Gillray (James, 1756-1815) A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain;-or-John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes:-cormorants fishing in the stream, satire on the budget, whose chief feature was an increased income-tax, with numerous political figures depicted with as birds with human heads, huge beaks, and pelican-like pouches, etching with original hand-colouring, a good impression, 260 x 355 mm. (10 1/4 x 14 in), sheet 275 x 380 mm. (10 3/4 x 15 in), rough edges with small nicks, some spotting and browning with faint exposure line from old mount, outside of image, unframed, [BM Satires 10564], Hannah Humphrey, 1806; together with an uncoloured slightly later impression of A Sale of English-Beauties, in the East-Indies, and a very good reverse copy of Gillray's Affability, etching and aquatints on wove paper, without watermarks, the first mentioned platemark 340 x 255 mm. (13 1/2 x 10 in), the latter sheet 380 x 530 mm. (15 x 20 7/8 in), the first mentioned trimmed to image with repaired tears, [cf. BM Satires 7014 and 8616], unframed, [circa 1795 and later] (3)