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Pierre Jeliote.
Peint par L. Toqué. Gravé par L. J. Cathelin.
A Paris chés l'Auteur Quay de l'Ecole dans l'Allée entre les deux Cafés.
Fine engraving. Sheet 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on card on left side at corners.
Half-length portrait of Pierre Jélyotte (1713-97), shown as Apollo playing a lyre. Regarded as the best singer Europe, he often sang for Louis XV and, after retiring from singing, joined first the 'Orchestre du Roi' as a violinist and guitarist, then the private orchestra of Madame de Pompadour as a cellist. Louis Tocqué's oil on canvas of 1755 is now in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 54290] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Cha.s Edward Stuart. Literary Magazine & British Review.
Anker Smith sculp.t [after Louis Torqué].
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½) very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on left, spotting.
A half-length Charles Edward Stuart, known as the Young Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie, in armour. Not in Sharpe.
[Ref: 57241] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
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