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James Beattie L.L.D.
Joshua Reynolds eques Pinxit. James Watson fecit.
Published, Aug.st 24th 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 355 x 410mm (14 x 16"). With the ink stamp of Queen Victoria's library at Windsor Castle. Thread margins, spotting, laid on card.
James Beattie (1735-1803), Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher, one of 16 writers depicted on Edinburgh's Scott Memorial. His 'Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth' (1770) argued against slavery. Behind him is an allegorical figure of Justice 'overcoming Sophistry, Scepticism, and Infidelity' (CS), one of whom, according to Reynolds himself, has the likeness of Voltaire.
CS 9, state ii of ii, published state. Goodwin 103, iii of iii.
[Ref: 70162] £580.00
Joshua Reynolds eques Pinxit. James Watson fecit.
Published, Aug.st 24th 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 355 x 410mm (14 x 16"). With the ink stamp of Queen Victoria's library at Windsor Castle. Thread margins, spotting, laid on card.
James Beattie (1735-1803), Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher, one of 16 writers depicted on Edinburgh's Scott Memorial. His 'Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth' (1770) argued against slavery. Behind him is an allegorical figure of Justice 'overcoming Sophistry, Scepticism, and Infidelity' (CS), one of whom, according to Reynolds himself, has the likeness of Voltaire.
CS 9, state ii of ii, published state. Goodwin 103, iii of iii.
[Ref: 70162] £580.00