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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Harry Carey.
J. Worsdale pinx. J Faber Fecit [1729]
Mezzotint, platemark 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6"). Small margins. Rare.
Henry Carey (1687-1743), poet and songwriter. Allegedly the illegitimate son of the George Savile, marquess of Halifax, Carey is best known for his satires and comedies for the theatre today. He also taught music and published poetry. The great music historian Charles Burney wrote of him: 'Honest Harry Carey … invented many very pleasing and natural melodies, which neither obscured the sense of the words, nor required much science to hear'. A defender of indigenous musical traditions, Carey attacked Italian opera, and sometimes paticular continental performers, in satires like 'Faustina, or, The Roman Songstress'. Despite the great success of works such as 'the Dragon of Wantley' (1737), whose popularity eclipsed even 'The Beggar's Opera', Carey committed suicide soon after the death of his son in 1743.
Ex Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 58 i/ii [with 1729 date seemingly scratched out]
[Ref: 36507] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
J. Worsdale pinx. J Faber Fecit [1729]
Mezzotint, platemark 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6"). Small margins. Rare.
Henry Carey (1687-1743), poet and songwriter. Allegedly the illegitimate son of the George Savile, marquess of Halifax, Carey is best known for his satires and comedies for the theatre today. He also taught music and published poetry. The great music historian Charles Burney wrote of him: 'Honest Harry Carey … invented many very pleasing and natural melodies, which neither obscured the sense of the words, nor required much science to hear'. A defender of indigenous musical traditions, Carey attacked Italian opera, and sometimes paticular continental performers, in satires like 'Faustina, or, The Roman Songstress'. Despite the great success of works such as 'the Dragon of Wantley' (1737), whose popularity eclipsed even 'The Beggar's Opera', Carey committed suicide soon after the death of his son in 1743.
Ex Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 58 i/ii [with 1729 date seemingly scratched out]
[Ref: 36507] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Her Highness Princess Louisa.
J. Worsdale pinxit Bockman fecit.
Sold by T. Jefferys at the Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross and by W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge [c.1760].
Rare mezzotint, platemark 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"), with large margins.
Louisa, Queen of Denmark and Norway (1724-51) as a girl. The second daughter of George II, Louisa married Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway, with whom she had five children, in 1743. Frederick became king following the death of his father in 1746 and it was hoped that Louisa would encourage Denmark to side with Britain against Prussia, although she was unable to influence her husband's policies. Louisa died following an operation on a hernia developed during childbirth in 1751. Engraving after a portrait by James Worsdale (c.1692-1767), portraitist and rake, whose success as an artist has been attributed mostly to his amusing conversation, conviviality, and clever singing and acting. He was involved in forming the Hell Fire Clubs in Dublin and Limerick, and had close associations with the stage in London and Dublin.
CS 12
[Ref: 40475] £320.00
J. Worsdale pinxit Bockman fecit.
Sold by T. Jefferys at the Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross and by W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge [c.1760].
Rare mezzotint, platemark 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"), with large margins.
Louisa, Queen of Denmark and Norway (1724-51) as a girl. The second daughter of George II, Louisa married Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway, with whom she had five children, in 1743. Frederick became king following the death of his father in 1746 and it was hoped that Louisa would encourage Denmark to side with Britain against Prussia, although she was unable to influence her husband's policies. Louisa died following an operation on a hernia developed during childbirth in 1751. Engraving after a portrait by James Worsdale (c.1692-1767), portraitist and rake, whose success as an artist has been attributed mostly to his amusing conversation, conviviality, and clever singing and acting. He was involved in forming the Hell Fire Clubs in Dublin and Limerick, and had close associations with the stage in London and Dublin.
CS 12
[Ref: 40475] £320.00