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[Marie Antoinette Reine de France, neé Archiduchesse d'Autriche. Mary Antoinetta, Queen of France, born Archduchess of Austria.]
[Peint à apres nature a Paris par Anton Hickel Peintre de la Cour de Vienne. Gravé par Simon Malgo.]
[London Published as the Act directs Mar.h 1.st Ant.y Molteno Printseller to her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, N.º 76 S.t James's Street.]
Mezzotint, very rare proof before letters. 635 x 450mm (25 x 17¾"), large margins Small crack in platemark bottom left.
A full-length seated portrait of Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lorraine (1755-93), wife of Louis XVI, wearing pale gown, pearls, cameo and flowers, and veil and plumes fixed in her high hair. CS: 2, before i of ii. Russell 2, i of iv. Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67794] £620.00
Mar. Ther. Louisa of Savoy Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, Born at Turin, in 1749, & Msssacred at Paris Sep.r 3, 1792. She fell a victim to her attachment to the Queen of France, whom even impemding Death could induce her to calumniate.
Peint d'apres nature a Paris en 1789 par Anton Hickel Peintre de la Cour de Vienne. S. Malgo, Sculp.
London, Published as the Act directs March 22, 1793 by S. Malgo No 57 Titchfield Street.
Mezzotint. 635 x 450mm (25 x 17¾"), with very large margins.
A full-length portrait of Marie-Thérèse Louise of Savoy (1749-1792), Princesse de Lamballe, seated at a writing desk in a library, quill in hand. She died in the September Massacres of 1792, in which about 1500 prisoners, including political prisoners, nobles criminals, priests, nuns and Swiss Royal guards were killed by a mob with hand weapons. Her head was paraded on a pike. CS 1, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67795] £580.00
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