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The Lady from Bathing.  206.
The Lady from Bathing. 206.
W. Hoare Pinx.t. E. Fisher fecit.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller No.53 Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured mezzotint. Sheet: 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A scene showing a young woman topless after bathing in a landscape.
[Ref: 48849]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione. Winter's Tale, Act V.
Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione. Winter's Tale, Act V.
Johann. Zoffany pinxt. E: Fisher Sculpt.
Publish'd July 15th: 1781, by Mess:rs Sayer & Bennett, Printsellers, No: 53, Fleet Street, & E. Fisher, No.11, Ludgate Street.
Mezzotint. Plate 603 x 406mm. 23¾ x 16". Creasing and repaired tear lower left, and centre left. Creasing to upper right corner. Damaged but still charming image.
Elizabeth Farren (1759-1829), actress and Countess of Derby. She performed most frequently at both the Drury Lane and Haymarket Theatres following her London debut in 1777. Here she is seen as Hermione in Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale".
Harvard: 21.p.359. CS: 17, ii of ii. From the Stapleford Park Collection.
[Ref: 19625]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Ladies Yorke]
[Ladies Yorke]
[Fisher afer Reynolds.]
[n.d. c.1762.]
Very scarce & fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 493 x 340mm (19½ x 13½"). Trimmed; fold through centre. Slight silverfish losses on right & bottom.
Double portrait of the ladies Yorke after Reynolds (Mannings 1956); as children, whole-length to front, in garden beside sphinx on pedestal; Lady Amabel Grey standing at left with dove perched on her right hand, Lady Mary Jemima running towards her holding another dove, dog at her heels; proof before letters, before the plate cleaned.
CS: 61 [undescribed].
[Ref: 52486]   £490.00  
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Charles Watson Esq.r Vice Admiral of the White.
Charles Watson Esq.r Vice Admiral of the White.
T. Hudson pinx.t. E. Fisher sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Very fine impression. Small stain in left margin.
A portrait of Vice Admiral Charles Watson (1714 - 1757), an officer of the Royal Navy, who served briefly as colonial governor of Newfoundland. Watson's quick rise through the ranks is thought to be attributed from his uncle, Sir Charles Wager, who was first lord of the admiralty. Three-quarter length standing to the left, Watson is wearing naval uniform with large, decorated cuffs and a wig tied at the nape. He is seen holding a telescope diagonally before him with his right hand, with his left on his sword-hilt. The sea and a battery are in the background.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Chaloner Smith: 59.
[Ref: 36553]   £330.00  
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[Ladies Amabel and Jemima Yorke.]
[Ladies Amabel and Jemima Yorke.]
[Sir. J. Reynolds. Fisher.]
[n.d. c.1762.]
Mezzotint, uncleaned proof before letters. Platemark: 507 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Excellent impression.
The two daughters of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl Hardwicke, and his wife, Jemima, Countess De Grey and Baroness of Crudwell. The two children stand in a garden beside a sphinx on a pedestal, Lady Amabel Grey on the left with a dove perched on her right hand, and Lady Mary Jemima running towards her holding another dove, a poodle at her heels. The children grew up to become: Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess de Grey (1751-1833), the political writer and amateur artist; and Mary Jemima Robinson, known as Lady Grantham (1757-1830), mother of Prime Minister Viscount Goderich.
Hamilton: p.139. Russell: 61. CS: 61.
[Ref: 35736]   £950.00  
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