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[Shepherd resting in a field.]
Boyne [by John Boyne, 1806]
Pen lithograph, sheet 225 x 310mm (8¾ x 12½"). Glued to original backing sheet at top corners with printed border. Foxing.
Early lithograph by John Boyne (1750s-1810), Irish watercolour painter and engraver who lived a colourful and varied life. After moving to England at 9 years old and serving an apprenticeship to engraver William Byrne, Boyne soon gave up printmaking to join a company of strolling actors in Essex. He later took to the pearl-setting trade and worked as a drawing-master. Nonetheless he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in his later years, with works including Shakespearean heads reminiscent of J.H. Mortimer, and busy Rowlandsonesque social scenes. This print was included in the 1806 edition of the first portfolio of artists' lithographs, 'Specimens of Polyauthography', showing that even towards the end of his life Boyne was involved in new technical developments in printmaking. The new medium allowed artists to draw directly onto a prepared stone, allowing artists to make prints which arguably resembled drawings more than any earlier printmaking technique. Unlike many printmaking techniques, lithography required no special training as artists could work directly onto the plate and leave specialist printers to actually make the prints. For this reason many artists who were not trained printmakers (such as Géricault and Delacroix) often worked in lithography. Ex: The collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 39429] £450.00
The Warwick Vase. This Grand Specimen of Grecian Art in White Marble exectuted 350 Years before Christ, was dug out of the Ruins of Adrian's Villa at Tivoli. It was sent to England in 1774 and placed in the beautiful Grounds of Warwick Castle.
London, Published Oct.r 1835 by W.B. Cooke, 27, Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury.
Etching. 150 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Small margins.
The Warwick Vase is a Roman marble vase with Bacchic ornament, discovered in the silt of a marshy pond at Hadrian's Villa about 1771 by Gavin Hamilton. He sold the fragments to Sir William Hamilton who repaired it with Carrara marble and shipped it to his nephew George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who set it on a lawn at Warwick Castle before building a conservatory for it. As a famous piece, a mould was made of it and two full-size bronze replicas were cast, one now Windsor Castle, the other in the Fitzwilliam Museum. At auction in 1978 the vase was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after it was declared an object of national importance an export licence was denied. It is now in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow in Scotland.
[Ref: 38836] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
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