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![[Acrobats] Forioso, ou la Contredanse sur quatre Cordes.](jpegs/68126.jpg)
[Acrobats] Forioso, ou la Contredanse sur quatre Cordes. Le Bon Genre, N.º 25.
[Pierre La Mesangere] [n.d. c.1810]
Coloured etching, with fine colour. 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), large margins.
Four acrobats dance on four tightropes. Supposedly Pierre Forioso, and his troupe of rope dancers at the Theatre de la Nouveaute and the Tivoli 'Le Bon Genre', a series of semi-satirical costume plates) was published separately between plate 1 in 1800 & plate 104 in 1817, when Pierre La Mésangère republished the complete set with text. He issued eleven new plates (105-115), between 1818 and 1822, when another full set with text was issued. A final issue was published in 1827.
BM: 1866,0407.886; see BM 1868,0822.7243 for 'Le Bon Genre'.
[Ref: 68126] £360.00
[Pierre La Mesangere] [n.d. c.1810]
Coloured etching, with fine colour. 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), large margins.
Four acrobats dance on four tightropes. Supposedly Pierre Forioso, and his troupe of rope dancers at the Theatre de la Nouveaute and the Tivoli 'Le Bon Genre', a series of semi-satirical costume plates) was published separately between plate 1 in 1800 & plate 104 in 1817, when Pierre La Mésangère republished the complete set with text. He issued eleven new plates (105-115), between 1818 and 1822, when another full set with text was issued. A final issue was published in 1827.
BM: 1866,0407.886; see BM 1868,0822.7243 for 'Le Bon Genre'.
[Ref: 68126] £360.00
![[William Phillips] Merry Andrew on the Stage.](jpegs/67866.jpg)
[William Phillips] Merry Andrew on the Stage. Le plaisant Charlatan. Il Ciarlatano Buffone.
[Mauron delin.]
P Tempest [exc: Cum privilegio.] [Henry Overton, c.1711?]
Etching. Sheet 245 x 150mm (9¾ x 6"). Trimmed into printed border, losing artist's name and part of publication line at bottom.
A portrait of actor William Phillips playing a cello, dressed in a clown's costume with ass's ears . After Marcellus Laroon (c.1650-1702), from the series 'The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life' published by Pierce Tempest (1653 - 1717). This example has the added plate number '63'.
[Ref: 67866] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Mauron delin.]
P Tempest [exc: Cum privilegio.] [Henry Overton, c.1711?]
Etching. Sheet 245 x 150mm (9¾ x 6"). Trimmed into printed border, losing artist's name and part of publication line at bottom.
A portrait of actor William Phillips playing a cello, dressed in a clown's costume with ass's ears . After Marcellus Laroon (c.1650-1702), from the series 'The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life' published by Pierce Tempest (1653 - 1717). This example has the added plate number '63'.
[Ref: 67866] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)