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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Frances Abington] Roxalana.](jpegs/67906.jpg)
[Frances Abington] Roxalana.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Fine stipple with etching, title in open letters. 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"), very large margins.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737-1815) in character as Roxalana, an English slave in Isaac Bickstaffe's play 'The Sultan; or A Peep into the Seraglio' She is, as a contemporary newspaper reported, 'in the act of drawing the Curtain when she surprises the sultan in his retirement'. Mrs Abington was rumoured to have spent her teenage years working as a prostitute. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67906] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Fine stipple with etching, title in open letters. 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"), very large margins.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737-1815) in character as Roxalana, an English slave in Isaac Bickstaffe's play 'The Sultan; or A Peep into the Seraglio' She is, as a contemporary newspaper reported, 'in the act of drawing the Curtain when she surprises the sultan in his retirement'. Mrs Abington was rumoured to have spent her teenage years working as a prostitute. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67906] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Samuel Foote Esq.r.]](jpegs/68037.jpg)
[Samuel Foote Esq.r.]
[Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav’d by T. Blackmore.]
[Publish’d June y 4.th.1771. accor.g to Act of Parliament by W.W. Ryland in Cornhill.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters, 18th century watermark. 450 x 330mm (17¾ x 13"), large margins. Unidentified collector's ink stamp on reverse.
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 656); three-quarter length standing, turned slightly to left, leaning on stick, with left arm resting on right hand, wearing patterned waistcoat; curtain behind. Samuel Foote (1721-1777), actor, playwright and theatre (Haymarket) manager. Native of Truro, for which his father was MP. Squandered a fortune as a student and took to acting and writing satirical pieces for the theatre, including 'The minor'. He lost a leg in 1766 as a result of a practical joke, but continued acting in spite of it.
CS: 2, i of iii. Hamilton: p.27, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68037] £380.00
[Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav’d by T. Blackmore.]
[Publish’d June y 4.th.1771. accor.g to Act of Parliament by W.W. Ryland in Cornhill.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters, 18th century watermark. 450 x 330mm (17¾ x 13"), large margins. Unidentified collector's ink stamp on reverse.
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 656); three-quarter length standing, turned slightly to left, leaning on stick, with left arm resting on right hand, wearing patterned waistcoat; curtain behind. Samuel Foote (1721-1777), actor, playwright and theatre (Haymarket) manager. Native of Truro, for which his father was MP. Squandered a fortune as a student and took to acting and writing satirical pieces for the theatre, including 'The minor'. He lost a leg in 1766 as a result of a practical joke, but continued acting in spite of it.
CS: 2, i of iii. Hamilton: p.27, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68037] £380.00
![[Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy.]](jpegs/67822.jpg)
[Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy.]
[J. Reynolds Pinxit. E. Fisher sculpsit Londini 1762]
[Sold by Edw.d Fisher, at the Golden Head the South Side of Leicester Square, John Boydell Engraver, at the Unicorn, in Cheapside, and E. Bakewell, & H. Parker, _PrintSellers in Cornhill, opposite Birchin Lane, London.]
Mezzotint, without the title printed from a separate plate, 18th century watermark. 410 x 505mm (16 x 20"). Tear entering plate at top, two tears and rubbing in margin.
A portrait of actor David Garrick (1717-1779), showing him torn between the female figures of Comedy and Tragedy. Although he looks at Tragedy he is allowing Comedy to pull him away. The scene is a parody of the Choice of Hercules, in which the hero was asked to choose between Pleasure and Virtue, choosing the more difficult but more honourable path of Virtue. Walpole notes that the idea for the painting was Garrick's. The picture was one of Garrick's favourites: in 1764 he wrote from Paris, ''I am so plagu'd here for my prints or rather prints of me - that I must desire you to send me by the first opportunity six prints from Reynolds' picture, you may apply to the engraver he lives in Leicester Fields, and his name is Fisher, he will give you good ones, if he knows they are for me''. A separate plate was used to print the title, with a Latin title (''Reddere Personæ scit convenientia cuique'').
CS 20, iii of iii. Hamilton p.29.
[Ref: 67822] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[J. Reynolds Pinxit. E. Fisher sculpsit Londini 1762]
[Sold by Edw.d Fisher, at the Golden Head the South Side of Leicester Square, John Boydell Engraver, at the Unicorn, in Cheapside, and E. Bakewell, & H. Parker, _PrintSellers in Cornhill, opposite Birchin Lane, London.]
Mezzotint, without the title printed from a separate plate, 18th century watermark. 410 x 505mm (16 x 20"). Tear entering plate at top, two tears and rubbing in margin.
A portrait of actor David Garrick (1717-1779), showing him torn between the female figures of Comedy and Tragedy. Although he looks at Tragedy he is allowing Comedy to pull him away. The scene is a parody of the Choice of Hercules, in which the hero was asked to choose between Pleasure and Virtue, choosing the more difficult but more honourable path of Virtue. Walpole notes that the idea for the painting was Garrick's. The picture was one of Garrick's favourites: in 1764 he wrote from Paris, ''I am so plagu'd here for my prints or rather prints of me - that I must desire you to send me by the first opportunity six prints from Reynolds' picture, you may apply to the engraver he lives in Leicester Fields, and his name is Fisher, he will give you good ones, if he knows they are for me''. A separate plate was used to print the title, with a Latin title (''Reddere Personæ scit convenientia cuique'').
CS 20, iii of iii. Hamilton p.29.
[Ref: 67822] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
M.r Garrick in the character of Kitely; Every Man in his Humour. Act 2,d Scene 1,st.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Finlayson fec.t.
Publish'd Feb.y 1.st 1769. Sold by M.r Parker, N.º 82 Cornhill, & M.r Finlayson in Berwick Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, creased horizontal centre, laid on album paper at edges.
A half-length portrait of David Garrick, leaning on a balustrade, in costume in Ben Jonson's 1598 play, 'Every Man in his Humour'. Garrick revived and revised the play in 1751, playing the part of Thomas Kitely, a man comsumed by the paranoid belief that his wife was cuckolding him. It became one of his signature roles.
CS 7, iii of iv. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67992] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Finlayson fec.t.
Publish'd Feb.y 1.st 1769. Sold by M.r Parker, N.º 82 Cornhill, & M.r Finlayson in Berwick Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, creased horizontal centre, laid on album paper at edges.
A half-length portrait of David Garrick, leaning on a balustrade, in costume in Ben Jonson's 1598 play, 'Every Man in his Humour'. Garrick revived and revised the play in 1751, playing the part of Thomas Kitely, a man comsumed by the paranoid belief that his wife was cuckolding him. It became one of his signature roles.
CS 7, iii of iv. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67992] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
M.r Garrick in the character of Kitely; Every Man in his Humour. Act 2,d Scene 1,st.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Finlayson fec.t.
Publish'd Feb.y 1.st 1769. [Sold by M.r Parker, N.º 82 Cornhill, & M.r Finlayson in Berwick Street Soho.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), with large margins. Crack in top platemark taped, nicks in edges.
A half-length portrait of David Garrick, leaning on a balustrade, in costume in Ben Jonson's 1598 play, 'Every Man in his Humour'. Garrick revived and revised the play in 1751, playing the part of Thomas Kitely, a man comsumed by the paranoid belief that his wife was cuckolding him. It became one of his signature roles.
CS 7, ii of iv.
[Ref: 67993] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Finlayson fec.t.
Publish'd Feb.y 1.st 1769. [Sold by M.r Parker, N.º 82 Cornhill, & M.r Finlayson in Berwick Street Soho.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), with large margins. Crack in top platemark taped, nicks in edges.
A half-length portrait of David Garrick, leaning on a balustrade, in costume in Ben Jonson's 1598 play, 'Every Man in his Humour'. Garrick revived and revised the play in 1751, playing the part of Thomas Kitely, a man comsumed by the paranoid belief that his wife was cuckolding him. It became one of his signature roles.
CS 7, ii of iv.
[Ref: 67993] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Frances Kemble] Miss Kemble.](jpegs/68004.jpg)
[Frances Kemble] Miss Kemble.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London Published According to Act March 23 1784, by J. Jones, No 63 Great Portland Street.
Mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), with large margins. Crack in bottom platemark taped.
A half-length portrait of actress Frances Kemble (1759-1822), wearing a dark dress with white frill, mountainous scenery behind. The title is on a scroll held aloft by cherubs. The younger sister of Sarah Siddons, Kemble married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 42. Russell 42, ii of ii; Hamilton p.112, ii of ii.
[Ref: 68004] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London Published According to Act March 23 1784, by J. Jones, No 63 Great Portland Street.
Mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), with large margins. Crack in bottom platemark taped.
A half-length portrait of actress Frances Kemble (1759-1822), wearing a dark dress with white frill, mountainous scenery behind. The title is on a scroll held aloft by cherubs. The younger sister of Sarah Siddons, Kemble married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 42. Russell 42, ii of ii; Hamilton p.112, ii of ii.
[Ref: 68004] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Frances Kemble] Miss Kemble.](jpegs/68005.jpg)
[Frances Kemble] Miss Kemble.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London Published According to Act March 23 1784, by J. Jones, No 63 Great Portland Street [but later].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Paper toned, small tear entering inscription area taped. Small margins.
A half-length portrait of actress Frances Kemble (1759-1822), wearing a dark dress with white frill, mountainous scenery behind. The title is on a scroll held aloft by cherubs. The younger sister of Sarah Siddons, Kemble married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 42. Russell 42, ii of ii; Hamilton p.113, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68005] £320.00
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London Published According to Act March 23 1784, by J. Jones, No 63 Great Portland Street [but later].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Paper toned, small tear entering inscription area taped. Small margins.
A half-length portrait of actress Frances Kemble (1759-1822), wearing a dark dress with white frill, mountainous scenery behind. The title is on a scroll held aloft by cherubs. The younger sister of Sarah Siddons, Kemble married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 42. Russell 42, ii of ii; Hamilton p.113, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68005] £320.00
![[Frances Kemble] Miss Kemble.](jpegs/68010.jpg)
[Frances Kemble] Miss Kemble.
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by John Jones.
London, Pub.d as the Act directs, Jan.y 17, 1786, by J. Jones N.º 63 Great Portland Street, Mary-le-bone.
Very fine mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Small margins.
An unlettered half-length portrait of actress Frances Kemble (1759-1822), wearing a white dress with white double frill, before a plain background. The younger sister of Sarah Siddons, Kemble married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 44. Hamilton p.113, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68010] £320.00
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by John Jones.
London, Pub.d as the Act directs, Jan.y 17, 1786, by J. Jones N.º 63 Great Portland Street, Mary-le-bone.
Very fine mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Small margins.
An unlettered half-length portrait of actress Frances Kemble (1759-1822), wearing a white dress with white double frill, before a plain background. The younger sister of Sarah Siddons, Kemble married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 44. Hamilton p.113, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68010] £320.00
![[John Liston] M.r Liston as Sam Swipes, (in ''Exchange no Robbery'').](jpegs/68057.jpg)
[John Liston] M.r Liston as Sam Swipes, (in ''Exchange no Robbery''). ''No_am I a Gentleman!_ upon your soul tho' Mother?''. N.º 7.
Pub.d by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithog.c Office, 310 Strand, London. Jan.y 1826.
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1825'.
A caricature portrait of comedian John Liston (c.1776-1846) in character as cockney pot boy Sam Swipes, hands in his pockets, wearing a green jacket, white apron, brown breeches and striped leggings Theodore Hook's play 'Exchange no Robbery' was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1820 and revived at Drury Lane in 1826.
[Ref: 68057] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithog.c Office, 310 Strand, London. Jan.y 1826.
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1825'.
A caricature portrait of comedian John Liston (c.1776-1846) in character as cockney pot boy Sam Swipes, hands in his pockets, wearing a green jacket, white apron, brown breeches and striped leggings Theodore Hook's play 'Exchange no Robbery' was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1820 and revived at Drury Lane in 1826.
[Ref: 68057] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[John Liston] The Celebrated Preacher (M.r Liston as Maw-worm, in the Hypocrite.)](jpegs/68055.jpg)
[John Liston] The Celebrated Preacher (M.r Liston as Maw-worm, in the Hypocrite.) Encored in his Sermon by His Majesty.
Pub.d by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithographic Office, 310 Strand, 1825.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Glue stains at corners.
A caricature portrait of comedian John Liston (c.1776-1846), standing above a screen with pictures of him in other roles: Van Dunder, Paul Pry, Tristram Sappy and Billy Lackaday. 'The Hypocrite' was a play by Isaac Bickerstaffe.
[Ref: 68055] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithographic Office, 310 Strand, 1825.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Glue stains at corners.
A caricature portrait of comedian John Liston (c.1776-1846), standing above a screen with pictures of him in other roles: Van Dunder, Paul Pry, Tristram Sappy and Billy Lackaday. 'The Hypocrite' was a play by Isaac Bickerstaffe.
[Ref: 68055] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Shuter.
P. Dawe Fecit.
[Publish'd June 12, 1773 by P. Dawe, No 4 Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, & by W.m Darling in Great Newport Street.]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 340 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"). Trimmed losing publication line.
Edward Shuter (c.1728-1776), actor holding the 'Comedy' mask.
CS 10.2.
[Ref: 68165] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
P. Dawe Fecit.
[Publish'd June 12, 1773 by P. Dawe, No 4 Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, & by W.m Darling in Great Newport Street.]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 340 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"). Trimmed losing publication line.
Edward Shuter (c.1728-1776), actor holding the 'Comedy' mask.
CS 10.2.
[Ref: 68165] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Henry Woodward] M.r Woodward in the Character of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.](jpegs/68070.jpg)
[Henry Woodward] M.r Woodward in the Character of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Ha ha! a dream! / O then I see queen Mab hath been with you...
Published by W. Herbert at the Globe on London Bridge 1753 March 1. according to Act of Parliament. Price 6d.
Scarce etching. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Repaired tears with loss of text, creases, edges chipped.
A full-length portrait of actor Henry Woodward (1714-77), in character in Shakespeare's play; standing in a forest, delivering the Queen Mab soliloquy.
[Ref: 68070] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published by W. Herbert at the Globe on London Bridge 1753 March 1. according to Act of Parliament. Price 6d.
Scarce etching. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Repaired tears with loss of text, creases, edges chipped.
A full-length portrait of actor Henry Woodward (1714-77), in character in Shakespeare's play; standing in a forest, delivering the Queen Mab soliloquy.
[Ref: 68070] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)