* Gillray (James). L'Enfant Trouvé a sample of Roman Charity! - or - the misfortune of not being born with Marks of "the Talents"! "What! a Relation to the Broad-Bottom's? - O Sainte Marie! why there's not the least Appearance of it! - therefore, take it away to the Workhouse, directly! H. Humphrey, May 18th 1808, etching with aquatint and bright contemporary hand-colouring, large margins, some marginal staining caused by old adhesion scaring on the verso, one short marginal prepared closed tear, but not affecting the printed image, 255 x 355 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:BM Satires 10986. Members of the Grenville family surround a table on which a black footman has placed a basket containing a baby. A satire on the support given by the Grenvilles and the 'Broad-Bottomed' administration towards Catholic emancipation. They were also lampooned for being sympathetic to Napolean and their legendary parsimony - despite considerable wealth - which is illustrated by guttering votive candles and the decision to send the child to the workhouse.
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James Gillray, British 1756-1815- Germans Eating Sour-Kraut; hand-coloured etching, signed 'Js Gillray inv & fect' (within the plate), published 7 May 1803 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, 26.8 x 37.4 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: See British Museum no.1868,0808.7114. Five Germans seated at a round table, eating cabbage and sausages. One of these has tucked the table-cloth round his neck. A lean military officer sits in back view plying spoon and fork with elbows raised; a lean dog laps from his plate, one paw on his knee the other on the table. Cocked hat and sword are on the ground beside him. A thin and elderly man of more polished appearance puts down his head to the mound of greenery on his plate, which he shovels up with spoon and fork; his knife lies on the table-cloth. His hat and gold-headed cane are under his stool. A fat cook enters carrying a large steaming dish piled high with sauerkraut and sausages. On the table are a 'Vinegar' bottle and fragments from over-full plates. On the wall are a map of 'The Mouths of the Rhine', showing the 'German Ocean'; an oval bust portrait of 'Arch-Duke Charles' with a gross profile resembling that given by Gillray to the Duke of Clarence; and a picture of a row of pigs whose heads emerge from sties to feed in a trough. On the floor are large tankards, a broken pipe, a pile of used plates which a cat is licking, and a 'Bill of Fare - 1st Course Sour Krout - 2d Course Sour Krout - 3d Course Sour Krout - Desert Sour Krout.' Tankards and plates are inscribed 'Weyler Castle Street'.
Manner of Petrus Christus, 18th century and later- Portrait of a man, possibly an alchemist, bust-length, wearing a sugarloaf hat and holding a test tube at a table; oil on panel, cradled, 54.8 x 39.4 cm., (unframed). Provenance: Private Collection, France. Note: This enigmatic portrait remains somewhat of a mystery, though recalls very much the portraits of early Netherlandish painters Petrus Christus (fl.1544-d.1475/6) and Hans Memling (fl.1465-d.1494). The sugar loaf hat is a kind of early top hat ending in a slightly rounded conical top. This very tall, tapering hat was first worn in medieval times and its name derives from the loaves into which sugar was formed at that time. The enigmatic crest in the upper left corner has as yet evaded identification, though the inclusion of a ram in heraldry has traditionally signified leadership, authority, strength and perseverance.
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