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[Don Juan.] Julia. ''How beautiful she look'd! her conscious heart / Glow'd in her cheek, and yet she felt no wrong. / Oh Love! how perfect is thy mystic art. / Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong.''
Drawn & Engraved by A.M. Huffam.
Pub.d March 1829 by T. Gillard, 48 Strand, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed close to printed border and around title, laid on album paper.
Donna Julia, Don Juan's first love in Lord Byron's 'epic satire', depicted as young woman sitting in front of a rose-bush. His hero was not a womaniser but a man too easily seduced by women.
[Ref: 42017] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
This Print, From the celebrated Statue of Thomas Guy Esq.r is by Permission dedicated to The President, Treasurer and Governors at Guy's Hospital, by their most obliged and obedient Servant, J. Tickell Viner.
J.T. Viner Pinxt. J. Bacon, R.A. Fecit. A.M. Huffam scuplt.
Printed by S.H. Hawkins. [n.d. c.1840.]
A rare mezzotint with etching. Plate 722 x 458mm. 28½ x 18". Crease through the centre of the image. Some spotting.
View of a tomb under a rounded arch, with a sculpture of Thomas Guy standing on a pedestal, pointing with his right hand towards left, holding the hand a sick man seated at right; hospital building behing; two roundels at front. Thomas Guy (1644-1724) was a British bookseller, speculator and de facto founder of Guy's Hospital, London in 1707. Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 19788] £440.00
[Laura Honey] The Sea Nymph.
Painted by T. Harper. Eng.d by A.M. Huffman.
London, J. & F. Harwood [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint. 270 x 205mm, (10½ x 8"), with very large margins
A bathing beauty with a headdress of shells. We have seen a proof example with a pencil identification for Laura Honey (1816?-1843), described by DNB as 'a pleasing and graceful actress and a delightful ballad-singer'. Harper & Huffman worked together on Folker's 'Beauties of Brighton', with women in local settings.
[Ref: 54056] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
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