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Charles Ashton D.D. late Master of Jesus Coll. Camb. and Prebendary of Ely.
R. Pyle Pinx.t. [J.s McArdell fecit.]
Sold by J. Ryall & R. Withy at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Small rust spot, hole lower middle.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Charles Ashton (1665-1752), Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital (1698), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1701) and Vice-Chancellor of the University (1702). McArdell's signature has been erased. CS 4, unlisted state between i & ii of ii; Russell ii of iii, not mentioning the removal of engraver's signature; Goodwin 143. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68220] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Winter. Pleasure is fled - save where the Ball or play, / Or Opera, invite the Young and Gay; / Now Blustering Winds & rude inclement Skies / The Tippett, Muff, and Cardinal defies.
R. Pyle Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed just within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Slight creasing.
A three-quarter length portrait of a fashionably-dressed young woman in a winter landscape, arms folded in an ermine-trimmed cloak (tippet). From a set of Seasons by Robert Pyle, which was also engraved by Richard Houston, Charles Corbett (pseudonym used by both Richard Purcell and Houston) & Georg & Johann Rugendas.
[Ref: 53387] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
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