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Joseph Acerbi.
Painted by P. Violet. Engraved by P.W.Tomkins, Historical Engraver to Her Majesty.
London, Published as the Act Directs Jan.y 1802 by Mawman, Bookseller, No 22 Poultry.
Stipple. 28 x 225mm, 11 x 9". Very fine with Collector's Mark I.F.P.
Italian traveller, author of 'Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 & 1799', to which this is the frontispiece.
[Ref: 10977] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by P. Violet. Engraved by P.W.Tomkins, Historical Engraver to Her Majesty.
London, Published as the Act Directs Jan.y 1802 by Mawman, Bookseller, No 22 Poultry.
Stipple. 28 x 225mm, 11 x 9". Very fine with Collector's Mark I.F.P.
Italian traveller, author of 'Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 & 1799', to which this is the frontispiece.
[Ref: 10977] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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P. Violet pinxt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1 1792 by C. Suisan & Sold by J.F. Tomkins No 49 New Bond Street.
Stipple, proof before title. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), with large margins
A child holding a telescope, looking up at a beam of light.
De Vesme: 574, state iii of iv.
[Ref: 56780] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
P. Violet pinxt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1 1792 by C. Suisan & Sold by J.F. Tomkins No 49 New Bond Street.
Stipple, proof before title. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), with large margins
A child holding a telescope, looking up at a beam of light.
De Vesme: 574, state iii of iv.
[Ref: 56780] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Franciscus Bartolozzi. Florentiae natus 25a die 7bris 1728.
P.Violet Pinx. J. Bouilliard Sculpt.
Publish'd 1st Jully 1797 by J./ Boulliard London A Paris chezL'Auteur, Rue St.Thomas D'Enfer, Division des Thermes no 23 &720
Copper engraving. 365 x 250mm. Trimmed to just outside platemark with small tear into bottom right-hand side.
An engraver, etcher, and painter, b. at Florence, 1727; d. at Lisbon, 1815. His father was a goldsmith of excellent family and early taught the use of the burin to his boy who, when ten years of age, engraved two heads which gave promise of his future powers. In the Florentine Academy he learnt to work in oil, chalks, and aquarelle. Unsurpassed by any artist of his day in his knowledge of anatomy, and with a passion for the antique, young Bartolozzi became a master in depicting beauty of expression, movement, and form. From 1745 until 1751 he studied with Wagner, the Venetian historical engraver. This apprenticeship ended, he married Lucia Ferro and the young pair, on Cardinal Bottari's invitation went to Rome. Returning to Venice, his fame grew very rapidly, and in 1764, Dalton, King George III's librarian, took him to England, where he was appointed Engraver to the King, and, for years later, Royal Academician. In London he engraved over two thousand plates, nearly all in the stipple or the 'red-chalk style', a method recently invented by the French, but brought into vogue and elevated into a distinct art by Bartolozzi. He devoted himself to the human figure, and his engravings abound in sweet and tender types of beauty, graceful in form and outline. Everywhere are found delicate modulations of light and shade with a roundness, finish, and suggestion of flesh never before seen in engraved work. Bartolozzi's drawing was superb; and although he was a reproductive artist he improved the work he copied, especially the drawing, even Sir Joshua Reynolds thanking him for such a service. His pupils called him the 'god of drawing'. His splendid line work was obscured by the great popularity attained by his stippled prints, and his few etchings show a free, bold, and unfettered sweep of line. They, too, were reproduced from pictures by others, but the translation always improved on the original. In 1802 Bartolozzi went to Lisbon, where he was knighted, and where he worked and taught until his death. He was buried in the church of Saint Isabella. Among Bartolozzi's best reproductions are the 'Royal Academy Diploma', 'The Marlborough Gems', the 'Illustrations to Shakespeare', and some of his small 'Tickets', all in stipple; and 'The Silence' and 'Clytie', engraved in pure line.
[Ref: 14187] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
P.Violet Pinx. J. Bouilliard Sculpt.
Publish'd 1st Jully 1797 by J./ Boulliard London A Paris chezL'Auteur, Rue St.Thomas D'Enfer, Division des Thermes no 23 &720
Copper engraving. 365 x 250mm. Trimmed to just outside platemark with small tear into bottom right-hand side.
An engraver, etcher, and painter, b. at Florence, 1727; d. at Lisbon, 1815. His father was a goldsmith of excellent family and early taught the use of the burin to his boy who, when ten years of age, engraved two heads which gave promise of his future powers. In the Florentine Academy he learnt to work in oil, chalks, and aquarelle. Unsurpassed by any artist of his day in his knowledge of anatomy, and with a passion for the antique, young Bartolozzi became a master in depicting beauty of expression, movement, and form. From 1745 until 1751 he studied with Wagner, the Venetian historical engraver. This apprenticeship ended, he married Lucia Ferro and the young pair, on Cardinal Bottari's invitation went to Rome. Returning to Venice, his fame grew very rapidly, and in 1764, Dalton, King George III's librarian, took him to England, where he was appointed Engraver to the King, and, for years later, Royal Academician. In London he engraved over two thousand plates, nearly all in the stipple or the 'red-chalk style', a method recently invented by the French, but brought into vogue and elevated into a distinct art by Bartolozzi. He devoted himself to the human figure, and his engravings abound in sweet and tender types of beauty, graceful in form and outline. Everywhere are found delicate modulations of light and shade with a roundness, finish, and suggestion of flesh never before seen in engraved work. Bartolozzi's drawing was superb; and although he was a reproductive artist he improved the work he copied, especially the drawing, even Sir Joshua Reynolds thanking him for such a service. His pupils called him the 'god of drawing'. His splendid line work was obscured by the great popularity attained by his stippled prints, and his few etchings show a free, bold, and unfettered sweep of line. They, too, were reproduced from pictures by others, but the translation always improved on the original. In 1802 Bartolozzi went to Lisbon, where he was knighted, and where he worked and taught until his death. He was buried in the church of Saint Isabella. Among Bartolozzi's best reproductions are the 'Royal Academy Diploma', 'The Marlborough Gems', the 'Illustrations to Shakespeare', and some of his small 'Tickets', all in stipple; and 'The Silence' and 'Clytie', engraved in pure line.
[Ref: 14187] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Signora Casentini in the Character of la Bella Pescatrice favorite Opera, performed [in] the Kings Theatre, Pantheon.
P. Violet Pinxit 1792. F. Bartolozzi sculps.
[n.d., c.1792.]
Stipple, rare. Sheet: 155 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed.
A portrait of singer Anna Casentini in Guglielmi's opera La Bella Pescatrice.
De Vesme 1050.
[Ref: 47265] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
P. Violet Pinxit 1792. F. Bartolozzi sculps.
[n.d., c.1792.]
Stipple, rare. Sheet: 155 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed.
A portrait of singer Anna Casentini in Guglielmi's opera La Bella Pescatrice.
De Vesme 1050.
[Ref: 47265] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
P.V. Lenoir.
Painted by P. Violet. Engd. by PW Tomkins Engr to Her Majesty.
Published June 7th. 1806, by the Author, No.3, Barton Street, Westminster.
Stipple and etching, 195 x 120mm. 7¾ x 4¾". Lacking lower margin.
Bust portrait in oval of author P.V. Lenoir, the frontispiece to one of his works. He was the author of 'French pronunciation and reading made easy; or, the logographic-emblematical French spelling book' (1799) amongst other books. After Pierre Violet (1749 - 1819).
See BL 1212.m.22.
[Ref: 21595] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by P. Violet. Engd. by PW Tomkins Engr to Her Majesty.
Published June 7th. 1806, by the Author, No.3, Barton Street, Westminster.
Stipple and etching, 195 x 120mm. 7¾ x 4¾". Lacking lower margin.
Bust portrait in oval of author P.V. Lenoir, the frontispiece to one of his works. He was the author of 'French pronunciation and reading made easy; or, the logographic-emblematical French spelling book' (1799) amongst other books. After Pierre Violet (1749 - 1819).
See BL 1212.m.22.
[Ref: 21595] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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P. Violet pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
London Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1792 by I.F. Tomkins, No 49 New Bond Street.
Rare stipple, proof before title. 130 x 100mm (5 x 4") very large margins. Some spotting.
A head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a turban, head turned to her left. A pair to 'Admiration'.
Not in BM. De V: 657 II of IV
[Ref: 55512] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
P. Violet pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
London Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1792 by I.F. Tomkins, No 49 New Bond Street.
Rare stipple, proof before title. 130 x 100mm (5 x 4") very large margins. Some spotting.
A head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a turban, head turned to her left. A pair to 'Admiration'.
Not in BM. De V: 657 II of IV
[Ref: 55512] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Francisco Vieira.
P. Violet pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.
Published as the Act directs by F. Vieira Sepr. 1st. 1801, London.
A rare stipple. 192 x 140mm. 7½ x 5½".
Francisco Vieira de Matos (1765-1805), who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense, was a Portuguese painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism in Portuguese painting. He was, in the neoclassical style, one of the two great Portuguese painters of his generation, with Domingos Sequeira. He first studied in Lisbon, later moving to Rome. He travelled through Italy, Germany, Austria and England, before returning to Portugal, in 1800. He met Swiss painter Angelika Kauffmann, from who he seems to have received influences. He seems to anticipate some motives of the romantic painting, in several of his historical paintings. He contracted tuberculosis, and moved to Madeira, were he died, aged only 39.
[Ref: 12738] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
P. Violet pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.
Published as the Act directs by F. Vieira Sepr. 1st. 1801, London.
A rare stipple. 192 x 140mm. 7½ x 5½".
Francisco Vieira de Matos (1765-1805), who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense, was a Portuguese painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism in Portuguese painting. He was, in the neoclassical style, one of the two great Portuguese painters of his generation, with Domingos Sequeira. He first studied in Lisbon, later moving to Rome. He travelled through Italy, Germany, Austria and England, before returning to Portugal, in 1800. He met Swiss painter Angelika Kauffmann, from who he seems to have received influences. He seems to anticipate some motives of the romantic painting, in several of his historical paintings. He contracted tuberculosis, and moved to Madeira, were he died, aged only 39.
[Ref: 12738] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)