Lot 140
Fashion satire.- Cruikshank (Isaac) The Graces of 1794, 1794
Hammer Price: £260
Description
Fashion satire.- Cruikshank (Isaac) The Graces of 1794, three young ladies parade the latest fashions of the period, etching, with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 390 x 330 mm (15 1/2 x 13 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, central horizontal crease, minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 8571], S.W. Fores, July 1794; together with 3 others similar, including Thomas McLean's 'A snug birth in a shower' and 'Since I Saw You Last...', and another, etchings with hand-colouring, between approx. 240 x 350 mm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in), all unframed, early 19th century (4)
Description
Fashion satire.- Cruikshank (Isaac) The Graces of 1794, three young ladies parade the latest fashions of the period, etching, with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 390 x 330 mm (15 1/2 x 13 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, central horizontal crease, minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 8571], S.W. Fores, July 1794; together with 3 others similar, including Thomas McLean's 'A snug birth in a shower' and 'Since I Saw You Last...', and another, etchings with hand-colouring, between approx. 240 x 350 mm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in), all unframed, early 19th century (4)