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M.rs Susanna Cent-Livre.
D. Firmin Pinx. P. Pelham fecit 1720.
Printed & Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, mounted on album paper, creasing in corners.
A half-length portrait in oval of Susanna Centlivre (c.1669-1723), poet, actress and playwright, born Susanna Freeman, and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll. She had a long career at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Literary Encyclopedia (2001) describes her as 'the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century'. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS 6, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64844] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
D. Firmin Pinx. P. Pelham fecit 1720.
Printed & Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, mounted on album paper, creasing in corners.
A half-length portrait in oval of Susanna Centlivre (c.1669-1723), poet, actress and playwright, born Susanna Freeman, and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll. She had a long career at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Literary Encyclopedia (2001) describes her as 'the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century'. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS 6, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64844] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)