Gorringe's Autumn Fine Sale 3rd October 2023

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Lot 235
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
Lot 236
James Gillray (English, 1756-1815) ‘’The Bulstrode
Siren’’ [Mrs. Elizabeth Billington, who was famous
for her size as she was for her musical ability,
depicted serenading the Duke of Portland, with
whom she lived with, at his mansion at Bulstrode],
dated 1803, 355 255mm. BM Satires 10168;
‘’Pylades & Orestes’’, [portraying William IV, Prince
of Orange, as Orestes and his private Secretary,
Count Nassalin, as Pylades], dated 1797, 360 x
265mm. BM Satires 9065 and
‘’a Newmaket-Hill Character,’’[Lt. Col. George Leigh,
portrayed on horseback], dated 1804, 240 x 196mm.
BM Satires 10298,
hand-coloured etched caricatures, published by
Hannah Humphrey (3)
£250 - 350
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