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Catalogue: Decorative
Guillrlmi III Libertatis Angliæ Vindicis Memoriæ Immortali.
Guillrlmi III Libertatis Angliæ Vindicis Memoriæ Immortali.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. L.Surugue Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 650 x 420mm, 25½ x 16½". Tears to margins, creased, some staining.
An allegorical monument to William III, with putti, a lion and unicorn. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10612]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Char de Bacchus]
[Char de Bacchus]
[François Blondel]
[Paris, c.1745.]
Etching. Sheet 300 x 330mm (11¾ x 13"). Trimmed, losing some of the image on left.
From Fêtes publiques données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 février MDCCXLV. Representing the festivities in Paris for the marrigae of the Dauphin, Louis XIV, to Maria Theresa of Spain that took place at Versailles 23rd February 1745. The Mercure de France of November 1751 specifies that the majority of the drawings were composed by François Blondel and not by the Cochin father and son team whom it had been previously attributed to. A beautiful baroque coach containing a driver, four male passagers and an infant Bacchus, at least six wine barrels, and a flower-laden trellis. The full published image includes four pairs of horses guided by four attendants.
[Ref: 44111]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Plate 5: Cherubs and Nature.]
[Plate 5: Cherubs and Nature.]
Mondon Invenit. Aveline Sculpsit.
Avec privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1736.]
Copper engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 241 x 171mm. Large margins, uncut.
On top of a Rococo style design sit two cherubs, one of which is winged. A dog just below to the right snarls and barks at a sheet to lower left. From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the first set: "Premier livre de formes rocailles et cartels".
[Ref: 23007]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Woman in a landscape holding a vessel and polishing it with her dress; in decorative surround.]
[Woman in a landscape holding a vessel and polishing it with her dress; in decorative surround.]
J.. Pillement int. P. C. Canot Sc.
Published accordg to Act of Parlt, March 1st, 1759.
Etching Trimmed within plate and to image at top.
Ornament print from a series after Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 - 1808).
[Ref: 11823]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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