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Great Meeting of the Political Unions, On New-Hall Hill, Birmingham, May 1832.
Green Delt. Garner Sct.
London, Thomas Kelly. [c.1832.]
Steel engraving. 175 x 240mm (7 x 9½"0. Trimmed to plate.
The mass meeting of the Birmingham Political Union, formed in 1829 to campaign for parliamentary reform, on Newhall Hill, Birmingham, held on 7th May 1832. In the right foreground can be seen the political reformer and the Union's founder Thomas Attwood (1783 - 1856), in his carriage in the midst of the crowd. Attwood brought Birmingham to the edge of insurrection in 1832 to help ensure the passing of the Reform Act. Elected as Birmingham's first MP, he was a rare Parliamentary ally of Chartism and presented the first national petition to the House of Commons in 1839. Birmingham suffered two weeks of rioting following the petition's rejection. Attwood subsequently retired from public office and concentrated his energies on economic theory.
[Ref: 69473] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Green Delt. Garner Sct.
London, Thomas Kelly. [c.1832.]
Steel engraving. 175 x 240mm (7 x 9½"0. Trimmed to plate.
The mass meeting of the Birmingham Political Union, formed in 1829 to campaign for parliamentary reform, on Newhall Hill, Birmingham, held on 7th May 1832. In the right foreground can be seen the political reformer and the Union's founder Thomas Attwood (1783 - 1856), in his carriage in the midst of the crowd. Attwood brought Birmingham to the edge of insurrection in 1832 to help ensure the passing of the Reform Act. Elected as Birmingham's first MP, he was a rare Parliamentary ally of Chartism and presented the first national petition to the House of Commons in 1839. Birmingham suffered two weeks of rioting following the petition's rejection. Attwood subsequently retired from public office and concentrated his energies on economic theory.
[Ref: 69473] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
The Farm Yard. From the Original Picture, by Peter de Laer, called Bamboccio; In the Collection of Rob.t Udny Esq.r. To whom this plate is Dedicated, by his much obliged and most Humble servant, John Boydell. No. 47.
Peter de Laer Pinxit. P.C. Canot Sculpsit.
J. Boydell excudit 1768.
Engraving, 480 x 610mm (19 x 24"). Trimmed to plate at top. Small margins on three sides. Nicks to edges of paper repaired.
Fine cattle image showing rural scene with a ruined building, partially overgrown, part used as a barn, with people sitting at a small table outside. Cattle and goats are shown on the right with a man lifting a basket from a horse nearby. A view of a town is in the background to the right. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
[Ref: 69536] £420.00
Peter de Laer Pinxit. P.C. Canot Sculpsit.
J. Boydell excudit 1768.
Engraving, 480 x 610mm (19 x 24"). Trimmed to plate at top. Small margins on three sides. Nicks to edges of paper repaired.
Fine cattle image showing rural scene with a ruined building, partially overgrown, part used as a barn, with people sitting at a small table outside. Cattle and goats are shown on the right with a man lifting a basket from a horse nearby. A view of a town is in the background to the right. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
[Ref: 69536] £420.00
Fox and Rabbit. Proof.
Drawn by Shark. Engraved by C. Turner.
Published Feb.y 29th 1812, by R.Ackermann at his Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, London.
Mezzotint, printed in colour, very fine colour and condition. 455 x 595mm (17¾ x 23½"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1810'. Repaired tears.
A fox eating a rabbit beside a large burrow, with another fox looking on from the right. A rare plate, possibly never published. Whitman only describes a plate with the same title in the Charles Turner sale catalogue as being after Frans Snyders.
Whitman: 845?
[Ref: 69374] £950.00
Drawn by Shark. Engraved by C. Turner.
Published Feb.y 29th 1812, by R.Ackermann at his Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, London.
Mezzotint, printed in colour, very fine colour and condition. 455 x 595mm (17¾ x 23½"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1810'. Repaired tears.
A fox eating a rabbit beside a large burrow, with another fox looking on from the right. A rare plate, possibly never published. Whitman only describes a plate with the same title in the Charles Turner sale catalogue as being after Frans Snyders.
Whitman: 845?
[Ref: 69374] £950.00
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Gleaners.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delint. C. Knight Fecit.
London, Published March 1;st 1787, by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Stipples printed in brown, 400 x 450mm (15¾ x 17¾"), with large margins and original tissue guard stuck on left edge. On 18th century watermarked paper. Small tears in margins, spotting, staining and creasing.
An oval scene of women and girls working in the fields bundling and carrying sheaves of corn.
[Ref: 69299] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delint. C. Knight Fecit.
London, Published March 1;st 1787, by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Stipples printed in brown, 400 x 450mm (15¾ x 17¾"), with large margins and original tissue guard stuck on left edge. On 18th century watermarked paper. Small tears in margins, spotting, staining and creasing.
An oval scene of women and girls working in the fields bundling and carrying sheaves of corn.
[Ref: 69299] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
The Smuglers breaking open the Custom House at Poole, Oct.r. 7th 1747.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides
A scene depicting the events on the night of October 6th to 7th, 1747, where members of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang broke into the King's Custom House at Poole, Dorset, in a daring raid to recover a massive shipment of confiscated tea. Led by Thomas Kingsmill, the smugglers successfully stole back two tons of tea and 39 barrels of rum that had been seized from them by custom officers in September 1747, bringing them to the Custom House at Poole
See Ref 68783
[Ref: 68741] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides
A scene depicting the events on the night of October 6th to 7th, 1747, where members of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang broke into the King's Custom House at Poole, Dorset, in a daring raid to recover a massive shipment of confiscated tea. Led by Thomas Kingsmill, the smugglers successfully stole back two tons of tea and 39 barrels of rum that had been seized from them by custom officers in September 1747, bringing them to the Custom House at Poole
See Ref 68783
[Ref: 68741] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
John Hayes's head exposed in St.Margarets church yard.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides.
A scene depicting John Hayes's head displayed in St.Margarets church yard. John Hayes was murdered with an axe by Thomas Wood & Thomas Billings (Billing's being Catherine & John's son). On 1 March 1726, they persuaded Hayes to partake in a drinking contest, then killed him once he was intoxicated. The trio then dismembered Hayes' body To make identification more difficult, they decided to cut off his head, wrap it in a cloth and place it in a bucket, which they later threw into the Thames at Millbank, from where it was soon recovered lying on a sandbank near the Horse-Ferry at Westminster. Wood, being a butcher, dismembered the rest of John's body, the pieces of which they threw into a pond in Marylebone Fields. The recovered head was examined and the scull found to be severely fractured in two places and the face lacerated. Catherine Hayes was tried alongside Wood & Billings and, although she claimed to have only held a candle as Billings and Wood murdered her husband she was found guilty of Petty Treason was sentenced to be drawn to Tyburn on a hurdle and there to be burned alive at the stake. Wood & Billings were sentenced to be hanged at Tyburn and afterwards be hanged in chains. Wood died in prison of fever before the sentence was carried out.
[Ref: 68780] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides.
A scene depicting John Hayes's head displayed in St.Margarets church yard. John Hayes was murdered with an axe by Thomas Wood & Thomas Billings (Billing's being Catherine & John's son). On 1 March 1726, they persuaded Hayes to partake in a drinking contest, then killed him once he was intoxicated. The trio then dismembered Hayes' body To make identification more difficult, they decided to cut off his head, wrap it in a cloth and place it in a bucket, which they later threw into the Thames at Millbank, from where it was soon recovered lying on a sandbank near the Horse-Ferry at Westminster. Wood, being a butcher, dismembered the rest of John's body, the pieces of which they threw into a pond in Marylebone Fields. The recovered head was examined and the scull found to be severely fractured in two places and the face lacerated. Catherine Hayes was tried alongside Wood & Billings and, although she claimed to have only held a candle as Billings and Wood murdered her husband she was found guilty of Petty Treason was sentenced to be drawn to Tyburn on a hurdle and there to be burned alive at the stake. Wood & Billings were sentenced to be hanged at Tyburn and afterwards be hanged in chains. Wood died in prison of fever before the sentence was carried out.
[Ref: 68780] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![Love & Hope. [&] Love and Jealousy.](jpegs/69298.jpg)
Love & Hope. [&] Love and Jealousy.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delint. C. Knight fecit.
London: Published Dec.r 1st 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver and Printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in brown, 400 x 450mm (15¾ x 17¾"), with large margins and original tissue guards stuck on left edge. On 18th century watermarked paper. 'Hope' with tear touching bottom platemark; both with spotting and staining, faint creasing.
A pair of of oval scenes: in 'Love & Hope' a soldier flirts with a woman by a gate; in 'Love and Jealousy' a woman with a spindle is courted by a sailor as another looks on.
[Ref: 69298] £690.00 view all images for this item
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delint. C. Knight fecit.
London: Published Dec.r 1st 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver and Printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in brown, 400 x 450mm (15¾ x 17¾"), with large margins and original tissue guards stuck on left edge. On 18th century watermarked paper. 'Hope' with tear touching bottom platemark; both with spotting and staining, faint creasing.
A pair of of oval scenes: in 'Love & Hope' a soldier flirts with a woman by a gate; in 'Love and Jealousy' a woman with a spindle is courted by a sailor as another looks on.
[Ref: 69298] £690.00 view all images for this item
![[Lord Lyttelton's Dream.]](jpegs/68539.jpg)
[Lord Lyttelton's Dream.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into image at bottom, tear in left edge taped, top left corner chipped.
A rare mezzotint, possibly unpublished, depicting Thomas Lyttelton (1744-79), 2nd Baron Lyttelton, dreaming of being visited by a bird that turned into a woman, who told him he was going to die in three days. The following morning he recounted his dream to the four Amphlett sisters who were lodging with him. He was disbelieving, but three days later he dropped dead while getting ready for bed at Pitt Place at Epsom. The ''wicked Lord Lyttelton'' led a debauched lifestyle, marrying an heiress to pay off his gambling debts, then abandoning her and running off to Paris with a barmaid. In 1768 he became Whig MP for Bewdley but lasted only a year before being removed for bribing the electorate.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 68539] £480.00
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into image at bottom, tear in left edge taped, top left corner chipped.
A rare mezzotint, possibly unpublished, depicting Thomas Lyttelton (1744-79), 2nd Baron Lyttelton, dreaming of being visited by a bird that turned into a woman, who told him he was going to die in three days. The following morning he recounted his dream to the four Amphlett sisters who were lodging with him. He was disbelieving, but three days later he dropped dead while getting ready for bed at Pitt Place at Epsom. The ''wicked Lord Lyttelton'' led a debauched lifestyle, marrying an heiress to pay off his gambling debts, then abandoning her and running off to Paris with a barmaid. In 1768 he became Whig MP for Bewdley but lasted only a year before being removed for bribing the electorate.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 68539] £480.00
Cacophanie.
Peint par A. Weisz. Gravé par Paul Giradet.
Berlin - Verlag von Goupil & Co. Imprimé et Publié par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre 1878 - Paris - Londres - La Haye. New York - Published by M. Knoedler.
Mixed-method engraving. 550 x 440mm (21¾ x 17¼"), with very large margins. Spotting in margins. Staining top left margin.
An elegant interior with a woman putting her fingers in her ears to block the noise coming from the bewigged man playing the cello. To one side is a umbrella yarn swift.
[Ref: 69428] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Peint par A. Weisz. Gravé par Paul Giradet.
Berlin - Verlag von Goupil & Co. Imprimé et Publié par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre 1878 - Paris - Londres - La Haye. New York - Published by M. Knoedler.
Mixed-method engraving. 550 x 440mm (21¾ x 17¼"), with very large margins. Spotting in margins. Staining top left margin.
An elegant interior with a woman putting her fingers in her ears to block the noise coming from the bewigged man playing the cello. To one side is a umbrella yarn swift.
[Ref: 69428] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
La Peinture. A Madame de Pompafour Dame du Palais de La Reine Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Fessard.
Carle Vanloo pinxit. St. Fessard Sculp 1756.
AParis chez l''Auteur, graveur du Roi et de sa Bibliothèque rue St Thomas du Louvre.
Rare etching with engraving. 345 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Restoration in left of inscription area and margin top right. Small margins.
A small boy paints a near naked young girl. The plate is dedicated to Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), favourite mistress and confidant of Louis XV. Van Loo's portrait of the previous year, 'La Marquise de Pompadour en jardinière' still hangs in Versailles.
[Ref: 69479] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Carle Vanloo pinxit. St. Fessard Sculp 1756.
AParis chez l''Auteur, graveur du Roi et de sa Bibliothèque rue St Thomas du Louvre.
Rare etching with engraving. 345 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Restoration in left of inscription area and margin top right. Small margins.
A small boy paints a near naked young girl. The plate is dedicated to Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), favourite mistress and confidant of Louis XV. Van Loo's portrait of the previous year, 'La Marquise de Pompadour en jardinière' still hangs in Versailles.
[Ref: 69479] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Penelope.
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. Dumée Sculp.
London Pub. Jn 1795 by J. Read, N.º 133 Pall Mall. [But later]
Stipple, printed in sepia. 330 x 355mm (13 x 14"), with large margins.
Penolope, the wife of Odysseus, sitting on a terrace with her attendants, unravelling the burial shroud she is weaving for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes. She had promised to pick a new husband when she finished it. A scene from near the end of Homer's 'Odyssey'.
[Ref: 69393] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. Dumée Sculp.
London Pub. Jn 1795 by J. Read, N.º 133 Pall Mall. [But later]
Stipple, printed in sepia. 330 x 355mm (13 x 14"), with large margins.
Penolope, the wife of Odysseus, sitting on a terrace with her attendants, unravelling the burial shroud she is weaving for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes. She had promised to pick a new husband when she finished it. A scene from near the end of Homer's 'Odyssey'.
[Ref: 69393] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
The Seven Famous Cartons of Raphael Urbin, Drawn at the Command of Pope Leo the 10th as Patterns for Tapesty: They were bought by K. Charles the first (at the Persuasion of Sr. P. P. Rubens) and brought from Flanders into England: afterwards K. William fix'd them in his Palace of Hampton-Court in the Gallery here Represented. In 1707 they were drawn and Engraven by Sim: Gribelin and by him most humbly Dedicated to Her Late Majesty.
S.G. Inv.t et Sculp.t & excudit 1720.
Frontispiece and seven plates. Each c. 185 x 220mm (7¼ x 8¾"). Frontispiece with paper tone, frontis laid on album paper, nicks and tears to all plates.
The seven plates were first published in 1707; the frontispiece accompanied their re-issue in 1720.
[Ref: 69389] £550.00 view all images for this item
S.G. Inv.t et Sculp.t & excudit 1720.
Frontispiece and seven plates. Each c. 185 x 220mm (7¼ x 8¾"). Frontispiece with paper tone, frontis laid on album paper, nicks and tears to all plates.
The seven plates were first published in 1707; the frontispiece accompanied their re-issue in 1720.
[Ref: 69389] £550.00 view all images for this item
Samson Carrying Off the Gates of Gaza.
Designed and Engraved by Jas. G. S. Lucas.
[probably published by J. Mc. Cormick, 62, Gracechurch Street, c.1830]
Scarce mezzotint. 300 x 385mm (11¾ x 15"). Repairs in large margins.
Samson carries the gates to the city of Gaza up to 'the hill that is in front of Hebron', after escaping from a planned ambush (see Judges 16:1-3). Engraving by James G. S. Lucas (1831-4, fl.), mezzotinter who usually engraved after John Martin, and artist whose influence is evident in this print by Lucas. No other artist is mentioned, but as Richard A. Burnett noted, 'Lucas rarely acknowledged the artsts whose work he had so shamelessly plagiarised, as is the case with his copies of Martin's 'Illustrations to the Bible'.
Campbell, 'John Martin: Visionary Printmaker', p.196. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69486] £380.00
Designed and Engraved by Jas. G. S. Lucas.
[probably published by J. Mc. Cormick, 62, Gracechurch Street, c.1830]
Scarce mezzotint. 300 x 385mm (11¾ x 15"). Repairs in large margins.
Samson carries the gates to the city of Gaza up to 'the hill that is in front of Hebron', after escaping from a planned ambush (see Judges 16:1-3). Engraving by James G. S. Lucas (1831-4, fl.), mezzotinter who usually engraved after John Martin, and artist whose influence is evident in this print by Lucas. No other artist is mentioned, but as Richard A. Burnett noted, 'Lucas rarely acknowledged the artsts whose work he had so shamelessly plagiarised, as is the case with his copies of Martin's 'Illustrations to the Bible'.
Campbell, 'John Martin: Visionary Printmaker', p.196. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69486] £380.00
Sylvia & her Fawn. The Wanton Troopers riding by, / Have shot my Fawn , and it will die. / O help, O help, I see it faint, / And die as carmly as a Saint.
W, Hamilton. T. Gaugain.
London pub: May 1787 by Jane White, N.º38 Tavistock Street Cov.t Garden.
Fine stipple, printed in brown, with large margins.
An illustration from 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn', by MP and poet Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
[Ref: 69295] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
W, Hamilton. T. Gaugain.
London pub: May 1787 by Jane White, N.º38 Tavistock Street Cov.t Garden.
Fine stipple, printed in brown, with large margins.
An illustration from 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn', by MP and poet Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
[Ref: 69295] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Télémague, arrivant a la Cour de Sparte, Déplore, en Présence de Ménélas et d'Hélene, les Malheurs de son Pere Ulisse.
Angelica Kauffman ex acad.a Regoli Art.rn Londini Pinx.t. D'aprés Guli.s Wynne Ryland Chalcog.s Regis Britain.ae.
A Paris chez Vidal, graveur, rue des Noyers N.º 29 [n.d., c.1780].
Stipple with etching, printed in red-brown. 300 x 350mm (11¾ x 13¾"). Nicks in edges.
A scene from Homer's Odyssey, in which Odysseus' son Telemachus visits Menelaus and Helen hoping to hear news of his father. A reversed copy of Ryland's print, engraved by Gerard Vidal.
[Ref: 69482] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Angelica Kauffman ex acad.a Regoli Art.rn Londini Pinx.t. D'aprés Guli.s Wynne Ryland Chalcog.s Regis Britain.ae.
A Paris chez Vidal, graveur, rue des Noyers N.º 29 [n.d., c.1780].
Stipple with etching, printed in red-brown. 300 x 350mm (11¾ x 13¾"). Nicks in edges.
A scene from Homer's Odyssey, in which Odysseus' son Telemachus visits Menelaus and Helen hoping to hear news of his father. A reversed copy of Ryland's print, engraved by Gerard Vidal.
[Ref: 69482] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Ulysses Conducted by Calypso to the Forest, Cuts the Trees to build his Ship. These pointing out to View. The Nymph just Shew'd him with Tears withdrew. Homers
Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. P. Dawe fecit.
Published 12.th May 1794. by L. Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Mezzotint, 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Creasing. Light staining. Nicks to edges. False margin at bottom. Messy.
On a seashore, Ulysses (Odysseus) swings an axe to chop down a tree on the left, while Calypso turns away to the right, her head bowed as she wipes away her tears with her left hand, holding a fold of her cloak in her right.
CS undescribed. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69562] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. P. Dawe fecit.
Published 12.th May 1794. by L. Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Mezzotint, 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Creasing. Light staining. Nicks to edges. False margin at bottom. Messy.
On a seashore, Ulysses (Odysseus) swings an axe to chop down a tree on the left, while Calypso turns away to the right, her head bowed as she wipes away her tears with her left hand, holding a fold of her cloak in her right.
CS undescribed. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69562] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ulysses Conducted by Calypso to the Forest, Cuts the Trees to build his Ship.]](jpegs/69565.jpg)
[Ulysses Conducted by Calypso to the Forest, Cuts the Trees to build his Ship.] [These pointing out to View. The Nymph just Shew'd him with Tears withdrew. Homers]
Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. P. Dawe fecit.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, as the Act directs April 17th. 1776.
Scratched letter proof before title. Mezzotint , 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins. Ink mss title.
On a seashore, Ulysses (Odysseus) swings an axe to chop down a tree on the left, while Calypso turns away to the right, her head bowed as she wipes away her tears with her left hand, holding a fold of her cloak in her right.
CS undescribed. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69565] £490.00
Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. P. Dawe fecit.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, as the Act directs April 17th. 1776.
Scratched letter proof before title. Mezzotint , 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins. Ink mss title.
On a seashore, Ulysses (Odysseus) swings an axe to chop down a tree on the left, while Calypso turns away to the right, her head bowed as she wipes away her tears with her left hand, holding a fold of her cloak in her right.
CS undescribed. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69565] £490.00
![[Venus in her chariot.]](jpegs/69408.jpg)
[Venus in her chariot.]
[Ignaz Unterberger]
[Vienna: Ignaz Unterberger, 1797.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 200 x 200mm (8 x 8"). Slight printer's crease.
A night scene with a naked Venus lighting torches for her amoretti. Behind is a crescent moon with a human face. Ignaz Unterberger (1748-97) was a Tyrolese painter & mezzotinter who invented a machine for preparing a copper mezzotint plate in a day rather than three weeks, which was never patented and was dismantled by Unterberger just before his death, leaving the design forgotten. On this print, ''the grounding of the plate for the mezzotint is not done in the usual way with a rocker, but has been ruled with parallel horizontal and oblique diagonal lines''.
Antony Griffiths and Frances Carey: 'German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe', BM 1994, no. 47.
[Ref: 69408] £360.00
[Ignaz Unterberger]
[Vienna: Ignaz Unterberger, 1797.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 200 x 200mm (8 x 8"). Slight printer's crease.
A night scene with a naked Venus lighting torches for her amoretti. Behind is a crescent moon with a human face. Ignaz Unterberger (1748-97) was a Tyrolese painter & mezzotinter who invented a machine for preparing a copper mezzotint plate in a day rather than three weeks, which was never patented and was dismantled by Unterberger just before his death, leaving the design forgotten. On this print, ''the grounding of the plate for the mezzotint is not done in the usual way with a rocker, but has been ruled with parallel horizontal and oblique diagonal lines''.
Antony Griffiths and Frances Carey: 'German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe', BM 1994, no. 47.
[Ref: 69408] £360.00