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Grand Celebration ob de Bobalition ob African Slabery. Life in Philadelphia No. 11
Drawn & Eng.d by J. Harris
T.C. Lewis & Co. 96 Cheapside London [c1850]
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 225 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with large margins. Borders dusty.
The 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population were first published by Edward William Clay in the United States in the 1820s. Shortly after the London publisher W. Harrison Isaacs published a set of copies mostly drawn by William Summers and engraved by Charles Hunt, augmenting them with new caricatures in the same vein but set in London. Isaacs' plates subsequently passed to Gabriel Shire Tregear, and then to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this impression. Hickman notes that Lewis's reissue of Tregear's set of 20 'Life in Philadelphia' prints is dated to 1860 by the Library Company of Philadelphia, but suggests 'it was probably earlier'. This is the only print in Tregear's/Lewis's set which was not engraved by Charles Hunt. It clearly relates to the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
Hickman p.126
[Ref: 47097] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Eng.d by J. Harris
T.C. Lewis & Co. 96 Cheapside London [c1850]
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 225 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with large margins. Borders dusty.
The 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population were first published by Edward William Clay in the United States in the 1820s. Shortly after the London publisher W. Harrison Isaacs published a set of copies mostly drawn by William Summers and engraved by Charles Hunt, augmenting them with new caricatures in the same vein but set in London. Isaacs' plates subsequently passed to Gabriel Shire Tregear, and then to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this impression. Hickman notes that Lewis's reissue of Tregear's set of 20 'Life in Philadelphia' prints is dated to 1860 by the Library Company of Philadelphia, but suggests 'it was probably earlier'. This is the only print in Tregear's/Lewis's set which was not engraved by Charles Hunt. It clearly relates to the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
Hickman p.126
[Ref: 47097] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[Warfield Park] A View of the Gardens of Tho.s Hart Esq.r from the India House at Warfield, Berkshire.](jpegs/58512.jpg)
[Warfield Park] A View of the Gardens of Tho.s Hart Esq.r from the India House at Warfield, Berkshire.
J. Harris Pinx.t. J. Wood Sculp.t.
Published 10th Jan.y 1753 by J. Harris.
Scarce engraving, fine impression. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15¼ x 22"). Trimmed within plate. Slight creasing on right.
A view of a landscaped estate, a 'Grecian temple' folly on a hill, with a couple being rowed in a canopied boat.
[Ref: 58512] £320.00
J. Harris Pinx.t. J. Wood Sculp.t.
Published 10th Jan.y 1753 by J. Harris.
Scarce engraving, fine impression. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15¼ x 22"). Trimmed within plate. Slight creasing on right.
A view of a landscaped estate, a 'Grecian temple' folly on a hill, with a couple being rowed in a canopied boat.
[Ref: 58512] £320.00