Lot 118
Gillray (James) The Friend of the People, etching with hand-colouring, 1806; together with 2 others, 1795-1808 (3)
Hammer Price: £350
Description
Gillray (James) The Friend of the People, etching with hand-colouring on wove paper without watermark, sheet 350 x 247 mm (13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, two carefully repaired tears to left edge of sheet, some surface dirt, surface abrasions, and handling creases, unframed, [BM Satires 10571], Hannah Humphrey, 1806; together with an uncoloured impression of Gillray's 'Patriotic Regeneration,-viz.-Parliament Reform'd, a la Françoise, -that is-Honest Men (I.E.-Opposition.) In the Seat of Justice', [BM 8624], and Thomas Rowlandson's etching after Woodward 'Volunteer Wit or not enough for a Prime', [BM 11136], various sizes, unframed, 1795-1808 (3)
Description
Gillray (James) The Friend of the People, etching with hand-colouring on wove paper without watermark, sheet 350 x 247 mm (13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, two carefully repaired tears to left edge of sheet, some surface dirt, surface abrasions, and handling creases, unframed, [BM Satires 10571], Hannah Humphrey, 1806; together with an uncoloured impression of Gillray's 'Patriotic Regeneration,-viz.-Parliament Reform'd, a la Françoise, -that is-Honest Men (I.E.-Opposition.) In the Seat of Justice', [BM 8624], and Thomas Rowlandson's etching after Woodward 'Volunteer Wit or not enough for a Prime', [BM 11136], various sizes, unframed, 1795-1808 (3)