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Madame Caradori, as Zora in Pacini's opera. La Schiava in Bagdad.
Madame Caradori, as Zora in Pacini's opera. La Schiava in Bagdad.
Drawn on Stone by R.J. Lane from a Sketch by J. Hayter.
Published by S. Robinson Chapter House Court St. Pauls. Printed by Engelmann G.C.& Co. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 202 x 127mm. 8 x 5".
Caterina Rosalbina Maria de Munck [Maria Caradori-Allan] 1800-1865. A distinguished Italian soprano. Her chief attributes seem to have been clearness, beauty, polish, invention, and taste. She sang with sweetness, delicacy, and variety, and was one of the best singers in the 1840s.
[Ref: 12941]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Senor Juan de Vega. The Spanish Minstrel of 1828-9.
Senor Juan de Vega. The Spanish Minstrel of 1828-9. A Character assumed by an English Gentleman, under which he travelled during ten months in Great Britain & Ireland.
J. Hayter delt. W. Sharp lithog.
Published, June, 1830, by J. Dickinson, 114, New Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Very rare lithograph, frontispiece?, on india paper, sheet 225 x 140mm. 9 x 5½". Small tear to lower right edge.
Charles Stuart Cochrane (1796 - 1840) in the costume of a Spanish musician, with cape and strumming a guitar. Cochrane spent his youth and early career in the Royal Navy. Between March 1823 and June 1824, he was in Gran Colombia during the final months of Simon Bolivar's struggle for independence from Spain, and wrote a book about his travels - Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia. Between August 1828 and June 1829, he disguised himself as a Spanish exile, and made a tour of Britain, which he recorded in detail in a two-volume 'Journal of a tour made by sen~or Juan de Vega ... through Great Britain and Ireland' (London, 1830). In 1830 he took out a patent in France on a machine for spinning Cashmere, a wool new to the western world. In Glasgow he built a mill for his machines to meet the demand in spun Tibetan goats beard.
See Bodleian Library 30.793.
[Ref: 26889]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Caroline Elizabeth Norton] The Author of ''The Undying One'', &c. C.E. Norton [facsimile signature].
[Caroline Elizabeth Norton] The Author of ''The Undying One'', &c. C.E. Norton [facsimile signature].
Engraved by Thomson from a Drawing by Hayter.
London, Published in the New Monthly Mag.e by Colburn & Bentley, Feb.y 1, 1831.
Stipple. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Binding damage on left edge. Trimmed to platemark.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808-77), social reformer. Her unhappy marriage to George Norton and his behaviour on their separation led to her campaign for women's rights, resulting in the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870.
[Ref: 51788]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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