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James Gillray, The Valley of the
Shadow of Death.
Napoleon as seen by the English,
uncloured print. 27cm x 38cm, pub H
Humphrey 17 Sept 1808
Napoleon, advancing down a gently
sloping causeway of rock which
traverses water and flames, is halted by
'Leo Britannicus' who bounds savagely
towards him. He drops a short chain
attached to the nose of the 'Russian
Bear', a huge white creature at his
heels. He is beset on all sides by
monsters, who emerge from a
background of flame, smoke, and cloud,
or from the water.
Stock No SAP0637 Price 1,000
John Bull Peeping into Brest
by George Moutard Woodward
(1760 - 1809) 'John Bull Peeping
into Brest', published June 1803
by Piercy Roberts, London, hand
coloured etching, 10" x 15".
Hand-coloured etching
Stock No SAP0873 Price £600
George Cruickshank: The Battle of
Vittoria,
Number 201, pub 7 July 1813 by T Tegg,
111 Cheapside, 34cm wide x 23.5cm high
The victory of General Sir Arthur
Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington, at
Vittoria on 21 June 1813 brought about
the final downfall of French rule in Spain.
Stock No SAP0867 Price £650
George Cruickshank: The Afterpiece of
The Tragedy of Waterloo - or - Madame
Francoise & her Managers!!!
Hand coloured etching on wove paper,
published by William Hone, 55 Fleet Street,
November 9, 1815, plate 21. 35 cm wide x
24.7 cm high.
France, or 'Mme Françoise', is a woman,
larger in scale than the other figures,
whom the Allies pinion, plunder, and
maltreat. She is on the ground on her back,
supported on her arms, with a heavy fetter
attached to her left wrist and right leg.
Stock No SAP0866 Price £650
'Little Boney sneaking into Paris'
Napoleon’s return to Paris, an English
view. Engraved by William Eames,
published by T Tegg, London 1813. 20
x 31 cm. A rare print, small tear to
bottom edge
Stock No SAP0941 Price £500
General Frost shaving little Boney,
coloured engraving by William Elmes
size 34cm x 24cm. Published by
Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, London in
1812 showing how the weather aided
the defeat of Napoleon in Russia.
Stock No SAP0865 Price £750
'The National Assembly Petrified'
and 'The National Assembly
Revived',
James Gillray, published by Fores
London 1791, hand coloured
etching, 17 x 13 ins. On laid paper,
watermark J Whatman.
Stock No SAP0737 Price £450
'Ci devant Occupations' or 'Madam
Talien and the Empress Josephine',
A rare print by James Gillray, pub Feb
20th 1805 engraving with later hand
colouring, sheet size 34 x 48cm within a
mount.
According to slanderous gossip, the
young general Napoleon, who peeks
through the curtains at the right, first laid
eyes on his future wife as she danced
naked for the comte de Barras. The latter
was a leading politician who had made
Josephine his mistress but then had
grown tired of her. According to the text
below the image, Barras offered
Napoleon the leadership of an Egyptian
campaign if he would take the lady as
well. The artist's long-standing anti-
French bias was sparked, in this instance,
by the recent coronation of the imperial
couple in a ceremony whose excesses
were widely mocked in Britain.
Stock No SAP0823 Price £1,300
The Dunghill cock and game pullet or
Boney beat out of the Pitt.
An unusual print with layers of meanings,
hand-coloured, drawn by Thomas
Rowlandson (1757-1827) showing Marie
Louise, Empress of France instructing
Napoleon to fight on despite the hopeless
situation. She swings on a ‘boat swing’ as
she teases Napoleon who, stooped in
resignation, walks away from her
Underneath the swing is a dog with a collar
marked 'A sneaking Cur'. On its body is
marked 'Brought back from Egypt.' An Aide-
de-Camp watches with amusement in the
background and a group of 'stolen images'
stand in the left background. Inscribed in
the plate: Tegg's Caricatures No 9 / Price
One shilling Coloured / Pubd April 27th
1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside
Stock No SAP0960 Price £550
Fighting for the Dunghill or Jack Tar
settling Buonaparte,
After Gillray, published John Miller,
London & W Blackwood Edinburgh, 1824-
27. Size 17 x 23.5cm image
Stock No SAP0824 Price £250
‘ At Home…A Broad…At Home again,’
hand coloured print by Paul Pry (William
Heath) 1803, pub. J McLean 26 Haymarket,
37cm wide x 26cm high.
Stock No SAP0868 Price £350
Apotheosis of the
Corsican Phoenix,
A rare print, uncoloured
print by James Gillray, pub
H Humphrey 2 August 1808,
27 x 38 cm
Stock No SAP0948
Price £1,000
Spanish Patriots attacking the
French Banditti
Gillray created this dynamic satire to
celebrate a Spanish-British victory
over an overwhelmingly superior
enemy at the Battle of Bailén in
southern Spain, during the Peninsular
War (1807–14). His dynamic
conception encapsulates a rare defeat
for French occupying forces on July
16–19, 1808. Uncoloured print, 17 x
38 cm, pub H Humphry 15 August
1808
Stock No SAP0947 Price £1,000
The Right Honorable Rear Admiral,
Lord Nelson, K.B. mezzotint, hand
coloured 34.5 x 25cm derived from the
portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott.
Nelson is seen standing on deck,
stepping on a flag, looking towards the
viewer, right sleeve pinned to his breast,
left hand holding a sword, wearing naval
uniform, sash, star and epaulettes;
cannon and balls to right, a ship
exploding in the background to right
and a cliff fort to left. Published 20th.
October 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53
Fleet Street, London.'
Stock No SAP0893 Price £400
John Bull clipping the Corsican's Wings!!
A satire on the fear of a French Invasion,
etching, hand colourd, pub September
1803 by William Holland, Cockspur Street,
Pall Mall, 24cm wide x 35cm high
Stock No SAP0872 Price £750
John Bull teased by an Ear-Wig!!!
A very English View of Napoleon
attributed to West. We see John Bull
teased by an Ear-Wig being a very
small Napoleon. Published by Wm
Holland , 11 Cockspur Street, 1813,
etching with contemporary hand
colouring, 24.5cm wide x 35cm high
Stock No SAP0871 Price £650
John Bull guarding the Toy Shop, - or Boney Crying for some more
play things, JB engraver, pub Fores Oct 20th 1803, 24.5 x 33.5 cm. This
copy faded but original! Napoleon to right, wears his huge bicorne
and sabre; he says: "Pray Mr Bull let me have some of the Toys if tis only
that little one in the corner." John answers: "I tell you - you shant touch
one of them - so blubber away and be d-d". Only a part of the window of
a corner-shop is visible, fronted with iron railings. The panes are filled,
not with prints, but with models of London buildings: 'India House', 'St
James's', 'Bank', at which Napoleon points, 'Costom House', 'The
Treasury', 'Tower'. Hand-coloured etching
Stock No SAP0848 Price £250
Northern Bears taught to Dance
‘Northern Bears taught to Dance,’ from the series ‘Folios of
Caracatures lent out for the Evening’ published 14 February 1801. It
shows Admiral Lord Nelson , Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and Jack Tar
whipping bears representing Russia, Denmark and Sweden, sixe 25 x
33 cm. The print is close cut with small loss to the right side
Inscription: 'Pubd Feby 14 1801 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly Folios of
Caracatures lent out for the Evening'
Stock No SAP0977 Price £500
He would be a Soldier, or the History
of John Bull's warlike Expedition,
pub J W Fores 1st July 1793, No 3
Piccadilly, 39.5cm wide x 29 cm high
Stock No SAP0869 Price £350