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Lot 497
A BOX AND LOOSE SUNDRY ITEMS ETC, to include an Aristos of London bowler hat in good condition approximate size 55cm, plated wares, brass ornaments, brass Welsh Guards ashtrays, Kundo quartz chiming mantle clock with plaque named to Captain Elcock Welsh Guards, red hackle, small quantity of postcards including seven B&W depicting Treptower Park in Berlin, assorted prints etc including an artist proof etching depicting a rocky outcrop (1 box + loose)
Lot 589
STANLEY JOYCE (BRITISH 20TH CENTURY) A LARGE QUANTITY OF DRYPOINT ETCHINGS ETC, to include nude figure studies and landscapes, comprising loose sheets and framed prints, largest size approximately 50cm x 34cm including margins, there are a number of duplicates, together with a bag containing aluminium and perspex etching plates, Condition Report: loose sheets have edge bumps, creases in places and tears to some (artist resale rights apply) (3 boxes, a bag and loose)
Lot 2131
H. C. Fox Watercolour drawing 'At Burpham Sussex ' water boatman taking a load of hay on a river, with another farm labourer on a ladder up a haystack, signed and dated lower right 1912, 53 x 17cm, famed and glazed Paul Stafford Watercolour drawing Bridge over river with a castle in background, signed lower right, 24cm x 34cm approx. Etching Venice Photographic portrait Woman with headscarf and pearls, framed and glazed Three framed photographs Small child, circa 1940's (
Lot 2187
ROBERT BUCHAN NISBET (BRITISH, 1857-1942) (3)Autumnal landscape, signed and dated 'R B Nisbet 1885' (lower right), watercolour heightened with white, 12.5 x 22cm, together with an etching in colours of a landscape, indistinctly signed, 15.5 x 21.5cm; and a watercolour of still life of vases and a bowl by Janet Skea, signed, 23 x 31cm, (3)
Lot 5
Mozley (John, printer) The School of Wisdom; or Repository of the most Valuable Curiosities of Art & Nature..., first edition, light marginal staining ro a few leaves, wormhole, contemporary sheep, rubbed, lower cover worn, Gainsborough, John Mozley, 1776 § Mackenzie (Colin) Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts, fourth edition, wood-engraved illustrations on the art of carving meat, foxing, worming at end, contemporary sheep, worn patch to upper cover, rebacked, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh, 1831: and another on trades, 8vo (3)⁂ The first is a curious work covering a wide range of subjects including the human body, astronomy, natural history, meteorology, artistic crafts of painting,drawing, etching etc., dyeing, fire-works, and porcelain-manufacture.
Lot 244
Gillray (James) Diana return'd from the Chace, satire on the Countess of Salisbury, etching with vibrant original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, platemark 358 x 255 mm (14 1/8 x 10 in), sheet 370 x 263 mm (14 1/2 x 10 3/8 in), minor surface scuffs and light toning, unframed, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1802Literature: BM Satire 9908
Lot 245
Gillray (James) The Lover's Dream, etching and aquatint, a good but uncoloured impression on wove paper without watermark, marginal ink and pencil inscriptions identifying persons depicted, platemark 325 x 425 mm (12 3/4 x 16 3/4 in), sheet 360 x 435 mm (14 1/8 x 17 in), scattered spotting, unframed, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1795; together with two further uncoloured Gillray caricatures, including Blood on Thunder fording the Red Sea, [BM Satires 7278], and a later edition of The kettle hooting the porridge-pot, [BM 6013], etchings, on wove papers, 240 x 345 mm (9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in) and 300 x 395 mm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in), all unframed, circa 1782-1788 (3)
Lot 246
Gillray (James) Integrity retiring from Office!, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 126 x 353 mm (5 x 13 7/8 in), trimmed within the borderlines, some cockling to sheet, minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 9710], published by Hannah Humphrey, 1801; together with 3 sheets with 6 later impression uncoloured Gillray caricatures, two anonymous 19th century political cartoons, and a hand-coloured impression of Charles Williams' 'The Westminster ceceder [sic] on fresh duty', published by by S.W. Fores, 1801, all unframed, 19th century (7)
Lot 247
Gillray (James) La Derniere Ressource, or Van Buchells Garters, etching with original hand-colouring, on cream laid paper with watermark of Strasbourg Lily, platemark 273 x 175 mm (10 3/4 x 6 7/8 in), sheet 315 x 210 mm (12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in), very faint toning to margins, unframed, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1791; together with ; together with Charming well again, [BM 10307], etching with original hand-colouring, 270 x 210 mm (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in), unframed, 1791-1804 (2)
Lot 248
Gillray (James) Farmer Giles & his Wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their Neighbours on her return from School, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 310 x 465 mm (12 1/4 x 18 1/4 in), trimmed within the platemark, small loss to lower right corner, surface dirt and browning, unframed, [BM Satires 11444], published by Hannah Humphrey, 1802; together with Push Pin, [BM 9082], and a pair of reduced copies after Gillray Matrimonial Harmonics and Harmony before Matrimony, etchings, all with original hand-colouring, various sizes, all but the last 2 mentioned published by Hannah Humphrey, circa 1797-1809 (4)
Lot 249
Gillray (James) The first kiss this ten years! - or - the meeting of Britannia & Citizen François, etching and aquatint with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 357 x 260 mm (14 x 10 1/4 in), thread margins, minor even toning but mainly to extremities, some residual album leaves in corners verso, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1803Literature:BM Satires 9960 ⁂ Satire on Anglo-French relations with a fat good-natured Britannia receiving a big kiss from a lean French military officer, with oval bust portraits of Napoleon and George III above.
Lot 252
Heath (William) A la mode - 1828, etching with full hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 270 x 380 mm (10 5/8 x 14 7/8 in), small margins, some spotting and surface dirt, unframed, Thomas McLean, [1829]; together with a good group of 21 19th century caricature prints and drawings, including Robert Dighton's The Specious Orator [James Christie] ..., and 5 others of various men by the Dighton family, William Hogarth's Scholars at a lecture, [Paulson's second state] on laid paper without watermark, and Hogarth's Characters and Caricaturas, Ghezzi's etching of Dr Tom Bentley, a portrait of James Gillray by Charles Turner, and others by various artists including Bunbury, engravings, etchings, some with hand-colouring, a few pen and ink, various sizes, all unframed, 18th and 19th century (22)
Lot 253
Cruikshank (Isaac) Divertions of Purley. Or opposition attending their private affairs, Fox sits full-face, dandling on each knee a demoniac creature, smiling down fondly at the one on his left knee, etching with full original hand-colouring, on laid paper fleur-de-lis watermark, sheet 300 x 430 mm (11 3/4 x 16 7/8 in), good margins, some repaired tears, with nicks and marginal loss, surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 9020], published by S.W. Fores, 1797; together with four further hand-coloured caricatures by the same hand, including Design for a scene in the intended new melo drama intitled the Forty Thieves, [BM 10546], A disunion or the family compact disturbed, [BM 7828], The faith of treaties exemplified or John Bull's last effort to oblige his false friends, [BM 8477], and The city sheep shearing, [BM 11309], etchings with hand-colouring, on various papers, various sizes, all unframed, circa 1791-1806 (5)
Lot 255
Cruikshank (George) Peace & Plenty or good news for John Bull!!!, Louis XVIII and John Bull enjoy a feast of plenty served by the Prince Regent, etching with original hand-colouring, platemark 270 x 372 mm (10 5/8 x 14 3/4 in), sheet 280 x 380 mm (11 x 15 in), small margins, unframed, [BM Satires 12265], published by Hannah Humphreys, 1814; together with a hand-coloured impression of Pull Devil, Pull Baker! or, pastors, versus flocks; in the matter of loaves and fishes!!, [BM 13224], and an uncoloured impression of Monstrosities of 1822, [BM 14438], and Gambols on the River Thames. Feby 1814, [BM 12341], and five others including At Home in the Nursery, Tom & Jerry, Sporting their "bits of blood"..., Portraits of Napoleon's Marshals and Generals, Home from School..., and Mr John Bull in a Quandry..., etchings, some hand-colouring, most of the last mentioned uncoloured, various sizes, all unframed, early 19th century (9)
Lot 256
Cruikshank (George) A pretty pair of Pups, three-quarter length studies of two dandies, grinning into each other's faces, etching with original bright hand-colouring, on cream wove paper without watermark, sheet 347 x 245 mm (13 5/8 x 9 3/4 in), handling creases, minor surface dirt, unframed, [1818]Literature:BM Satires 13092
Lot 257
NO RESERVE Fores (Samuel William, publisher) Talk of an ostrich! An ostrich is nothing to him; Johnny Bull will swallow any thing!!, etching, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 390 x 300 mm (15 1/4 x 11 3/4 in), minor surface dirt, small nicks to extremities and corners, unframed, [BM Satires 8703], 1795; together with 10 further caricatures and prints by various hands, including George Woodward's A Cure for a Smoky Chimney!!, Henry Bunbury's The Propagation of a Lie, plate 4 only, and 4 sheets of 'How to... [with horses etc.], 4 illustrations to each sheet, Tucker's A Propehcy. The Coach Overturn'd: or the fall of Mortimer, John Smith's The Rejoicing Night, an anonymous The Bargain- A Specimen of Smithfield Eloquence, and a rare engraving Jonathan Wild going to the Place of Execution, etchings and engravings, various sizes, late 18th and early 19th century (11)
Lot 258
Paine, Thomas.- Cruikshank (Isaac) Wha Wants Me, caricature portrait of Thomas Paine, full-length, standing, facing left, holding scroll "rights of man", surrounded by injustices and standing on labels, representing morals and justices, defending measures taken in revolutionary France and appealing to the English to overthrow their monarchy and organize a republic, etching, an excellent richly inked impression on laid paper without watermark, sheet 365 x 300 mm (14 1/4 x 11 3/4 in), minor repairs to small nicks and tears, some light toning and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 8146], published by S.W. Fores, 1792; together with Mad Tom's First Political Essay on the Rights of Man, showing Tom Paine, Sheridan, and Whitbread as conspirators and incendiaries wear hooded cloaks and slouch hats, etching, on laid paper with text-based watermark, sheet 240 x 380 mm (9 1/2 x 15 in), some browning and surface dirt, unframed, [BM 8087], published by S.W. Fores, 1792 (2)
Lot 260
Rowlandson (Thomas) Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper, 345 x 230 mm (13 1/2 x 9 in), affixed into mount with margins and edge of sheet obscured, surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 11721], published by Thomas Tegg, 1811; together with 6 further works by or after Rowlandson, including Uncle George and Black Dick at their new Game of Naval Shuttlecock, 1787, [BM 7126], a toned and laid down impression of Money Lenders, [BM 6717], an uncoloured impression of An Ordinance Dream or Planning of Fortifications, [BM 6920], an uncoloured impression of Comfort in the Gout, [BM 6866], three hand-coloured plates from 'Hungarian & Highland Broad Sword', published by H. Angelo, and 2 facsimile prints after Rowlandson, etchings, various sizes, all unframed, 1785 to 1799 (7)
Lot 262
Sayers (James) The Brewer and the Thistle, satire on the British politician Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815), who is shown covered by tubs of varying shapes and sizes, and attacking the drooping head of a thistle with the features of Melville, etching and engraving, a good impression with hand-colouring on wove paper without watermark, platemark 350 x 245 mm (13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in), handling creases and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 10416], published by Hannah Humphreys, 1805; together with 6 further uncoloured caricatures by the same hand, including The master of the inn confers the order of knighthood on Don Quixotte, [BM 10082], Carlo Khan's triumphal entry into Leadenhall Street, [BM 6276], A transfer of East India stock, [BM 6271], The Princess's Bow alias the Bow Begum, [BM 7309], Vox Populi, [BM 6054], and A coalition medal struck in brass, [BM 6183], etchings, various sizes, all unframed, mainly late 18th century (7)
Lot 263
NO RESERVE Taplain (T., publisher) The tables turned, or the lie circumstantial, etching with full hand-colouring, on wove paper, 248 x 345 mm (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in), affixed into mount, minor handling creases, unframed, [BM Satires 14664], 1824; together with a good group of 6 caricatures by William and Henry Heath, including Can't you be quiet?, [Not in BM], Where the carcase is, there will the eagles [altered to] birds of prey be gatherd together. Or symptons [sic] of term time, [BM 15432], A Hasty Stride, from Broom Hall- to West[minster] Hall, [BM 16349], Slane - when thieves fall out amongst themselves, [BM 16285], A Moving Scene on the Road to Slane, [BM 16140], and The r----l lover, or, the admiral on a lee shore, [BM 11844], etching, the first and last mentioned with hand-colouring, various sizes, all unframed, mainly early 19th century (7)
Lot 264
Williams (Charles) That! For all the talents, etching with original hand-colouring, on laid paper, 260 x 340 mm (10 1/4 x 13 1/4 in), fixed into mount, some minor toning, handling creases and surface dirt, unframed, published by Thomas Tegg, 1807; together with six other caricatures by Williams, including An Appeal to Britons, [Not in BM Satires], The Pride of Britain, [BM 11562], To Commemorate the Restoration of Sir Francis Burdett to Liberty, [Not in BM Satires], Royal- Munificence. hem!!, [BM 12272], The finishing kick- out- of the Privy- Council, [BM 10409], The city combat, or the desperate attack at the English Baron, [BM 9862], and The Governor Resigning- or Lockit's Advice, [Not in BM], etchings with original hand-colouring, various sizes, scattered nicks, folds, and handling creases, all unframed, early 19th century (7)
Lot 265
Williams (Charles) A neck of lamb- a round of beef- and a scrag of mutton, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper with watermark date '1818', sheet 365 x 258 mm (14 1/4 x 10 1/8 in), unframed, [BM Satires 12844], published by Thomas Tegg, 1816; together with six other caricatures by Williams, including Leap Year, or John Bulls Peace Establishment, [BM 12754], The Generous Master or African Sincerity, [BM 13193], The Father of a Large Family, Taking his Eldest Boy from School, [BM 10533], A friendly visit to the dramatic manufactory or preparations for next season, [BM 10226], The Dutch Toy, [BM 12273], and A meeting of monopolizers, or the good effect of peace, [BM 9734], etchings, all but the last mentioned with full original hand-colouring, various sizes, all unframed, early 19th century (7)
Lot 290
NO RESERVE Italy.- Sandby (Paul) The Sepulchre of King Theodorick near Ravenna, after Charles Louis Clérisseau, etching and aquatint printed in brown ink, on laid paper without watermark, platemark 340 x 490 mm (13 1/2 x 19 1/4 in), sheet 460 x 610 mm (18 1/8 x 24 in), toning to margins, exposure lines visible but outside platemark, otherwise minor spotting and browning, unframed, published by Sandby, 1778Literature:Gunn 259⁂ Scarce at auction.
Lot 285
Jenny Sanders (20th/21st century) - "The blue boat, Venice", signed artist proof, limited edition print 43/50, also inscribed with the title, coloured etching, 11.75" x 16.75", together with eight further pictures including a small etching by Frank Paton (19th/20th century) "Notice to quit" three terriers beside a rabbit hole, a ferret nearby, a watercolour, village scene signed A Langford. a farmer with shire horses, a girl on a pavement nearby and chickens in the foreground, continental oil painting signed Corder Portrait by Frank Mills, Katherine, black and white silhouette depicting a number of various Dickensian figures on one sheet, and three Persian or Indian gouaches of figurative subjects, including one male figure seated upon a camel another girl feeding two peacocks and a further girl standing beside trees also feeding a single peacock, various sizes (9)
Lot 289
Varer Ferenczy - Portrait of a girl three-quarter length wearing a pink shawl and white scarf, signed artist's proof, coloured etching, 5.75" x 4"; together with a further etching by the same artist entitled 'Jugs', still life of decorative jugs upon a table cloth; also various other pictures including black and white print after a pencil drawing depicting hunting caricatures, further coloured etching after G.D. Armour hunting caricature taken from a newspaper, coloured print, an old print depicting various breeds of deer, a painted-over photograph of a bearded gentleman, oval, contained within a late Victorian or Edwardian gilt plaster and wooden frame and two later coloured reproductions, watercolours by William Alfred Nicholls, various sizes (a collection)
Lot 1137
Bindings. A mid-19th century lady's drawing-room album, partially-inscribed in ink manuscript with verse and sentiment, and partially-illustrated with well-executed pencil &/or pen-and-ink drawings, loosely-inserted etching and a botanical watercolour, etc., contemporary green roan (lower-cover beginning to give at joints, some rubbing), ornately block-tooled in gilt extra, all-edges gilt, small 8vo, A Record of The Presentation of a Gold Watch and Chain to John Richard Stephen Arkwright Esq., on his his Twenty First Birthday, January 13th 1928, by The Tenants and Employees of The Kinsham Court Estate as signed within, three-quarters of the contents inscribed, contemporary blue morocco, gilt-ruled single-fillet enclosing the recipient's monogram, rounded flat spine, all edges gilt, gilt foliate dentelles, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (2). Provenance: the Arkwright family of Hampton Court Castle, and later Kinsham Court, Herefordshire.
Lot 1160
Postal History. The working archive scrapbook of Herbert Joyce, author of 'The History of the Post Office', London, 1893, compiled c. 1890 and including early 18th-late 19th century ephemera and manuscripts, including [1683] Charles II double-sided 'broadside' "An Answer to a Case, Lately printed and delivered to several Members of this Honourable House, by Mr. William Dockwra Merchant, Concerning the Penny-Post [...]", slight and stable centre tear, enclosed within a 19th century foolscap manuscript transcript of the case, three copies of the London Gazette, nos. 1835, June 1683, 1916, March 1684, & 3247, December 1696, a 1796 copy of The London Chronicle, four MS ALS addressed to Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham (1748-1818) as Joint Postmaster General (1787-94), two from John Palmer (1742-1818), the others addressed from Daniel "Honest" Braithwaite and another official at the General Post Office, ALS correspondence to and from George Shaw Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley (1831-1928) as Postmaster General (1884-85), further letters, early 19th century etching of the Royal Exeter Mail, tipped-in clippings from 18th and 19th century periodicals viz. post and mail coaches, etc., disbound folio, loose in places.
Lot 1179
Trade Ticket/Card. Robert Harley Cromek (1770-1812) and Francesco Bartolozzi RA (1727-1815), The Royal Cumberland Tea Garden's (sic) and Tavern, Vauxhall/Engraved by R.H. Cromek Pupil of Fran. Bartolozzi RA, [London, 1796], etching and stipple engraving, with margins, 14.3 x 10.6cm For another example of this rare advertising ticket see the collection of the British Museum, formerly belonging to Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, 1978,U. 1820. Soiled and slightly toned, creases results of former 19th century mounting by a collector.
Lot 1215
Edward Topham (1751-1820) - Jedidiah Buxton, full-length profile portrait, aged 63, signed and dated 1770 within the plate, ancient Greek epitaph from John Tzetzes' Chiliad I: 275, etching, trimmed, 25 x 16.5cm Jedidiah Buxton (1707-1772), though born unlettered in Elmton, Derbyshire, developed and found fame as a mental calculator and savant. In 1754 his mental acuity was put to the test by the Royal Society, - who subsequently presented him with a handsome gratuity - and while in London, which he had walked to, he was taken to Drury Lane to see Shakespeare's Richard III; where his whole mind was given to the counting of words uttered by David Garrick. Trimmed but with no loss, as catalogued. Upper-left margin repaired, probably from being formerly affixed, and with associated creases. Upper-right with small repaired tear. The sheet with slight surface dirt. Hole to left margin.
Lot 1216
A collection of Old Master and later prints, 17th-20th century, comprising Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680), landscape with two men seated on a hill being addressed by another, with a lake and castle behind, signed within the plate Gio. Fran.co Grimaldi bolognese fecit., n.d. [1630-1680], etching, 14.4 x 22cm, 19th century manuscript collector's note to verso, [Bartsch XIX.97.23; Bellini 23], further Baroque etchings and engravings, including Nicolaes Visscher II after Gérard de Lairesse, José de Ledesma, 18th century English mezzotints, including a hand-coloured example of Admiral the Lord Anson, 18th century Austrian engravings of Marie Theresa and other Hapsburgs, 18th century French portrait engravings, 18th century English named-view topographical and antiquarian, including Southwell Minster, Welbeck Abbey and Bucks' view of Nottingham, some Chinoiserie and Orientalist scenes, satire, antiquities and art, etc., various sizes, (approx. 60 sheets).
Lot 780
Four Waterford Lead Crystal Clear Glass Figures comprising of a Christmas Tree 18 cms in height, a figure of an angel measuring 17 cms in height and two Christmas Decorative Bowls with an etching of Father Christmas and Reindeers to side edge, with scalloped edge and measuring 10 cm in diamter.
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