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J.S. Buckingham [facsimile signature].
[after Edwin Dalton Smith.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple, printed on chine collé. 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"), very large margins.
Half-length portrait of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), author, journalist and traveller. He founded the Calcutta Journal in 1818; criticisms of the East India Company led to his expulsion from India in 1823, although the East India Company later gave him a pension of £500 a year as compensation. After a watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, painted in 1835 by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800-83), now in the National Portrait Gallery.
[Ref: 58263] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Fanny Elssler. Florinde.
Edwin D. Smith. W.H. Mote.
Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street Nov. 1 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet: 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Francesca "Fanny" Cerrito as a water sprite, the title role of 'Ondine, ou La naïade', a ballet with choreography by Jules Perrot and music by Cesare Pugni. Cerrito (11 May 1817 - 6 May 1909) was one of the few 19th century ballerinas who also gained acceptance as a choreographer. From 'The Beauties of Opera and Ballet'.
[Ref: 49518] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Persiani. Rosina
Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street Dec. 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet: 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani (1812-67), a soprano, in Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville'. From 'The Beauties of Opera and Ballet'.
[Ref: 49515] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
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