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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 good 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. |
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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. Good 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.
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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.
£60. |
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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.
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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.
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General caricature. TIPPING ALL NINE.
Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London.
December 1st 1794.
7¾ x 9¾. Uncoloured with good margins.
Gathered around a table on which is a lit candle and a mug of
beer, the merry group laugh at one of the men as he clutches
his leg in pain. The ball that has knocked down the nines has
also hit his leg.
Not in the B. M.
£60. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
£45. |
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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.
£50. |
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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.
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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. Good 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. |
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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. |
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General caricature. MORE, STRANGE, AND
WRIGHT,
THREE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS.
Published by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London.
February 1789.
7¾ x 9¾. Good original colour with good margins.
Beneath the print is written:
At a Tavern one night
Messrs. More, Strange and Wright;
Met to Drink, and good thoughts to Exchange:
Says More, of us three, The whole Town will agree;
There’s only one Knave and that’s Strange.
Yes says Strange rather sore,
I’m sure there’s one More;
A most terrible Knave and a bite:
Who cheated his Mother,
His Sister, his Brother;
O yes replied More, that is Wright.
Not in the B. M.
£85. |
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General caricature. Lady’s Toilette.
Stays and Trousers.
No publication line present. (Probably an Irish copy of the
Gillray image).
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. |
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General caricature. WRINGING WET.
T. Jones. Published February 22nd 1828 by S. W. Fores 41 Piccadilly.
10 x 13¾. Aquatint with good 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. |
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General caricature. THE WISH GRANTED.
Published by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket.
9¾ x 13¾. Good 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. |
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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. Good 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.
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General caricature. WIGS.
Published Accord. To Act October 12 1773 by M Darly 39 Strand.
13¾ x 9¾. Good 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
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General caricature. HATS.
Published Accord. To Act October 8th 1773 by M Darly 39 Strand.
13¾ x 9¾. Good 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. |
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General caricature. COMFORT FOR AN OLD
MAID.
Roberts. Published by T. Tegg (c.1810). Bearing the number 127
top right.
13¾ x 10½. Good 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.
£175. |
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General caricature by C. Mosley. THE
EUROPEAN RACE. Heat IId. ANNO DOM. MDCCXXXVIII.
Published November the 26th 1738. according to the late Act.
15½ x 10¾. Uncoloured on laid paper and trimmed
onto/within the plate mark. Slight marks.
One of a series of important prints attacking Walpole’s
foreign policy. The first of this series was published in October
1737. (B. M. 2333).
This is the sequel to the one mentioned above. Cardinal Fleury
still leads the race he is followed by the King of Corsica,
who has ended a potential revolt and now threatens France. An
unsteady Spain follows, then Turkey and then the Russian bear.
Austria has just managed to cross the starting line while Holland
remains at the starting post.
The British have now joined the race but their cannon has a
stopper in the barrel whilst the lions pulling it seem to be
going in the wrong direction. Don Carlos, the King of the two
Scillies is now in the race in his Italian chariot. In the foreground
a butcher stands ready to release the British bulldog and on
the wooden platform on the left are figures representing America,
Africa, Asia and Europe.
B. M. 2415.
£240. |
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General caricature. AWFUL MOMENTS OR
MONKEYS OF HONOUR!!
7¼ x 6¾. Trimmed onto/within the image. Good 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature. A BENE – FIT.
Published by Thos. McLean 26, Haymarket London, 1826.
13¼ x 9¾. Good 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. |
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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 |
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General caricature. Symptoms of Absence.
Published by S. W. Fores Piccadilly. July 21st 1825.
7¼ x 5¾. Good original colour, with reasonable
margins.
One gentle man enters a room and says, “What lost in thought
as usual?” The seated man replies, “Oh you surprised
me!! why I am boiling my Egg three minuets by my Watch”.
Not in B. M.
£50. |
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General caricature. MY SWEETHEART.
Love’s Vagaries No. 2
6 ¾ x 9. A lithograph with, good original colour, and
minor surface staining. No publication line present. c.1835.
Not in B. M.
£40. |
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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
good original colour. Slight crinkling of the paper.
Not in B. M.
£70. |
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General caricature by (? T. Jones). WILEY
FORRESTERS en Chasse.
Published by S. W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly May 13th 1828.
13¾ x 9¾. Good 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.
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General caricature. 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.
£75. |
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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. Reasonable 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. |
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General caricature by H. Heath. PIGEON
SHOOTING.
Published by Sam Maunder10 Newgate St. London.1829.
7¾ x 5½. Good original colour Trimmed onto/within
the image.
A satire on poor shooting abilities.
Not in the B. M.
£60. |
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General caricature by G. Spratt. POULTRY.
Printed by G. E. Madeley, Wellington St. Strand.
Published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, 1830.
8 x 9½. Good 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. |
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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. Good 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. |
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General Caricature. ANIMALS FRIEND SOCIETY.
No publication line on the print. (c.1830).
13¾ x 10. Original colour with small ‘margins’.
The doctors are treating various animals. One says of the donkey
he is treating, “He’s labouring under considerable
excitement let him be bled in the tail and put to bed.”
In the background a bull has tossed a women and one of the comments
is “Strait Westcoat! Here’s a delirious patient.”
Not in the B. M.
£95. |
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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. |
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General caricature. THE THREE GRACES
OF COX-HEATH.
Published March 4th 1779 by Darly 39 Strand,
12¾ x 9½. Uncoloured on laid paper. Trimmed almost
to the border and the title. Slight marks.
One of the many satires on the camp at Cox Heath. Where the
three women are probably the duchesses of Gordon, Devonshire
and Grafton, who with other wives of commanding officers were
presented to the King when he visited the camp in November 1778.
B. M. 5600.
£70. |
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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. |
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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. Reasonable 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. |
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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. Good 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. |
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General caricature by Roberts. NAUTICAL
EXPERIENCE.
Published by T. Tegg January 1st 1818, 111 Cheapside London.
10¾ x 13¾. Good 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. |
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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. |
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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. Good 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. |
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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. |
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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. Good 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. |
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General caricature. THE STEAM BOAT.
Published by Thos. McLean 26, Haymarket. 1827.
10¼ x 14¾. Good 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. |
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General Caricature. A PEEP INTO THE OLD
RAG SHOP IN THREADNEEDLE STREET.
No publisher line on the print.
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. |
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General caricature after Rowlandson.
The Unexpected Return or Snip in Danger.
(One of a series of prints made from water colours by Rowlandson
and published by Reeve and Jones in 1808).
9 x 12. Original colour and trimmed to the image, with slight
loss top right and some marks on the image.
This aquatint shows a typical Rowlandson scene.
B. M. 11116.
£60. |
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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 good 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. |
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General caricature by Hodgson, “Now
Tomkins….”
Lithograph published by O. Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street London.
c.1830.
9¾ x 6½. Good 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. |
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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. |
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General caricature. ADMONITION and GRATITUDE.
Published December 1st 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London.
12¾ x 9¼. Good 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. |
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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.
13¾ x 10. Good 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. |
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General caricature by Roberts. THE SAILOR
AND THE JUDGE.
No publication line. On laid watermarked paper with good original
colour Etched by Roberts in lower right. 12¼ x 9½.
Small tear top left. Trimmed to the image.
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.
£80. |
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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.
Good 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.
£90. |
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General caricature. A HIT, AT BACK-GAMMON.
No publication line, Woodward del. under image lower left.
11¼ x 8½. Reasonable original colour, trimmed
almost to the image. 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. |
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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. |
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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. Good 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. |
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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. |
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General Caricature by Richard Newton.
THE GENERAL SENTIMENT.
Published March 22nd 1797 by S. W. Fores Piccadilly.
9¼ x 14. Original colour on laid paper and with small
margins, and slight handling marks.
Sheridan and Fox are the ones saying “May Our Heaven Born
Minister Be Supported From Above”.
Gale Jones had spoken at a mass meeting of the London Corresponding
Society and in attacking Pitt had called for him ‘…being
brought to public execution.’
B. M. 8999.
A contemporary watercolour is also included with the print.
This is a good amateur copy of the print, very close in size
and detail and has been executed on laid paper.
£950.
(The pair). |
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General caricature. KNAVISH PAT -----------A
TALE
Published by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London. May
7th 1804.
7¾ x 10. Uncoloured print with good margins.
An Irishman sits at a table smoking a pipe. Next to him sits
his dog and a bundle tied to a stick. A comely maidservant is
showing him two dishes of meat. The verse beneath states that
“At night he took the breast, and did not pay, I’
the morning took the heels and ran away”.
B. M. 10353.
£60. |
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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. |
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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.
£50. |
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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. |
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General Caricature. ENGLISH BROADSIDES
AND FRENCH QUARTERS.
No publishers line is present on the print.
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature by T. Lane. A Charley
making a Discovery.
Published by G. Humphrey 23 St. James’s St. London. March
15th 1822.
8¼ x 10. Trimmed onto/within the border, with good original
colour. Some slight marks and some creasing.
A top hated gentleman embraces a demurely dress courtesan. She
puts her arm around him in a effort to take his handkerchief.
A London Night watchman or Charley stares stupidly at them.
B. M. 14460.
£80. |
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Caricature by Sharpshooter. MASTER DOGBERRY
THE PARISH WATCHMAN.
Published June 1st 1829 by S Gans 15 Southampton St. Strand.
10¼ x 14. Good original colour with good margins. A tear
in the margin on the right not reaching the engraved area.
Another copy published by Gans of a W. Heath image published
in the same month. Here Lord Eldon is dressed as the watch man
holding a broken lantern.
Not in the B. M. The Heath version is B. M. 15802.
£50. |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature by T. Lane (?) after
G. Cruikshank. National Love!
Published by G. Humphrey 27 St James’s St June 1st 1821.
8½ x 10½. Original colour and trimmed inside the
plate mark but outside the engraved border. Slight creasing.
A scene in the Place in Naples with Vesuvius seen through a
window. Caroline, in her Turkish clothes, with Pauline Borghese
and Bergami stands behind. Caroline places a wreath on the bust
of Murat.
Not in the B. M. but see 13731 for the Cruikshank.
£150. |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature. French Fire Side.
Dub. Published by McCleary. 34 Nassau St.
13¼ x 9¼. Original colour and trimmed to the border,
(which has some marks on), but well outside the image.
Set in a fashionable salon which has a portrait of Napoleon
and views of Elba and St. Helena on the wall.
Not in the B. M.
£120. |
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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. |
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General caricature by Charles Jameson
Grant. COCKNEY SPORT.
Published by M Clarke Castle Court Cornhill. July 21 1831.
8½ x 10½. Lithograph with original colour. A watermark
of 1831. Overall greyness to the paper.
One of many prints showing the problems of ‘cits’
or cockneys when they take up the more middle and upper class
pursuits.
Not in the B. M.
£125. |
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General caricature after Woodward. THE
GHOST OF A GUINEA, AND LITTLE PITT’S. 0r the COKUNTRY
BANKER’S SURPRISE.
Published November 1st 1810 by W. Holland, Cockspur Street Hay
Market.
9 x 13. Original colour and trimmed almost to the image with
some marks.
The somewhat grotesque banker looks in surprise at the three
small coins and the one large guinea that are held up by the
smoke issuing from the floor.
After the Bank Restriction Act of 1797 the paper currency had
had hardly any depreciation until early 1809 when there was
a fall in the Continental exchanges and as a result the guineas
naturally disappeared from circulation. Ricardo drew attention
to this, whilst Cobbett popularised the matter. The famous Bullion
Committee was appointed in February 1810 and the report was
presented in June the controversy on this question then lasted
for several years.
The three small coins appear to be seven-shilling pieces, or
third-guineas which first appeared in 1797. The title suggests
that these were known as Pitts.
Sidebotham did a crude copy of this, and another copy was produced
in America.
B. M. 11576.
£90 |
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General caricature by Marks. How to get
un-married, - Ay, there’s the rub!
Published by J. L. Marks Sandy’s Row Bishopsgate London,
1820.
13 ¾ x 10. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Reasonable
original colour, with mount staining marks outside the image.
The King and Queen Caroline are tied together back to back by
a ribbon inscribed, “The Matrimonial Knot. Keep thee
only … unto her, so long as ye both shall live”.
This is a satire on the ‘Queen’s affair’
after her return to England and before the ‘trial’.
It is worth noting that Justice is on the Queen side pulling,
whilst on the Kings side is one of his mistresses, Lady Hertford.
B. M. 13770.
£170. |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature by H.B. (John Doyle).
A Cabinet Picture.
Published by Thos. McLean. 26. Haymarket Nov 5th 1830.
14¾ x 10¾. Lithograph with original colour. Trimmed
to just outside the border, with slight surface marks.
Wellington sits with his cabinet.
This is a satire on the King’s speech and on Wellington’s
speech of November 2nd when he came out strongly against reform.
B. M. 16299.
£35. |
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General caricature by De Wilde. New Roads
to the Temple of Fortune.
Published January 1st 1811. By M. Jones. No. 5 Newgate Street.
14½ x 8½. Original colour and trimmed near to
the image and the usual folds as this comes from the ‘Scourge’.
These images refer to four articles in the ‘Scourge’.
On the left, fleeing from justice who is higher up the hill
are John King and his wife. King, real name Jacob Rey, was a
Shepardi Jew, and was accused of money-lending, fraudulent banking,
forgery and blackmail.
Leigh Hunt stands with a mirror in which his face is shown as
that of an ape.
Next are Anthony Daffy Swinton and William Brodum who were promoting
quack medicines.
On the right is the Rev. William Huntingdon, being pushed up
the hill to a sign ‘To Hell’.
B. M. 11704.
£95. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature by H. B. (John Doyle).
EMBARKATION OF A FRENCH CARGO IN AN ENGLISH BOTTOM.
(Published by T. McLean August 17th, 1830 - publication line
trimmed off on this example).
13¼ x 10¼. Lithograph with original colour and
trimmed to the border.
Wellington pushes off the small boat on which stands Polignac.
This satire relates to Polignac’s departure from England
to take up the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
There was a general, and damaging, belief that Wellington supported
Polignac’s Ministry and this is shown in a number of prints.
B. M. 15852.
£50. |
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General caricature after Woodward. REASONABLE
CHARGES
Published by T. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside (c. 1810).
13¾ x 10. Faded 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. |
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General caricature. THE CELEBRATED OLD
HORSE BLISTER Rode by Patch doing a Match Against Time.
Published by G. Tregear 123 Cheapside.
10 x 7½. (Sheet size). Lithograph with original colour.
Above the image is ‘Tregears Rum Jokes No 23”.
Not in the B. M.
£45. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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. |
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General Caricature. A LUNCHEON A L’ANGLAISE.
Published by Messrs. Fores, 41 Piccadilly. (c.1830).
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. |
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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. |
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General caricature by M. Darly. THE MASQUERADE
DANCE.
Published by M. Darly (30 Strand), December 8th 1771.
13¾ x 10. An engraving, with good 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. |
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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. |
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General caricature by L. Boilly. Consultation
de Medecins. 1823. And. Consultation de Medecins. 1760.
Published c.1820. Both lithographs by de Delpech with a paper
size of 8¾ 12½.
Both depicting medics of the period.
Not in the B. M.
£500. (Pair). |
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General caricature by Sharpshooter (?).
THE CAD TO THE MAN WOT DRIVES THE OPPOSITION.
Published by E. King, Chancery lane, April 1829.
9 x 13¼. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the
plate mark.
Although the Paul Pry stick figure is on the image this is not
a William Heath print.
Although dressed and looking like Peel this is a portrait of
Wetherell who resigned as Attorney General when Canning succeeded
Liverpool and although reappointed by Wellington his anti- Emancipation
speeches resulted in his dismissal.
B. M. 15752.
£75. |
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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. |
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General caricature by I. Cruikshank.
A LONG HEADED MINUET.
Published by T. Tegg. 111 Cheapside. (c.1810).
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour on wove paper with reasonable
margins.
The seated man on the right echoes what the others are saying
when he says, “Oh Charming. Grace in all her steps.
Heaven in her eye. In every gesture Dignity and Love.”
Not in the B. M.
£130. |
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General caricature by I. Cruikshank.
GALIC PERFIDY, or the National Troops Attachment to their General
after their defeat at Tournay.
Published May 12th 1792 by S. W. Fores 3 Piccaddilly.
15 x 10¾. Uncoloured on laid paper with very small margins.
A printers crease lower left.
General Theobald Dillon is being murdered by his French troops.
He had a command under Dumouriez in Flanders and after calling
for a retreat while attacking Tournay a panic seized the cavalry
and they fled and Dillon was barbarously murdered by his troops
in Lille.
B. M. 8085.
£65 |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature by T. Lane (?) Tent-ation.
Published by G. Humphrey 27 St James’s St June 25th 1821.
8¾ x 10¾. Uncoloured and trimmed onto/within the
plate mark. Two tears at the top crossing the engraved border,
but not into the main picture.
Caroline and Bergami in a rather opulent tent.
Not in the B. M.
£40. |
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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. |
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General caricature after Gillray. COMPANY
SCHOCKED AT A LADY GETTING UP TO RING THE BELL.
Published by Sidebotham, 38 Burlington Arcade.
14¾ x 10½. Original colour with good margins.
(c.1804).
A good copy of the Gillray image. Sidebotham published many
copies after English caricaturists images. The B. M. refers
to this one, although their example has his Belfast address.
Looking at the area where Sidebotham has his details it looks
likely that this plate had been altered to give the London address
rather than the Irish one this would also mean that this was
a printing of c.1817 as that is when he was at the Burlington
Arcade address. Although Sidebotham is recorded as producing
prints in Dublin in 1802 it is about another decade before he
had his London addresses.
See B. M.1303. (For the Gillray example).
£165. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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General caricature. DEBUCOURT AFTER C.
VERNET. PRMENADE 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 10. Original colour with fairly good margins.
Wellington drives the coach; the leading horses have heads of
Lyndhurst and Scarlett, with Brougham and Burdett behind.
A happy King is in the coach and Lady Conyngham and Peel are
at the back.
B. M. 15720.
£170. |
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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. |
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General caricature by Seymour. PATENT
PENNY KNOWLEDGE MAGAZINE.
(An image from McLean’s Monthly sheet of caricatures.
Published October 1832).
10 x 14. Lithograph with original colour. Blank verso.
A satire on the ‘Penny Magazine’ the organ
of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Brougham
who is turning the crank was the Chairman.
B. M. 17267.
£75. |
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General caricature. THE TRIUMPH OF SENTIMENT
– THE PROSPECT OF HAPPINESS – OR A PICTURE FOR THE
DOTARDS.
Published November 1st. 1800 by S.W. Fores. No 50. Piccadilly.
14 x 9¾. Original colour on laid paper with reasonable
margins.
A wedding with the elderly bride, complete with walking stick
and gouty leg is being married to a handsome young groom who
is looking over his shoulder at two young beauties and in his
pockets are notices about his future wealth.
B. M. 9605.
£150. |
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General caricature by T. Lane (?) Travelling
Tete a Tete.
Published by G. Humphrey 27 St James’s St. June 25th 1821.
9 x 11. Uncoloured and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Slight
marks and a tear on the left almost reaching the tail of the
horse.
In a coach with the initials ‘C. B.’ Bergami and
Caroline sleep arm in arm.
Not in the B. M.
£45. |
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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. |
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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.
£500. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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.
£550. |
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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.
£550 |
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General caricature by T. Lane (?) The
Saint.
Published by G. Humphrey 27 St James’s St Dec. 9th 1820.
8¼ x 10¼. Uncoloured with small margins top and
bottom and trimmed onto/within the plate mark at the sides.
Slight creasing.
A satire on Caroline’s visit to Jerusalem in July 1816,
which she entered riding on an ass.
B. M. 14015.
£45. |
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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. |
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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. |
