17 Addenda.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

A satire on British efforts to recover after major naval
losses on the Great Lakes in 1813 and 1814. According
to Lanmon, it is based on Thomas Rowlandson's 1798
satire "High Fun for John Bull or the Republicans Put
to Their last Shift." In the center, King George III feeds
a tray of small ships into a bread-oven, as two other
men stand by with additional trays of ships and cannon.
A Frenchman stands to the left, holding a trough of
"French Dough." King George: "Ay! What . . . Brother
Jonathan taken another whole fleet on the Lakes --
Must work away -- Work away & send some more or
He'll have Canada next." Frenchman: "Begar Mounseer
Bull. Me no like dis new Alliance -- Dere be one
Yankey Man da call "Mac Do-enough" Take your
Ships by de whole Fleet -- You better try get him for I
never get Do-enough made at dis rate!!!" Englishman:
"Here are more Guns for the Lake service. If ever they
do but get there -- I hear the last you sent were waylaid
by a sly Yankey "Fox" and the ship being a "Stranger,"
he has taken her in." Second Englishman: "I tell you
what Master Bull -- You had better keep both your
Ships and Guns at home -- If you send all you've got to
the Lakes, it will only make fun for the Yankeys to
take them."'
See 8103 for 1813 Naval print of the war to which this
satire relates.
Ref: 9328
1188 The Water Mill near Dolgelly, North
Wales.
F J Sarjent Fecit London Publised June 4 1811 by J.
Deeley. No. 95 Berwick Street, Soho Square.
Aquatint, 410 x 560mm. 16 x 22". Unexamined out of
frame. £450
A water mill near Dolgelly or Dollgellau in Wales, at
the foot of the Cader Idris mountain range. The woolen
industry was an important part of the local economy
because of the Arran and Wnion rivers, but declined
after 1800 following the introduction of mechanical
mills.
Ref: 8659
1189 Madame Law. sa Mathematique est
Lepreuve, Sort, tu nous es dubieux au
bout: Si Rome nous n'assiste en tout. Par
l'hiver dans l'été. Plusieurs fols s'ont ruine.
Je suis ni épouse ni veuve. Quittée d'un
epoux pélerin. Qui est, pour soi, absolut
fin; Ih speel voor man en wyf, als
obensturve weew. Manhartig op myn
hoede in dees vertwyfelde Eew Myn man,
zo fyn als rag, was't hoofd der grofste
dwaasen. Ontylood ras kalis, ryk, baas,
aller cyfer bassen Bescherm hem Rome,
schoon uw hoofd nu legt ter neer Zyn
schrandre Raad helpe u, herstel ons same
in eer. [Lines below the portrait.]
[Pieter Schenk, n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate 298 x 185mm. 11¾" x 7¼". £220
Katherine Knowles Seigneur left her French husband
and became Law's lifelong companion and the mother
of his children. A portrait of Madame Law in a cocked
hat. [Standing outside the Ducal Palace, with
Harlequin-styled figures dancing in the background]
This portrait is No. 17 in vol. 2 of 'Het Groote Tafereel
der Dwaasheid', a collection of Dutch satires on the
Mississippi and South Sea Companies, their promoters
and victims. In this case trimmed just inside the
platemark and mounted on a seperate sheet itself
engraved with the central area blank to be over printed
but here with the engraving laid. The decoration of the
boarders suggest affluence and abundance with printed
verses relating to John Law and his Economic theories.
John Law was a charismatic Scottish Econimist with a
flair for finance who wielded extraordinary influence
in France and Holland in the early 1700's. He
introduced investors to both paper currency and to the
stock-market form of trading.
The objective was a banking and investment
conglomerate that was supposed to enrich its
shareholders by colonizing French territory in the vast
Mississippi River basin. Frenzied speculation in the
company's shares, a Gallic parallel of the South Sea
Bubble that puffed up the British market over the same
period, generated so much paper wealth in Paris that
the French coined a word for the newly rich hordes:
''millionaire.'' This venture failed spectacluarly in
1720.
BM Satires 1688.
Ref: 9338
1190 The Winner of the Great St. Leger
Stakes at Doncaster 1841 135
Subscribers__11 started. He was bred by
the Marquis of Westminster, was got by
Pantaloon out of Sarcasm (bred in 1823) by
Teniers dam Banter (dam of Touchstone
Launcelot and Lampoon) by Master
Henry, out of Boadicea (Sister to
Bucephalus) by Alexander. The Property
of the Most Noble the Marquis of
Westminster. To whom this Print by
Permission is most respectfully Dedicated
by the Publishers. S & J Fuller.