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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Head of the Executioner]](jpegs/3316.jpg)
[Head of the Executioner]
[Engraved by Richard Houston after Prince Rupert.]
[c.1755.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to platemark, small hole top centre.
Houston's copy of one of the most celebrated of all mezzotints, Prince Rupert's study of the executioner's head from a painting of the executioner with the head of John the Baptist, attributed to a follower of Ribera, in Munich. With Rupert's monogram mezzotinted top right.
[Ref: 3316] £450.00
[Engraved by Richard Houston after Prince Rupert.]
[c.1755.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to platemark, small hole top centre.
Houston's copy of one of the most celebrated of all mezzotints, Prince Rupert's study of the executioner's head from a painting of the executioner with the head of John the Baptist, attributed to a follower of Ribera, in Munich. With Rupert's monogram mezzotinted top right.
[Ref: 3316] £450.00
![[The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer.]](jpegs/65524.jpg)
[The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer.]
[Engraved by Wallerant Vaillant after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, after Pietro Muttoni, called della Vecchia.]
[n.d., c.1660.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Very trimmed and backed onto album paper. Crease.
Copy of the 1658 mezzotint by Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619 - 1682), the original painting is attributed to Giorgione. He first rose to prominence as a Royalist cavalry commander during the English Civil War. Rupert was the third son of the German Prince Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King James VI and I of England and Scotland. He was a soldier as a child, fighting alongside Dutch forces against Habsburg Spain during the Eighty Years' War (1568 - 1648), and against the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany during the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 5 (Early example Prince Rupert)
[Ref: 65524] £550.00
[Engraved by Wallerant Vaillant after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, after Pietro Muttoni, called della Vecchia.]
[n.d., c.1660.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Very trimmed and backed onto album paper. Crease.
Copy of the 1658 mezzotint by Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619 - 1682), the original painting is attributed to Giorgione. He first rose to prominence as a Royalist cavalry commander during the English Civil War. Rupert was the third son of the German Prince Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King James VI and I of England and Scotland. He was a soldier as a child, fighting alongside Dutch forces against Habsburg Spain during the Eighty Years' War (1568 - 1648), and against the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany during the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 5 (Early example Prince Rupert)
[Ref: 65524] £550.00