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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Fête de la Fédération] Serment Fédératif du 14 Juillet 1790.](jpegs/61482.jpg)
[Fête de la Fédération] Serment Fédératif du 14 Juillet 1790.
Swebach Del. Le Cour sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Very rare aquatint. 430 x 320mm (17 x 12½"). Narrow margins, small split in platemark, creasing.
A view of the Fête de la Fédération, a festival held to celebrate the French Revolution, with a triumphal arch and large altar in the distance where several people are proclaiming their allegiance to the Nation, the Law and (still) the King.
[Ref: 61482] £320.00
Swebach Del. Le Cour sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Very rare aquatint. 430 x 320mm (17 x 12½"). Narrow margins, small split in platemark, creasing.
A view of the Fête de la Fédération, a festival held to celebrate the French Revolution, with a triumphal arch and large altar in the distance where several people are proclaiming their allegiance to the Nation, the Law and (still) the King.
[Ref: 61482] £320.00
John Bull ou Le Peuple Anglais apprenant de l'Enchanteur Merlin Comment Finira la Guerre.
Le Cour inv. & Sculp.t an XI.
[1803]
Rare aquatint and etching. 240 x 280mm (9½ x 11") large margins. Tears taped, some creasing. Collector's ink stamp, "J.M.R. Vienne" Collections Francaise and pasted label on reverse.
''John Bull or The English People Learning from the Enchanter Merlin How the War Will End''. A satire of the end of the Peace of Amiens in 1803. It is set in Merlin's cave, with the magician showing John Bull a gallows with Pitt hanging from it. Thunderbolts emitted by a laurel wreath represesenting the French Republic break George III's throne, causing him to fall to the floor.
[Ref: 60502] £360.00
Le Cour inv. & Sculp.t an XI.
[1803]
Rare aquatint and etching. 240 x 280mm (9½ x 11") large margins. Tears taped, some creasing. Collector's ink stamp, "J.M.R. Vienne" Collections Francaise and pasted label on reverse.
''John Bull or The English People Learning from the Enchanter Merlin How the War Will End''. A satire of the end of the Peace of Amiens in 1803. It is set in Merlin's cave, with the magician showing John Bull a gallows with Pitt hanging from it. Thunderbolts emitted by a laurel wreath represesenting the French Republic break George III's throne, causing him to fall to the floor.
[Ref: 60502] £360.00
Alexandre Pope.
des Rais del. Le Coeur Sculp.t 1787.
Aquatint. 255 x 190mm. 10 x 7½". Crease to lower left corner.
Unusual portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) holding his 1834 poem 'An Essay on Man' (with title in French), framed by a medallion. Pope, the 18th century English poet, was best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. The son of a linen-draper, Pope was first noticed by Jacob Tonson who published his 'Pastorals' in 1709. With 'The Rape of the Lock' (1712), and his translations of Homer, Pope became the most formidable literary figure of his day, with a large circle of both friends and enemies. Primarily a satirical poet and of unsurpassed metrical skill, he wrote 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed'. A friend of Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, part of Lord Burlington's circle, and famous in the history of landscape gardening for the grounds of his villa at Twickenham (particularly his 'grotto'), he was revered as one of the great personalities of the age.
for another print from the same series, see ref. 15297
[Ref: 27263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
des Rais del. Le Coeur Sculp.t 1787.
Aquatint. 255 x 190mm. 10 x 7½". Crease to lower left corner.
Unusual portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) holding his 1834 poem 'An Essay on Man' (with title in French), framed by a medallion. Pope, the 18th century English poet, was best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. The son of a linen-draper, Pope was first noticed by Jacob Tonson who published his 'Pastorals' in 1709. With 'The Rape of the Lock' (1712), and his translations of Homer, Pope became the most formidable literary figure of his day, with a large circle of both friends and enemies. Primarily a satirical poet and of unsurpassed metrical skill, he wrote 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed'. A friend of Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, part of Lord Burlington's circle, and famous in the history of landscape gardening for the grounds of his villa at Twickenham (particularly his 'grotto'), he was revered as one of the great personalities of the age.
for another print from the same series, see ref. 15297
[Ref: 27263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Le Docteur Young.
des Rais del. Le Coeur Sculpt.
Ex Bibliotca. Regia. [French, c.1790.]
Etching and aquatint, sheet 250 x 175mm. 9½ x 7". Trimmed to plate.
The sitter in this rather sinister image is unidentified; perhaps he is a grave robber, or body snatcher, inspecting the skull from a skeleton he has just dug up from a graveyard. There appears to be the sculpted masonry of a tomb behind him, and the impression is of a moonlit night; in oval frame.
Not in Wellcome; for another print in the same series, see ref. 27263
[Ref: 15297] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
des Rais del. Le Coeur Sculpt.
Ex Bibliotca. Regia. [French, c.1790.]
Etching and aquatint, sheet 250 x 175mm. 9½ x 7". Trimmed to plate.
The sitter in this rather sinister image is unidentified; perhaps he is a grave robber, or body snatcher, inspecting the skull from a skeleton he has just dug up from a graveyard. There appears to be the sculpted masonry of a tomb behind him, and the impression is of a moonlit night; in oval frame.
Not in Wellcome; for another print in the same series, see ref. 27263
[Ref: 15297] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)