George Cruikshank (1792-1878) - Monstrosities of 1783 & 1823...

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£200 - £300

George Cruikshank (1792-1878) - Monstrosities of 1783 & 1823. Etching with handcolouring in watercolour, 1823, on wove paper, with margins, sheet 18.5cm x 42cm (folded over the edges of the mount; together with a collection of oval six stipple engravings: A Flower Seller; and A Cherry Seller by Charles White (1751-1785) after Miss Langham (fl. 1790), a pair of oval stipple engravings printed in brown, 1785, on laid paper, the titles trimmed off, sheets 21.5cm x 17cm; and a further pair of oval stipple engravings, Cupid Chastised by Venus and Cupid Caressed by Venus, a pair of oval stipple engravings by E.J. Dumée after B.A. van Assen, circa 1794, sheets 14.5cm x 12cm; and Youth seated amongst Ruins, Manner of John Keyse Sherwin, The Young Werther, stipple engraving printed in colours,A Young Lady in outdoor Apparel in a Landscape by Edward Williams I (circa 1758-1820), oval stipple engraving printed in brown, on laid paper, inscribed verso in pen and ink ‘The Lovely Brunette / Heaven in her Eyes / In all her Gestures/ Dignity and Love’, sheet 19.5cm x 16cm, all framed and glazed. Literature: Cruikshank BM Satires Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum 14595; Reid 1161 (7)