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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Mr. Gay
W. Aikman pinxit. F. Milvus fecit [pseudonym of Francis Kyte].
Sold by John Heney at Mr Gay's Head, Tavestock Street. [n.d., 1728.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Thread margins, small tears, cellotape glue stains.
John Gay (1685-1732), poet and playwright. A member of the Scriblerus Club in London along with Pope, Swift, and other writers, Gay is best-known for 'The Beggar's Opera', which was produced almost every year until the 1880s, and in the twentieth century supplied the plot for Brecht and Weils 'Die Dreigroschenoper' ('The Threepenny Opera'). Francis Kyte was convicted of forging a banknote in 1725, after which he sometimes Latinised his name to Milvus.
NPG D19056; CS 2. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34353] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
W. Aikman pinxit. F. Milvus fecit [pseudonym of Francis Kyte].
Sold by John Heney at Mr Gay's Head, Tavestock Street. [n.d., 1728.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Thread margins, small tears, cellotape glue stains.
John Gay (1685-1732), poet and playwright. A member of the Scriblerus Club in London along with Pope, Swift, and other writers, Gay is best-known for 'The Beggar's Opera', which was produced almost every year until the 1880s, and in the twentieth century supplied the plot for Brecht and Weils 'Die Dreigroschenoper' ('The Threepenny Opera'). Francis Kyte was convicted of forging a banknote in 1725, after which he sometimes Latinised his name to Milvus.
NPG D19056; CS 2. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34353] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Mr John Sturges.
J. Vanderbank pinx. F. Kyte delin et fecit 1733.
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of John Sturges, a carpenter of St George's, Bloomsbury. Despite this occupation he is dressed in Turkish costume, with a feathered turban, fur-lined embroidered coat. He seems to have commissioned the portrait: in his will, held in the National Archives, he bequeaths ''my own portrait picture in a Turkish habit painted by xx Vanderbank'' to his friend Samuel Hawley.
[Ref: 55629] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
J. Vanderbank pinx. F. Kyte delin et fecit 1733.
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of John Sturges, a carpenter of St George's, Bloomsbury. Despite this occupation he is dressed in Turkish costume, with a feathered turban, fur-lined embroidered coat. He seems to have commissioned the portrait: in his will, held in the National Archives, he bequeaths ''my own portrait picture in a Turkish habit painted by xx Vanderbank'' to his friend Samuel Hawley.
[Ref: 55629] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)