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Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses. ...
Fred Millar 58.09[?] R. A. Bell . Robert Anning Bell. Fred Millar se et Imp. No. 11
[n.d.]
Mezzotint Printed in colours on india paper, 270 x 395mm (10½ x 15½"), with wide margins. Small tear in right margin. Light stain in upper left corner. Toning.
A scene depicting Cupid and a young mistress, or Campaspe, playing cards surrounded by four other young women. Campaspe was the supposed lover of Alexander the Great; her name became a generic synonym for a man's young mistress in poetry and this meaning was popularised in John Lyly's (1553-1606) poem 'Cupid and my Campaspe play'd. At cards for kisses'. He also wrote a play titled 'Campaspe' (1584).
[Ref: 54092] £130.00
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The Duett. From the Picture in the Vernon Gallery.
W. Etty, R.A. Painter. R. Bell, Engraver.
H. Wilkinson, Printer. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving and etching. 230 x 318mm. 9 x 12½". Publication line cut.
A couple in oriental dress sitting at a table spread with fruit on a balcony, she sitting in front, playing a lute, both looking to left and singing from a score held up by a page wearing a doublet with slashed sleeves. After the painting 'The duet', exhibited in 1838, previously in the Vernon collection, now at Tate. Illustration from 'The Art Journal' of 1850.
[Ref: 22652] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
The Sea Boy. "Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck, they youthful form! Rocks, winds, and waves, thy shatter'd bark delay; They heart is sad, thy home is far away." Pleasures of Hope.
W. Nicholson R.S.A. Pinxt. Robert Bell Sculpt.
Printed by A Mc Gashon. [n.d. c.1825.]
A rare engraving. 292 x 197mm. 11½ x 7¾".
A young boy hanging to the rigging of a ship. A poem written below.
[Ref: 15583] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
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