41a James Gillray
Shakespeare Sacrificed; -or- The Offering to Avarice
Etching, uncoloured proof before letters, 50.5 x 38.5
The British Museum, London

41b James Gillray
Shakespeare Sacrificed; -or- The Offering to Avarice
Published 20 June 1789 by H Humphrey
Etching, published state, uncoloured, 50.5 x 38.5
The British Museum, London

41c James Gillray
Shakespeare Sacrificed; -or- The Offering to Avarice
Published 20 June 1789 by H Humphrey
Hand coloured etching, published state, 50.5 x 38.5
The British Museum, London

42 William Sharp after Benjamin West
King Lear, Act III, Scene IV
Published 1793 by John and Josiah Boydell
Line engraving, 48.5 x 63.5
The British Museum, London

43a James Gillray
Lieut Goverr Gall-stone, inspired by Alecto; -or- The Birth of Minerva
Published 15 February 1790 by H Humphrey
Aquatint proof before all letters, 54.4 x 41
The British Museum, London

43b James Gillray
Lieut Goverr Gall-stone inspired by Alecto; - or The Birth of Minerva
Published 15 February 1790 by H Humphrey
Etching with aquatint, 49.5 x 38.8
The British Museum, London

EX CAT James Gillray
Lieut Goverr Gall-stone (four flyers from the Banks collection)
3 lettered on back 20 Jan, 18 Feb, 11 Jun 1790
The British Museum, London

44 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
'El Sueno De La Razon Produce Monstruos' (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
Plate 43 from Los Caprichos
1799 First edition
Etching with aquatint, 21.5 x 15
The British Museum, London

45 William Dent
The Cutter Cut Up, or, The Monster at Full Length
Published 15 December 1790 by J. Aitken
Hand coloured etching, 42 x 30
The British Museum, London

46 Nathaniel Hone
Philip Thicknesse
1757
Miniature on enamel, oval, 2.8 x 2.5
National Portrait Gallery, London

47 James Gillray
Titianus Redivivus;- or the Seven-Wise-Men consulting the New Venetian Oracle, - a scene in the Academic Grove. No.1
Published 2 November 1797 by H. Humphrey
Hand coloured etching and aquatint, 54.9 x 42
The British Museum, London

48 Simon Ravenet after John Hamilton Mortimer
An Academy
Published 1 November 1771 by J. Boydell
Engraving, 51 x 42.5
The British Museum, London

49 Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
An Exhibition
Published 29 January 1776 by V.M. Picot
Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink, 22.4 x 24.1 (trimmed within platemark)
Private Collection

50 Thomas Rowlandson
A Bench of Artists
1776
Pen and grey and black ink over pencil, 27.2 x 54.8
Tate. Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996

51 Thomas Rowlandson
The Exhibition 'Stare-Case', Somerset House
circa 1800
Watercolour and pen and ink, 44.5 x 29.7
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52 Thomas Rowlandson
Viewing at the Royal Academy
circa 1815
Watercolour and pen and ink over pencil, 14.8 x 24
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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