William Davison
William Davison (1781 - 1858). .
WILLIAM DAVISON apothecary, chemist, and druggist, copper-plate and letterpress printer. Alnwick: William Davison, Bondgate Street . During his lifetime Davison is known to have produced forty two individual copperplate engraved caricatures. He was the son of a local farmer , served as an apprentice to a local chemist, William Davison was born in Alnwick on 16 November 1781, the younger son of William and Mary. William Davison the elder was a Dissenter, and Mary was his second wife; he was described in parish records as husbandman, gardener and farmer.
Young William was schooled in Alnwick, and apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a chemist in Newcastle. He returned in 1802 to set up business as a pharmacist, and in 1803 was for a short time in partnership with another printer (Joseph Perry).. An advertisement for Davison’s shop from the Newcastle Courant in 1804 indicates that, additional to tinctures and salves, he stocked books, paper, drawing materials and musical instruments and it appears as if he eventually decided to begin publishing books on his own account. . During 1807 and 1808 the published a number of illustrated chapbooks and volumes of poetry under the title of Davison & Catnach with his partner and mentor. It seems that Davison’s role was primarily that of financier whilst Catnach provided contacts with local engravers and technical expertise Early in his career he adopted stereotyping, not in general use at that time, and employed Thomas Bewick to illustrate his publications. About 1814 he established a small foundry on his premises at Bondgate Street for the production of these metal stereotypes. He also issued a quite fastounding trade catalogue which contains a total of over a thousand impressions of wood-engravings, metal ornaments, ornamental borders, etc. This list is not complete for reference the British Musem has the supreme collection**
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WILLIAM DAVISON apothecary, chemist, and druggist, copper-plate and letterpress printer. Alnwick: William Davison, Bondgate Street . During his lifetime Davison is known to have produced forty two individual copperplate engraved caricatures. He was the son of a local farmer , served as an apprentice to a local chemist, William Davison was born in Alnwick on 16 November 1781, the younger son of William and Mary. William Davison the elder was a Dissenter, and Mary was his second wife; he was described in parish records as husbandman, gardener and farmer.
Young William was schooled in Alnwick, and apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a chemist in Newcastle. He returned in 1802 to set up business as a pharmacist, and in 1803 was for a short time in partnership with another printer (Joseph Perry).. An advertisement for Davison’s shop from the Newcastle Courant in 1804 indicates that, additional to tinctures and salves, he stocked books, paper, drawing materials and musical instruments and it appears as if he eventually decided to begin publishing books on his own account. . During 1807 and 1808 the published a number of illustrated chapbooks and volumes of poetry under the title of Davison & Catnach with his partner and mentor. It seems that Davison’s role was primarily that of financier whilst Catnach provided contacts with local engravers and technical expertise Early in his career he adopted stereotyping, not in general use at that time, and employed Thomas Bewick to illustrate his publications. About 1814 he established a small foundry on his premises at Bondgate Street for the production of these metal stereotypes. He also issued a quite fastounding trade catalogue which contains a total of over a thousand impressions of wood-engravings, metal ornaments, ornamental borders, etc. This list is not complete for reference the British Musem has the supreme collection**
Countryman in London No 1.. .two yokels are debating the left showing him paper: "Milse's wild beasts", and pointing at sign above: "royal tiger". 1812-7
No.2 – Let us all be Unhappy Together – a Single sheet,
The Politician, No.3 c. 1812-17 after an original design by Hogarth ..a well-dressed gentleman reads a letter by a candle held close to his hat which is taking fire
The Old Maids' Petition, No.4 c.1812 -1817. . An old maid with a large chin and lump in her neck kneels in prayer before a simple table as a man looks down at her from a gap in the rafters. On the wall hang two notices entitled "Cupid's revenge" and "Love in a village".. 1812-7
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Hob and stage doctor.No.8 .three actors on stage, one playing doctor and examining mouth of another, the third as hob kneeling beside and putting flower? on doctor's head, audience standing around the stage and watching the performance. 1812-7
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Curate going on duty No.10..a curate riding horse to the right, leaving inn in the left middle distance where three men stand and grin 1812-7
Vicar Returning From duty No.11..a stout and self-satisfied cleric mounted on a fine horse returns to a large house l. 1812-7
London Sportsmen SHOOTING FLYING. No 12 two hunters accompanied by their dogs are at a country stile, one hunter looses of his piece at a flock of overflying birds while the other tosses his hat in the air.
13.London Sportsmen Marking Game, c. 1812-1817. After Gillray
14.London Sportsmen Recharging,. . c. 1812-1817. After Gillray
15.London sportsmen finding a hare. . after James Gillray's 'Cockney-sportsmen Finding a Hare' (BM Satires 9599): A hare crouches in long grass at left. The younger man runs forward dragging his gun, and holds out his hat to throw it on the hare. Both dogs slink furtively behind him. The elder man squats down to watch (right). 1812-7
The Gout, No.16 c.1812-1817 . .a man sitting in armchair, resting his left gout foot on footrest, ringing bell, looking back towards a man who is leaving the room through door on the left, window in the right background. 1812-7
The Frenchmen in Billinsgate.No.17 .a man and woman in fighting pose in street, another man on the left watching, another woman in the left foreground sitting by table and showing crayfish. 1812-7
Yawning is catching. No.18 . satire: three figures yawning, all sitting in chairs, a woman on the right and the other two men, behind table with book and paper lettered: "W. Davison chymist". 1812-7
The misfortune No.19 . .in a farm, two horses became wild and dropped two figures in carriage on the left, another man holding on the right horse from which pigs are running away, mother and two children in cart in the right middle distance watching, church spires in the left background. 1812-7
Spaniard Lousing, No.20 c.1812-1817. a man standing by tree trunk, opening his collar, looking down, scratching his chest, shadows of church spires in the left background. 1812-7
Ax About c.1812 - 1817 `No.21.. a portly, bald gentleman with a churchwarden pipe looks over his shoulder towards the viewer
Snuff and Twopenny No 22. . . Possibly After Dighton an old crone with only two teeth clutches a beer mug with one hand while taking a pinch of snuff with the other. 1812-7
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The Hermit .No.24. . a hermit with staff approaches a city
Me and my wife and daughter. No 25 . . After Bunbury a family of three on horseback, seen from behind, the man in the centre, flanked by the two women, in plain, house in the left middle distance. 1812-7
How to do Things by Halves No 26. . . After Bunbury two men on horseback, with a horse climbing a stile. 1812-7
The Blessing.No.27 . . .a bearded gentleman, perhaps a Quaker, prays while his cat eats his food
28.Druid and Highlander, c.1812-1817. satire on quack doctors . .a druid with spectacles sitting on barrel on the right, examining at leg of highlander who sits in profile on the left. 1812-7
Columbus breaking the Egg No.29.. after Hogarth (Paulson 194, BM Satires 3192) in reverse: Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. 1812-7
Idleness No.30 . . a man and friends gambling on a gravestone, part dug grave beside them
Country Sport .No.31 . . a man and a youth
chase a pig outside a country alehouse, a second youth lies on
the ground and an onlooker nurses a sore head
The Distressed Poet No 32. . A man sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture. The only other furnishings in the room are a broken chair, a bed tilted up against the wall, and a guzunda
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The Country Crier No 35. . . . 1812-7 . .after print published by Sayer & Co in 1793 (BM Satires 8411), in reverse: The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (right). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man with a pitchfork (left) loiters complacently. A path leads to a farmhouse (left). 1812-7 .a crier rings his bell to inform four yokels that Alice Grant's pig is `stolen or stayed' and promises the first sucking pig next Lammas day to whomsoever supplies `inflamation' on the animal's whereabouts. All this recounted in four lines below the imprint
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Economy, No. 44? 1816. . a barefoot father and son walking in field towards inn in the right middle distance, the father turning and looking towards the viewer, carrying stick over shoulder, his son also carrying sack on back. 1812-7
Jew purchasing old clothes . .two men standing in a street, the right bearded man showing a jacket and grinning towards the left jewish man, a church spire in the right background. 1812-7
Out of Place and Unpension'd, c.1812 - 1817. after print by John Collet (cf. BM Satires 4338), in reverse: half-length man standing in profile to the right, holding stick in front of him, table on the right on which are tankard lettered: "small beer" and paper: "W Davison draggist Alnwick sells [...]". 1812-7
Slight of Hand by a Monkey or the Lady's Head Unloaded, c.1812-1817. A monkey on a wall in upper left snatches off the tall wig from the head of a female macaroni rendering her bald, to the delight of a boy picking apples. 1812-7 After an original design by Carrington Bowles
The country tooth drawer . .after Robert Dighton (BM Satires 6759), in reverse: The interior of a farrier's smithy. A country woman sits on a low stool, while a farrier pulls at her tooth with a pair of pincers which he grasps in both hands. He presses one foot on her outstretched leg while a grinning assistant holds her head in both hands. A third man stands behind, also grinning and holding a stick above his head; one eye is bandaged. All three wear leather aprons. The wretched woman holds the tooth-drawer's left sleeve with one hand, his nose with the other; her eyes are closed. A boy (left) flourishes a broom. Behind (right) is the lighted forge. An anvil, horseshoes, and farrier's tools are in the foreground. A grinning face looks in through a wide-open window (left). Thatched buildings and trees are seen through the window. 1812-7
Let us all be unhappy together . .after print published by Laurie & Whittle in 1794 (BM Satires 8596): five men sit at a small square table on which are glasses and an empty punch-bowl, all have expressions of deep melancholy: one reverses his glass, another breaks his pipe, the bowl of which still smokes, the third weeps, the fourth looks down with a gesture of deprecating misery, the fifth looking towards the viewer. 1812-7
Idleness . after Hogarth (Paulson 170): a churchyard with four young men, one of whom is a boot-black, playing hustle-cap on a tomb; a beadle raises his cane to strike them; in the foreground skulls and bones and an open grave; beyond, the congregation enters the church. 1812-7
Untitled, 1815. a highlander in kilt standing to the front in the centre, Indian man sitting on barrel behind on the left, smoking pipe, another barrel on the right. 1812-7 some relevance to the War of 1812
The Blessing.No.27 . . .a bearded gentleman, perhaps a Quaker, prays while his cat eats his food
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, . This is from an early plate without numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery RARE plate
The Old Maids' Petition, No.4 c.1812 -1817.
. An old maid with a large chin and lump in her neck kneels in prayer before a simple table as a man looks down at her from a gap in the rafters. On the wall hang two notices entitled "Cupid's revenge" and "Love in a village" 1812-7 Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, . This is from an early plate without numbering to the top right £40 inc delivery RARE plate
Columbus breaking the Egg No.29.. after Hogarth (Paulson 194, BM Satires 3192) in reverse: Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, .Red ink version This is from a later plate with numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery
Me and my wife and daughter. No 25 . . After Bunbury a family of three on horseback, seen from behind, the man in the centre, flanked by the two women, in plain, house in the left middle distance. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, . This is from a later plate with numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery
The misfortune No.19 .
.in a farm, two horses became wild and dropped two figures in carriage on the left, another man holding on the right horse from which pigs are running away, mother and two children in cart in the right middle distance watching, church spires in the left background. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, age staining to top edge , would remove easily. This is from an early plate without numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery
The Gout, No.16
c.1812-1817 . .a man sitting in armchair, resting his left gout foot on footrest, ringing bell, looking back towards a man who is leaving the room through door on the left, window in the right background. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, age staining to base corner right , would remove easily. This is from a later plate with numbering to the top left £45 inc delivery
The Gout, No.16
c.1812-1817 . .a man sitting in armchair, resting his left gout foot on footrest, ringing bell, looking back towards a man who is leaving the room through door on the left, window in the right background. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, age staining to base corner right , would remove easily. This is from a later plate with numbering to the top left £45 inc delivery printed in red Davison being tight used any colour ink and paper to hand
The Distressed Poet No 32. . A man sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture. The only other furnishings in the room are a broken chair, a bed tilted up against the wall, and a guzunda
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The Country Crier No 35. . . . 1812-7 . .after print published by Sayer & Co in 1793 (BM Satires 8411), in reverse: The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (right). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man with a pitchfork (left) loiters complacently. A path leads to a farmhouse (left). 1812-7 .a crier rings his bell to inform four yokels that Alice Grant's pig is `stolen or stayed' and promises the first sucking pig next Lammas day to whomsoever supplies `inflamation' on the animal's whereabouts. All this recounted in four lines below the imprint
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Economy, No. 44? 1816. . a barefoot father and son walking in field towards inn in the right middle distance, the father turning and looking towards the viewer, carrying stick over shoulder, his son also carrying sack on back. 1812-7
Jew purchasing old clothes . .two men standing in a street, the right bearded man showing a jacket and grinning towards the left jewish man, a church spire in the right background. 1812-7
Out of Place and Unpension'd, c.1812 - 1817. after print by John Collet (cf. BM Satires 4338), in reverse: half-length man standing in profile to the right, holding stick in front of him, table on the right on which are tankard lettered: "small beer" and paper: "W Davison draggist Alnwick sells [...]". 1812-7
Slight of Hand by a Monkey or the Lady's Head Unloaded, c.1812-1817. A monkey on a wall in upper left snatches off the tall wig from the head of a female macaroni rendering her bald, to the delight of a boy picking apples. 1812-7 After an original design by Carrington Bowles
The country tooth drawer . .after Robert Dighton (BM Satires 6759), in reverse: The interior of a farrier's smithy. A country woman sits on a low stool, while a farrier pulls at her tooth with a pair of pincers which he grasps in both hands. He presses one foot on her outstretched leg while a grinning assistant holds her head in both hands. A third man stands behind, also grinning and holding a stick above his head; one eye is bandaged. All three wear leather aprons. The wretched woman holds the tooth-drawer's left sleeve with one hand, his nose with the other; her eyes are closed. A boy (left) flourishes a broom. Behind (right) is the lighted forge. An anvil, horseshoes, and farrier's tools are in the foreground. A grinning face looks in through a wide-open window (left). Thatched buildings and trees are seen through the window. 1812-7
Let us all be unhappy together . .after print published by Laurie & Whittle in 1794 (BM Satires 8596): five men sit at a small square table on which are glasses and an empty punch-bowl, all have expressions of deep melancholy: one reverses his glass, another breaks his pipe, the bowl of which still smokes, the third weeps, the fourth looks down with a gesture of deprecating misery, the fifth looking towards the viewer. 1812-7
Idleness . after Hogarth (Paulson 170): a churchyard with four young men, one of whom is a boot-black, playing hustle-cap on a tomb; a beadle raises his cane to strike them; in the foreground skulls and bones and an open grave; beyond, the congregation enters the church. 1812-7
Untitled, 1815. a highlander in kilt standing to the front in the centre, Indian man sitting on barrel behind on the left, smoking pipe, another barrel on the right. 1812-7 some relevance to the War of 1812
The Blessing.No.27 . . .a bearded gentleman, perhaps a Quaker, prays while his cat eats his food
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, . This is from an early plate without numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery RARE plate
The Old Maids' Petition, No.4 c.1812 -1817.
. An old maid with a large chin and lump in her neck kneels in prayer before a simple table as a man looks down at her from a gap in the rafters. On the wall hang two notices entitled "Cupid's revenge" and "Love in a village" 1812-7 Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, . This is from an early plate without numbering to the top right £40 inc delivery RARE plate
Columbus breaking the Egg No.29.. after Hogarth (Paulson 194, BM Satires 3192) in reverse: Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, .Red ink version This is from a later plate with numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery
Me and my wife and daughter. No 25 . . After Bunbury a family of three on horseback, seen from behind, the man in the centre, flanked by the two women, in plain, house in the left middle distance. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, . This is from a later plate with numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery
The misfortune No.19 .
.in a farm, two horses became wild and dropped two figures in carriage on the left, another man holding on the right horse from which pigs are running away, mother and two children in cart in the right middle distance watching, church spires in the left background. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, age staining to top edge , would remove easily. This is from an early plate without numbering to the top right £35 inc delivery
The Gout, No.16
c.1812-1817 . .a man sitting in armchair, resting his left gout foot on footrest, ringing bell, looking back towards a man who is leaving the room through door on the left, window in the right background. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, age staining to base corner right , would remove easily. This is from a later plate with numbering to the top left £45 inc delivery
The Gout, No.16
c.1812-1817 . .a man sitting in armchair, resting his left gout foot on footrest, ringing bell, looking back towards a man who is leaving the room through door on the left, window in the right background. 1812-7
Antique Etching done in the period between 1812 and 1817 on laid paper of varying quality , Davison produced a number of caricatures, often crudely executed plates in the manner of Gilray, Rowlandson and Bunbury. from "Some Alnwick Caricatures" by William Davison.. Paper Size 26 x 18cm CONDITION; full page , good borders, age staining to base corner right , would remove easily. This is from a later plate with numbering to the top left £45 inc delivery printed in red Davison being tight used any colour ink and paper to hand
Thomas Rowlandson
Thomas Rowlandson
(July 14, 1756 & April 22, 1827) was an English artist and
caricaturist.He was born in Old Jewry, in the City of London,
the son of a tradesman or city merchant. On leaving school he
became a student at the Royal Academy. At the age of sixteen,
he lived and studied for a time in Paris, and he later made
frequent tours to the Continent, enriching his portfolios with
numerous jottings of life and character. In 1775 he exhibited
a drawing of Delilah visiting Samson in Prison, and in the
following years he was represented by various portraits and
landscapes. He was spoken of as a promising student; and had
he continued his early application he would have made his mark
as a painter. But by the death of his aunt, a French lady, he
inherited £7,000, plunged into the dissipations of the town
and was known to sit at the gaming-table for thirty-six hours
at a stretch. In time poverty overtook him; and the friendship
and example of James Gillray and Henry William Bunbury seem to
have suggested caricature as a means of filling an empty
purse. His drawing of Vauxhall, shown in the Royal Academy
exhibition of 1784, had been engraved by Pollard, and the
print was a success. Rowlandson was largely employed by
Rudolph Ackermann, the art publisher, who in 1809--issued in
his Poetical Magazin by Rowlandson himself in 1812, and issued
under the title of the Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the
Picturesque, they had attained a fifth edition by 1813, and
were followed in 1820 by Dr Syntax in Search of Consolation,
and in 1821 by the Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a
Wife. He also produced a body of erotic prints and woodcuts,
many of which would be considered pornographic today. The same
collaboration of designer, author and publisher appeared in
the English Dance of Death, issued in 1814-16, one of the most
admirable of Rowlandson's series, and in the Dance of Life,
1817. Rowlandson also illustrated Smollett, Goldsmith and
Sterne, and his designs will be found in The Spirit of the
Public Journals (1825), The English Spy (1825), and The
Humourist (1831). He died in London, after a prolonged
illness, on 22 April 1827. Rowlandson's designs were usually
done in outline with the reed-pen, and delicately washed with
colour. They were then etched by the artist on the copper, and
afterwards aquatinted --usually by a professional engraver,
the impressions being finally coloured by hand. As a designer
he was characterized by the utmost facility and ease of
draughtsmanship, and the quality of his art suffered from this
haste and over-production. He dealt less frequently with
politics than his fierce contemporary, Gillray, but commonly
touching, in a rather gentle spirit, the various aspects and
incidents of social life. His most artistic work is to be
found among the more careful drawings of his earlier period;
but even among the exaggerated caricature of his later time we
find hints that this master of the humorous might have
attained to the beautiful had he so willed. His work included
a personification of the United Kingdom named John Bull who
was developed from about 1790 in conjunction with other
British satirical artists such as Gillray and George
Cruikshank
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From the Hungarian and Highland Broadsword folio by Thomas Rowlandson Etching with aquatint and original hand colouring Published London, by H Angelo Sept 1st. 1798 Size 320 x 270 mm page is just out of plate mark 1+ cm margin but printed this way ! One of Twenty Four Plates, designed and etched by T. Rowlandson, under the Direction of Messrs. H. Angelo and Son, Fencing Masters to the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster dedicated to Colonel Herries. London: Published by H. Angelo, February 12, 1799. £180 inc delivery
Sir Henry Alken,(British, 1785-1851) was a leading British sporting artist, exploring the comic side of riding in this series of prints depicting the follies and foibles of aristocrats on their weekend outings. They were part of a larger movement of caricature prints lampooning British society that were published in England in the first half of the 19th Century, by artists such as Thomas Rowlandson.Henry Thomas Alken was a painter and engraver, son of artist Samuel Alken. He worked in London and the provinces and was prolific in a variety of media, including painting, etching and watercolor. Trained as a miniature painter, his works always had a graphic precision. He is known for hunting, coaching, racing and other animal subjects. He was also employed by sporting periodicals as an illustrator and provided plates for the National Sports of Great Britain (London, 1821), "strengthening the market for his work in sporting circles, in particular the notorious clique of wealthy and reckless huntsmen who gathered at Melton. The Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the Horse comparatively delineated - 1816; National Sports of Great Britain - 1821; Humorous Specimens of Riding - 1821; Symptoms - 1822; Sketchbook - 1823; Sporting Scrapbook - 1824; Shakespeare's Seven Ages - 1824; Flowers from Nature - 1824; A Touch of the Fine Arts - 1824; Humorous Illustrations of Popular Songs - 1826 Don Quixote - 1831; The Life and Death of John Mytton - 1837; Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities - 1837 The Sporting Review - 1842-6 The Art and Practise of Etching - 1849. Also published in the Illustrated London News and other newspapers of the day.
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From the Hungarian and Highland Broadsword folio by Thomas Rowlandson Etching with aquatint and original hand colouring Published London, by H Angelo Sept 1st. 1798 Size 320 x 270 mm page is just out of plate mark 1+ cm margin but printed this way ! One of Twenty Four Plates, designed and etched by T. Rowlandson, under the Direction of Messrs. H. Angelo and Son, Fencing Masters to the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster dedicated to Colonel Herries. London: Published by H. Angelo, February 12, 1799. £180 inc delivery
Sir Henry Alken,(British, 1785-1851) was a leading British sporting artist, exploring the comic side of riding in this series of prints depicting the follies and foibles of aristocrats on their weekend outings. They were part of a larger movement of caricature prints lampooning British society that were published in England in the first half of the 19th Century, by artists such as Thomas Rowlandson.Henry Thomas Alken was a painter and engraver, son of artist Samuel Alken. He worked in London and the provinces and was prolific in a variety of media, including painting, etching and watercolor. Trained as a miniature painter, his works always had a graphic precision. He is known for hunting, coaching, racing and other animal subjects. He was also employed by sporting periodicals as an illustrator and provided plates for the National Sports of Great Britain (London, 1821), "strengthening the market for his work in sporting circles, in particular the notorious clique of wealthy and reckless huntsmen who gathered at Melton. The Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the Horse comparatively delineated - 1816; National Sports of Great Britain - 1821; Humorous Specimens of Riding - 1821; Symptoms - 1822; Sketchbook - 1823; Sporting Scrapbook - 1824; Shakespeare's Seven Ages - 1824; Flowers from Nature - 1824; A Touch of the Fine Arts - 1824; Humorous Illustrations of Popular Songs - 1826 Don Quixote - 1831; The Life and Death of John Mytton - 1837; Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities - 1837 The Sporting Review - 1842-6 The Art and Practise of Etching - 1849. Also published in the Illustrated London News and other newspapers of the day.
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'Having been but little time on board the Transport you Discover that after your many lessons and long practice on riding , you are but ill qualified to ride the Wooden Horse with any chance of comfort to yourself "
ALKEN, Henry; TALLY-HO, Ben Military Discoveries London: S & J Fuller, 1819. Scarce Misery in the Army " Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers." Published London: S & J Fuller, March 24, 1819. by Ben Tally-Ho. London: S. and J. Fuller, 1 February 1816 most are watermarked Whatman 1815. Oblong 266 x 365mm. One of 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates that are stupidly rare the last copy to come to auction was fifty-three years ago, in 1961 plus in original coloured ie more expensive format £195 mounted inc delivery
Marcel Pic (1800-1900) Caricature in Pastel
1893 of A Billiards Player Marcel Pic was active/lived in France but seems to have also worked in England and with the British army in Egypt rare as pastels often do not survive
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A Rigmaroll
Etching and aquatint Illustration to Egerton's 'Airy Nothings; or scraps and noughts, and odd-cum-shorts'; men and women dancing with hands joined in a circle, an old man in captain's hat waving an umbrella in the centre; after M. Egerton. 1825 Inscription Content: Lettered below image with title, production detail: "M.E.", "Engraved by G. Hunt" and publication line: Thomas Mc Lean, Haymarket. Height: 195 millimetres Width: 236 millimetres £55 rare only found one in BM
A great dairy-man
Scarce print published by Published by George Humphrey drawn by by Theodore Lane . Cows and goats with distended udders are grouped outside a small thatched cottage (see No. 13893). The King, wearing apron, over-sleeves, and top-boots, stands by a cow, an arm resting on her back, his pail at his feet, his stool behind him. Behind (right), a fat dairymaid, presumably Lady Conyngham, walks towards the cottage, her pail on her head. Three plump women watch from open casement windows. December 1820 Etching with hand-colouring Inscription Content: Lettered with title, and "Pubd by G.Humphrey 27 St James's Street December 1820." Theodore Lane, a brilliant young caricaturist who died in 1828, born in 1800 at Isleworth, in Middlesex. He was largely self taught as an artist, although he must have received encouragement from his father, who had been a drawing master at Worcester. At 14 he was apprenticed to the minature painter John Barrow at Battle Bridge. He studied watercolour portraits and miniatures, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1819.Seriously rare one in BM on rag paper came from large ex Gallery uncoloured with the Sayers and others £165 inc
Inconvenients du voyage de st Cloud par terre
Postal Caricature showng the postie on horeback attributed in the only other copy I can faind to Neel who wrote an early travel treatise in 1753. Initiatled to the base line with n.l. simple line etching with later but early colour. Light overall toning to cream from white , mounted rare £150 inc delivery
The Midshipman's Birth / Berth
Published by I. W. Laird, 1, Leadenhall Stt. 1841. Image 29.5 x 45.5 cm hand coloured mezzotintssome age toning and staining to the legend below.The setting below deck shows the off-duty activities of young midshipmen and other men in their mess cramped between decks. At present framed ( modern) in a wash lined mount £160 inc delivery
'Having been but little time on board the Transport you Discover that after your many lessons and long practice on riding , you are but ill qualified to ride the Wooden Horse with any chance of comfort to yourself "
ALKEN, Henry; TALLY-HO, Ben Military Discoveries London: S & J Fuller, 1819. Scarce Misery in the Army " Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers." Published London: S & J Fuller, March 24, 1819. by Ben Tally-Ho. London: S. and J. Fuller, 1 February 1816 most are watermarked Whatman 1815. Oblong 266 x 365mm. One of 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates that are stupidly rare the last copy to come to auction was fifty-three years ago, in 1961 plus in original coloured ie more expensive format £195 mounted inc delivery
Marcel Pic (1800-1900) Caricature in Pastel
1893 of A Billiards Player Marcel Pic was active/lived in France but seems to have also worked in England and with the British army in Egypt rare as pastels often do not survive
@ the shop as large to post overseas
A Rigmaroll
Etching and aquatint Illustration to Egerton's 'Airy Nothings; or scraps and noughts, and odd-cum-shorts'; men and women dancing with hands joined in a circle, an old man in captain's hat waving an umbrella in the centre; after M. Egerton. 1825 Inscription Content: Lettered below image with title, production detail: "M.E.", "Engraved by G. Hunt" and publication line: Thomas Mc Lean, Haymarket. Height: 195 millimetres Width: 236 millimetres £55 rare only found one in BM
A great dairy-man
Scarce print published by Published by George Humphrey drawn by by Theodore Lane . Cows and goats with distended udders are grouped outside a small thatched cottage (see No. 13893). The King, wearing apron, over-sleeves, and top-boots, stands by a cow, an arm resting on her back, his pail at his feet, his stool behind him. Behind (right), a fat dairymaid, presumably Lady Conyngham, walks towards the cottage, her pail on her head. Three plump women watch from open casement windows. December 1820 Etching with hand-colouring Inscription Content: Lettered with title, and "Pubd by G.Humphrey 27 St James's Street December 1820." Theodore Lane, a brilliant young caricaturist who died in 1828, born in 1800 at Isleworth, in Middlesex. He was largely self taught as an artist, although he must have received encouragement from his father, who had been a drawing master at Worcester. At 14 he was apprenticed to the minature painter John Barrow at Battle Bridge. He studied watercolour portraits and miniatures, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1819.Seriously rare one in BM on rag paper came from large ex Gallery uncoloured with the Sayers and others £165 inc
Inconvenients du voyage de st Cloud par terre
Postal Caricature showng the postie on horeback attributed in the only other copy I can faind to Neel who wrote an early travel treatise in 1753. Initiatled to the base line with n.l. simple line etching with later but early colour. Light overall toning to cream from white , mounted rare £150 inc delivery
The Midshipman's Birth / Berth
Published by I. W. Laird, 1, Leadenhall Stt. 1841. Image 29.5 x 45.5 cm hand coloured mezzotintssome age toning and staining to the legend below.The setting below deck shows the off-duty activities of young midshipmen and other men in their mess cramped between decks. At present framed ( modern) in a wash lined mount £160 inc delivery
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