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[Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales and the Princess Charlotte.]
[Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales and the Princess Charlotte.]
Maria Cosway pinx.t. S.W.Reynolds sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Very rare, fine and printed in colour mezzotint. Sheet 585 x 475mm (23 x 18¾"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into lower plate.
Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick (1768 - 1821), and Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796 - 1817). Fine & decorative view of London in background. Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until her death in 1821 as the estranged wife of King George IV. Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), and Caroline of Brunswick. She was expected to ascend the British throne after the deaths of her grandfather, George III, and her father, but died in childbirth at the age of 21, predeceasing them both.
Whitman 49.
[Ref: 67108]   £580.00  
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[Angel lying on a cloud, creating a swirl of rain.]
[Angel lying on a cloud, creating a swirl of rain.]
Mrs Cosway delin Agar sculp.
[Pubd. May 4 1802 by R. Ackermann 101 Strand.]
Stipple, sheet 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line; tipped into album sheet.
Allegory with an angel creating rain, which three cherubs gratefully collect. Below a bull's head, fish and flowers. Engraving after history painter Maria Cosway (1760-1838). Cosway exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy from 1781 to 1789, and occasionally thereafter, but her artistic ambitions were hampered by her husband, the artist Richard Cosway, who refused to allow her to sell her work. She was also a prolific printmaker.
[Ref: 40476]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Creusa appearing to Aeneas.
Creusa appearing to Aeneas.
Painted by Maria Cosway. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine.
London Publysh'd Jan.y, 7, 1803, by H. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Scarce mezzotint, 550 x 430mm (22 x 17"), with large margins. Creasing and surface dirt. Tears in margins repaired with acid free tape.
Aeneas, clad in armor, gazes upwards to the right as he steps forward, arms outstretched in an attempt to embrace Creusa. She hovers in mid-air, her body bare, a veil swirling around her as she looks down at him from the right. In the distance, the flames of Troy rage. A crudely reworked version published by Hannah Macklin.
Whitman 226. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65221]   £320.00  
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Creusa appearing to Aeneas.
Creusa appearing to Aeneas.
Painted by Maria Cosway. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine.
[London Publysh'd Jan.y, 7, 1803, by H. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.]
Scarce mezzotint, card 635 x 520mm (25 x 20½"). Trimmed within plate losing publication line and laid on card.
Aeneas, clad in armor, gazes upwards to the right as he steps forward, arms outstretched in an attempt to embrace Creusa. She hovers in mid-air, her body bare, a veil swirling around her as she looks down at him from the right. In the distance, the flames of Troy rage. A crudely reworked version published by Hannah Macklin.
Whitman 226. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65223]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Lodona.
Lodona. In vain on Father Thames she calls for Aid...[etc., two stanzas from Pope either side of title.] Vide Pope's Windsor Forest.
Maria Cosway Pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
London, Published March 20, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Fine stipple engraving printed in brown ink, closed letters (final state). 430 x 505mm (17 x 19¾"). Some slight creasing and soiling.
A young woman in a wooded landscape leaning by a small waterfall by a river, weeping; her hair and dress begin to merge with the water. A scene from Alexander Pope's poem Windsor Forest (1713). Lodona, a nymph fond of hunting, is chased by Pan and implores Cynthia (an epithet of Diana the huntress goddess) to save her from her persecutor. No sooner had she spoken than she became ''a silver stream which ever keeps its virgin coolness''. She gives her name to The Lodden, an tributary of the Thames in Windsor Forest. After Maria Cosway (1759 - 1838).
[Ref: 19237]   £380.00  
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[Lodona.]
[Lodona.]
[Maria Cosway Pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.]
[London, Published March 20, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.]
Stipple, proof before letters. Sheet 370 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Trimmed, top right repaired tear.
A young woman in a wooded landscape leaning by a small waterfall by a river, weeping; her hair and dress begin to merge with the water. A scene from Alexander Pope's poem Windsor Forest (1713). Lodona, a nymph fond of hunting, is chased by Pan and implores Cynthia (an epithet of Diana the huntress goddess) to save her from her persecutor. No sooner had she spoken than she became ''a silver stream which ever keeps its virgin coolness''. She gives her name to The Lodden, an tributary of the Thames in Windsor Forest.
[Ref: 44046]   £380.00  
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_ ''like Patience on a Monument, smiling at Grief.''
_ ''like Patience on a Monument, smiling at Grief.'' Shakespear's Twelfth Night.
Painted by Maria Cosway. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd June 4.th 173, by V. Green, N.º 20 Newman Street, & Sold by J. Brydon, N.º 7, opposite Northumberland House, CHaring Cross, London.
Scarce mezzotint, 540 x 410mm (21½ x 16"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Bottom margin repaired, nicks in edges. Thread margins.
A young woman sits on a stone slab, hands resting in her lap, looking down at an old woman hiding her head in her veils, a serpent twined around her waist.
CS 152a. Whitman 229.
[Ref: 65704]   £360.00  
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