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Réunion d'Artistes.
Réunion d'Artistes. Dédiée aux Amateurs des Arts.
Peint par Boilly en 1800. Gravé par A. Clement. Imprimé par Bassand.
à Paris chez l'Auteur, Cloitre des Bernadines d.ion des Plantes No.136 & à l'entrepôt de Thé, rue des fossés Montmartre, No.6'.
Stipple. 550 x 430mm (21¾ x 17"), very large margins on 3 sides Trimmed within plate on left, year entering plate taped, slight spotting. Some loss on left in margin
A group portrait of twenty-nine French artists, all seen head and shoulders, grouped together amidst clouds, in an oval. They include Boilly, Redouté, Isabay, Bourgeois, Demarne, Vernet and Gérard.
See BM 1882,0311.1242 for the original key of persons.
[Ref: 54913]   £980.00  
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[Decorative monogram - initials entwined]
[Decorative monogram - initials entwined]
Marillier sculp.
A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"). Tears in top edge, soiled.
From the first series of decorative floral monograms attributed to Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721 - 1786). Two sets seem to have been produced, the Premier and Deuxième Recueil de Chiffres, formed by, respectively, seven and six plates. Numbered '6' lower right.
See BM 1991,0615.53. See item 19871 for titlepage.
[Ref: 44296]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Leopoldus II Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus Hierosolemitarum.
Leopoldus II Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus Hierosolemitarum. Rex Hungariae, et Bohemiae; Archidux Austriae &c. &c. &c. Viennae Natus, V Mai.ns 1747.
L. Kreutzinger ad vivum Pinxit Viennae in Mense ap.r 1790, Alex.d Clement Sculpt.
Stipple. 203 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Very slight foxing, trimmed.
Leopold II (1747-1792), the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792 and moderate proponent of enlightened absolutism. Engraved from a portrait 'from the life' by Kreutzinger.
[Ref: 28744]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Phrenological Observations on the Head of Robert Burns.
Phrenological Observations on the Head of Robert Burns.
Clements.
[n.d., c.1834.]
Wood engraving and letterpress. Sheet 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Laid on album paper.
In 1834, when the poet's crypt was re-opened to place the remains of Jean Armour, his widow, a cast was made of Robert Burns's skull by local phrenologists. The cast was sent to the Committee of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh under George Combe, who performed a 'blind' study.
[Ref: 62241]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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