Jun 23, 2022 - Sale 2610

Sale 2610 - Lot 403

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SATIRE.) James Gillray. Group of 8 British social and political satire prints. London, vd
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Thirty Years Have I Lived in the Parish of Covent Garden, and Nobody Can Say__Mistress Cole__Why Did You So? Etching on heavy wove paper. 12 1/4x9 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins; generally clean. BM Satires 9073. London: H. Humphrey, 1797 [but after?]

A Peep Into the Cave of Jacobinism.__"Magna est Veritas et Praevalebit." Etching with original hand-color on wove paper. 8x10 1/2 inches sheet size, ample margins; light surface soiling, small loss at upper corner. BM Satires 9243. London: J. Wright for the Anti-Jacobin Review, 1798

"So Skiffy-Skipt-On, with His Wonted Grace." Etching with nice original hand-color on wove paper. 9 7/8x6 7/8 inches sheet size, margins shaved to the neatline; small closed tear at lower edge. BM Satires 9557. London: H. Humphrey, 1800

The Grand-Signior Retiring. Bohn edition (suppressed, with blank verso). 10 1/2x14 inches sheet size, ample margins; corner stains. London, circa 1850

A Sphere, Projecting Against a Plane. Bohn edition. 12 1/4x9 1/4 inches sheet size, ample margins, verso printed with clipped image; hand-colored; faint mat line. London, circa 1850

Citizens Visiting the Bastille,__Vide Democratic Charities. Bohn edition. 18 1/2x12 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins, verso printed with Horrors of the Irish-Union.; clean. London, circa 1850

Bat-Catching. Bohn edition. 10 3/4x15 1/4 inches sheet size, ample margins, verso printed with The First Kiss This Ten Years!; clean. London, circa 1850

Wife & No Wife__or__A Trip to the Continent. Times of London commemorative limited edition color print, number 256/2000. 16x19 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; minor edge browning. London, 1969