[Fool of Quality]. Master Harry Clinton, releaving the distress of the Country Girl.[Mrs Vindex, meeting with Master Harry Clinton.
P.W. Tomkins delin.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
Pub. as the Act directs, April 12, 1791 by J.F. Tomkins No. 49 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples. Each 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), with large margins. Mint.
Two scenes from the Irish writer Henry Brooke's novel 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', privately published in five volumes 1765-70. Among Brooke's inspirations was the Methodist movement; in 1781 John Wesley wrote and published an abridged version with a preface that describes the story as 'one of the most beautiful pictures that ever was drawn in the world'.
Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 52927] £450.00
Pub. as the Act directs, April 12, 1791 by J.F. Tomkins No. 49 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples. Each 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), with large margins. Mint.
Two scenes from the Irish writer Henry Brooke's novel 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', privately published in five volumes 1765-70. Among Brooke's inspirations was the Methodist movement; in 1781 John Wesley wrote and published an abridged version with a preface that describes the story as 'one of the most beautiful pictures that ever was drawn in the world'.
Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 52927] £450.00