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Swift.
Walker sculp. [after Charles Jervas.]
[n.d. c.1779.]
Engraving. 127 x 76mm (5 x 3"). Cut.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the satirist and divine; author of Gulliver's Travels. He was Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, from 1713, but his support for the Tories cost him further preferment and after 1715 he lived mostly in Ireland, after a short visit to London where he met Addison, Steele and Congreve.
[Ref: 24490] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Walker sculp. [after Charles Jervas.]
[n.d. c.1779.]
Engraving. 127 x 76mm (5 x 3"). Cut.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the satirist and divine; author of Gulliver's Travels. He was Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, from 1713, but his support for the Tories cost him further preferment and after 1715 he lived mostly in Ireland, after a short visit to London where he met Addison, Steele and Congreve.
[Ref: 24490] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
The Rev:d Doctor Jonathan Swift Dean of St: Patricks.
C. Jarvis [Charles Jervas] Principal Painter to his Ma.tie Pinxit. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.
[n.d., c.1730
Etching with engraving. 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"), large margins Slight damage in title area "Doctor Swift".
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), seated in an armchair, holding a quill. After the second portrait of Swift painted in oils by Charles Jervas c.1718, now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 278).
[Ref: 60519] £360.00
C. Jarvis [Charles Jervas] Principal Painter to his Ma.tie Pinxit. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.
[n.d., c.1730
Etching with engraving. 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"), large margins Slight damage in title area "Doctor Swift".
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), seated in an armchair, holding a quill. After the second portrait of Swift painted in oils by Charles Jervas c.1718, now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 278).
[Ref: 60519] £360.00
His Grace Philip Duke of Wharton.
C. Jervas pinx. J. Simon fecit et ex.
Sold by Phil: Overton at ye Golden Buck ag.t S.t Dunstans Church Fleet Street [n.d. c.1720].
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper with two strips of red letterpress at sides. Bottom left corner missing.
Philip Wharton (1698-1731), 1st Duke of Wharton, Jacobite politician whose heavy debts led to him leaving the country and fighting for Spain at the Siege of Gibraltar in 1727, earning him a charge of treason in 1729. The letterpress relates to the Lords' passing of the bill of pains and penalties against Wharton.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS:161 says only 3 known, not listing this Overton edition. Sharpe 661.
[Ref: 64541] £380.00
C. Jervas pinx. J. Simon fecit et ex.
Sold by Phil: Overton at ye Golden Buck ag.t S.t Dunstans Church Fleet Street [n.d. c.1720].
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper with two strips of red letterpress at sides. Bottom left corner missing.
Philip Wharton (1698-1731), 1st Duke of Wharton, Jacobite politician whose heavy debts led to him leaving the country and fighting for Spain at the Siege of Gibraltar in 1727, earning him a charge of treason in 1729. The letterpress relates to the Lords' passing of the bill of pains and penalties against Wharton.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS:161 says only 3 known, not listing this Overton edition. Sharpe 661.
[Ref: 64541] £380.00