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![[Vignette of five children; for Dryden's 'Fables'.]](jpegs/23675.jpg)
[Vignette of five children; for Dryden's 'Fables'.]
Drawn by the Rt. Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerk. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi Esqr. R. A.
Pubd June 4. 1797. by Edwd. Harding 98 Pall Mall.
Etching with stipple, sheet 210 x 260mm. 8¼ x 10¼". Margins trimmed; laid on card.
On the right a winged child standing, in profile to left, with a helmet on his head, holding a mask of Satyre in front of his face; another child behind him, with three more children on the left, looking towards the mask. Illustration to chapter "Theodore and Honoria" in 'Fables' by John Dryden (London, 1797). Text on verso faintly visible. Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734 - 1808) was the daughter of the second Duke of Marlborough. Her first marriage was to Lord Bolingbroke in 1757. When this marriage was dissolved she married Topham Beauclerk. She was a talented amateur artist whose designs were much admired by Horace Walpole.
De Vesme 1718.II. See Ref: 13808 & 32030
[Ref: 23675] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by the Rt. Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerk. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi Esqr. R. A.
Pubd June 4. 1797. by Edwd. Harding 98 Pall Mall.
Etching with stipple, sheet 210 x 260mm. 8¼ x 10¼". Margins trimmed; laid on card.
On the right a winged child standing, in profile to left, with a helmet on his head, holding a mask of Satyre in front of his face; another child behind him, with three more children on the left, looking towards the mask. Illustration to chapter "Theodore and Honoria" in 'Fables' by John Dryden (London, 1797). Text on verso faintly visible. Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734 - 1808) was the daughter of the second Duke of Marlborough. Her first marriage was to Lord Bolingbroke in 1757. When this marriage was dissolved she married Topham Beauclerk. She was a talented amateur artist whose designs were much admired by Horace Walpole.
De Vesme 1718.II. See Ref: 13808 & 32030
[Ref: 23675] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Lenore] [Death, disguised as William, asks her to mount his horse and ride to their marriage bed.]](jpegs/60733.jpg)
[Lenore] [Death, disguised as William, asks her to mount his horse and ride to their marriage bed.] Plate 1. Page 21. Proof.
Drawn by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Engraved by Harding.
Publish'd June 1st 1796 by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple, proof before title? 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed to plate, centre fold, as usual.
A scene from Gottfried August Bürger's ballad 'Lenore', written 1773. When William, Lenore's fiancé, fails to return with the Prussian army after the Battle of Prague (1757, during the Seven Years' War), she argues with God, complaining about his unfairness. At midnight 'William' appears and takes her to a graveyard, where he is revealed as Death, with scythe and hourglass; the marriage bed is a grave in which William's skeleton lies in shattered armour. One of four plates in 'Leonora. Translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq. With designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.' Beauclerk was the daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough.
[Ref: 60733] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Engraved by Harding.
Publish'd June 1st 1796 by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple, proof before title? 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed to plate, centre fold, as usual.
A scene from Gottfried August Bürger's ballad 'Lenore', written 1773. When William, Lenore's fiancé, fails to return with the Prussian army after the Battle of Prague (1757, during the Seven Years' War), she argues with God, complaining about his unfairness. At midnight 'William' appears and takes her to a graveyard, where he is revealed as Death, with scythe and hourglass; the marriage bed is a grave in which William's skeleton lies in shattered armour. One of four plates in 'Leonora. Translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq. With designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.' Beauclerk was the daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough.
[Ref: 60733] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Villager Oh! come, and while the rosy footed May [...] / Thomson's Spring.
Drawn by a Lady. Engrav'd by P.W. Tomkins late pupil of F. Bartolozzi
[London, Publish'd as the Act directs May 16, 1791 by P.W.Tomkins New Bond St.]
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line.
A woman walking and balancing a basket of flowers on her hat, her child by her side. Illustration of verses by James Thomson, whose 'The Seasons' was a popular source for artists favouring rural subject matter. Engraved from a design by Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734-1808) by P.W. Tomkins, who like many former pupils of Bartolozzi mentioned as much on their prints to benefit from Bartolozzi's reputation.
[Ref: 31961] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by a Lady. Engrav'd by P.W. Tomkins late pupil of F. Bartolozzi
[London, Publish'd as the Act directs May 16, 1791 by P.W.Tomkins New Bond St.]
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line.
A woman walking and balancing a basket of flowers on her hat, her child by her side. Illustration of verses by James Thomson, whose 'The Seasons' was a popular source for artists favouring rural subject matter. Engraved from a design by Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734-1808) by P.W. Tomkins, who like many former pupils of Bartolozzi mentioned as much on their prints to benefit from Bartolozzi's reputation.
[Ref: 31961] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)