Lot 254 , James Gillray (English, 1756-1815)

James Gillray (English, 1756-1815) A complete set of seven etchings relating to the weather - ‘’Delicious Weather’’; ‘’Dreadful-Hot-Weather’’; ‘’Sad Sloppy Weather’’; ‘’Raw-Weather’’; ‘’Fine Bracing Weather’’; ‘’Windy Weather’’and ‘’Very Slippy Weather’’, dated 1808, each 257 x 207mm. BM Satires 11094; 11095;,11096; 11097; 11098; 11100 and 11099;
‘’Posting in Scotland’’ [and] ‘’Posting in Ireland’’, after C. Lorraine- Smith, humorous text below each caricature reads respectively, ‘’Hald your Haund Mun, hald your haund! en troth mun: e’n gin you may mind yoursel you’ll just make Muckle Laird coupeing his creels’’ and ‘’Forward immediately your Honour; But sure a’nt I waiting for the Girl with the Poker, just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, it’s just to make her start your Honour’’, dated 1805, each approximately 305 x 405mm. (2) BM Satires 10479 & 10478. [A somewhat xenophobic and patronising English view of the perils of traveling in the ‘’backward’’ realms of Scotland and Ireland]
‘’Maecenas in pursuit of the Fine Arts’’, dated1808. 262 x 202mm. BM Satires 11076
“An Old Maid on a Journey’’, dated 1804, 260 x 388mm. BM Satires 10300 and
‘’Fortune-Hunting’’, dated 1804, 260 x 387. BM Satires 10301.
Twelve hand-coloured etched caricatures, published by Hannah Humphrey (12)
£1,200-1,600

Condition:
The caricatures tipped-in to each side of two early 19th century blue paper folio album leaves. Posting in Scotland has a 7cm tear top left and a 1cm tear to bottom centre.

Sold for £650