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[Samuel Bowring] Tydus-pooh-pooh - Our Man of Genius. Translator of The Poetry of the Sandwich Islands.
[after Daniel Maclise.]
[n.d., 1831.]
Lithograph. Sheet 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Satire portrait of Sir John Bowing published in volume 4 of 'Fraser's Magazine'. As well as being the 4th governor of Hong Kong, he is regarded as being one the world's greatest hyperpolyglots: he claimed he knew 200 languages and could speak 100. He published works on the poetry of Russia, Poland, Spain, Serbia, Hungary, as well as descriptions of Batavia, Siam and the Philippines. Here he is satirised as the Hawaiian Tydus-pooh-pooh, who is described in the text (on-line) as 'the undisputed monarch of Owyheian literature', but depicted with his compatriots snoozing behind. Houghton: Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900, p.468.
[Ref: 34971] £95.00
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Charles Dickens, his wife, & her sister. Drawn by Maclise in 1842.
Maclise R.A. C.H. Jeens [c.1872-4]
Soft-ground etching, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Triple portraits of the author Charles Dickens, his wife Catherine and her sister Georgina, after a drawing by his friend, the artist Daniel Maclise (bap. 1806- d.1870). Illustration to 'The Life of Charles Dickens' by John Forster (1872-4).
[Ref: 43517] £70.00
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Benjamin Disraeli. Facsimile of the sketch by Daniel Maclise, R. A. in the South Kensington Museum.
L. Lowenstam William Mackenzie, London, Edinborough & Glasgow.
London.
Engraving. 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7").
Portrait of a young Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). Disraeli served as British Prime Minister twice, was a parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure. Before his political career, he was known as a literary and social figure, and mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today.
[Ref: 53880] £70.00
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The Fraserians.
[Daniel Maclise.]
[London: James Fraser, January 1836.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Central fold as issued, with binding holes.
A group portrait of the 27 male editors and contributors to 'Fraser's Magazine', published in that magazine. Amoung them are Thackeray, Irving, Coleridge, D'Orsay and Carlyle Later in the year a counterpoint portrait of the women contributors was published. Maclise's pencil sketch is in in the V&A, F.85.
[Ref: 51806] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
John Galt [facsimile.] The Author of a "Life of Byron".
Daniel Maclise.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching. 266 x 297mm. 10½ x 11¾".
John Galt (1779-1839) was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commenter. He published the Life of Lord Byron in 1830. Depicted here with a bust of Byron and a map showing Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and environs. See NPG: D34534.
[Ref: 24467] £45.00
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[Letitia Elizabeth Landon] Your obliged L.E. Landon [facsimile signature]. Author of ''Romance and Reality''.
A. Croquis del [after Daniel Maclise].
Published by James Fraser, 215, Regent Street, London.
Stipple. Sheet 225 x 150mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed to platemark.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-38), poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. From a series of Literary Characters in 'Fraser's Magazine' See BM 1893,0227.1 for Maclise's watercolour.
[Ref: 51796] £70.00
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The Modern Orpheus. Paganini. [in pencil]. [Opera House June 3rd 1831.] [Sketches of the Musical world no.1 to be continued.]
RL [after a sketch done by Daniel Maclise].
[Published by Tho.s M.cLean, 26, Haymarket, June 10th 1831.]
Lithograph sheet 8¾ x 6½" (220 x 165mm). Cut losing title and publication line. Some light creasing. Stain in top right.
Portrait of the virtuoso Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 - 1840). The date and location refer to his first appearance in England, after a marathon tour of all the major cities in Europe which lasted from 1828 into early 1831. Paganini is shown standing at the front of the stage with his violin, whilst Robert Lindley, Nicolas Mori and Dragonetti straining to see round the front, to try and see what was going on. Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet and prophet in Greek mythology, considered the best of the best.
[Ref: 54841] £130.00
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Regina's Maids of Honour.
[Daniel Maclise.]
[London: James Fraser, 1836.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾").
A group portrait of women contibutors to 'Fraser's Magazine', published in that magazine as a counterpoint to the Maclise's 'Fraserians', a portrait of the male editors and contributors published in January that year. The women are (counter-clockwise from bottom left: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.), Lady Sydney Morgan, Caroline Norton, Countess of Blessington (standing), Jane Porter, Harriet Martineau, Mary Russell Mitford and Mrs Samuel Carter Hall. This image is much smaller than male verson Ref: 51806. See The Victorian Web.
[Ref: 51805] £190.00
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John Wilson [facsimile signature.] The Editor of Blackwood's Magazine.
Daniel Maclise.
[n.d. c.1831.]
Etching. 267 x 203mm (10½ x 8").
John Wilson (1785-1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh University. He was professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820-1851). Depicted here with two fighting cocks and a boxing match taking place in the background. See NPG: D34533.
[Ref: 24469] £45.00
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