12 Satire.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

alleged corrupt support of the Bourbons over control of
the Falkland Islands.
BM: 5099.
Ref: 8340
711. Political sculpters.
Published by E.Hedges No 92 Cornhill Feb.y 3 1784.
Etching. 230 x 300mm. Slight spotting and creasing.
£160
Charles James Fox chisels a bust of the Prince of
Wales, while Lord North turns aside to sharpen a chisel
on a stone. The insciption on the pedestal reads
'Extremly docile, easy moddel'd into Vice and
exceeding soft about the head'.
BM: 6401.
Ref: 8328
712. Pro Bono Publico. The Political
Cluster in terrorem.
W.D. [William Dent.] Pub.d as the Act Directs, by J.
Brown, Rathbone Place, June 25 1784.
Etching. 360 x 235mm. Wear to edges. £140
Charles James Fox and his supporters, including Lord
North and Burke, satirised as a bunch of grapes, all
shown with their eyes closed. The stalk has an
inscription 'Ripe Fruit for Old Nick'. Underneath are a
pile of trophies, including the 'American War' and
'Receipt Tax', an unpopular measure of the Coalition.
BM: 6627.
Ref: 8330
713. The West.r Stallion will cover this
Season at one Guinea the Leap and Five
shillings the Groom.
J.Brown. Pub as the Act Directs by J.Brown Silver St
Golden Sq.re. [n.d., 1784.]
Etching. 185 x 260mm. Printer's crease at top. £240
Charles James Fox satirised as a stud advert. The horse
has his face and a fox's brush. The notice on the wall
reads 'Discord got by Volpone, and Volpone was got
by the Scotch peasant his------'.
BM: 6646.
Ref: 8331
714. Le Héros de Ferney au Théâtre de
Châtelaine. "Ne pretens pas à trop, tu ne
scaurais qu'ecrire/ "Tes Vers forcent mes
pleurs, mais tes gestes me font rire."
Anon:
T.O.ft 1772.
Etching, sheet 190 x 140mm. 7½ x 5½". Trimmed to
plate and glued to album page at corners. £320
A very rare representation of François Marie Arouet de
Voltaire (1694 – 1778), French Philosopher. He strides
with much vigour and with theatrical gestures, right
arm bent, fingers touching his waistcoat, left arm
thrown out. He wears a plumed helmet, and a sword,
and is lean and wrinkled. By Thomas Orde Powlett, 1st
Baron Bolton (1748 - 1807), amateur carcaturist while
a Cambridge undergraduate as Thomas Orde. .
An impression in the British Museum is annotated by
the collector, Richard Bull, beneath the print: "Mr.
Orde was at Turin in 1772, when Voltaire having Le
Cain, and Madlle Clairon with him, wished to have one
of his own Pieces represented, and got some Strollers
to fill the under parts, but at the Rehearsal, being out of
all patience at the performance of one of them, dashed
the book on the floor, started up, and threw himself
into the above attitude, to show the Fellow what Acting
was".
BM Satires: 5071.
Ref: 8586
715. Looking Grave on the New
Appointment.
W. Heath. Pub July 6 1830 by T. Mc Lean 26
Haymarket London.
Hand-coloured etching, 370 x 255mm. 14½ x 10".
Marginal tears; glued to scrap sheet. Ink spot lower
right below image. £140
A caricature of a concerned-looking Ernest Augustus,
Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1771 -
1851), fifth son of George III and Queen Charlotte.
The accession of William IV put an end to his
influence on English politics. He was passed over in
favour of his brother the Duke of Sussex for the post of
Ranger of St. James's Park and Hyde Park. The 'Grave'
in the tile is a reference to Cumberland's affair with
Lady Graves (1783 - 1835).
After William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of
Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific
caricaturist. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul
Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825
by John Poole, that became a tag used for any very
inqusitive person) with the emblem of a small man
holding a walking stick in a lower corner of his plates.
This figure was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg
Sharpshooter), and so from 1828 Heath began to sign
his plates with his full name. He published regularly
with Thomas McLean.
BM Satires: 16156.
Ref: 9214
716. Night Amusement.
Printed for Bowles and Carver, Map & Printsellers,
No.69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d.,
c.1770].
Mezzotint, 355 x 250mm. 14 x 9¾. Scratch to image
lower left. £380