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	ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827) after WOODWARD The Welch Sailor's Mistake or Tars in Conversation London: Published by Thomas Tegg, 30 June, 1808. Etching with added hand colour. Image size (including text): 8 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches. Sheet size: 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. A finely observed naval cartoon, from the most gifted of all the great caricaturists, Thomas Rowlandson Thomas Rowlandson was one of the greatest British caricaturists of his day; he excelled as a watercolourist, draughtsman and engraver and brought a new era to English satire. Although he is commonly thought of as a biting social and political satirist, most of his drawings are gentle humorous records of urban and rustic life. His pretty watercolours are often used to illustrate Georgian society; in particular the great public gatherings associated with sport, art and entertainment, and provide an invaluable record of life during that tumultuous era. The eager young Rowlandson learnt to draw before he could write, and quickly enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools. Throughout his career he was an industrious engraver, and it was said that the amount of copper he etched would sheathe the entire British Navy. Rowlandson's powers of composition and humor combined to produce images that are both historically important and artistically impressive, and he remains one of England's best-loved caricaturists. In this caricature a group of sailors is seated on the forecastle. A British tar, on a barrel, with a canister of 'real Oronooko' by his side, is spinning a yarn to his messmates; he has arrived at the exciting incident of his narrative:- 'and so then, do you see, David, we sprang a leak!' when his Welsh messmate, who cannot resist this allusion to a reputed national delicacy... interrupts him: 'Cot pless us - and save us - did you? and a ferry coot fetchitable [i.e.vegetable] it is; I should have liked to have had a pit with you'. Grego Rowlandson the Caricaturist ii, pp.87-8; George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires..in the British Museum Vol. VIII, No. 11140 #6501$485.00
	WOODWARD, William R. (1876-1953) Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses from the Collection of William Woodward. With notes by W. [alter] S. [pencer] Vosburgh [and a preface by Woodward New York]: privately printed [by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press for] Ernest R. Gee, 1929. Large quarto (12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches). 68 heliogravure plates, with original tissue guards. Original red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with borders of a gilt fillet and a broken line roll, titled in gilt on the upper cover, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, others uncut, silk page marker, original card box (binding with small blemish at centre of upper cover). Provenance: Gifford A. Cochran (owner of race-horses, including the winner of the 1925 Kentucky Derby, presentation inscription from Woodward at front). A very fine copy of the first edition, with a significant provenance: a presentation copy inscribed by Woodward, owner of the Belair Stud in Maryland, to one of the major American race-horse owners of the time. This one of just 300 copies on Japanese vellum. This beautifully-produced work reproduces 68 of the best equestrian portrait paintings in Woodward's collection, with examples of the work of J.N. Sartorius, George Stubbs, J.F. Herring Sr. and Harry Hall. Each portrait is faced by historical sporting notes on the horse depicted by Walter S. Vosburgh of the American Jockey Club, and the selection is preceded by a lengthy introductory essay by Woodward. Woodward was a New York banker from a Maryland family of note. His passion was racing, as the present collection and the work carried out at his Belair Stud, Collington Maryland bear witness. E.V. Connett A Decade of American Sporting Books & Prints (New York: 1937), p. 69; cf. Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 373 (coloured copy). #23413$3,500.00
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