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The Effigies of Mr. Duncan Campbell the Dumb Gentleman.
Hill Pinx. Price Sculp.
[n.d. c.1819.]
Rare engraving. Plate 171 x 102mm. 6¾ x 4".
Duncan Campbell (c.1680-1730) was a Scottish deaf-mute and professed soothsayer. He went to London in 1694, where his predictions attracted attention in fashionable society. He ran into so much debt that he went to Rotterdam to enlist as soldier and returned to London a few years later, where he read a wealthy young widow's fortune to his own benefit, and having taken a house in Monmouth Street, he found himself again a centre of attraction.
[Ref: 24002] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Hill Pinx. Price Sculp.
[n.d. c.1819.]
Rare engraving. Plate 171 x 102mm. 6¾ x 4".
Duncan Campbell (c.1680-1730) was a Scottish deaf-mute and professed soothsayer. He went to London in 1694, where his predictions attracted attention in fashionable society. He ran into so much debt that he went to Rotterdam to enlist as soldier and returned to London a few years later, where he read a wealthy young widow's fortune to his own benefit, and having taken a house in Monmouth Street, he found himself again a centre of attraction.
[Ref: 24002] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Humfredus Wanley. Natus 21, die Martij AD 1671/2.
T. Hill Pinxit 1717. A. Wivell Fec 1819.
[Published by T. Rodd, July 1st 1819, 2 G.t Newport St. Long Acre.]
Mezzotint, proof before title. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with large margins. Surface scratch, spotting.
Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), palaeographer and scholar of Old English, the first keeper of the Harleian Library was born on 21st March 1672. Copied from the John Smith contemporary mezzotint of Thomas Hill's oil.
[Ref: 53186] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
T. Hill Pinxit 1717. A. Wivell Fec 1819.
[Published by T. Rodd, July 1st 1819, 2 G.t Newport St. Long Acre.]
Mezzotint, proof before title. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with large margins. Surface scratch, spotting.
Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), palaeographer and scholar of Old English, the first keeper of the Harleian Library was born on 21st March 1672. Copied from the John Smith contemporary mezzotint of Thomas Hill's oil.
[Ref: 53186] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Catherine Wilkinson] C.W. Obyt 10 Oct. 1705. AEtatis suae 35
T Hill pinx J. Smith fec [c.1706]
Mezzotint, Collector's mark on reverse: E.M.H., Mrs. E. M. Hamilton; platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins; glued to backing sheet. Good impression.
Portrait in memory of the deceased sitter, after Thomas Hill (1661?-1734?), a little-known portraitist whose work was described by Ellis Waterhouse as 'original and refreshing in a stereotyped age' ('Painting in Britain'). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 270.
[Ref: 40244] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
T Hill pinx J. Smith fec [c.1706]
Mezzotint, Collector's mark on reverse: E.M.H., Mrs. E. M. Hamilton; platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins; glued to backing sheet. Good impression.
Portrait in memory of the deceased sitter, after Thomas Hill (1661?-1734?), a little-known portraitist whose work was described by Ellis Waterhouse as 'original and refreshing in a stereotyped age' ('Painting in Britain'). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 270.
[Ref: 40244] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)