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Nurse and Child.
Nurse and Child. [Drawn by E. Edwards from ye Original Picture of ye same size, painted by Sebasts. Bourdon, the Orig. Drawing in ye Possessn. of R. Sayer.]
Rob.t Lowrie fecit. [after Sébastien Bourdon]. R. Sayer Excudit.
[ London, Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs, 2 Jany. 1772.]
Mezzotint, sheet 375 x 300mm (14¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed losing second half of title and publication line and glued to a backing sheet.
A nurse wearing a turban lifting a child from cushions, cleans the infant with a cloth it as it looks back over left shoulder and puts its arm around the nurse's neck. Scene within an oval stone frame.
[Ref: 61598]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Persée les mains teintes encore du sang du Monstre dont il vient de délivrer Andromède;
Persée les mains teintes encore du sang du Monstre dont il vient de délivrer Andromède; se lave à la Fontaine Hypocrène, et l'Amour prêt à les unir.
Bourdon pinx. F. Basan exc.
A Paris, chés Basan, Graveur, Place Maubert, proche le rue de la Bucherie.
Etching. 365 x 445mm (14½ x 17½") large margins. Slight staining bottom right in margins.
Perseus washing in hands in a stream after having slain the sea monster. Behind him Cupid stands looking at Andromeda who, free of her chains, is seen wrapping herself in a drapery. Pegasus flaps his wings. On the right nereids put coral on Perseus' shield. The body of the sea monster can be seen on the right.
BM: 1873,0712.297.
[Ref: 48826]   £350.00  
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Peter and John Healing the Sick.
Peter and John Healing the Sick. From the Original Picture painted by Sebastien Bourdon, In the Collection of his Grace, the Duke of Devonshire; To whom this Plate is Dedicated, by his Grace's most Obliged and most Obedient Servant, John Boydell.
Seb. Bourdon, pinx.t, R. Earlom delin.t Tho.s Chambars Sculpsit.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside, March 25.th 1768.
Copper engraving, 345 x 380mm. 13½ x 15". Large paper.
Engraving after Sébastien Bourdon (Montpellier 1616- Paris 1671). After a period in Rome, Bourdon became court painter to Queen Christina in Sweden. Medical interest. Numbered 'No. 45', from "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in five volumes, late 1760s-1786, the first three of which (1769 to 1773) were originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of both artists, engravers and Patrons establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
Christopher Wright, 'The World's Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day'.
[Ref: 14559]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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