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[Cupid on a raft.]
[after Fanny Corbeaux]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Two rare mezzotints, one with fine hand colour. Each 130 x 155mm (5¼ x 6"). Coloured plate with narrow bottom margin, pasted on album paper; uncoloured trimmed just within plate at bottom, loose from album paper.
Cupid on a makeshift raft, using his bow as an oar and an arrow for a mast. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. On the album paper is a quote from Tennyson's 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights' in old ink mss.: ''When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free / In the silken sail of infancy'.
[Ref: 63479] £380.00
The Guitar.
Miss F. Corbaux. W.H. Mote.
Peter Jackson, London & Paris. [n.d. c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 272 x 205mm. 10¾ x 8".
A young maiden sat in the garden strumming at a guitar, her a friend stands behind her leaning on a stone table. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide.
[Ref: 22651] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Hinda.
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph large margins. 380 x 279mm (15 x 11").
Hinda leaning over a balcony. From 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'; Lalla Rookh, the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31078] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Hindoo Girl.
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph, with large margins. 380 x 279mm (15 x 11"). Slight spotting.
Hindoo Girl; a beautiful maiden sat by the side of a tranquil river, watching the water with an intense gaze; the sun sets behind. From 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'; Lalla Rookh, the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31081] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Lall Rookh.
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph with large margins. 380 x 274mm (15 x 10¼").
Lalla Rookh, the protaganist of the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. From 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31077] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Lilla.
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph, with large margins. 380 x 279mm (15 x 11"). Chips to lower corners.
Lilla, a veiled prophet, a character from 'Lalla Rookh', the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Published in the 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31079] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Mirzala
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph, with large margins. 380 x 279mm (15 x 11").
Mirzala, a veiled prophet, a character from 'Lalla Rookh', the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Published in the 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31075] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Namouna.
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph, with large margins. 380 x 279mm (15 x 11").
Namouna, the enchantress, clutching small flowers to her breast, a character from 'Lalla Rookh', the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Published in the 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31076] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Nourmahal.
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph, with large margins. 380 x 279mm (15 x 11"). Chips to lower corners; foxing.
Nourmahal; the beauty with head on pillow, sleeps as the moon pears through the clouds. A character from 'Lalla Rookh', the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Published in the 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31080] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Peri.
F. Corbaux [signed in plate.]
[British, n.d., c.1850.]
Sepia lithograph heightened in white with colour (red) added by hand. Sheet 380 x 280mm, 15 x 11". Some surface soiling, with extremities a little bumped; otherwise good.
In Persian mythology, the péris are oriental heavenly creatures that embody Prince Achmed's yearning for another form of existence. A beautiful péri appears to him with her retinue and promises him redemption: she promises that the barrier between Heaven and Earth can be overcome by the power of love. La Péri, by Friedrich Burgmüller, Jean Coralli, and Théophile Gautier, was first performed in 1843 at the Paris Opéra. After Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide.
[Ref: 22541] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Remembrance.
F. Corbaux. W.H. Mote.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple. 260 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8".
A woman seated loosely holding a guitar, looks contemplating towards to the ground. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide.
[Ref: 22646] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
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