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The Choice.
The Choice. In the choice of a Husband I'll tell you my plan...
Painted by W. Ward. Engraved by W. Ward.
London, Publish'd July 25.th 1787 by W. Dickinson Engraved Bond Street.
Stipple with hand-colour. Sheet: 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8''). Trimmed. Slight crease.
A portrait of a young woman in a large hat shown sitting at a desk and reading a letter.
[Ref: 48176]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Louisa.
Louisa. Charming all, unconscious of her Charms.
Drawn & Engraved by W. Ward.
London published Jan.y 5 1786 by J.R. Smith No 83 Oxford Street.
Stipple. Sheet 350 x 220mm (9¾ x 8¾"). In fine gilt frame with label of 'F.B. Daniell & Son'. Trimmed within plate. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of a young woman, half-length in an oval, wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a large bow and a gown with layers of frills. The stippling of the background, clothes and hat is crayon-manner, in contrast to the fine stippling of the face. The BM suggests the frame label was originally engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi and altered to be the trade card of F.B. Daniell.
Frankau 186, state i of ii, with the original publication line.
[Ref: 51850]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT)
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[In pencil:] "Marengo". Buonaparte's... Charger at the battle of Waterloo.
[In pencil:] "Marengo". Buonaparte's... Charger at the battle of Waterloo.
from a Drawing by James Ward R.A. [Etched in plate:] MB.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Etching. 222 x 305mm (8¾ x 12").
A reversed copy of 'Marengo, the favourite charger of Napoleon I' after James Ward. Marengo (c.1793-1831), the Arab horse purchased by Napoleon Bonaparte after the Battle of Aboukir in 1799 and named after the French victory at Marengo in 1800. Marengo was captured after the Battle of Waterloo and brought to England, where, after his death in 1831, his remains were preserved. His skeleton can now be seen in the 'Changing the World' gallery at the National Army Museum.
[Ref: 31227]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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