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Children at Their Mothers Grave.
Children at Their Mothers Grave. Advance sweet innocents, and view that grave! [/] Beneath that rising dust your mother lies; [/] A clay cold silent corps! Pale as the shroud [/] Which now she wears. Dedicated to Noel Desenfans Esq.r, Consul General of Poland in Great Britain, &c. By his most obedient humble Servant John Ogbourne.
Sir Francis Bourgeois pinxit. R.A. John Ogborne sculpsit.
London, published Jan.y 2 1797, by J. Ogborne, No.58 Great Portland Street, & Testolini, No. 73, Cornhill.
Stipple engraving with very large margins. Platemark: 590 x 465mm. (23¼ x 18¼").
A family mourning their mother, two grave-diggers on left. Lines of verse by Joseph Strutt below image. The print is dedicated to Noel Desenfans, who was employed by King Stanislaw of Poland to assemble a collection of paintings (and was appointed Polish Consul General in London). After Stanislaw was forced to abdicate, the paintings eventually formed the basis of th Dulwich Picture Gallery.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28428]   £350.00  
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Smugglers Attack'd.
Smugglers Attack'd. From the original Picture in the Collection of Tho.s Sam.l Jollife Esq.r To whom this Plate is respectfully inscribed by his oblidged and obedient Servant B.B.Evans.
S.r Fran.s Bourgeois Pinx.t R.Earlom Sculp.st 1792.
Published [***] 1793 by B.B. Evans in the Poultry, London.
Mezzotint, open-letter proof. 500 x 665mm. Some restoration, part of publication line erased.
Companion to 'Smugglers Defeated'. Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1753 - 1811) was commissioned to found a Royal Collection for the Polish king Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in 1790. In 1795 the King was forced to abdicate, leaving the collection in the hands of Bourgeois. When he died he left the collection to Dulwich College, with £10,000 to build a gallery. The Dulwich Picture Gallery was England's first public art gallery.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 744]   £650.00  
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Smugglers Defeated.
Smugglers Defeated. From the original Picture in the Collection of Noel Desenfans Esq.r C.G.P. To whom this Plate is respectfully inscribed by his oblidged and obedient Servant B.B.Evans.
Sir F. Bourgeois pinx.t. R.Earlom sculp.
Published May_1st 1798 by B.B.Evans, in the Poultry,_London.
Mezzotint. 500 x 665mm. Some restoration.
Companion to 'Smugglers Attack'd'. Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1753 - 1811) was commissioned to found a Royal Collection for the Polish king Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in 1790. In 1795 the King was forced to abdicate, leaving the collection in the hands of Bourgeois. When he died he left the collection to Dulwich College, with £10,000 to build a gallery. The Dulwich Picture Gallery was England's first public art gallery.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 745]   £625.00  
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