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[Europeans in a Fantastical Land.]
L.P.Boitard Inv.t & Sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751.
Etching, Plate 211 x 165mm. 8¼ x 10½".
A group of Europeans in a fantastical land, sitting on the grass in the foreground with a tiered dish, fruit, oriental figurines and statuettes, including one of Buddha, one of them to right reading a strip of paper he has drawn with much surprise from a small goblet, two on the left looking up at the sky with astonishment, with mountains in the distance, groups of indigenous people drawn up in the background to left, others chasing a solitary figure towards a broad river flowing on the right, where unicorns and other animals are swimming, with a mermaid on an island and seals and an enormous fish on the shore.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18453] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
L.P.Boitard Inv.t & Sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751.
Etching, Plate 211 x 165mm. 8¼ x 10½".
A group of Europeans in a fantastical land, sitting on the grass in the foreground with a tiered dish, fruit, oriental figurines and statuettes, including one of Buddha, one of them to right reading a strip of paper he has drawn with much surprise from a small goblet, two on the left looking up at the sky with astonishment, with mountains in the distance, groups of indigenous people drawn up in the background to left, others chasing a solitary figure towards a broad river flowing on the right, where unicorns and other animals are swimming, with a mermaid on an island and seals and an enormous fish on the shore.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18453] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Celebrated Miss Gunning.
Boitard Inv.t.
Printed for R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce engraving. 175 x 175mm (6¾ x 6¾"), with large margins.
A watch paper. Maria Gunning (bap.1732-1760), married the 6th Earl of Coventry in 1752. A noted beauty, she died at 27, said to be caused by lead and mercury poisoning, absorbed from her makeup. Designs in miniature for Watch-Cases.
See Robert Sayers Cat 1774 (Watch-Cases no 24) Ref: 58677
[Ref: 58675] £390.00
Boitard Inv.t.
Printed for R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce engraving. 175 x 175mm (6¾ x 6¾"), with large margins.
A watch paper. Maria Gunning (bap.1732-1760), married the 6th Earl of Coventry in 1752. A noted beauty, she died at 27, said to be caused by lead and mercury poisoning, absorbed from her makeup. Designs in miniature for Watch-Cases.
See Robert Sayers Cat 1774 (Watch-Cases no 24) Ref: 58677
[Ref: 58675] £390.00
The Imports of Great Britain from France. Humbly Address'd to the Laudable Associations of Anti-Gallicans, and the generous promoters of the British Arts & Manufactories; by their sincere Well-wisher, and truly devoted humble Servant, L.P. Boitard.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 7th 1757 by John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London.
Etching, sheet 245 x 345mm. 9¾ x 13½". Trimmed within plate; small tear into lower inscription.
A satire on the English demand for French goods despite being a year into the Seven Years' War (1756-63), drawn and etched by Louis Philippe Boitard. It shows crowds milling around Custom House Quay desperate to see the French goods being unloaded: these include a cook, an abbé, a dancer, crates of perfumes and millinery, wine barrels and Normandy cheese. In the background is the Custom House, the Tower of London and a forest of ships' masts. Boitard's original pen and brown ink sketch, with grey and brown wash, is in the British Museum (1908,0822.10).
BM Satires: 3653.
[Ref: 43893] £360.00
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 7th 1757 by John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London.
Etching, sheet 245 x 345mm. 9¾ x 13½". Trimmed within plate; small tear into lower inscription.
A satire on the English demand for French goods despite being a year into the Seven Years' War (1756-63), drawn and etched by Louis Philippe Boitard. It shows crowds milling around Custom House Quay desperate to see the French goods being unloaded: these include a cook, an abbé, a dancer, crates of perfumes and millinery, wine barrels and Normandy cheese. In the background is the Custom House, the Tower of London and a forest of ships' masts. Boitard's original pen and brown ink sketch, with grey and brown wash, is in the British Museum (1908,0822.10).
BM Satires: 3653.
[Ref: 43893] £360.00