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James Gillray

James Gillray Temperance enjoying a Frugal Meal Etching and stipple with original hand colouring Pubd. July 28th. 1792. by H. Humphrey, Old Bond Street Image 346 x 284 mm, Sheet 363 x 295 mm A satire on the miserliness of King George III. The King sits in an armchair in profile to the left, bending forward to eat a boiled egg, holding the egg-cup in his left hand. Opposite him, and partly concealed by the left margin, sits the Queen, avidly stuffing salad into her mouth. Everything in the room denotes miserliness: the King has tucked the end of the table-cloth into his collar to protect his dress; his breeches are patched; his chair is swathed in protective coverings, his feet rest on a mat which protects the carpet. A richly chased flagon, decorated with the royal arms, which stands on the ground beside him, is inscribed 'Aqua Regis'. The supposed miserliness of the King and Queen was a favourite subject of caricature, and frugality of the King's meals was well known. (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

BM Satires 8117 Condition: Nice impression with good hand colouring. Trimmed inside the plate, small stain to top left corner of sheet and image, light creases to image. Framed in a period style frame. [35893] £1,500

James Gillray Hope / Despair Etching with original hand colouring Pubd. April 8th 1802.by H. Humphrey 27. St James's Street Each Image 254 x 205 mm A pair of prints satirising the state of the Government finances at the end of the 18th Century. Hope: The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issues a cloud inscribed : - ‘let me see - 25 Millions! how are we Ruin'd? - 10 pr Cent for my Money! - income tax taken off! - well! - well! - well! – ‘. [further words have been erased], behind him is the hooded chair of the door-keeper. Addington, in profile to the right, makes his budget speech; in his hand is a paper: '25 Mill. Loan'. Behind him is a crowd of undistinguished-looking members. Hawkesbury sits next Addington's empty seat, holding the 'Treaty [of] Peace'; his fingers are to his face, but to his nose in place of his lip. Despair: Robson speaks in the House of Commons, with outstretched arms: ‘We're all ruinated, Sir! - all diddled, Sir!! - abus'd by Placemen, Sir!!! - Bankrupts all, Sir! - not worth Sixteen Pounds, Ten Shillings, Sir! –‘ . From his coat pocket project bundles of papers: 'Ignorance of ye Old Administration'; 'Stupidity of ye New Administration'; 'Charges against the Ministry'. In his hat, on the seat behind him, are other bundles: 'Ministerial Tricks', 'Plunders', 'Blunders', 'Collusion'; 'Impeach[ment]'; 'Punishm[ent]'. Behind him, and next his vacant seat, sits Tyrwhitt Jones, listening with a fierce scowl, a pen in his mouth, his hat beside him; he holds a bulky sheaf of 'Notes'. Behind these two are Horne Tooke and Burdett , listening intently. BMSat 9854 & BM Satires 9855 Condition: Excellent clean impressions, framed in period birds-eye maple frames. [35927] £950

James Gillray Pen-etration Etching with hand colouring Pubd Augt. 6th 1799 by H. Humphrey N 27 St James's Street Image 260 x 183 mm, Sheet 270 x 198 mm. ‘Js Gillray des & ft’ Inscribed in the image. Inscription after title reads: ___ NB: This Title has no affinity to Pen, as connected with the Goose-Quill; nor has it any allusion to Penguin, a stupid creature between a Fish & a Fowl; - the word is simply derived from Pen, as the Instrument used to express the deep researches of the mind; see the St James's Street chitchat - respecting a Keen Pen; - a Witty Pen; - & a Pen, often Cut, but never mended. Caricature portrait of John Penn (1760-1834), also known as John Penn, Jr., John Penn of Stoke, was the chief proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania as of 1775 and also a politician and writer. Grandson of the founder of Pennsylvania. BM Satires 9441 Condition: Trimmed inside the plate at top and tides, dirt build up to edges of sheet. Light crease to centre of image. [35830] £300

James Gillray Political-Candour; __i.e._Coalition-"Resolutions" of June 14th 1805. _ Pro bono Publico. Etching with hand colouring Publish'd June 21st 1805. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street London Image 340 x 274 mm A satire on Pitt's conduct regarding the loan of £40,000 from Navy funds to the firm of Boyd and Benfield. Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons; His words ascend and are enclosed in a large label in the upper part of the design: ‘ - Yes Sir, I do assure the Right Honble Gent \ though our lives have ever been opposite, though in \ almost every instance we have disagreed, & though I have \ constantly blamed the whole of his conduct, yet I should \ be everlastingly unhappy had it turned out that he had \ acted wrong or had soiled his hands in the manner we \ meant to attribute to him; - I do say Sir, that during \ my whole life, I never did suspect, I never had the least \ suspicion of any thing dishonorable in the Right Honble Gent- \ and from every species of Corruption, I do declare most \ solemnly, my mind has always most completely \ acquitted him! - he will be held up to posterity \ and cited as a bright example of Purity Integrity and Honor!' On his seat lies his hat; in this is a large bundle of papers: 'Political Union, to save the Country from Buonaparte and the Doctor'. On the ground beside it lies a large overturned tankard of 'Whitbread's Entire', whose contents froth over the floor. Long narrow labels ascend from other M.P.s. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

BM Satires 10414 Condition: Nice impression with good hand colouring. Trimmed inside the plate, small repaired puncture to top right margin, repaired tear to inscription space and bottom right corner of sheet. Framed in period style frame. [35894] £900

James Gillray The visit to Piccadilly; _ or _ a Prussian reception. Etching with hand colouring Pubd July 12th 1792, by H. Humphrey N. 18 Old Bond Street [Bohn edition, 1851] Image 328 x 245 mm, Plate 350 x 253 mm, Sheet 365 x 269 mm Inscription below title reads: Representing Shon-ap-Morgan, Shentleman of Wales, introducing his Old Nanny-Goat into high Company. A caricature of the refusal of the Duchess of York to receive Mrs. Fitzherbert outside Melbourne House in Piccadilly. The Prince of Wales leads a goat with the head of Mrs. Fitzherbert to the door of the forecourt of a large town-house, held partly open by the Duchess of York. She says, ‘O Dunder & Wonder! - what Cratur is dat which you are bringing here ? - relation of mine, indeed? - no, no! - me know no Nanny-goat-Princess! - so set off, with your bargain, you poor - Toasted - Cheese! you! - for she sha'nt come in here, to poison the house! - off! - off! - off.’ The Prince, who wears in his hat a leek, with his motto, 'ich dien', answers, ‘Not open the Toor ? - Cot-splutter-a-nails - when Nanny is come to see you, herself? - vhy isn't Nanny a Princess too ? - & a Velch Princess? - and hur is come to visit hur Brothers & hur Sisters! - & not to let hur in? why the Voman is mad, sure!’ In place of a star he wears a medallion enclosing a pair of goat's horns. He holds his goat by a ribbon wreathed with roses. Mrs. Fitzherbert has goat's horns and wears a coronet with the Prince's feathers; she looks up at him with an expression of dignified surprise. Beneath the title is etched: 'Representing Shon-ap-Morgan, Shentleman of Wales, introducing his Old Nanny-Goat into high Company.' (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

BM Satires 8119 [Bohn edition impression] Condition: Time toning to sheet and stain from previous mount in margins. [35946] £200

James Gillray The Worn-out Patriot:-or-The Last Dying Speech of the Westminster Representative, at the Anniversary Meeting on Octr. 10th. 1800. held at the Shakespeare Tavern. Etching with early hand colouring Publishd October 13th 1800, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street Image 330 x 252 mm A parody on Fox's speech on the 10 October, the anniversary of his first election for Westminster in 1780. Fox stands on a dais at the head of a rough table, the seat from which he has risen is magnificent, above it is the inscription 'Vive la Libertè' surmounted by a bonnet-rouge. He is held up by Combe, the Lord Mayor, a pompous figure in gown and chain, and by Erskine.. All listen intently to Fox, who says: ‘Gentlemen, you see I'm grown quite an Old Man in your Service! Twenty Years I've served you, & always upon the same Principles; - I rejoic'd at the Success of our Enemies in the American War! - & the War against the Virtuous French Republic has always met with my most determined opposition! - but the Infamous Ministry will not make Peace with our Enemies, & are determin'd to keep Me out of their Councils & out of Place! - therefore Gentlemen! as their Principles are quite different from mine, & as I am now too Old to form myself according to their Systems, my attendance in Parliament is useless: - & to say the truth, I feel that my season of action is past, & I must leave to younger Men to Act, for alas! my failings & weaknesses will not let me now recognise what is for the best!’ (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

BM Satires 9548 Condition: Excellent clean impression, framed in period birds-eye maple frame. [35923] £900

[attributed to James Gillray] The National Contrast Mezzotint with etching Pubd. May 30th 1780. by Wm.Humphrey No.227 Strand. Image 177 x 240 mm, Sheet 189 x 243 mm A very scarce mezzotint satire attributed to Gillray commenting on British opulence. Featuring well dressed English men sat and stood around a table drinking beer from a tankard and serving a large pie. Two thin presumably French figures one seated at a small table with a frog served on a plate, the other knelt on one knee with hat in hand in the foreground. Not in BM Satires. Ex.Col.:Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to plate, repaired tear to publication line and to right of title, neither affecting image. Old pencil numbers in inscription space. Scuff to lower left edge of sheet and image. [35942] £980

after James Gillray

after James Gillray A: PATRIOT’S deciding a Point of Honor! -or- an exact Representation of the celebrated Rencontre which took place at Combe Wood on May 2d 1807 - between Little-PAUL the Taylor, & Sir Francis Goose / B: Election-Candidates; -or- the Republican Goose at the Top of the Polle the Devil helping behind! Etching with hand colouring [n.d. c.1810] Image A 119 x 226mm, Image B 187 x 225, Plate 341 x >241mm, Sheet 358 x 245mm Reduced copies of BM Satires 10725 & BM Satires 10732 Condition: Trimmed within plate mark on left. Horizontal and vertical creases as issued. [35399] £90

after James Gillray Buonaparte leaving Egypt. Etching with hand colouring London Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. [n.d. c.1800] Image 244 x 189 mm, Plate 285 x 220 mm, Sheet 324 x 235 mm Inscription below title reads: For an illustration of the above, see the Intercepted Letters from the Republican General Kleber, to the French Directory respecting the Courage, Honor, & Patriotism, of - the Deserter (sic) of the Army of Egypt. A satire on Napoleon’s abandonment of General Dugua in Egypt. Bonaparte stands on the sea-shore, about to embark (on 23 Aug. 1799) in a boat which will take him to a ship in full sail (the 'Muiron'). He looks with a sly leer to the right, where a little band of ragged and emaciated French soldiers hurry towards him making gestures of dismay. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) BM Satires 9523.A, a reduced copy of BM Satires 9523. Condition: Some light staining to the margins and one small stain to the right of the inscription, neither affecting image. [34982] £180

after James Gillray Effusions of a Pot of Porter_or_Ministerual Conjurations for Supporting the WAR, as lately dicover’d by Dr. P__r, in the Froth and Fumes of his favorite Beverage Etching & aquatint with hand colouring c. 1800 Image 205 x 165 mm, Plate 222 x 178 mm, Sheet 243 x 191 mm A satire on the abnormally bad weather of 1799 and the rising cost of the Napoleonic war. A large frothing tankard stands on a cask whose head forms the base of the design. From the froth Pitt emerges as Death on the White Horse, giving the effect of a fantastic equestrian statue on a high pedestal. Pitt is in back view; in his right hand is a flaming sword, his left arm is raised, he turns his head slightly to the right, his right leg is extended; he wears his ordinary dress with heavily spurred top-boots. His head is the centre of rays on which his orders are inscribed, above it: 'Bella! \ Horrida \ Bella!' On the left are heavy clouds about to cover the sun, whose features indicate profound sleep; rays to the left are inscribed: 'Sun get thee to Bed! Myself will Light ye World' and 'Ho Rains! - Deluges! - Drown the Harvest!' Slanting rain descends in torrents from the clouds, battering down heads of wheat and obscuring a cottage in the background. On the right are the winds: four cherubs' heads blowing violent blasts in every direction, two of which are filled with swarms of insects. Rays to the right are inscribed: 'Pestiferous Winds! blast the fruits of the Earth!' and 'Ho! Flies! Grubs, Caterpillars! destroy the Hops!' The blasts strike hops twined round poles on the right of the design. On the tankard is a large '4' within a circle inscribed 'Pro-Bono-Ministero', and a small 'WP' with the Pitt crest of stork and anchor. On the cask a long lighted pipe inscribed 'Bellendenus' lies across a paper of tobacco inscribed : 'Ruin upon Ruin, or an Essay on the Ways & Means for supporting the cursed War.' The title continues: 'as lately discover'd by Dr P-----r, in the Froth & Fumes of his favorite Beverage (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A reduced copy of BM Satires 9430 Condition: Vertical and horizontal folds as issued [35198] £95

after James Gillray The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. Etching with original hand colouring [n.d. c.1810] Image 232 x 311 mm, Plate 253 x 317 mm, Sheet 271 x 358 mm Inscription alongside title reads: ‘Scene._Gulliver manoevring with his little Boat in the Cistern.’ ‘Js. Gillray del’ inscribed in bottom left corner. ‘No. XXII.XXIII’ inscribed in top right corner. A caricature of Napoleon as Gulliver being observed by the ‘Brobdingnagian’ King George III. King George III and Queen Charlotte sit on chairs of state watching the figure of Napoleon as Gulliver sailing a miniature boat in a water tank, propelled by two pageboys. Lord Salisbury stands behind the King with two Beefeaters and princesses seated and standing beside the Queen. Copy of BM Satires 10227 Condition: Good strong impression with nice hand colouring. Laid to album page, pressed vertical folds, repaired hole to top centre of image. Light dirt build up to margins, not affecting image. [35788] £180

after James Gillray The Kitchen below or Belzebub going to Supper Etching with original hand colouring [n.d. c.1810] Image 245 x 354 mm, Sheet 279 x 375 mm ‘Js. Gillray del’ inscribed in bottom left corner. ‘No.XIX.XX’ inscribed in top right corner. One of a long succession of atrocity satires, originally featuring Napoleon. The Devil, seated with his back to a dinner-table made of a butcher's block, roasts a tricolour feathered chicken on a pitchfork in the flames of Hell; excrement falls into a dish below. Attendant demons act as cooks. The Devil is obese and hairy with barbed tail, webbed wings, and carbuncled nose emitting flames. He wears a bonnet rouge in the form of a fool's cap, with tricolour cockade and scarf. The back of his ornate chair is a guillotine; beneath it is a pile of skulls over which is a tricolour ribbon inscribed 'Robespiere Marat'. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

Reduced copy of BM Satires 10107, The Corsican-pest:-or-Belzebub going to supper. With the central figure of Napoleon replaced by a chicken. Condition: Good strong impression with nice hand colouring. Laid to album page, pressed vertical folds, small tears to edges of sheet. Light dirt build up to margins, not affecting image and tape adhesive residue to top margin. [35790] £180

after James Gillray A Little Music __ or the Delights of Harmony Etching with original hand colouring Published by J Sidebotham 24 L Sackville St [n.d. c.1810] Image 245 x 350 mm, Sheet 252 x 422 mm A pirated Irish copy of Gillray’s caricature. A young woman plays the piano with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit' sleeps in an arm-chair; his wig has fallen off and his legs rest on another chair. Behind him a very obese man and an ugly and over-dressed woman with a grotesquely thin neck sing from the same piece of music: 'On Rosy Bed'. He warms his back at a blazing fire; the feathers in her hair are alight in one of the candles on the chimney-piece. A small boy blows a toy trumpet, a dog howls and a cat miaows, standing on an open music-book.' Chinese figures on the chimney-piece and the lintel of the door represent comic musicians playing different instruments. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

J Sidebotham (fl. 1802 - 1820s) was a print publisher active simultaneously in London and Dublin. M.Dorothy George assumes that the pseudonym Yedis, seen on some of his prints, is of Sidebotham himself (being Side backwards). Most of his early plates are pirated from London satires, and sometimes they give a London address; he seems to have been able to get away with this by printing them in Ireland for export to England. Copy of BM Satires 11611 . Condition: Good strong impression with nice hand colouring. Tipped to album page. Trimmed to plate at top and bottom. [35792] £270

after James Gillray Meeting of the Monied Interest:__ Constitutional Opposition to ye 10 pr Cent_ie_ John Bull’s Friends Alarmed by the New Tax Etching and aquatint with original hand colour London Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. [n.d. c.1800] Image 193 x 272 mm, Plate 220 x 282 mm, Sheet 225 x 320 mm A satire on the introduction of new Income Tax at the end of the 18th Century. Fox stands, declaiming violently to his supporters, who surround him. He holds out a paper: 'Ruination - New Tax one Tenth of Income & Property, to Support the accursed War, of the Infamous Minister'. His clenched right fist is raised, and he says: ‘Gentlemen; - we are all ruin'd we sha'n't have Five Guineas left to make a Bett with! - one Tenth dead, without a single throw of the Dice! - why its worse than the French Game of Requisition; - for in that there would be some chance of coming in for Snacks!’ He is dishevelled and ragged, with a padlocked 'Begging Box' slung round his shoulder. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Copy of BM Satires 9282 [35197] £100

after James Gillray The Morning Ride Etching with original hand colouring [n.d. c.1810] Image 215 x 356 mm, Sheet 260 x 365 mm Inscription below image reads: ‘a. Yet aft a ragged Cowte's been known b. To mak a noble Aiver; So, Ye may doucely fill a Throne, c. For a' their clish-ma-claver; There, Him at Agincourt wha shone, Few better were or braver; An' yet, wi funny, queer Sir-John He was an unco shaver For monie a day. _- Burns - a. A Colt. - b. A Horse. - c. Talk, or, Bother ‘ ‘Js. Gillray del’ inscribed in bottom left corner. ‘No.VII’ inscribed in top right corner. A satire with discreet reference to the King's illness, when a Regency seemed probable. The Prince of Wales and McMahon ride side by side past Carlton House, followed by a groom. The Prince, stout and dignified, sits very upright on a high-stepping horse. McMahon s much smaller mount canters; he rides with leg thrust forward like Bunbury's examples of mounted vulgarians. Behind them runs a ragged little boy in top-hat and tattered tail-coat, apparently assuming the part of a running footman. A detailed representation of part of the screen and façade of Carlton House forms the background; half the gate appears on the extreme left.; beside it is a sentry-bos with a sentry at attention. (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

Copy of BM Satires 10230. Condition: Good strong impression with nice hand colouring. Laid to album page, pressed vertical folds, small tears to edges of sheet. Tape adhesive residue to top margin. [35791] £180

after James Gillray The National Assembly Revivified. Etching London Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. [n.d. c.1800] Image 153 x 203 mm, Plate 220 x 282 mm, Sheet 247 x 349 mm A copy of the bottom half of Gillray’s The National Assembly Petrified. The National Assembly Revivified. A group of ruffians listen with delight to a cook who says, taking a pinch of snuff, and capering, ‘Aha! be gar, de King is retaken! Aha! Monsr Lewis is retaken! Aha!’ In his cap is a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'; he wears over-sleeves, a spoon and fork are stuck through his apron-string, a string of frogs hangs from his belt. His most prominent listener is a shoe-black with a grotesquely wide grin, who stands, shoe in one hand, brush in the other. These much-caricatured ragamuffins are typical of the French republicans depicted by Gillray: at once ludicrous and horrible. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Copy of BM Satires 7883 (Lower half only) Condition: Light creases and dirt build up to margins and small tear to left margin, not affecting image. [35820] £85

after James Gillray Push-Pin. Etching with hand colouring [n.d. c. 1800] Image 163 x 205 mm, Plate 210 x 285 mm, Sheet 215 x 315 mm Three people sit at a round table playing push-pin. The Duke of Queensberry leans on the table, pushing the pin. In his right hand is a double lorgnette over which he leers at his vis-à-vis, a very corpulent woman in a flowered dress who stares through spectacles at the pins. A younger woman, spinsterish and demure, watches the game with down-dropped eyes. Both wear hats. The chairs are decorated with ormolu, and on the back of Queensberry's is his crest (without the coronet): a heart between wings. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A reduced copy of BM Satires 9082 [35196] £90

after James Gillray "Two Pair of Portraits;"- presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, by John Horne Tooke. Etching with original hand colour n.d. c. 1800 Image 185 x 262 mm, Plate 186 x 228 mm, Sheet 205 x 279 mm A reduced copy of James Gillrays print. This print is from The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor (1798 to 1821), a conservative British political periodical. Fox and Horne Tooke, equally the subjects of attack, had become reconciled, and the latter, a violent opponent of Pitt, is exhibited as a renegade by a literal illustration of his own pamphlet. (Comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Copy of BM Satires 9270 Condition: Trimmed close to the plate mark to the upper margin. Vertical folds as issued [35199] £120

after James Gillray Two-Penny Whist. Etching with original hand colouring [n.d. c.1802] Image 226 x 337 mm, Plate 240 x 340 mm, Sheet 260 x 375 mm A reverse copy of Gillray’s caricature. A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her right. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer, [Or, according to Wright and Evans, Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert) and Watson (presumably the print-seller), but in 'Scientific Researches' (23 May 1802) the former is identified by Wright as Tholdal, and in 'Connoisseurs . . .' (16 Nov. 1807) 'Watson' is identified by him as Mortimer.] a picture-dealer and restorer. This image, in it’s current reversed state, appears in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Reverse copy of BM Satires 8885. Condition: Good strong impression with nice hand colouring. Tipped to album page. Light dirt build up to bottom margin. [35812] £300

after James Gillray The Union Club Etching with original hand colouring [n.d. c.1810] Image 224 x 317 mm, Plate 258 x 330 mm, Sheet 266 x 342 mm Inscription either side of title reads: ‘We’ll join hand in hand all Party shall cease,And Glass after Glass, shall our Union increse, In the cause of Old England we’ll drink down the Sun, Then Toast Little Ireland,. & drink down the Moon.’ ‘Js. Gillray del’ inscribed in bottom left corner. ‘No. I’ inscribed in top right corner. A drunken debauch in the new Union Club. The Opposition, whose chief members are depicted, had strongly opposed the Union, though Fox's opposition had been in the Whig Club and in Private, not in Parliament . Stanhope had published a pamphlet 'On the Subject of the Union', 1799, reprinted by the anti-Union party in Dublin. The drunken torpor or conviviality of the foreground figures is contrasted with the frenzied fighting of those in the background. The anomalies of the Union are perhaps symbolized in the clock. The loyal occasion (the Queen's birthday) is indicated by the musicians. (Comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

Reduced copy of BM Satires 9699 Condition: Good strong impression with nice hand colouring. Laid to album page, pressed vertical folds, small repaired tear to top margin. Light dirt build up to margins, not affecting image. [35789] £180

William Brooks after James Gillray Playing in Parts Etching with original hand colouring Published by J Sidebotham 24 Lower Sackville St [n.d. c.1802] Image 248 x 375 mm, Sheet 261 x 436 mm A pirated Irish copy of Gillray’s caricature. Amateur musicians, the design based on 'Ars-Musica', (BM Satires 9586) altered, and much elaborated. Four ugly and elderly men grouped round a young woman who sits, full face, at a square piano lit by a guttering candle. She lifts her hands to thump, with grim determination. A cellist is on her right, a vast gouty leg thrust forward, a violinist on her left. Behind her are two flautists. Behind, a young officer and a girl flirt, hand in hand. In the background are visitors: two military officers shake hands, one bowing so that his sword lifts up the petticoats of a fat lady walking off to the right. A dog howls with one paw on a music-book. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

J Sidebotham (fl. 1802 - 1820s) was a print publisher active simultaneously in London and Dublin. M.Dorothy George assumes that the pseudonym Yedis, seen on some of his prints, is of Sidebotham himself (being Side backwards). Most of his early plates are pirated from London satires, and sometimes they give a London address; he seems to have been able to get away with this by printing them in Ireland for export to England. Copy of BM Satires 9766 . Condition: Good strong impression with nice hand colouring. Tipped to album page. Trimmed to plate at top and bottom. Crease to centre of image. [35793] £270

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Charles Williams Patent puppets alias the Hertford Fantoccini. Etching with original hand colouring Pubd April 6th, 1812 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly Image 245 x 366 mm, Sheet 272 x 385 mm A satire on the secret influence of Lady Hertford. Lady Hertford and John Bull face each other in front of a puppet theatre, whose small scale is shown by its relation to these two large three-quarter length figures. Lady Hertford's raised right arm is behind the curtain from which her hand emerges, holding the four strings attached to the wrists and toes of Perceval, the only puppet on the stage, whose background is a realistic view of the screen of Carlton House. He wears his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, and bows deprecatingly, as if making a speech. A paper, 'Delicate Investigation', projects from his pocket. In her left arm are four puppets; Wellesley?, Buckingham?, Temple?, Sidmouth. Behind her head two discarded puppets hang perpendicularly, back to back: Grenville and Grey. On the proscenium: 'Regency Theatre', in large letters with a scroll: 'Nunc aut Nunquam'. John Bull, a yokel in a smock, holding his hat and cudgel, scratches his head, exclaiming: ‘Laud! Laud! be they all your own meaking what a clever Leady thee must be. whoy there beant such another in all Hertford.’ She answers: ‘Yes Jonny they are all manufactured by me & my Son. I can make them do any thing, the[y] work so easy, only Perceive all the gestures of this Lawyer like Gentleman with the delicate investigation in his pocket, he is my principal actor & always ready to take any part—those Grey & Green-vile looking figures behind me are so stiff & stubborn that I cannot do any thing with them, & am obliged to put them aside, Why I have had the Honor of performing before the Prince Regent, & he has given me permission to write up, Performer to his Royal Highness.’ (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)

Not in BM Satires Condition: Time toned, light creases to image, tears to edges of sheet and title space. [35963] £170

Charles Williams Political Quadrille __ the Game Up. Etching with original hand colouring Pubd, August 1808 by Walker No7 Corhill Image 292 x 366 mm, Plate 325 x 386 mm A forecast of consequences of the Spanish resistance to Napoleon, in which only the attitude of George III and the downfall of the Pope have any relation to the circumstances of 1808, when the 'congress' of Erfurt was pending. A sequel to BM Satires 10602, ‘Political Quadrille’, featuring Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, King George III, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, Pope Pius VII, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I, Emperor of Austria and Napoléon I, Emperor of the French around two card-tables, but Napoleon's table is being overturned by a Spaniard who leans across the table to take him by the throat; in the turmoil the Pope's chair has been overturned, and the Pope sprawls on the ground. At George III's table, the chair on his left., that of the King of Spain, is empty. The King, who wears military uniform, has risen from his chair, and looks through his glass at the fracas; in his right hand is a cudgel inscribed 'Heart of Oak'. He says: ‘What! What, a dust eh? so much the better - Boney got the worst of the game, I must lend a hand.’ Speech bubbles rise above the other characters commenting the situation. (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) BM Satires 11015 Condition: Colour slightly faded and oxidised, light creases and small tear to margins not affecting image. [35895] £400

Charles Williams Reposing on a Bed of Roses Etching with early hand colouring Pubd April 1806 by Walker 7 Cornhill Image 236 x 340 mm Ministers recline on a large low platform, representing a magnificent state bed, which is completely covered with roses. It recedes in perspective from left to right. On the left. is Fox, looking sourly over his left shoulder at his neighbour, Sheridan, to say: ‘This is the most uncomfortable bed I was ever on in my Life and not the least like a bed of Roses - Zound!! what a thorn is running into me - Oh that Bramble - Sherry my Dear how do you find it – ‘. Sheridan answers: ‘My dear Charley, I have not had a wink since I have been on it, - curse that Castle man what did he mean by his bed of roses - I am as sore from the tip of my Nose, to the tip of my Toe - as if I had been roling on a quick set-hedge - or stung to death by a swarm of bees at a Hampshire Farmers [an allusion to Cobbett's pen]’. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

BM Satires 10559 Condition: Excellent clean impression, framed in period birds-eye maple frame. [35917] £400

Charles Williams after George Moutard Woodward [Pigmy Revels] Etching with original hand colouring [Pubd Jany 19th by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. n.d. c.1801] Image 90 x 464 mm, Plate 105 x 470 mm, Sheet 130 x 495 mm The middle section of Plate 7 of Pigmy Revels, satirising a shopkeeper, doctor, parson, as well as sheer grotesque. Two fashionable men rally a bloated parson: 'Why Parson you touch' d us up to day about wenching and drinking.... Poh! Poh! Gentlemen you know it was only meant for those who can't afford it.’ The attribution to Charles Williams was made on stylistic grounds by Andrew Norton (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

BM Satires 9641 (Part) Condition: Colour slightly faded, dirt build up to margins. [35967] £100

George Cruikshank Passing Events_ or The Tail of the Comet of 1853... Etching Published by D. Bogue 86 Fleet Street. 1854 Image 175 x 385 mm, Sheet 220 x 426 mm An fantastic detailed satire on the events of 1853, drawn by George Cruikshank for the first issue of Cruikshank’s Magazine. An anthropomorphic comet, with a grinning head at the forefront and the tail of the comet filled with representations of key and comic events of the day including the Crimean War; emigration to Australia; The World Temperance Convention in New York; Albert Smith lecturing on his ascent of Mont Blanc; Captain McClure's discovery of the Northwest Passage and the arrival of the first Great Anteater at London Zoo. Cohn 185, Reid 256 Condition: Vertical folds as issued. Light staining to folds. [35952] £200

James Sayers A Transfer of East India Stock Etching Published 25th Novr 1783 by Thomas Cornell Bruton Street Image 300 x 224 mm, Plate 302 x 226 mm, Sheet 325 x 248 mm Inscribed ‘JS f.’ in bottom left corner. On 18 Nov. Fox moved for leave to bring in two East India Bills, one for vesting the affairs of the Company in seven Commissioners, brought in 20 Nov., the other for the better government of the territorial possessions of the Company, brought in on 26 Nov. This satire, though less effective than the more famous "Carlo Khan", is a brilliant summary of the attacks on the Bill (of 20 Nov.) Fox carries on his shoulders the East India House and runs with it towards an arched gateway on the right surmounted by a crown, and resembling the gateway to St. James's Palace. He looks round to the left with a complacent smile; from his coat-pocket protrudes a paper, ‘New Arrange[ment] Seven Emperors Eight Governors 8000 Deputy G[overnors] 10000 Collec[tors] of the Revenue’. Under his left foot is a ‘List of Directors’, under the right a paper inscribed ‘Resolved That the Influence of the Crown has increased is incre[asing] ough[t to be] dim[inished]’. Papers flutter from the India House to the ground inscribed ‘[Ea]st India Stock 115, India Bonds 54 to 55.’ (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

BM Satires 6271 [35817] £170

Political Sculpters. Etching Publish'd by E. Hedges N° 92 Cornhill Feby 3 1784 Image 195 x 284 mm, Plate 224 x 300 mm, Sheet 245 x 320 mm A satire on the relations of Charles James Fox, Frederick North and the Prince of Wales. Fox chisels a bust of the Prince of Wales, while North turns aside to sharpen a chisel on a stone. The bust, in profile to the left, stands on a rectangular pedestal inscribed 'Extremly docile, easy moddel'd into Vice and exceeding soft about the head'. The intention of the portrait is realistic, but the likeness is poor. Fox kneels in profile to the right, his chisel resting on the bust is inscribed 'Vice', in his right hand he raises a mallet inscribed 'Distraction'; he has a complacent expression. North kneels on the right side of the bust directed to the right, frowning with an expression of angry distress. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

BM Satires 6401 [35816] £175

Piercy Roberts Playing at Bubbles Etching with early hand colouring Pubd by Roberts middle row. [n.d. c.1803] Image 315 x 250 mm One of a number of caricatures satirising King George III musing over Napoleon Bonaparte. Etched by an unknown engraver, J.Smith. George III sits in profile to the right beside a tub of soap-suds, blowing soap-bubbles. The centre and largest bubble contains a tiny Napoleon, with drawn sabre. Three others contain the words 'Flat Bottom Boats', 'Invasion', and 'Little; the two smallest are blank. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

BM Satires 10022 Condition: Three scuffs to print surface in upper half of image, framed in period birds-eye maple frame. [35940] £400

after Joseph Lislie The Man of Taste. Aquatint with hand colouring London, Published c. 1830 Image 236 x 202 mm, Sheet 303 x 243 mm A caricature of a butcher. Inscription reads: ‘Let me have two ounces of Boiled Beef, Cut with a Hamy Knife to give it a Relish’. BM Satires undescribed Condition: slightly faded [35136] £140

Thomas Rowlandson Secret Influence Directing the New P ___ L _____T. Etching with hand colouring Pubd. by Wm. Humphrey No 227 Strand London. [n.d.1784, but later impression] Image 225 x 334 mm, Plate 247 x 355 mm, Sheet 282 x 390 mm A satire indicating the persistence of the legend of the Earl of Bute's secret influence. The king, seated on a throne on a dais of two steps, says, ‘I trust we have got such a House of Commons as we Wanted’. On his right is Thurlow with the body of a bird of prey; he is saying ‘Damn the Commons, the Lords shall Rule’. Behind the throne crouches Bute in Highland dress, saying to Thurlow, ‘Very Gude, Very Gude Damn the Commons’. On the king's left is a head in profile to the left supported on an erect serpent's body; probably intended for Pitt. In the foreground sits Britannia asleep, resting her elbow on her shield. A man wearing a ribbon, perhaps the Prince of Wales, rushes up from the right with outstretched arms, saying, ‘Thieves! Thieves! Zounds awake Madam or you'll have your Throat Cut.’ (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

BM Satires 6587, Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 140. Condition: Printed on a thick paper, light dirt build up to margins. [35914] £220

William Heath Rural Enjoyment. No_1. Etching with hand colouring Pubd, 1829 by S,Gans, 15 Southampton St, Strand. Image 337 x 237 mm, Sheet 352 x 248 mm Inscription below image reads: ‘I say Bob how your mother would enjoy this! _ I believe ye’r! Crikey father there’s a jolly great whats ‘o’name!!’ A satire on the town dwellers experience of the English countryside. A father and son sit eating a picnic in the countryside with a makeshift umbrella parasol surrounded by flies, and a frog entering the scene from the left. BM Satires: undescribed. Condition: Trimmed within the plate, small tears to margins, not affecting image. [35815] £150

attributed to Rev James Douglas The Luminous Historian. Etching with hand colouring London; Published by W.Holland Printseller N.50, Oxford Street, August the 12th. 1788, Image 115 x 106 mm, Plate 180 x 123 mm, Sheet 245 x 188 mm A caricature portrait of the academic, historian and MP Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794) Rev James Douglas (1753 - 1819) was an amateur etcher, Antiquary and geologist. He was ordained in 1783. BM Satires 7418 Condition: Pressed horizontal and vertical folds. Stains to bottom margin, not affecting plate or image. [35819] £100

Robert Dighton Members of the Whig Club. Etching with hand colouring Pubd May 25th. 1798. by Dighton. Charg Cross Image 190 x 144 mm, Plate 202 x 152 mm, Sheet 372 x 263 mm Inscription below title reads: 'Charley, keep a civil \ Tongue in your Head'. 'Jocky of Norfolk \ be not so bold' A satire on the toasts and speeches at the Whig Club by Norfolk and Fox and their results, with an allusion to Fox's secession from Parliament. Norfolk and Fox sit close together, hands on knees, the left knee of Norfolk and the right knee of Fox touching; their heads are turned in profile, each gazing fixedly at the other with a melancholy expression. On the back of Norfolk's chair is a ducal coronet; Fox sits on a stool. At their feet is an open book: 'List of his Maje[stys] \ Privy Council \ Earl of.. Lord.. \ Duke of D...\ Earl of... \ Rt Hon. C. J. Fox [scored through] Duke of Leed[s]'. By Norfolk is a torn paper: 'Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding York . .' Under Fox's feet: 'A Seat in Parliament to be disposed off enquire at next General Election'. Under this is another paper: 'Speech Whig Club'. (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

BM Satires 9216 [35814] £80

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