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HENRY THOMAS ALKEN (1785-1851)
Calves’ heads and brains or a phrenological lecture
[Published for the artist, September 1826]
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Soft-ground etching (236 x 327 mm) with publisher’s watercolour
BM 15158
A caruicature of George Combe (1788-1858) lecturing
Cut on the plate-mark three sides, publication line cut off at bottom
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ANON
An emblem of a modern marriage
NP  15 June 1775
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Etching 225 x 205 mm
BM 5326
Attributed to Gillray by Grego
The BM offers no identities. It is a caricature of Elizabeth Chudleigh, the
‘Duchess Countess’, tried for bigamy in 1776
Stains & thins at corners from old glue
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£360


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?Lt.-Col.THOMAS BRADDYLL (1776-1862)
A Little Man’s night’s comforts, or Boney’s visions
NP, 14 July 1803

Etching & engraving 285 x 363 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Not in BM. Signed Lt B fecit
Watermark: RUSSELL & CO/1799
Coll.: Count von Starhemberg, Austrian Envoy in London
Two printing creases, one split & restored in bottom margin
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£1,200

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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792-1878)
The Head Ache
G.Humphrey, 12 February 1819

Etching 210 x 258 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 13439, after Capt. Marryat
fine
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£500




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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792-1878)
The Dandies Coat of Arms
T.Tegg, 28 March 1819
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etching 348 x (241) mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 13394
watermark: C.WILMOTT/1819
ex: Secker & Warburg, in biro verso with their reference stamp
Faint stain, background discoloured on back, cut just within the plate mark at sides
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792-1878)
The Blue Devils - !!
G.Humphrey, 10 January 1823
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Etching (219 x 265) mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 14598
cut, clear, within the plate-mark
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK (1792-1878)
Jealousy
S.Knight, 1 November 1825

Etching (213 x 267) mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 14905 (an uncoloured example)
After Alfred Crowquill
cut, clear, within the plate-mark
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£400


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ISAAC ROBERT CRUIKSAHNK (1789-1856)
The Abyssenian Monster – or the Invisible Monster drawn from His Den
J.Dawson [c.1820]

Etching 262 x 346 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Not in BM
Possibly suppressed
Uncut sheet, Price Two Shillings in faint red ink in top margin
Fine

​£1,200

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ROBERT DIGHTON I (1752-1814)
[A knowing one]
H.Humphrey, 1 August 1790

Etching 198 x 164 mm, with contemporary watercolour
BM 7789 (uncoloured impressions) identified as ‘Mr Tetherington’
The publication line etched by Gillray
Printseller’s watercolour, with modelling, neither Dighton family
nor Hannah Humphrey’s house style
thread margins, rare
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ROBERT DIGHTON I (1752-1814)
A view near Hyde Park Corner
Dighton, February 1802

Etching 198 x 136 mm with artist’s watercolour
BM 9901
Caricature portrait of the auctioneer Edmund Tattersall (1758-1810) on the rostrum.
Good early impression with colouring by Robert Dighton or his family
(cf. the late reprints in BM)
watermark: A STACE
marginal tear with ancient repair
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SOLD

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JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)
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The Learned Pig
No publisher [c.1797]

Etching 260 x 217 & watercolour (probably by one of Humphrey’s colourists)
BM 9056 (an uncoloured impression)
A private plate for a Yorkshire election, the Cavalry Act mentioned was October 1796
general browning & foxing, but rare
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JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815)
“A Little Music” – or – the Delights of Harmony
[H.Humphrey, 20 May 1810]

Etching, engraving & aquatint  260 x 363 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
First state, before the addition of the engraved publication line
BM 11611
Almost certainly after an amateur, possibly Brownlow North
Two tears with old repairs, without loss
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HENRY HEATH (fl.1822-42)
The March of Intellect
S.Maunder, April 1828

Etching ( 322 x 235 mm)
Not in BM
Plate 1 engraved top right
An aspirational dustman
cut just within plate-mark, into wash border
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WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)
A correct view of the new machine for winding up the ladies
T.McLean [c.1828]

Etching (240 x 355 mm) with publisher’s watercolour
Not in BM
Cut to border line

​£480



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WILLIAM HEATH (1794-1840)
March of Intellect
T.McLean [1829]

Etching (283 x 403 mm), with publisher’s watercolour
BM 15779
Includes a flying whale taking Convicts, For New South Wales and a
dustman eating pine-apples
Cut on the plate-mark, just clear of border; sometime laid into an album sheet, faint stains & marks
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SOLD


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WILLIAM HOGARTH  (1697-1764)
A Midnight Modern Conversation
[March 1732/3]

​Etching & engraving (340 x 461 mm) printed in ‘red’
P.128  SECOND OF THREE STATES
Cut within plate-mark, shaving verse at left, faint crease & discolouration
​£1,800




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WILLIAM HOGARTH  (1697-1764)
Characters & Caricaturas
[April]1743

​Etching & engraving 258 x 206 mm
P.156  FIRST OF TWO STATES, BEFORE THE RECEIPT CUT OFF THE PLATE
ex Wrest Park album

​£2,400







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​WILLIAM HOGARTH  (1697-1764)
​The Times of Day
Published by Hogarth 25 March 1738

Etchings with engraving
Fine impressions of the FIRST PUBLISHED STATES, before extensive revisions
paulson 146 i/ii, 147 i/ii, 148 ii/iv & 149 i/ii
paper toned, plate-marks with some rubbed in dust, one edge of the backs thinned or with old mount paper

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JOHN BELL  &  HOGARTH
Cruelty in Perfection and The Reward of Cruelty
January 1750/51

​Woodcuts 447 x 378 mm & 454 x 383 mm
HOGARTH’S ABANDONED PROJECT FOR THE STAGES OF CRUELTY
Very good even impressions on wove paper, printed for Boydell c.1795
cut close and lightly mounted on larger sheets of wove paper

£4,000  PAIR























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JOHN HAMILTON MORTIMER (1740-1779)
Enrag’d monster
I.Mortimer, 8 December 1778

Etching 232 x 169 in black ink on laid paper
Sheet laid in at edges
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JOHN HAMILTON MORTIMER (1740-1779)
Musical monster
I.Mortimer, 8 December 1778

I.Mortimer, 8 December 1778
Etching 235 x 170 mm in black ink on laid paper
Sheet laid in at edges
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JOHN HAMILTON MORTIMER (1740-1779)
Revengeful monsters
J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand, 25 January 1780

Etching 171 x 236 mm in black ink on wove paper
Good impression, apparently earlier than Palser
sheet inlaid at edges
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£300


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JOHN HAMILTON MORTIMER (1740-1779)
Sleeping monsters
J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand, 25 January 1780

Etching 169 x 236 mm in black ink on wove paper
Good impression, apparently earlier than Palser
sheet inlaid at edges
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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
A Glee
Thos.Tegg, 1 March 1808

Etching 243 x 345 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 11141, a later issue with the date erased and number altered from 41 to ?221

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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
A French dentist shewing a specimen of his artificial teeth and false palates
T.Tegg, 26 February 1811

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Etching 243 x 354 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 11798
watermark: [?] & T/1810
earliest Tegg colouring, with modelling & gouache highlights (cf. BM 1872,1012.4984 with later, simpler, cruder colours)
If not an actual portrait, it relates to Dubois de Chemant’s recent introduction of porcelain false teeth
Uncut sheet, a stub pasted onto lower edge, minor defects & fly droppings !
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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
Modern antiques
[Thomas Tegg, c.1811]

[Thomas Tegg, c.1811]
Etching 347 x 247 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
BM 11819 ( neither impression intact )
watermark: 1819
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£2,400

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ROBERT SEYMOUR
 
(1798 -1836)
Locomotion  and  Locomotion Plate 2nd
Thos. McLean, [ c.1827 ]

not in bm & bm 16438 (a photographic reproduction)
each cut within the plate-mark, within the wash borders, & laid into the
original McLean ruled mount leaf

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JOHN JACOBI (JOHANN JACOBE 1733-1797) after REYNOLDS

OMAI, A Native of the Island of Utietea
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John Boydell, 1 September 1780
Mezzotint 634 x 383 mm
Second published state (first published by Jacobe at Mrs Sledge’s 1777)
in black ink on laid paper
Collection: the late Raymond Leppard
Thread margins, tiny rubs in title area

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JAMES MCARDELL (1729-65) after ALAN RAMSAY (1713-84)

[Lady Mary Campbell holding a theorbo]
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c.1762
Mezzotint 505 x 355 mm
C.S.42 i/ii before all lettering, lower area still partly uncleared & before re-work
Lady Mary, youngest daughter of the Duke of Argyll, had a disastrous marriage to Viscount Coke of Holkam. She was the dedicatee of Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, later fell out with him.
Collection: Jeremy Maas

​​£2,400


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JAMES SAYERS (1748-1823)
Frontispiece for the 2d Edition of Dr J…..n’s Letters
Thos.Cornell, 7 April 1788
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Etching 250 x 176 mm on laid paper
BM 7417
Dr.Johnson’s ghost appears to Mrs.Piozzi
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£285


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After G. SPRATT  (fl.1830)
Fish
C.Tilt, 1830

Lithograph 192 x 167 mm, with publisher’s watercolour
Not in BM
foxing at edges of sheet
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£400



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GEORGE TOWNLY STUBBS (1748-1815)
after
RICHARD COSWAY (1742-1821)
Il Milanese
[presumably G.T.Stubbs]  25 May 1780

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Etching 240 x 200 mm
Caricature of the painter, dealer & miniaturist Gaetano Manini (fl.1755-75)
cut on the plate-mark, handled, thins, faint foxing

​£500


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ANGELICA KAUFFMAN (1741-1807)
[Young woman seated plaiting hair]
1765

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Etching with engraving 221 x 164 mm in black
on ?Italian laid paper, watermark: circle within eight-pointed star
state before re-issue by Boydell in 1780 with added aquatint
backed with thin wove paper, large margins
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ANGELICA KAUFFMAN (1741-1807)
[Young woman seated on ground, elbow on rock]
1766
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etching with engraving 211 x 162 mm in black on ?Italian laid paper
state before re-issue by Boydell in 1780 with added aquatint,
later re-issued again by John P.Thompson in 1805
backed with thin wove paper, large margins, stain in margin

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GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)
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LABOURERS
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Geo. Stubbs, 1 January 1789
Etching, stipple, roulette & rocker-work 522 x 695 mm
in black ink on wove paper
L-B 86 i/ii  FIRST STATE, WITH OPEN TITLE LETTERS
Provenance: UK private collection
thread margins, tiny losses at extreme right edge

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GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)
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REAPERS

Geo. Stubbs, 1 January 1791
Stipple & roulette work 482 x 683 mm
in black ink on laid paper
L-B 90 i/iii  FIRST STATE, WITH OPEN TITLE LETTERS
Provenance: UK private collection
Thread margins, an invisibly repaired tear

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JACQUES MARCHAND (1769-c.1835)
after
GUILLAUME GUILLON-LETHIERE (1760-1832)
Dumas
[n.p. c.1797-1803]
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etching, stipple & mezzotint, with publisher’s watercolour
Portrait of Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, known as General Dumas (1762-1806); father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas; b. in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), son of Marquis Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a black slave; distinguished himself during the French Revolutionary Wars; no other black officer in a European army since his time has reached an equivalent rank (2013). He was c   aptured and imprisoned in the Kingdom of Naples 1799-1801, the inspiration for his son’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
 
£600
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GEORGE TOWNLY STUBBS ( 1748-1815) after  GEORGE STUBBS
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JOSIAH WEDGWOOD Esqr.
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Done from an original Picture Painted in Enamel as large as Life
G.T.Stubbs, 10 February 1795
Etching & engraving, largely stipple 227 x 172 mm
finished lettered state, printed in black
cut on the plate-mark

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CHARLES TURNER (1774-1857) after HUET VILLIERS (1772-1813)
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VENUS
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R.Ackermann, 2 January 1809
Mezzotint (285) x (212) mm
Partly printed in colours
Cut irregularly shaving the border line, a repaired tear

£400





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GERARD JEAN BAPTISTE SCOTIN II (1698 – after 1755)
after
HUBERT-FRANCOIS BOURGUIGNON GRAVELOT (1699-1773)  
Chimpanzee
NP, 27 November 1738

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Etching & engraving  412 x 231 mm
Dedicated to Sir Hans Sloane
fold marks, faint discolouration from old mount
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£1,200



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CHARLES HOWARD HODGES (1764-1837) after  JOHN RISING (1753-1817)
William Wilberforce Esqr. MP for the County of York
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Engraved from a Picture painted by J:Rising for the Right Honbe.Lord Muncaster, is with all Respect dedicated to the Chairman and Committee of London; and to all the Societies for the abolition of the Slave Trade throughout Great Britain …
London: J.Rising & T.Harmar, 1 February 1792
Mezzotint 507 x 352 mm
On Auvergne laid paper
Second issue, the scratch letter impression in BM is dated 1 October 1791
Good impression, some faint rubs on paper inclusions. A rust inclusion visible on the back & tiny white printing flaw on the table cloth
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£3,000




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After EDWARD DAYES (1763-1804)
FRANCOIS DAVID SOIRON (1764-after 1796) The Promenade in St.James’s Park.
T.Gaugain, January 1793
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THOMAS GAUGAIN (1756-1810?)  An Airing in Hyde Park.
J.C.Gaugain, January 1796


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Both stipple engravings, with etching, roulette & ?aquatint approx. 464 x 680& 455 x 677 mm , colour printed a la poupee, the first on laid paper, the second on wove, neither with discernible watermark
ex John Gardner, printsellers, probably in the 1920s
Fine impressions, the colours bright, some minor old restorations at sheet edges, cut just within plate-marks
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£6,000 the pair, framed

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