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Summer Satire: Catalogue 117!

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  Cover image:   [Robert Walpole] Idol- Worship or The Way to Preferment... Pub. 1740. £2000 Stock Ref: 58328   We are pleased to present Catalogue 117! This satire catalogue of over 200 items contains: Mezzotint Drolls Drolls Transport Military & Naval Political Caricatures Fashion Trades Royal Napoleonic Foreign Religious Anthropromorphism Medical Sporting - including Boxing Social Romance and Marriage Legal Educational   View the whole catalogue here!  Some highlights: [George Frederick Handel] The Charming Brute. The figures odd - yest who wou'd think Within this Tun of Meat and Drink, There dwells the soul of Soft Desires, And all that Harmony inspires; Can contrast such as this be found? Upon the Globe's extensive Round; There can - you Hogshead is his Seat His sole Devotion is to Eat. [Joseph Goupy] [n.d. c.1810] Fine hand coloured etching, plate 320 x 245mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, long r