Jun 03, 2021 - Sale 2571

Sale 2571 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SATIRE.) Thomas Rowlandson. Execution of Two Celebrated Enemies of Old England and Their Dying Speeches Nov.r 5, 1813. Hand-colored etching depicting effigies of Guy Fawkes and Napoleon Bonaparte each hanging from a gallows beam above a raging fire while good Britons celebrate the symbolic defeat over the machinations of each villain; the two rogues' "dying speeches" are laid out below. 13 1/2x9 1/2 inches sheet size, ample margins; soft creases and pale spots of foxing. BM Satires 12103. London: R. Ackermann, 1813