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56183Paris: chez Noel c.1810. A hand-coloured engraving on laid paper mounted on heavy stock. It measures 27.5cm x 23.5cm. Old marginal repairs some wrinkled and soiling but generally very good. Imprint at the bottom: "Se vend in Paris chez Noel. Graveur Rue des Noyers No. 49. / et chez les Marchands de Nouvaute's." An amusing image of five folks sitting around a table drinking and laughing. This identical engraving exists with the imprint of chez Basset in the place of chez Noel. Scarce. <br/><br/> Paris: chez Noel, [c.1810]. unknown
004379<p>Various: Various A collection of thirty-two posters all but a couple advertising displays of political caricatures at various places including the National Portrait Gallery the Fitzwilliam and Sir John Soanes Museum and the other two are adverts for books of caricatures. Various sizes thirteen are roughly 305mm x 425mm in size with the others larger often 490mm x 780mm with a couple even larger various dates but mainly 1980-2001. Twenty are printed in colour. Generally in decent order one or two slightly creased with small closed tears a few with small nicks and tears a couple with blu-tack staining to corners. Several artists are represented including Gerald Scarfe Steve Bell Gillray Ralph Steadman David Low Vicky and Giles. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Illus. by Various. Various. Posters.</p> Various paperback
194040629London: NP 1940. Original photographs. Loose_leaf. g to vg. Striking collection of 11 silver gelatin prints of Vicky's Victor Weisz caricatures of Hitler in his series: "Hitler as seen by." <br /> <br /> This humorous series portrays the Führer as seen by some of the most famous personalities of the period such as: Pablo Picasso Franklin Delano Roosevelt Albert Einstein Neville Chamberlain .and himself! Hitler is also portrayed as seen by women; by the German Reichswehr; by one part of the German nation Hitler is idealized as one of Richard Wagner's valkyries!; by the other part of the German nation here Hitler is portrayed as a tyrant holding a long whip; by the French military staff and by the inhabitants of ex-German colonies.<br /> <br /> The photographs' size varies from 7 1/2 x 10 1/2" to 8 1/8 x 11 1/4". Each silver gelatin print has a typed captioned label pasted at verso.<br /> <br /> Minor and sporadic creasing and tiny chipping along edges not affecting illustrations. Photographs in overall good to very good condition. Born in Berlin of Hungarian-Jewish parents Victor Weisz 1913-1966 began art studies at the Berlin Kunstschule but had to leave when his father killed himself in 1928. In order to make a living he began having his cartoons published in German newspapers. As a member of the Jewish community with socialist political opinions Weisz decided to leave Germany after Adolf Hitler gained power. He arrived in London in 1935 and found work as a political cartoonist with a variety of newspapers and journals including the "News Chronicle" "the Daily Mirror" the "Daily Mail" the "New Statesman" and the "Evening Standard." By the 1940s Weisz who signed his work Vicky had established himself as Britain's leading left-wing cartoonist. Like his father he took his own life in 1966. NP unknown
15837Nibelungen Verlag Berlin 1943. In/4 à litalienne reliure demi-toile titre sur une étiquette contrecollée sur le plat supérieur. Deux petites taches claires en plat supérieur sinon très bon état. 48 planches en noir. Caricature politique anti-britanique par les allemands durant la seconde guerre mondiale. unknown
elala3637France: c1850. A combination of domestic social and street scenes including a number of caricatures i.e. a group of goat-headed soldiers with caption 'Vive La RÈforme Mil Huit Cent 48' 'Au Patron Des Ivognes Bon Vin De Bourgone sic' 'boire manger digÈrer voil‡ ma devise' 'Ces gueux de locataires si l'on pouvait se passer d'eux' 'L'Avocat du Gibier' &c. 307 x 236 mm. original cloth rebacked corners worn France: c1850 hardcover
1818BOSTONVB20<br /><br /><b>AN INCUNABLE OF LITHOGRAPHY</b><br /><br />ISABEY Jean-Baptiste 1767-1855 -- Caricatures de J.J. Paris: Chez l'auteur et chez Alphonse Giroux 1818. Album in oblong folio 250 x 335 mm. 19th century green textured cloth and calf spine handsomely titled in gilt. FIRST EDITION. Complete set of 12 lithographed plates the first signed in autograph by Isabey in the l.r. corner othesr signed in plate by Charles Etienne Pierre Motte the French lithographer and printer. Some plates with some foxing but delicately and attractively printed. An incunable of lithography. "Cette suite de caricatures est interessante pour les modes de l'epoque" Colas . An important and rare set with several libertine subjects as plates. Colas 1519; Bibliotheque Esmerian IV lot 62<br /><br /><b>This is one of the earliest known individual artist portfolios in the new medium of lthography </b>"Isabey a respected painter though not an academician clearly did not want to be publicly identified with caricature. The same year he published a portfolio of "serious" lithographic drawings that displayed his full name.A parallel could be drawn to the literary history of the novel which despite its success with the public was not considered a respectable art form; early novelists too often concealed their identity. " Ref: Mainardi P .Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture p. 46<br /><br />
