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![[Fool of Quality]. Master Harry Clinton, releaving the distress of the Country Girl.](jpegs/52927.jpg)
[Fool of Quality]. Master Harry Clinton, releaving the distress of the Country Girl. [Mrs Vindex, meeting with Master Harry Clinton.
P.W. Tomkins delin.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
Pub. as the Act directs, April 12, 1791 by J.F. Tomkins No. 49 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples. Each 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), with large margins. Mint.
Two scenes from the Irish writer Henry Brooke's novel 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', privately published in five volumes 1765-70. Among Brooke's inspirations was the Methodist movement; in 1781 John Wesley wrote and published an abridged version with a preface that describes the story as 'one of the most beautiful pictures that ever was drawn in the world'.
Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 52927] £450.00 view all images for this item
P.W. Tomkins delin.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
Pub. as the Act directs, April 12, 1791 by J.F. Tomkins No. 49 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples. Each 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), with large margins. Mint.
Two scenes from the Irish writer Henry Brooke's novel 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', privately published in five volumes 1765-70. Among Brooke's inspirations was the Methodist movement; in 1781 John Wesley wrote and published an abridged version with a preface that describes the story as 'one of the most beautiful pictures that ever was drawn in the world'.
Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 52927] £450.00 view all images for this item
![[The Fool of Quality]. Mrs Vindex, meeting with Master Harry Clinton.](jpegs/65669.jpg)
[The Fool of Quality]. Mrs Vindex, meeting with Master Harry Clinton.
[after P.W. Tomkins.]
Pub. 1795 by G.F. Cook.
Rare stipple, printed in sanguine. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Crease.
A scene from 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', written by the Irish writer Henry Brooke and published in five volumes 1765-70. Two ladies on a table drinking tea in background. It tells the story of Harry Clinton who, rejected by his decadent and aristocratic father, is educated on enlightened principles by his philanthropic uncle. Inspired by the Methodist movement, it was influential in its day: Charles Kingsley described it as 'more pure, sacred and eternal than anything since the Faerie Queene'. However to modern taste it is rambling and sentimental: Walter Allen, author of the important study 'The English Novel' (1954), called it 'one of the worst novels ever written, but a remarkable book'. A reversed copy of the plate engraved by Bartolozzi after Tomkins.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65669] £360.00
[after P.W. Tomkins.]
Pub. 1795 by G.F. Cook.
Rare stipple, printed in sanguine. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Crease.
A scene from 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', written by the Irish writer Henry Brooke and published in five volumes 1765-70. Two ladies on a table drinking tea in background. It tells the story of Harry Clinton who, rejected by his decadent and aristocratic father, is educated on enlightened principles by his philanthropic uncle. Inspired by the Methodist movement, it was influential in its day: Charles Kingsley described it as 'more pure, sacred and eternal than anything since the Faerie Queene'. However to modern taste it is rambling and sentimental: Walter Allen, author of the important study 'The English Novel' (1954), called it 'one of the worst novels ever written, but a remarkable book'. A reversed copy of the plate engraved by Bartolozzi after Tomkins.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65669] £360.00
The Union Song.
Drawn & Engraved by P. W. Tomkins, Engraver to Her Majesty.
Published by Him as the Act directs. Jan.y 19. 1801 at No. 49 New Bond Street.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet size: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A decorative title page for a song titled, 'The Union Song', which is inscribed a the bottom of the sheet. Three female figures playing instuments, including a flute and harpsicord, sitting on top of a crushed Lion and Unicorn, symbols of the United Kingdom.
[Ref: 32195] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Engraved by P. W. Tomkins, Engraver to Her Majesty.
Published by Him as the Act directs. Jan.y 19. 1801 at No. 49 New Bond Street.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet size: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A decorative title page for a song titled, 'The Union Song', which is inscribed a the bottom of the sheet. Three female figures playing instuments, including a flute and harpsicord, sitting on top of a crushed Lion and Unicorn, symbols of the United Kingdom.
[Ref: 32195] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)