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Credulous Innocence. [&] Seduction.
Credulous Innocence. [&] Seduction.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London Pub.d Nov.r 5, 1788, by Ia.s Birchall No.473, Strand.
Pair of mezzotints. 506 x 355mm. (20 x 14"). Damage to upper area.
A pair of scenes set in rustic settings: a young woman sitting in a bare interior, unaware of a young man who peers slyly through the window, listening attentively to another woman in tattered clothes with a broad-brimmed hat, who reads her palm; and a young woman wearing a mob cap, shawl and apron, sitting at the door of a thatched cottage, her left arm hooked over the back of her chair, reading a letter. There is a basket upside down beside her, and a bird drinking from a plate on the ground next to it. A young man is seen bribing a second woman behind a tree next to the cottage to the right.
Chaloner Smith: p.1646 [listed]. Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection Sotheby's 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36981]   £590.00   view all images for this item
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Danger.
Danger. Ah Betsey if you did but think, / How near you are to Dangers brink; / You'd surely then leave off your play, / And strait from Billy far away 166
Printed for Bowles & Carver 69 St Paul's Church Yard London [c.1790]
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Staining lower left; crease top left.
A young man ('Billy') attempts to thread a needle held by a young woman ('Betsey'), with the title and text below highlighting the action as a metaphor for Billy's intentions, and advising Betsey to evade them. Part of the genre of mezzotint drolls in which familiar activities such as sewing and eating were explicit metaphors for sex.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; state ii/ii
[Ref: 36210]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Discovery or the angry Father.
The Discovery or the angry Father.
Painted by J. Opie R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Ward, Painter & Engraver to H.R.H. the Princ[e of Wales.]
London Published Sept.r 25th 1809, by R. Lambe, 39, Fleet Street.
Large mezzotint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 745 x 545mm (29¼ x 21½") very large margins. Trimmed within plate, bottom right corner of inscription rebuilt.
A father discovers his daughter's love letters.
CS 38. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 56763]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Sheltered.
Love Sheltered. It's a cold, rainy night, and I'm wet to the skin / And I have lost my way, Ma'am: so pray let me in [...]
H. Thomson Pinx.t W.m Say Sculp.t
London, Published Nov.r 10.th 1806 by H. Macklin, 39, Fleet Street
Mezzotint, Open-letter proof, rare, platemark 655 x 415mm (25¾ x 16¼"), with very large margins.
Allegorical scene after one of the major works of Henry Thomson (1777-1843), engraved the same year as the Thomson painted the picture. Thomson was elected as a Royal Academician two years earlier, in 1804, and in 1825 would succeed Henry Fuseli as keeper of the Royal Academy. The publisher, Hannah Macklin, was the widow of Thomas Macklin, continuing his business after his death in 1801.
[Ref: 45436]   £420.00  
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The Marriage.
The Marriage.
Painted by F. Wheatley. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Nov.r 15.th 1787, by J. Dean, Bentinck Street, Soho.
Coloured mezzotint with large margins. Plate 503 x 354mm (19¾ x 14"). Title area bit messy.
A bride and groom, simply dressed, walking hand-in-hand under a church porch, looking into each other's eyes, the groom holding his hat in his left hand, two bridesmaids throwing flowers from baskets on the right, with an old lady and another woman standing behind them. From a set of four.
[Ref: 28188]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Pledge of Love.
The Pledge of Love. The Lovely Fair with Rapture views, This Token of their love: Then all her promises renews, And hopes he'll constant prove.
Painted by G.Morland Engrav'd by W.Ward.
London Pub.d June 1st 1788 by W.Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 380 x 275mm. Very fine.
Ref: F 222. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4305]   £450.00  
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Hariet ravish'd in the Summer House.
Hariet ravish'd in the Summer House. Woman of Pleasure.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Tipped into backing sheet. Light staining to sheet.
An illustration supposedly of John Cleland's 'Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37404]   £450.00  
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Fanny Hill & Pheobe.
Fanny Hill & Pheobe. Women of Pleasure.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Cut to image on all sides. Tipped into backing sheet.
An illustration supposedly of John Cleland's 'Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37406]   £450.00  
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Fanny Hill, Louisa, and the Nosegay Boy.
Fanny Hill, Louisa, and the Nosegay Boy. Woman of Pleasure.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Tipped into backing sheet. Light staining.
An illustration supposedly of John Cleland's 'Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37408]   £450.00  
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St. Preux and Eloisa.
St. Preux and Eloisa. I feel - I feel you are a thousand times more dear to me than ever. O my charming Mistress! my Wife! my Sister! my Friend! By what name shall I express what I feel? Eloisa Vol 1. Page: 85.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Tipped into backing sheet.
An illustration supposedly of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'Julie, or the New Heloise'. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37405]   £450.00  
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Mrs. Homespun & Sedley.
Mrs. Homespun & Sedley. Pupil of Pleasure.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Tipped into backing sheet.
An illustration supposedly of Samuel Jackson's Pupil of Pleasure. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37403]   £450.00  
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Lady Bellaston & Tom Jones after their return from the Masquerade.
Lady Bellaston & Tom Jones after their return from the Masquerade. Tom Jones book 15 Chap.t 7.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Tipped into backing sheet.
An illustration supposedly of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
See: Ref 37407. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37402]   £450.00  
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Tom Jones and, Molly Seagrim in the Grove.
Tom Jones and, Molly Seagrim in the Grove.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Tipped into backing sheet. Light staining in title area.
An illustration supposedly of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones'. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
See Ref: 37401, 37405, 37403. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37407]   £450.00  
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Tom Jones, Molly Seagrim, and Square.
Tom Jones, Molly Seagrim, and Square.
[W. Ward and J.R. Smith(?) after G. Morland.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Tipped into backing sheet.
An illustration supposedly of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Radically different from George Morland's (1763-1804) more familiar rustic genre, landscapes and elegant portraits of decorous young ladies, this plate graphically depicts sexual intercourse. It is from a series of rude illustrations of popular novels almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful business partnership. The plates are (naturally) unsigned. For a set of eleven from this series see item ref: 28133.
See Ref: 37402. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37401]   £450.00  
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Seduction.
Seduction.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London. Pub. Nov.r 5. 1788 by Ja.s Birchall No. 473, Strand.
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Light foxing. A few scratches to printed area.
A young woman wearing a mob cap, shawl and apron, sitting at the door of a thatched cottage, her left arm hooked over the back of her chair, reading a letter. There is a basket upside down beside her, and a bird drinking from a plate on the ground next to it. A young man is seen bribing a second woman behind a tree next to the cottage to the right. A companion print to item ref: 36981, 'Credulous Innocence'.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36990]   £360.00  
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The Sincere Lovers. The tim'rous Youth w.th Prayers intreats ye Fair, Which she rejects with a disdainfull Air: Yet pines in thought, & bears an equal part Of all his Anguish; in her asking Heart. In real Love the Sex alike the same, Fortune themselves to
The Sincere Lovers. The tim'rous Youth w.th Prayers intreats ye Fair, Which she rejects with a disdainfull Air: Yet pines in thought, & bears an equal part Of all his Anguish; in her asking Heart. In real Love the Sex alike the same, Fortune themselves to give their Lovers pain.
I. Simon fec et ex, C. Coypel pinx
[n.d. c.1780.]
Rare mezzotint. Plate 349 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to the plate, creasing top right; glued to backing sheet.
Wry comment on the games involved in courtship, in which those involved 'torture themselves to give their Lovers pain.'
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28404]   £350.00  
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