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Trial of Queen Caroline.
W. Read del. & sc.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Vertical folds.
A scene showing the trial of Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV, for adultery in 1820.
[Ref: 41568] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Doctor Prosody Correcting his Proof in a Printing Office.
Drawn & Eng.d by W. Read.
Published June 1, 1821 by M. Iley, 1 Somerset St, Portman S[qu.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 120 x 175mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
The inside of a printing office, press to the left, drying sheets flying about. A Rowlandson-style caricature from William Combe's ''The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in Search of the Antique and Picturesque Through Scotland, The Hebrides, The Orkney and Shetland Isles''. Abbey Life 277.
[Ref: 44755] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
The Grand Coronation Banquet, In Westminster Hall, July 19th 1821. [&] The New Imperial Crown to be worn by His Majesty George the Fourth at his Coronation. [&] Coronation of His Majesty George the Fourth. July 1821.
W.Read Fecit.
Drawn & Engraved for La Belle Assemblee N.o 150 July 1.st 1821.
Three fine hand coloured engravings on one sheet. Sheet 240 x 380mm (9½ x 15"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album paper at corners.
La Belle Assemblée (in full La Belle Assemblée or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies) was a British women's magazine published from 1806 to 1837, founded by John Bell (1745–1831).
[Ref: 60461] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
The Rev.d Mr. Hugh Worthington.
Wm. Read Pinx.t Harding Sculp.t
Publish'd as ye Act Directs, For W. Read, 157, Fleet Street & R. Eynon, Back of ye Royal Exchange. [n.d. c.1790.]
Etching. 254 x 215mm. 10 x 8½". Trimmed.
Portrait of Hugh Worthington (1752-1813), Arian divine. He was a pastor at Salter's Hall, London, from 1782. In 1785 he wasmad a trustee of Dr. Williams's Foundations, the library of Dr. Daniel Williams. He was a lecturer on classics and logic from 1786 to 1789. O'D: 1 (only engraved portrait listed for sitter).
[Ref: 27180] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
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