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Henry Fuseli Esqr. R.A.
Engraved by Evans from a Miniature Picture Painted by Moses Haughton.
Published as the Act directs March 1, 1808, by Moses Haughton, Royal Academy, Somerset House.
Stipple, 290 x 205mm. 11½ x 8". Some foxng.
Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825), Swiss painter of heroic, literary and surreal themes who first came to London in 1764. He became professor of Painting (1799-1805) and then Keeper (1804-25) at the Royal Academy, where he taught a whole generation of artists, including Constable, Haydon and Lawrence. His inclination towards the fantastic was given scope in his paintings for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. After Moses Haughton the elder (1734 - 1804).
[Ref: 13574] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Robert Medcalf Esq.r.
Drawn on Stone by A.A.Hoffay from a Miniature by Moses Haughton.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 305 x 223mm.
[Ref: 12689] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
William Roscoe, Esq.
Engraved by C. Picart, from an original Picture by M. Haughton, in the Possession of Mr. J. McCreery.
Published Jan. 11. 1813, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple, sheet 410 x 305mm. 16 x 12". Lacking right margin.
William Roscoe (1753 - 1831), banker, historian and collector. Roscoe, historian, poet, art collector, lawyer, politician and philanthropist, rose from humble beginnings in Liverpool to become one of the city's outstanding figures. He played an important role in developing the cultural life of the city while it was also growing commercially. Roscoe was called to the Bar in 1774. He entered Parliament in 1806 where he fought against the slave trade. In 1795 he published his first historical work, The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici (1795), which made his reputation as a historian. His other major work, The Life of Pope Leo X (1805), proved controversial, but was again a best seller. His 1806 poem, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, has become a children's classic. Anti slavor. After Moses Haughton (c.1772- after 1848) for Thomas Cadell's 'The British gallery of contemporary portraits, being a series of engravings of the most eminent persons now living or lately deceased, in Great Britain and Ireland : from drawings accurately made from life, or from the most approved original pictures.'
[Ref: 13156] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
George Stevenson, Esq.re. To the Proprietors of the Liverpool & Manchester Rail Road, this Portrait is respectfully inscribed By their obedient and humble Servant Moses Haughton.
Moses Haughton del.t. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. lithog.
London: Published by M. Haughton, 51 Great Marlborough St. [n.d. c.1820]
Scarce lithograph sheet 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Tapped into mount.Some surface dirt and very light foxing.
Half-legth seated portrait of English civil & mechanical engineer "Father of Railways", George Stephenson (1781 – 1848), he holds a picture of a train in his left hand. He wears a waistcoat, cravat and double breasted jacket.
[Ref: 58919] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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