Dec 09, 2021 - Sale 2591

Sale 2591 - Lot 416

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(SATIRE/COSTUME.) Charles Williams, and others. Group of 6 preparatory sketches. [London, late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries]

Additional Details

An Officer and Private of Russian Grenadiers. [and] Russian Chaplin in his Travelling Dress and a Kalmuck Tartar. Ink and graphite recto/verso on "JWhatman/1794 watermarked laid paper; 11x16 inches sheet size, creases and small tears; engravings were published by S.W. Fores, 1799.

Charles Williams. The Farmers Toast. Graphite and ink on "W Elgar" watermarked wove paper; 11 1/4x17 inches sheet size, creases, chips and stains; engraving published by S.W. Fores,1801. Verso with an unidentified drawing in the style of George Woodward.

Graphite drawing of two lords on unwatermarked wove paper, 14x10 inches sheet size, staining and creases.

The Jesuitical Showman. Graphite, ink and wash on Strasbourg Lily watermarked laid paper, 18x12 inches sheet size, staining and edge chips. "If to see my Show - you're willing. Give to me an English shilling. Quickly come, or I shall go. Doodle Doodle Doo. There you see the Queen of France. With the King she leads the dance. Guards behind, and Lords before. Pull out your Cash - or ill shew no more. Doodle Doodle Doo".