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​GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792-1878)

Sales by Auction! – or Provident Children disposing of their deceased Mother’s Effect for the Benefit of the Creditors!!

​J.Sidebetham[sic], 6 May 1819
Etching 250 x 365 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 13229
The fat Prince Regent auctions his late mother’s effects, including the notorious ivory bed.
In fact Queen Charlotte’s sales took place at Christies between 7 May and 26 August
Cut on the plate-mark, slightly dull & shabby at edges, an ink stain in the title
SOLD

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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792-1878)
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A Christmas Box
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S.Knight, 26 December 1826
Etching (157) x (126) mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 15190
Cut shaving the grey wash border

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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792-1878)

Anticipated Effects of The Tailors “Strike” – or Gentlemens Fashions for – 1834
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Plate 1 for Part 5 of Scraps & Sketches
George Cruikshank, 22 May 1834
Etching 273 x 374 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Uncut sheet, just showing the plate-mark on three sides

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​ISAAC CRUIKSHANK (1764-1811)

Salus in fuga [above]
La France se purge petit a petit
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S.Fores, 29 July [?1790]
Etching 238 x 730 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 7663
Largely uncut sheet, trimmed irregularly just within plate-mark at left, two vertical fold marks
£1,200

WILLIAM DENT (fl.1783-93)

Story of Nell’s Coach made good by the Cunning Man …
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W.Dent, 1 November 1791
Etching 231 x 403 mm, ?with Dent’s own watercolour
Not in BM
Wouski, the Duke of Clarence’s black West Indian mistress, stands sadly as the Duke drives off with Mrs Jordan; she predicts Mrs Jordan eventuall fate … Massa love me once, now he love you – you be very White after Black till another Fair make you Brown – then you left like poor Wouski
Collections: unidentified, pencil capital D lower right corner recto; Minto-Wilson, his stamp verso
Colour muted, glue traces on back suggest that it was once laid down

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​WILLIAM DENT (fl.1783-93)
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Road to ruin
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W.Dent, 30 March 1792
Etching 200 x 552 mm, watercolour & body colour, probably Dent’s own
BM 8073
Wonderful print that certainly should have been supressed by the Court, Mrs Crouch the very successful prostitute hangs on the P-of W’s horse behind Mrs FitzHerbert
Knocked about & unrestored. No loss, and more attractive, specially the gorgeous colour, than the BM impression

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ROBERT DIGHTON I (1767-1816)

Sir George Prevost, Governor of Canada
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T.Palser, ND
Etching & engraving 275 x 214 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
This state in BM, unattributed.
It was first published, titled Lieut Genl Sir George Prevost Governor of Canada,
by Dighton Spring Gardens Nov 1812 during the 1812 War
uncut quarter sheet of laid paper without watermark
SOLD


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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

John Bull bother’d; - or – The Geese alarming the Capitol
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H.Humphrey, 19 December 1792
Etching, engraving & aquatint 315 x 395 mm
BM 8141
Aquatint printing well
Small tear in lower margin
£600


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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

Fashionable-Jockeyship
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H.Humphrey, 1 June 1796
Etching 360 x 256 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 8811
One of the funniest and most outrageous of Gillray’s prints of
the Prince of Wales affairs
It was included in Bohn’s “Supressed” reprint volume
Brilliant earliest colour, scarce
stains, blank lower r. corner & corner of border torn off
 unrestored

SOLD



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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815) after Bunbury

Le Debarquement du Chevalier John Bull et de sa Famille a Boulogne sur Mer.

H.Humphrey, 31 May 1792
Etching, aquatint & engraving, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 8189
folds, some splits & tears repaired
£1,200

​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

[ The Prince of Wales from behind ]
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H.Humphrey, 10 March 1802
Etching & engraving 255 x 206 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 9846
Collection: the late Karsten Schubert
£900



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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

Dilettanti-Theatricals; - or – a Peep at the Green Room
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H.Humphrey, 18 February 1803
Etching, soft-ground etching, traces of aquatint & engraving 309 x 485 mm
BM 1069
NB the aquatint ground almost completely vanishes during trial proofs
(see BM 1863,010.140 & 1868,0808.13669)
Slightly dusty, faint fold mark
£1,200

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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

a Tub for a Whale !
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H.Humphrey, 14 March 1806
Etching, engraving & aquatint 246 x 353 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 10543
Second state with DESPOTISM replaced by POWER and aquatint added
Small margins, slightly faded, a thin patch on the back
£600

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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

A Great Stream from a Petty-Fountain; - or – John bull swamped 
in the Flood of new-Taxes; - Cormorants Fishing in the Stream
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H.Humphrey, 9 May 1806
Etching, engraving & aquatint 241 x 350 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 10543
Small margins, slightly faded, tiny paper flaw in grey wash border
£480
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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

A Kick at the Broad-Bottoms ! – i.e. – Emancipation of “All the Talents. &c.
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H.Humphrey, 23 March 1807
Etching, engraving & aquatint 256 x 350 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 10709
Small margins, slightly faded, browned at left edge
£200

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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

A View of the Peer [first e scored through & i added above] of Scarborough
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H.Humphrey, 18 June 1807
Etching & engraving 209 x 262 mm
BM 10790
Almost certainly Henry Phipps, Lord Mulgrave (1755-1831)
The plate was not reprinted by Bohn
Thread margins
£65

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​JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Morland’s
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H.Humphrey, 16 November 1807
Etching, engraving & aquatint 401 x 313 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 10791
Printed in very dark sepia, the aquatint still printing
Colour a little pale, but not faded
£1,600






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JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)

The Graces in a high Wind 
– a scene taken from Nature, in Kensington Gardens
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H.Humphrey, 1810
Etching, engraving & aquatint 253 x 356 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 11593
ex Frank A. Gibson, his stamp verso just showing through in the background
Thread or small margins, cut on the plate-mark at right, a repaired tear extreme top right corner
£800

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WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

Mr Astley Junr as Count Staffo in the popular piece [sic] call’d the Brave Cossack …
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T.Palser, 6 April 1812
Etching 345 x 242 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
In BM
An earlier erased publication line
Uncut half sheet, watermark: 1809
Despite Palser’s usual cheap paper the colouring is careful and modelled
Sheet edges crumpled, white body colour on cloak oxidized
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​WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

Miss-Ann-thropy
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T.McLean, c.1828
Etching 374 x 261 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Bright colour, small margins; two slightly grubby tears into the border with old repairs
SOLD

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​WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

“We have the Exhibition to examine …  ah if one could but see
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T.McLean, c.1828
Etching (238) x (354) mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Not in BM
Good bright colour, cut shaving the grey wash border & outer border line
SOLD

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​WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

A snug birth in a shower
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T.McLean, c.1828
Etching 375 x 260 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Not in BM
Cut on the plate-mark at right, otherwise small margins, faint offset top right corner

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​WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

A Desert – Imitation of Modern Fashion
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T.McLean, c.1828
Etching 370 x 258 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 15611
Uncut quarter sheet, watermark: J WHATMAN/TURKEY MILL/1828
Two clean unrepaired tears at right, one into the design
£600







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WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

Since I saw you last – there is a change [above]
If fashions various laws you would obey
The Petticoat abridge: the Ankle full display
July 1828
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T.McLean, [1828]
Etching 375 x 260 mm
Not in BM
Uncut quarter sheet, watermark: J WHATMAN/TURKEY MILL/1827
Unrestored marginal tear
SOLD





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​WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

The Old Proprietors Advice
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T.McLean, 10 April 1830
Etching (362) x (248) mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 16098
Trimmed within the plate-mark and laid into a full McLean album sheet, ruled front & back
Particularly bright delicate colouring

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WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

A comfortable thing to be the King of Greece
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T.McLean, 6 March 1830
Etching 261 x 375 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 16067
Uncut quarter sheet
Almost pristine

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WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)

Blessing of Cheap Cider
I vunder vether the Duke of Vellington hever drinks Cider [in design]
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T.McLean, 20 March 1830
Etching (360) x (244) mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Not in BM
Cut just within plate-mark, clear of work
SOLD








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THOMAS HOWELL JONES (fl.1823-48)

The New Banking Company’s Scales of Equity
I will venture “Coute qui Coute”
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S.W.Fores, November 1825
Etching 342 x 245 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 14876 (incorrectly as I.R.Cruikshank after Henry Heath)
Published between the death, in 1822, of Harriot Mellon’s first immensely rich husband, Thomas Coutts; and her second marriage, to the Duke of St Albans in 1827
Fine, cut more or less on the plate-mark

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​THOMAS HOWELL JONES (fl.1823-48)

The Head Ranger and his Fallow Dear [scored through & replaced with] Deer 
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S.W.Fores, 1829
Etching 350 x 259 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 15792
Eliza Chester was appointed the King’s ‘Reader’, implied in this print the successor to Lady Conygham as his mistress

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JOHN PHILLIPS (fl. 1825-31) 

An Eclipse
Lately discolvered in the Georgium Sidus [original name for Uranus], and quite unexpected by any of the Astronomers 
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S.W.Fores, 1829
Etching 349 x 248 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 15810
fine

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​JOHN PHILLIPS (fl. 1825-31)

Inflating a Lady
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S.Gans, July 1829
Etching 262 x 358 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 15965
Small margins, some pins holes in edges of the sheet
SOLD





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​CHARLES WILLIAMS (fl.1796-1830)

Contrasted opinions respecting the new Emperor 
​[Napoleon]

S.W.Fores, 16 July 1804
Etching 398 x 335 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
In BM, as by Isaac Cruikshank
Collection: Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, with the Bib.Lindesiana stamp verso
Cut on plate-mark, repaired splits & tears, blank corner missing

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ANON*

More Visitors to John Bull, or the Assess’d Taxes !!!
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ANON*
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A Visitor to John Bull for the Year 1799. or. The Assess’d Taxes taking their leave !!
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​W.Holland, 1 December1797
with

W.Holland, 12 December 1798
BM 9043 & 9280
Both etchings with engraving & aquatint (254)x(305) & (247)x(347) mm,
with publisher’s watercolour
Collection: Count von Starhemberg, Austrian Envoy to England with his E stamp & pencil cataloguing verso
*These prints are not by Richard Newton, but by the anonymous etcher of a large group of caricatures published by Holland, possibly J.C.Zeigler
Fine bright colours, cut within the plate-marks, just shaving first letter of one title
PAIR
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​SOLD