A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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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Lafayette.
Martinet pinx. Charon sculp.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Aquatint with stipple and etching, printed in colours. Sheet 420 x 305mm. 16½ x 12". Trimmed within plate, and to just below title. Age toned; some horizontal creasing.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757 - 1834). French citizen who joined Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, voted Major General by Continental Congress. He commanded a light division at the Battle of Yorktown, and was a close associate of George Washington.
[Ref: 10420] £350.00
Martinet pinx. Charon sculp.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Aquatint with stipple and etching, printed in colours. Sheet 420 x 305mm. 16½ x 12". Trimmed within plate, and to just below title. Age toned; some horizontal creasing.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757 - 1834). French citizen who joined Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, voted Major General by Continental Congress. He commanded a light division at the Battle of Yorktown, and was a close associate of George Washington.
[Ref: 10420] £350.00
Regnard sur Les Bords de la Mer Glaciale.
Dessiné par Bouchot. Gravé par Charon. Imprimé par Veyron.
A Paris, chez Charon, Graveur, Rue St Jan de Beauvais, No. 26.
Rare & scarce aquatint. Sheet 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, paper toned.
Portrait of Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709), standing on a glacier in Lapland, writing on a block of ice. Regnard was a comic poet and traveller: at the age of 22 he was captured by an Algerian pirate and was taken to Constantinople as a slave, where he was ransomed by the French consul. in 1681 he travelled through Scandinavia, including Lapland, inspiring this fanciful portrait.
[Ref: 60492] £590.00
Dessiné par Bouchot. Gravé par Charon. Imprimé par Veyron.
A Paris, chez Charon, Graveur, Rue St Jan de Beauvais, No. 26.
Rare & scarce aquatint. Sheet 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, paper toned.
Portrait of Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709), standing on a glacier in Lapland, writing on a block of ice. Regnard was a comic poet and traveller: at the age of 22 he was captured by an Algerian pirate and was taken to Constantinople as a slave, where he was ransomed by the French consul. in 1681 he travelled through Scandinavia, including Lapland, inspiring this fanciful portrait.
[Ref: 60492] £590.00