Caricatures.- An album of caricatures 1810-1840, comprising 79 social, political and royal satires, of which 19 coloured plates include 'A Private Address' by William Heath showing George IV astride the globe, gesticulating at the face of Queen Caroline as the sun, [BM Satires 13896], 1820; the others mostly on fashion, including 'The Dandy Lion', by Isaac Robert Cruikshank depicting Lord Petersham, [BM 13029], 1818, 'The Prices', by Hunt after Egerton, [BM 14903], 'Kangkook, by William Staden Blake after Dighton, [BM 13357A], 'Morning, Noon, Night', by George Cruikshank 'A Young Poodle', by Heath, a group of 4 by James Jenkins, possibly after Jean Baptiste Isabey, the pictorial broadside on Queen Caroline, 'The Eloquent and Humorous Speech of H. Marsh Esq.', and others not in BM Satires; also 60 uncoloured caricatures, of which several napoleonic and regency scenes by Charles Williams including 'A New Cure for Jackobinism', [BM 11549], and 'Throwing the Stocking', this on the eve of the Charlotte of Brunswick's marriage to the Prince Regent, [BM 12764], many post-1830 on political subjects, including several of the Duke of Wellington, Ireland, corn laws and other subjects, also 13 on the young Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engravings, aquatints and lithographs, 19 with original hand-colouring, v.s., mounted at corners over unrelated text leaves, a few corners detached, occasional slight spotting or surface dirt, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, soiled and rubbed, oblong folio, 1810-1840..
Caricatures.- An album of caricatures 1810-1840, comprising 79 social, political and royal satires, of which 19 coloured plates include 'A Private Address' by William Heath showing George IV astride the globe, gesticulating at the face of Queen Caroline as the sun, [BM Satires 13896], 1820; the others mostly on fashion, including 'The Dandy Lion', by Isaac Robert Cruikshank depicting Lord Petersham, [BM 13029], 1818, 'The Prices', by Hunt after Egerton, [BM 14903], 'Kangkook, by William Staden Blake after Dighton, [BM 13357A], 'Morning, Noon, Night', by George Cruikshank 'A Young Poodle', by Heath, a group of 4 by James Jenkins, possibly after Jean Baptiste Isabey, the pictorial broadside on Queen Caroline, 'The Eloquent and Humorous Speech of H. Marsh Esq.', and others not in BM Satires; also 60 uncoloured caricatures, of which several napoleonic and regency scenes by Charles Williams including 'A New Cure for Jackobinism', [BM 11549], and 'Throwing the Stocking', this on the eve of the Charlotte of Brunswick's marriage to the Prince Regent, [BM 12764], many post-1830 on political subjects, including several of the Duke of Wellington, Ireland, corn laws and other subjects, also 13 on the young Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engravings, aquatints and lithographs, 19 with original hand-colouring, v.s., mounted at corners over unrelated text leaves, a few corners detached, occasional slight spotting or surface dirt, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, soiled and rubbed, oblong folio, 1810-1840..
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