.
One of the satires that Gillray produced from an idea sent to
him. Thus the ‘P.F.L.B: fect.’ Just to
the left of the title.
On the wall the words on the poster are “List of the
Tythes from the Parish of Guttle down”.
Not in the B. M.
£300. |
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James Gillray. THE RECEPTION
IN Holland.
Published September 8th 1799 by H. Humphrey St James’s
Street.
14½ x 10¼. Original colour with reasonable margins.
Delighted loyal Hollanders surround the fat Prince of Orange
who has just landed, backed by a British force. The Prince had
issued a proclamation from Hampton Court on July 8th urging
support for the invasion. The Dutch failed to rise although
in this print, Dutch soldiers with fixed bayonets are shown
in the background, which have come to join the Prince. On the
horizon are rejoicing crowds.
B. M. 9414.
£900. |
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James Gillray. VENUS ATTIRED
BY THE GRACES.
Published December 8th 1800 by H. Humphrey St. James’s
Street.
13¾ x 9½. Original colour. Trimmed onto/within
the plate mark but outside the border.
According to the entry in the B. M. volume this was “said
to be a satire on some (vulgar fashionable).”
B. M. 9587.
£350. |
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James Gillray. PYLADES &
ORESTES.
Published April 1st 1797, by H. Humphrey. New Bond Street and
St James’s Street.
10 x 14. Original colour and good margins on three sides, and
a very small margin on the left. There is a watermark of 1794.
A small mark to the left of the knee of the smaller figure,
and there is a similar mark in the lower margin.
The stout Prince of Orange holds the arm of his thin secretary.
The couple are said to have often walked along Bond Street in
this fashion.
B. M. 9065.
£260. |
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James Gillray. FOR IMPROVING
THE BREED.
Published October 24th 1796 by H. Humphrey New Bond St.
7 x 10. Original colour with good margins. Slight marks from
glue on verso but outside the plate mark.
The fat Prince Frederick William Charles of Wirtemburg. He was
betrothed to the Princess Royal in 1796.
B. M. 8827.
£260. |
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James Gillray. SHRINE AT
St. ANN’S HILL.
Published May 26th 1799, by H. Humphrey. St. James’s Street.
10 x 14¼. Original colour and trimmed to the border.
Fox kneels and prays before an alter which, is draped with a
cloth on which are crossed daggers. On the later is a guillotine
and busts of Napoleon and Robespierre.
In the upper left corner are the winged heads of six members
of the opposition.
This is a satire on the retirement of Fox to St. Ann’s
Hill.
B. M. 9217.
£500. |
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James Gillray. HOW TO RIDE
WITH ELEGANCE THRO’ THE STREETS.
Published April 8th 1800, by H. Humphrey. 27 St James’s
Street, London.
10 x 13¼. Original colour with small margins. Slight
brown marks on both sides, slightly noticeable against the light
blue background.
Montague Mathew, second son of the first earl of Landaff, an
Irish peer of Thomastown. (The family is not to be confused
with another of the Herefordshire Mathews, although there is
believed to be some connection between the families).
B. M. 9560.
£275. |
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James Gillray. A PAIR OF
POLISHED GENTLEMEN.
Published March 10th 1801 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James’s
Street.
10 x 14. Original colour with reasonable margins although there
are marks outside the image mainly caused by an old mount.
Skeffington and Montague Mathew who often strolled up and down
St. James’s Street in highly polished boots.
B. M. 9755.
£1,000. |
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James Gillray. Blowing Up
The Pic Nics, or Harlequin Quixotte attacking the Puppets.
Published April 2nd 1802 by H. Humphrey, St James’s Street.
10¼ x 13¾. Original colours with thread margins.
Slight abrasions lower left corner showing a careful repair
to the letter ‘B’.
Sheridan, with Kemble just behind him leads the forces of the
professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society. Behind
Kemble, (as Hamlet), is Mrs Billington, singing, (as she was
portrayed in ‘A Bravura Air’ of December 1801).
Colonel Greville organised the Society, they had a small theatre
in the Tottenham Court Road Concert Rooms. In February Sheridan
wrote to Greville stating his determination to oppose the Society
as an infringement of the monopoly of the patent theatres.
After this print Sheridan was frequently depicted as Harlequin,
both by Gillray and other caricaturists.
B. M. 9916.
£1,200. |
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James Gillray. Duke Williams
Ghost.
Published May 7th 1799 by H. Humphrey 27, St James’s Street.
14¼ x 10¼. Original colour with small margins.
Some browning of the paper, though mainly around the outside
of the image – resulting from the glue on the verso where
it was stuck around the edges onto a backing sheet.
The drunk Prince of Wales lies on the bed, while the ghost of
his great uncle, (William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland [1721-65]),
who is naked and very fat and holds up an hour glass where the
sand has almost run out, to warn the Prince of his drinking.
B. M. 9381.
£780. |
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James Gillray. SCOTCH HARRY’S
NEWS.
Published May 29th 1792 by H. Humphrey.
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with small/reasonable
margins. Some creasing at both top corners. On wove paper.
George III and the Queen look on delightedly as Dundas tells
them good news of a victory at Seringapatam.
This was false news based on a supposed letter from a Lieutenant
Abercrombie. The siege of Seringapatam began in February 1792
and the war was concluded without the capture of Seringapatam
although half of Tipu’s territory was surrendered.
B. M. 8094.
£1200. |
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James Gillray. THEATRICAL
MANDICANTS, RELIEVED.
Published January 15th 1809 by H. Humphrey St James’s
Street.
14 x 10¼. Original colour with large margins. Marks and
a tear in the margins, but half an inch from the plate mark.
The Duke of Northumberland stands at the door of his house in
the Strand and holds out a ‘Draft for 10,000 Pounds’
to Kemble who has his brother Charles and his sister Mrs Siddons
behind him.
Covent Garden Theatre was burnt down in September 1808
B. M. 11413.
£650. |
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James Gillray. THE PIGS
POSSESSED - or the Broad bottom’d Litter running headlong
into ye Sea of Perdition.
Published April 18th 1807 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s
Street.
11¾ x 16. Original colour. Trimmed into the border. Stains
in the corners and in the text at the top resulting from old
glue and tape stains.
This is a sequel to ‘More Pigs Than Teats’ and
here George III is driving the now plump pigs out of his farmyard
and into the sea. Howick is on his back with the head of Lord
Holland behind him. Lord Grenville is also one of the lower
figures and has a paper ‘Emancipation’ under a forefoot.
Behind come other members of the recent government.
As he drives them over the cliff the King says, “O
you cursed ungrateful Grunters! - what, after devouring more
in a twelve-month, than the good old Litter did in twelve years,
you turn round to kick and bite your old Master!….”
B. M. 10719.
£325. |
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James Gillray. NO POPERY
OR NEWGATE REFORMER.
Published as the Act Directs, June 9th 1780 by I. Catch of St
Giles’s.
8 x 10½. Uncoloured on laid paper and trimmed just outside
the image. Slight loss top left corner. Slight marks.
The words ‘Down with the Bank’ issue from
his mouth and behind him Newgate is in flames.
Beneath the title is
“Tho’ He says he’s
a Protestant, look at the Print,
The face and the Bludgeon will give you a hint,
Religion he cries, in hopes to deceive,
While his practices is only to burn and to thieve.”
B. M. 5679.
£195. |
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James Gillray. TIDDY DOLL
the great French Gingerbread Baker, drawing out a new Batch
of Kings.
Published January 23rd 1806, by H. Humphrey.
14¾ x 10. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the
plate mark.
A brilliant satire on Napoleonic imperialism after Austerlitz,
remarkable also for its prophetic character.
B. M. 10518.
£1,500. |
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James Gillray. THE GORDON-KNOT,
- or – The Bonny Duchess hunting the Bedfordshire Bull.
Published April 19th 1797 by H. Humphrey New Bond & St.
James’s Street.
14 x 10. Original colour with large margins.
The Duchess of Gordon holds a ribbon inscribed ‘Matrimony’
as she chases after the bull. Behind her are her daughters.
The Duchess was renowned for her match making, in acquiring
three dukes and a marquis for four of her five poorly endowed
daughters.
B. M. 9084.
£975. |
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James Gillray. JOHN BULL
TRIUMPHANT.
Published January 4th. 1780 by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand.
13¾ x 9½. Original colour, trimmed onto/within
the plate mark.
The bull tosses a Spaniard high into the air and is about to
charge a Frenchman and an American – the latter being
an Indian brace, complete with spear and headdress. Bute and
North are holding the bull back.
In the foreground a contemplative Dutchman sits and this is
one of the many satires in which Holland is shown as profiting
from the war by being neutral.
B. M. 5624.
£1,700. |
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James Gillray. GLORIOUS
RECEPTION OF THE AMBASSADOR OF PEACE, ON HIS ENTRY INTO PARIS.
Published October 28th 1796 by H. Humphrey 37 New Bond Street.
13½ x 9½. Original colour, trimmed to the engraved
line at the edge of the engraved image. Slight creasing.
Cheering French men and women surround Lord Malmesbury who is
in a coach drawn by four wretched horses. Two fishwives have
entered the coach to embrace Malmesbury who holds up his hands
in horror.
Although this incident took place outside Paris the papers reported
it as happening in the city. The Directory judged that this
welcome was untimely and took measures to prevent a repetition
and thus the drive through Paris was quiet.
B. M. 8828.
£600. |
