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The Flemish Ratt Catcher.
Ostade pinx.t. Rob.t Lowerie fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20 April 1772.
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Narrow margins, horizontal crease.
A rat catcher telling stories to villagers with the aid of a storyboard of prints. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66412] £480.00
[The Fortune Teller]
[N: Verkolje Pinx: et fecit.]
[G: Valck Excud: Cum Previl: Ord: Holl: et West-frisiae.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to image. Loose attachment to original mount.
A ragged girl reads the palm of a woman on a terrace, a fountain behind, after a painting by Nicolass Verkoje in the Toledo Museum of Art (inv.55-39). BM: 1875,0710.1382, 'a rare example by Verkolje of an outdoor scene during daylight'. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66521] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[James Tamesz Grieve] [John Tamesz Esq.r of Mosco.]
[Grose Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.]
[Published June 1st,, 1781.]
Rare mezzotint, without separate title plate. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11). Trimmed to plate on three sides, decorative border pasted over edge of plate in places. Old ink mss. in inscription area.
Half-length portrait of merhcant John Tamesz Grieve (1724-87, baptised James), born in St Petersburg while his father, Dr James Grieve (1703-63), was Physician to Empress Elizabeth. He died in Petersham, Surrey, and a memorial was erected in Bath Abbey, near one for his mother, Elizabeta Tamesz (1724-1758). CS 140. Goodwin 126. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66375] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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