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Andrew Lumisden Esqr.
From a Medallion by I.Tafsie. Engraved by W.Dickinson.
[n.d., c.1784.]
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 225 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Andrew Lumisden (1720 - 1801), Scottish Jacobite. He was Personal Secretary to Bonnie Prince Charlie during his exile in Rome. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.
[Ref: 64218] £180.00
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Adam Smith L.L.D. European Magazine.
Engraved by Ridley.
Pub. by J. Sewell Cornhill Feb. 1. 1802.
Stipple, sheet 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed.
Adam Smith (1723-90), Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. Smith's 'Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' was one of the earliest attempts to study the historical development of industry and commerce in Europe. That work helped to create the modern academic discipline of economics and provided one of the best-known intellectual rationales for free trade, capitalism and libertarianism. After the medallion by James Tassie (1787), the only authentic portrait of Smith.
[Ref: 45430] £85.00
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Adam Smith. From a Medallion executed in the lifetime of A. Smith by Tassie. Under the Superintendance of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Proof.
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight. Ludgate Street. [n.d., c.1835.]
Stipple, printed on chine collé. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"), with wide margins.
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of politial economics. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 52694] £130.00
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Adam Smith L.L.D.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 95 x 125mm (3¾ x 5"). Trimmed to plate.
A profile portrait of Adam Smith (1723 - 1790), Scottish political economist and moral philosopher, copied from a medallion by Tassie. Smith's 'Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' was one of the earliest attempts to study the historical development of industry and commerce in Europe. That work helped to create the modern academic discipline of economics and provided one of the best-known intellectual rationales for free trade, capitalism and libertarianism.
[Ref: 64267] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
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