Lot 235 , James Gillray (English, 1756-1815)

James Gillray (English, 1756-1815) ‘’Clearing a Five-Bar-Gate’’, dated 1805, 265 x 358mm. BM Satires 10481;
‘’The Sound of the Horn!- or, the Danger of Riding an Old Hunter’’, dated 1807, 250 x 355mm. BM Satires 10803;
‘’The Military Caricaturist’’- ‘’his Satires are as keen as the Back of a Rasor; and having but Three Ideas in the World, two of them are borrowed & the Third, nobody would own’’, [Presumed to mocking the amateur satirist, General Davies, as retribution for having slighted Gillray], dated 1799, 345 x 250mm. BM Satires 9442;
‘’A Slice of Glo’ster Cheese’’, [a portrait of Prince William Frederick, the son of the Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh], dated 1795, the image within an oval border, 255 x 130mm. BM Satires 8716 and
‘’Patern-Staff. Weymouth 1797’’, dated 1797, 250 x 165mm. BM Satires 9070,
hand-coloured etched caricatures, published by Hannah Humphrey (5)
£300-500

Condition:
The caricatures tipped-in, two to one side, three to the other, of an early 19th century blue paper folio album leaf.

Sold for £340