NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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27. Charles Williams (fl. 1795-1825) Leap Year, or John Bulls Peace Establishment |
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Leap Year, or John Bulls Peace Establishment
Etching with hand coloring, 1816, British Museum Satires 12754, Walpole Library N.D., 252 x 359 mm. Fine impression on laid paper with a J. Whatman watermark, trimmed on or just inside the platemark; a neatly repaired tear in the center and remains of old hinges at the bottom recto. The title is continued: "When two ride upon a horse, one must ride behind." Published in March, 1816 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly. The print is a comment on the financial burdens born by John Bull (Britain), ridden here by Princess Charlotte (only daughter of the Prince Regent) and Prince Leopold.of Saxe-Coburg, whom she married two months after the date of this print. Camelford House, to which the sign points, was their London residence. The Prince Regent, later George IV, but already a spendthrift, hobbles on crutches behind.
