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The Rev.d James Berresford Author of the 'Miseries of Human Life' & drawn in the Printroom of the British Museum for my friend J. T. Smith - Tho.s Foster. May 19th 1823.
1823.
Engraving. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½"). Small margins and torn to plate mark on bottom and lower half of right edges. Foxing across left and upper areas of the sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Beresford (1764-1840), inclined to the right. Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and 'Miseries of Human Life' was his most successful work (published under his true name), a satirical work still considered to be a 'minor classic' of the genre.
[Ref: 53851] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
1823.
Engraving. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½"). Small margins and torn to plate mark on bottom and lower half of right edges. Foxing across left and upper areas of the sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Beresford (1764-1840), inclined to the right. Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and 'Miseries of Human Life' was his most successful work (published under his true name), a satirical work still considered to be a 'minor classic' of the genre.
[Ref: 53851] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
John Cranch*, Born in Kingsbridge in Devonshire, 12th of Oct.r 1751 Aged 44, Fellow of the American Society of Arts & Sciences, Painter of an unique Picture of the Death of Chatterton; & Author of the Oeconomy of Testaments; &c. Engraved from a Picture, which, with the Death of Chatterton, is in the possession of Sir James Winter Lake, Bar.t. F.S.A. *Vide, Langworthy's attempt to promote the Commercial Interests of Great Britain.
Painted and Engraved by J.T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities if London & Environs.
Published by W. Smith. 23 Lisle Street Leicester Square. [n.d., c.1810]
Engraving with stipple, 225 x 180mm.
A portrait of English painter John Cranch (1751-1821) holding a volume of Shakespeare. Originally born in Devon, Cranch travelled to London where he worked as a painter of portraits and historical scenes, contributing works to the Society of Artists. He died in Bath in 1821.
[Ref: 8384] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Painted and Engraved by J.T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities if London & Environs.
Published by W. Smith. 23 Lisle Street Leicester Square. [n.d., c.1810]
Engraving with stipple, 225 x 180mm.
A portrait of English painter John Cranch (1751-1821) holding a volume of Shakespeare. Originally born in Devon, Cranch travelled to London where he worked as a painter of portraits and historical scenes, contributing works to the Society of Artists. He died in Bath in 1821.
[Ref: 8384] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)