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[Child with Apple]
A Geddes ft [lower left]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 160 x 140mm (6¼ x 5½").
Portrait of the artist's niece, Agnes Paul. Etched by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching''. CD 18.v; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36803] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Francis Jeffrey.]
[after Andrew Geddes.]
[n.d., c.1880.]
Drypoint etching. Image 170 x 135mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Small tear just entering image on right.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey [1773 - 1850], Judge and critic for the Edinburgh Review. A reversed version of the oil by Andrew Geddes, now in the National Portrait Gallery. See NPG 1628 for the painting.
[Ref: 36538] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Henry Mackenzie, Esquire, F.R.S.E. Auther of the Man of Feeling_&c.&c. Dedicated by Permission to the President and Members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Painted by A.Geddes. Engraved by R.Rhodes.
Published February 1822.by Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street. London. F.Cameron.Bank Strt. & A. Elder, Greenside Place. Edinburgh. &A.Finlay.Glasgow.
Line engraving. Signed in ink by A. Geddes. Sheet 466 x 336mm.
Henry Mackenzie Novelist & Essayist 1745-1831.
[Ref: 2662] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Philip IV of Spain.]
Jvandyke Geddes ft.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Etching. Plate 229 x 152mm. 9 x 6".
Portrait of Philip IV of Spain, half-length, three-quarter face to left, bare-headed, in wide open collar. Philip IV (1605-1665) was King of Spain and Portgual. He is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velazquez, and his rule over Spain during the challenging period of the Thirty Years War (1618-48). Ref: CD 47 VI; Collector's Mark AC: A Charlotte & major HRM Harvard Collection.
[Ref: 22832] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Archibald Skirving.]
[A. Geddes.]
[British, n.d., c.1820.]
Etching with drypoint, 225 x 160mm. 9 x 6¼".
Portrait of Scottish portrait painter Archibald Skirving (1749 - 1819). His most successful portraits were executed in crayon. The best known is his crayon portrait of Robert Burns, executed partly from Nasmyth's famous portrait. By Andrew Geddes (Scottish, 1783 - 1844), portrait painter and occasional etcher. DNB. See Scot. Nat. Portrait Gallery PG 745 for the Burns portrait. C.D. 15 VI.
[Ref: 22827] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Dull Reading: with portraits of Daniel and Elizabeth Terry]
A Geddes ft [upper centre of image]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7").
Portraits of the actor Daniel Terry and his artist wife Elizabeth, seated in a dark room. Etched by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching''. This plate was one of ten he published himself in 1826. CD 16.iii; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36800] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
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