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The Infancy of Jupiter. To the Right Honorable Charles, Earl Grey, This Plate is respectfully inscribed by his Lordship's much obliged & most obedient humble Servant, Henry Thompson.
Painted by Henry Thompson, Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Henry Meyer Gt. Russell Strt. Bloomsbury.
London, Published for the Proprietor, and Sold by T. Macdonald, 39 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, 520 x 620mm, 20½ x 24 ½" Some foxing, and folds in top margin
The infant Jupiter with nymphs and goat. A rather smoky impression of this rare print.
[Ref: 8606] £380.00
Painted by Henry Thompson, Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Henry Meyer Gt. Russell Strt. Bloomsbury.
London, Published for the Proprietor, and Sold by T. Macdonald, 39 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, 520 x 620mm, 20½ x 24 ½" Some foxing, and folds in top margin
The infant Jupiter with nymphs and goat. A rather smoky impression of this rare print.
[Ref: 8606] £380.00
The Infancy of Jupiter. To the Right Honorable Charles, Earl Grey, This Plate is respectfully inscribed by his Lordship's much obliged & most obedient humble Servant, Henry Thompson.
Painted by Henry Thompson, Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Henry Meyer Gt. Russell Strt. Bloomsbury.
London, Published for the Proprietor, and Sold by T. Macdonald, 39 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, very scarce; 490 x 600mm, (19¼ x 23½"). Trimmed inside platemark; some creasing.
The infant Jupiter with nymphs and goat. The son of Saturn (who devoured his children for fear of being usurped), Jupiter's mother fled to Crete where she gave birth to him in a cave. He was brought up on Crete by nymphs who fed him on honey and milk from the goat shown here. Engraved from one of the major works of Henry Thompson (1773-1843), an extremely popular painter in his day whose pictures are now chiefly known from mezzotints such as this.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34846] £460.00
Painted by Henry Thompson, Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Henry Meyer Gt. Russell Strt. Bloomsbury.
London, Published for the Proprietor, and Sold by T. Macdonald, 39 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, very scarce; 490 x 600mm, (19¼ x 23½"). Trimmed inside platemark; some creasing.
The infant Jupiter with nymphs and goat. The son of Saturn (who devoured his children for fear of being usurped), Jupiter's mother fled to Crete where she gave birth to him in a cave. He was brought up on Crete by nymphs who fed him on honey and milk from the goat shown here. Engraved from one of the major works of Henry Thompson (1773-1843), an extremely popular painter in his day whose pictures are now chiefly known from mezzotints such as this.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34846] £460.00
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[William Smith.]
Drawn and Engraved by W.C. Edwards from a whole length picture painted by H. Thompson, Esq. R.A. in the Guildhall, Norwich.
[n.d. c.1833.]
Engraving. Proof before letters. Plate 432 x 325mm. 17 x 12¾". Slight scratch in left margin just inside plate mark.
William Smith (1756-1835) was a politician of great power and change. He was a friend and close associate of William Wilberforce and was at the forefront of many campaigns for social justice and prison reform but most notably was his campaign for the abolition of slavery. He was Member of Parliament for Suffolk and Norwich for some years but it was in 1787 that he acted as the first to campaign for the abolition for the slave trade. In 1790 he supported Wilberforce in the slave trade debate and once the trade had been halted he helped Zachary Macaulay in 1823 found the ‘London Society for the Abolition of Slavery in our Colonies’, thereby launching the next phase of the campaign to eradicate slavery. His involvement in the French Revolution was controversial, and he swiftly gained a reputation as a radical. He secretly arranged several meetings between William Pitt and Maret, Napoleon’s foreign minister, in a desperate attempt to avoid war.
[Ref: 20317] £360.00
Drawn and Engraved by W.C. Edwards from a whole length picture painted by H. Thompson, Esq. R.A. in the Guildhall, Norwich.
[n.d. c.1833.]
Engraving. Proof before letters. Plate 432 x 325mm. 17 x 12¾". Slight scratch in left margin just inside plate mark.
William Smith (1756-1835) was a politician of great power and change. He was a friend and close associate of William Wilberforce and was at the forefront of many campaigns for social justice and prison reform but most notably was his campaign for the abolition of slavery. He was Member of Parliament for Suffolk and Norwich for some years but it was in 1787 that he acted as the first to campaign for the abolition for the slave trade. In 1790 he supported Wilberforce in the slave trade debate and once the trade had been halted he helped Zachary Macaulay in 1823 found the ‘London Society for the Abolition of Slavery in our Colonies’, thereby launching the next phase of the campaign to eradicate slavery. His involvement in the French Revolution was controversial, and he swiftly gained a reputation as a radical. He secretly arranged several meetings between William Pitt and Maret, Napoleon’s foreign minister, in a desperate attempt to avoid war.
[Ref: 20317] £360.00