Turn Again Gentlemen. Flower of Ugliness No. 12. First edition of the lithograph.
London: G. S. Tregear, 1936. Handcolored lithograph. 34.5 x 24.5 cm. Mounted on paper board.....
Gabriel Shire Tregear (c. 1801-1841), publisher of inexpensive and frequently crude caricatures...Tegear advertised his wares in The Times and The Morning Chronicle as well as other newspapers. These advertisements are useful when attempting to date a print which has no publication date printed on it (the case for over two-thirds of the authorsʼ collection). With no advertisement available, an approximate guide is the address given for Tregearʼs print shop, although in many cases the address is simply given as Cheapside. The margins of Tregear prints offer the occasional useful snippet, e.g. the 1832 print ʻJust Come From Grass!ʼ has references to ʻTregear’s Humorous Catalogueʼ and ʻBeware of Imitationsʼ and to the right a listing of some of the prints and print series which Tregear has for sale for 1 shilling each. These are: Leaseholder; Living Cheap; Compliments of the Season; Chip of the Old Block; Matrimony; Tragedy and Comedy; Humorous Scraps (6 plates); Tenant at Will; Keeping the Peace; Tregear’s Flights of Humour 16 plates; Black Jokes 12 plates. Thereʼs another tantalizing reference to ʻTregear’s Catalogue of Humourous Printsʼ in the margin of ʻThe Robin Hood Family of Archers of 1833ʼ of which no trace has surfaced......
Tregearʼs location on the busy thoroughfare of Cheapside put him in an ideal position to advertise his printshop as a poste restante address, just as Samuel Fores was described as doing in the Print Shop Windowʼs blog entry of 15th June 2014, and as a location for selling wares unrelated to prints and pictures. For example, The Times of 7th January 1839 shows Fores did not have a monopoly on dodgy medicinal supplies:. Item #51-7171
Price: $175.00