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[George, Lord Byron]
Armstrong sc. [ms]
[Pub. by J. Murray, 1819]
Line engraving on india with very large margins, 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Tipped into album sheet. Manuscript in lower margin: in pencil "Unpublished print by Armstrong only 20 impressions from this plate which was then destroyed".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic’ collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait. O'D 27; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34945] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Captain James Cook.
Painted by Sir Nathl. Dance. Engraved by Cosmo Armstrong.
London, Pubd. for the Proprietor, June, 1821.
Engraving on india laid paper, 200 x 125mm. 8 x 5".
James Cook (1728 - 1779). The son of a Yorkshire labourer, Cook learned his seamanship on small East-coast traders. Although only a warrant officer, he was chosen to command the Endeavour in 1768. He made three important voyages of discovery to the South and North Pacific - charting land, sea and stars - and was the first British captain to land in Australia. He was killed in Hawaii during a skirmish. After Nathaniel Dance Nathaniel Dance (1735 - 1811). The original portrait was commissioned by the explorer Sir Joseph Banks and was praised as an excellent likeness.
[Ref: 11409] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
[William Shakespeare.]
[engraved by Cosmo Armstrong after the 'Felton' picture'.
[London: Edward Walmsley, 1824.]
Very fine etching and engraving on chine collé, proof before letters. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8").
An image of the "Felton" Shakespeare.
[Ref: 52969] £380.00
Dr. Shebbeare.
From an orig. Draw.g Armstrong sculpt.
Published by Harrison & Co. Nov.r 1. 1795.
Engraving and letterpress. 210 x 114mm. 8¼ x 4½".
John Shebbeare (1709-1788) was a British tory political satirist and entered into a partnership with a chemist in 1736 when he moved to Bristol. In 1740 he published 'A New Analysis of the Bristol Waters; together with the Cause of Diabetes and Hectic, and their Cure, as it results from those Waters'. In the National Library of Medicine. W: 2720-2.
[Ref: 24615] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
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