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Connubial Happiness.
Painted by J. Northcote. Engraved by E.J. Dumee.
London publishd August 26, 1786; by J.R. Smith No:83: Oxford Street.
Rare stipple with etching printed in brown ink, first state with title in open capitals. 400 x 350mm, 15¾ x 13¾". Mint. Some very faint staining, else a fine impression with wide margins.
A scene of domestic harmony in an interior: a man, his wife and small child around a sofa. Picture on the wall behind, newspaper, and open book on table in foreground. After James Northcote (1746 - 1831). Ex Collection: Christopher Lennox-Boyd, from Northcote Albums. See Slater p.287, unrecorded. Not in Frankau.
[Ref: 21252] £520.00
The Virtues adorning the Bust of the Ever Memorable Howard. No single tract of earth could bind, / The active virtues of his mind, / To all the lands where'er the tear [...]
Stothard del.t Dumee sculp.t
Published 10.th July 1797 by John Fairburn, 116 Minories, London.
Rare stipple printed in sepia, sheet 130 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed;
Tribute to the philanthropist John Howard (1726?-1790), with the Virtues adorning his bust and verses from William Hayley's 'Ode, inscribed to John Howard, Esq' (1780) below. The print was first published by Thomas Prattent shortly after Howard's death; this is a reprint from several years later after the plate had been acquired by another publisher, John Fairburn.
[Ref: 45704] £95.00
(£114.00 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.
Penelope, 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)
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