[L'Amour au Convent.]
[Dugoure.] [n.d., c.1820.] A scarce hand-coloured aquatint. Proof before letters. Sheet: 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Trimmed. A scene in a convent in which several nuns gather around a font baptising winged cupids alongside the figure of Mercury and Eros.
[Ref: 47242] £390.00
Roxelane. O vous que Mars rend invincible, Voulez-vous être au rang des Dieux? Deffendez vous s'il est possible, D'être eslave de doux beaux yeux.
Dugoure inv. pinx. Le Beau sculp. Se vend à Paris chez Basan et Poignant Mds. d’Estampes. Rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1790.] A very fine copper engraving. Plate 255 x 178mm. 10 x 7". Roxelane, Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Consort Hurrem Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (c.1505-1558), was the legal wife of the Suleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. She was captured in the 1520s as a young woman by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids of the region and was taken as a slave, probably the first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, and then onto Istanbul where she was selected for Suleyman's harem.
[Ref: 16195] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)