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Faint- gazing on the burning orb of day, / When Afric's injur'd son expiring lay, page 97.
T. Kirk del. J. Neagle Sc.t
Published Feb. 1 1798 by C. Dilly & Cadell & Davies, London; and R. Crutwell, Bath.
Engraving, sheet 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Trimmed
A slave lays dying, as indicated by the lines from William Lisle Bowles' poem 'The African' (1791).
[Ref: 37655] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
T. Kirk del. J. Neagle Sc.t
Published Feb. 1 1798 by C. Dilly & Cadell & Davies, London; and R. Crutwell, Bath.
Engraving, sheet 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Trimmed
A slave lays dying, as indicated by the lines from William Lisle Bowles' poem 'The African' (1791).
[Ref: 37655] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A Lapland Wizard bargaining for Wind.
Kirk del. / Taylor sc.
Publish'd Ap.l 1 1797 by E. Newbery, corner of St Pauls
Engraving, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Possibly from an edition of Tobias Smollett's 'The Present State of All Nations' (8 vols., 1768-9), which includes the following description: 'When a ship is wind-bound at Wardhu, or Kiemi [Kemi], and the pilot has faith in these incantations, he addresses himself to a Lapland wizard; who, for a reasonable consideration, presents him with a magic cord, on which are a certain number of knots, to be united occasionally, as the wind may happen to fail about certain capes, or promontories'.
[Ref: 37545] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Kirk del. / Taylor sc.
Publish'd Ap.l 1 1797 by E. Newbery, corner of St Pauls
Engraving, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Possibly from an edition of Tobias Smollett's 'The Present State of All Nations' (8 vols., 1768-9), which includes the following description: 'When a ship is wind-bound at Wardhu, or Kiemi [Kemi], and the pilot has faith in these incantations, he addresses himself to a Lapland wizard; who, for a reasonable consideration, presents him with a magic cord, on which are a certain number of knots, to be united occasionally, as the wind may happen to fail about certain capes, or promontories'.
[Ref: 37545] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Shakspeare. Titus Andronicus. Act IV. Scene I.
Painted by Tho.s Kirk. Engrav'd by Tho.s Kirk.
Publish'd Dec.r 24 1793 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.
Stipple, open letter proof, without lines of verse. 565 x 415mm (22¼ x 16¼"), with large margins, uncut. Damp stains in top right margin.
Lucius flees from his aunt Lavinia, fearing that she is crazed. In fact, she merely wants to get to the book he is carrying, Ovid's Metamorphoses. She then turns through its pages until she reaches the story of Philomela and Tereus (Tereus rapes his sister-in-law Philomela and then cuts off her tongue so that she cannot reveal the crime), which she shows to her father and uncle to indicate what has been done to her. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Angelica Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious, and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 54000] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Tho.s Kirk. Engrav'd by Tho.s Kirk.
Publish'd Dec.r 24 1793 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.
Stipple, open letter proof, without lines of verse. 565 x 415mm (22¼ x 16¼"), with large margins, uncut. Damp stains in top right margin.
Lucius flees from his aunt Lavinia, fearing that she is crazed. In fact, she merely wants to get to the book he is carrying, Ovid's Metamorphoses. She then turns through its pages until she reaches the story of Philomela and Tereus (Tereus rapes his sister-in-law Philomela and then cuts off her tongue so that she cannot reveal the crime), which she shows to her father and uncle to indicate what has been done to her. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Angelica Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious, and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 54000] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Venus Instructing Cupid. Melt to Love the yielding Fair / Teach her not to give dispair. / Anacron.
Design'd by Kirk. Engraved by A. O[***}
London, Published March 10. 1801, by A.C. de Poggi, No 91, New Bond Street.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed losing parts of inscriptions, including engraver's name.
A circular stipple.
[Ref: 54210] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Design'd by Kirk. Engraved by A. O[***}
London, Published March 10. 1801, by A.C. de Poggi, No 91, New Bond Street.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed losing parts of inscriptions, including engraver's name.
A circular stipple.
[Ref: 54210] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)