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The Sleepy Maid
P. Mercier pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Faint crease lower left. Small stain in lower right margin.
Girl sits sleeping, a needle in her left hand and cloth held in her right. Plates and funnel on shelf behind. Engraved after Philip Mercier (1691-1761), who spent much of his career in London. 'While he found plentiful employment as a portrait painter, he [Mercier] also produced an increasing number of fancy pieces, reminiscent of Chardin. These addressed a popular market and included literary illustrations, domestic scenes, groups of children, and sets of, for example, the Seasons, the Times of Day, and the Senses' (DNB).
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; not in BM.
[Ref: 33812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
P. Mercier pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Faint crease lower left. Small stain in lower right margin.
Girl sits sleeping, a needle in her left hand and cloth held in her right. Plates and funnel on shelf behind. Engraved after Philip Mercier (1691-1761), who spent much of his career in London. 'While he found plentiful employment as a portrait painter, he [Mercier] also produced an increasing number of fancy pieces, reminiscent of Chardin. These addressed a popular market and included literary illustrations, domestic scenes, groups of children, and sets of, for example, the Seasons, the Times of Day, and the Senses' (DNB).
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; not in BM.
[Ref: 33812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Greenway.
J. Reynolds pinx.t C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at No.53 in Fleet Street, London. [n.d. c.1765.]
Mezzotint. Paper watermarked. Plate 355 x 255mm. 14 x 10". Tear top right.
Elizabeth Napier, nee Greenway (fl.1765) was wife of Francis, 3rd Son of Francis Scott, 6th Baron Napier. This print was engraved by Richard Purcell, using Corbutt as one of his many pseudonyms, as his prints were mainly piracies of other mezzotints. Both he and Sayer managed to avoid prosecution for copyright infringement.
NPG: D34916. CS: 34: ii of ii. Hamilton: p.174.
[Ref: 17112] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
J. Reynolds pinx.t C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at No.53 in Fleet Street, London. [n.d. c.1765.]
Mezzotint. Paper watermarked. Plate 355 x 255mm. 14 x 10". Tear top right.
Elizabeth Napier, nee Greenway (fl.1765) was wife of Francis, 3rd Son of Francis Scott, 6th Baron Napier. This print was engraved by Richard Purcell, using Corbutt as one of his many pseudonyms, as his prints were mainly piracies of other mezzotints. Both he and Sayer managed to avoid prosecution for copyright infringement.
NPG: D34916. CS: 34: ii of ii. Hamilton: p.174.
[Ref: 17112] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)