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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Humphreys. The Celebrated Boxer.
Painted by W.Whitby. Engrav'd by J.Young.
London, Publish'd by W.m Whitby Sep.r 1788 No 99 Holborn.
Mezzotint scratched letter proof. Plate 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 10"). Thread margins. Light foxing.
Half-length portrait of Richard Humphreys (f.l 1787-1790) wearing a simple coat with the neck button undone to reveal a cravat. Boxer, known as "The Gentleman Fighter". Painted just before his famous bout with his protegé Daniel Mendoza, 1788.
CS: 40, state ii of ii, but an unlisted third state is known, with closed letters. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65678] £360.00
Painted by W.Whitby. Engrav'd by J.Young.
London, Publish'd by W.m Whitby Sep.r 1788 No 99 Holborn.
Mezzotint scratched letter proof. Plate 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 10"). Thread margins. Light foxing.
Half-length portrait of Richard Humphreys (f.l 1787-1790) wearing a simple coat with the neck button undone to reveal a cravat. Boxer, known as "The Gentleman Fighter". Painted just before his famous bout with his protegé Daniel Mendoza, 1788.
CS: 40, state ii of ii, but an unlisted third state is known, with closed letters. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65678] £360.00
Humphreys The Celebrated Boxer.
Painted by W.Whitby. Engrav'd by J.Young.
Publish'd Jan.y 1789, by W.Whitby, No 59 Poland Street London.
Mezzotint. 340 x 250mm, (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Late impression. Platemark cracked. Nicks to edges of paper. Margins spotted.
Half-length portrait of Richard Humphreys (f.l1787-1790) wearing a simple coat with the neck button undone to reveal a cravat. Boxer, known as "The Gentleman Fighter". Painted just before his famous bout with his protegé Daniel Mendoza, 1788.
CS: 40, this example a later state not listed, not 1788 as CS.
[Ref: 65682] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by W.Whitby. Engrav'd by J.Young.
Publish'd Jan.y 1789, by W.Whitby, No 59 Poland Street London.
Mezzotint. 340 x 250mm, (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Late impression. Platemark cracked. Nicks to edges of paper. Margins spotted.
Half-length portrait of Richard Humphreys (f.l1787-1790) wearing a simple coat with the neck button undone to reveal a cravat. Boxer, known as "The Gentleman Fighter". Painted just before his famous bout with his protegé Daniel Mendoza, 1788.
CS: 40, this example a later state not listed, not 1788 as CS.
[Ref: 65682] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Edward Snape.
Whitby pinx.t. Godby sculp.
London, Publish'd by the Author, May 1, 1791.
Stipple. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Edward Snape (b.1728), a farrier, holding an book illustrating blood vessels. In 1766 Snape proposed the establishment of a 'hippiatric [horse] infirmary' as a school for the 'instruction of pupils in the profession', which eventually opened in Knightsbridge in 1778, the same year he published a print, 'A Muscular Preparation of a Horse', on which he described himself as 'Farrier to their Majesty’s & the 2nd Troop of the Horse Guards' with an address in Berkeley Square. In 1791 he published 'A Practical treatise on farriery including remarks on all diseases incident to horses', which had a second edition in 1805.
[Ref: 43391] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Whitby pinx.t. Godby sculp.
London, Publish'd by the Author, May 1, 1791.
Stipple. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Edward Snape (b.1728), a farrier, holding an book illustrating blood vessels. In 1766 Snape proposed the establishment of a 'hippiatric [horse] infirmary' as a school for the 'instruction of pupils in the profession', which eventually opened in Knightsbridge in 1778, the same year he published a print, 'A Muscular Preparation of a Horse', on which he described himself as 'Farrier to their Majesty’s & the 2nd Troop of the Horse Guards' with an address in Berkeley Square. In 1791 he published 'A Practical treatise on farriery including remarks on all diseases incident to horses', which had a second edition in 1805.
[Ref: 43391] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)