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Auction archive: Lot number 17

more pertinently renamed The Privy Council when re-issued shortly afterwards, depicting …

Auction 13.07.2017
13 Jul 2017
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$517 - US$776
Price realised:
£380
ca. US$491
Auction archive: Lot number 17

more pertinently renamed The Privy Council when re-issued shortly afterwards, depicting …

Auction 13.07.2017
13 Jul 2017
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$517 - US$776
Price realised:
£380
ca. US$491
Beschreibung:

more pertinently renamed The Privy Council when re-issued shortly afterwards, depicting the seated figures of lords Mansfield, North and Sandwich using the Magna Carta, a national debt document, and the union flag as toilet paper, satirising their conduct of the nation during the war with America, etching printed in dark brown, 245 x 340mm., repairs to upper and lower right corners, [BM Satires 5633], 1780; The Warley Heroes or the Light Infantry on Full March, depicting stout, pot-bellied soldiers when George III reviewed the militia at Warley Camp, Essex, in 1778, [BM 5525]; Taleo, or the Royal Sportsman, running down the Enemies of Great Britain, [Lewis Baboon, taking a Flying leap], George III hunting down the monarchs of Holland, France and Spain, [BM 6043], 1782; with 6 other caricatures of British military prowess around 1780, The Dutch in the Dumps, [BM 5825], Fought All His Battles O'er Again, [BM 6139], the pair of 'Time Past when we beat them ten to one', and 'Time Present, the case is altered', of victory then defeat against the French, [BM 5959], Family Compact, on the alliance between France and Spain during the American Revolutionary War, and one unlettered of a rabble of misfit volunteers for the war with America, [neither in BM Satires but the latter similar to BM 5471], (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jul 2017
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

more pertinently renamed The Privy Council when re-issued shortly afterwards, depicting the seated figures of lords Mansfield, North and Sandwich using the Magna Carta, a national debt document, and the union flag as toilet paper, satirising their conduct of the nation during the war with America, etching printed in dark brown, 245 x 340mm., repairs to upper and lower right corners, [BM Satires 5633], 1780; The Warley Heroes or the Light Infantry on Full March, depicting stout, pot-bellied soldiers when George III reviewed the militia at Warley Camp, Essex, in 1778, [BM 5525]; Taleo, or the Royal Sportsman, running down the Enemies of Great Britain, [Lewis Baboon, taking a Flying leap], George III hunting down the monarchs of Holland, France and Spain, [BM 6043], 1782; with 6 other caricatures of British military prowess around 1780, The Dutch in the Dumps, [BM 5825], Fought All His Battles O'er Again, [BM 6139], the pair of 'Time Past when we beat them ten to one', and 'Time Present, the case is altered', of victory then defeat against the French, [BM 5959], Family Compact, on the alliance between France and Spain during the American Revolutionary War, and one unlettered of a rabble of misfit volunteers for the war with America, [neither in BM Satires but the latter similar to BM 5471], (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jul 2017
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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