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V. Hugo
Gravé par Pollet
Publié par Blaisot
Engraving, platemark 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5"), with very large margins.
Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), influential novelist and poet whose works include Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though a conservative royalist in his youth, he moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism and of a European Union. His work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. Engraving after an 1829 lithograph by Achille Devéria (1800-57).
[Ref: 41235] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Antiope Séduite par Jupiter.
A.Devéria del. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & C.e.
Paris, chez Bulla éditeur, rue Tiquetonne, 18 [n.d., c.1860].
Lithograph with superb original hand colour highlighted with gum arabic. Printed area 310 x 360mm
Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, lifts up a sheet to reveal a naked Antiope, sleeping in a glade, Cupid by her side. He later impregnates her and she gives birth to the twin heroes Amphion and Zethus.
[Ref: 67820] £320.00
Mariage de Malvina avec Edmond Seymour. 2.
Deveria del.t. Johannot Frères Sculp.t.
A Paris Chez Bulla M.d d Estampes Rue S.t Jacques N.º 38. Déposé à la Direction de la Libr.ie [n.d., c.1809.
Stipple with etching. 280 x 340mm (11 x 13½"), with large margins. Tears to edges, spotting and surface soiling.
A scene from Sophie Cottin's romantic novel ''Malvina'', published anonymously in 1801. A young French widow leaves France for Scotland after a loveless marriage and unexpectedly finds love with Edmond, opening her heart to pain.
[Ref: 63696] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Lady Mary Wortley Montague. From an enamel Miniature by zink in the possession of Charles Colville Esqr.
A.Deveria del. Lith de Villain.
[n.d., c.1800.] London published by Bull & Churton, 26, Holles St Cavendish Square.
Lithograph, in pencil verso "Exhibited at Popes Twickenham Lot 264 Aug 1888". Sheet 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Crease in lower left corner. Bit messy.
Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
[Ref: 65874] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
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