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Abdolominus
Abdolominus Wie spiehlt nicht offt das Gluck [...]
J.E. Nilson inv et del. B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower right of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching, sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
This scene probably relates to the play 'Abdolominus' by French playwright Gabriel-Francois Le Jay (1657-1734). In this play, Alexander the Great appoints his distant relative Abdolomines king of Sidon. Abdolomines preferred to live a simple life, and here he is offered the crown while he dwells in a splendid natural setting. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33168]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Eumenides of Aeschylus
The Eumenides of Aeschylus as Performed by Members of the University at the Theatre Royal Cambridge December 1885..
Drawn and Etched by Robert Farren.
Cambridge: Macmillan And Bowes, 1884.
Seven etchings. Each c. 180 x 225mm (7 x 9"), on thick paper with large margins. With a duplicate plate on regular paper and a plate from one of Farren's earlier series.
The illustrated titlepage and six plates illustrating the staging of 'The Eumenides', the third and final play in the 'Oresteia', the story of Orestes, first performed in 458BC. The plates are titled in Greek letters. Although the illustrations are complete a printed cast list is lacking. Robert Farren (1832-1910) was a topographical etcher and illustrator, who owned a print business in Cambridge, before moving to Scarborough in 1889 for his health.
[Ref: 44549]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
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[The Agreeable Surprise.] Lingo and Cowslip.
[The Agreeable Surprise.] Lingo and Cowslip. Oh Cowslip the Great Old Roman Hero's, Perhaps you never heard of Moses, Homer, Hercules or Wat Tyler; Vide, O.Keefs Agreable Surprise.
H. Singleton pinx.t Edw.d Scott, Sculp.t
London, Pub.d May 1, 1788 by I. Birchall No.473, Strand.
Very fine stipple printed in brown ink with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 380 x 350mm (15 x 13¾").
A scene from O'Keeffe's play 'The agreeable Surprise': in a kitchen, Lingo sits on a chair wearing wig and pointing upwards, while Cowslip faces him with a bowl on her lap. Comic actor John Edwin the Elder (1749-1790) is depicted here as Lingo, with actess and singer Mary Stephens Wells (1762-1829) as Cowslip.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. NPG: D15108.
[Ref: 28412]   £360.00  
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[Almeria.
[Almeria. She now was pensive, now was gay, And loll'd the sultry hours away.]
Painted by Will.m Owen Esq.r R.A. Engraved by Henry Meyer. G.t Russell S.t Blooms.y.
[London, Published by the Engraver March 17th. 1812.]
Mezzotint, a rare proof before title and completed inscriptions.
A scene from John Dryden's play 'The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the Sequel of The Indian Queen', showing Almeria, who is a consort of Montezuma but falls in love with Hernan Cortez. Looking thoroughly European, she reclines on a couch, being attended to by an African girl.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 44041]   £320.00  
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[The Baptist] In lance Vatis abstulit caesum caput. Buchanan Bayt.
[The Baptist] In lance Vatis abstulit caesum caput. Buchanan Bayt.
Pet: Schenck fec et exc.
Amstelod: cum Privil. [n.d. c.1700]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark, sheet 250 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene from George Buchanan's (1506 –82) tragedy 'The Baptist' (Baptistes). Title translates from latin as 'He removed the severed head on a tray.' A person in oriental dress, including turban, holds the the head of John the Baptist on a tray.
[Ref: 60427]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Beggar's Opera.
The Beggar's Opera. Jenny. I must and will have a kiss to give my wine a zest. Act 2 Scene 1.
Burney pinx. Bartolozzi Sc.
London Printed for J. Bell, British Library, Strand, July 9, 1791.
Etching with engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"), with large margins. Some foxing, mainly in margins.
Macheath sits with arms around two women. One of six frontispieces to 'British Theatre'.
De Vesme 167, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 55517]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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A Scene in the Careless Husband.
A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"). Laid on album paper, some wear.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85).
CS 414.
[Ref: 45058]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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A Scene in the Careless Husband.
A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, platemark 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"), with large margins. Slight printer's crease bottom left.
Scene from the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, engraved from a painting by Philip Mercier, showing a moment in Act V, Scene IV of the play with the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). Originally a pendant to another theatrical scene after Mercier, 'A Scene from the Recruiting Officer'.
Lennox-Boyd 1994 cat 2 (only state); CS 414; for the pendant see ref 7855. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38880]   £380.00  
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Cato.
Cato.
Burney pinx. Bartolozzi Sc.
London Printed for J. Bell, British Library, Strand, July 9, 1791.
Etching with engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Small margins. Some foxing, mainly in margins.
A warrior and a woman kneeling down over a corpse. One of six frontispieces to 'British Theatre'.
De Vesme 1672, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 55516]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the Choir.
Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the Choir. mem: of the Comte de Comminge.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Excudit.
London, Publish'd Oct.r 20;th 1782, by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No. 158 New Bond Street.
Stipple and aquatint, 18th century watermark. 385 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Thread margins top and bottom.
A scene from Claudine Guérin de Tencin's tragedy ''Les Amants malheureux ou Le Comte de Comminges'', adapted for the stage by Baculard d'Arnaud. A girl, dressed in male clothing, is apprehended by two Trappist monks.
[Ref: 54587]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Dom Gusman vole les Confitures chez le Cardinal, dont il est reconnu.
Dom Gusman vole les Confitures chez le Cardinal, dont il est reconnu. Tome 2, Chap. 6.
Le Mesle inv. Dupin Sculp.
A Paris chez Dupin rue St. Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, 320 x 375mm. 12½ x 14¾". Slightly soiled and stained.
Illustration of a scene from Dom Juan or The Feast with the Statue (Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre), a play by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (1622 - 1673). It is based on the legendary fictional libertine Don Juan. Engraved and published in Paris by Pierre Dupin (c.1690 - c.1751).
From the Capper Album.
[Ref: 10988]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Evelina] [Le Singe.]
[Evelina] [Le Singe.]
I. Mortimer inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[T. Lowndes Published Nov.r 24 1779.]
Etching with engraving, proof before all letters. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½").
Monkey in a room biting a man's ear from behind, two men watching from behind with their arms open. Behind them stand two women embracing each other in front of a men; three further men in front of a door to the left. Illustration to "Evelina" by Frances Burney.
De Vesme: 1692, this state not known to De V.
[Ref: 20434]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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The Fair Penitent!!
The Fair Penitent!! Illustrations of Plays
[Anon., c.1830]
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet with other small prints.
Woman on a treadmill, supervised by a man with a whip and a back woman impeaching him to show mercy. Scene from 'The Fair Penitent', Nicholas Rowe's 1702 adaptation of an earlier play, 'The Fatal Dowry'.
[Ref: 43927]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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M.r Garrick reciting the Ode, in honor of Shakespeare, at the Jubillee at Stratford, with the Musical Performers, & c.
M.r Garrick reciting the Ode, in honor of Shakespeare, at the Jubillee at Stratford, with the Musical Performers, & c. N.º XXVII.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Sheet 125 x 175mm (5 x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate, original folds.
David Garrick reciting his Ode to Shakespeare at the 1769 Jubilee in Stratford-upon-Avon. He stands at the centre, his right hand raised, surrounded by orchestral musicians and singers, who listen to his speech. At the centre is a statue of Shakespeare.
[Ref: 64350]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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The Principal Scene in Harlequin every where.
The Principal Scene in Harlequin every where.
Painted by Cipriani and Richards. Engraved by Bonner.
[n.d., c.1796.]
Engraving. 110 x 165mm, 4¼ x 6½".
A scene in Tartarus (the Greek Hell) from "The Mirror or Harlequin Everywhere" by Charles Dibden, first performed at Covent Garden Theatre in 1779. The tortured include: Sisyphus, cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill; Prometheus, having his liver eaten by an eagle; Tantalus, chained to a rock in a river with a berry bush hanging just out of reach above his head; Ixion, bound to a fiery wheel; and Salmoneus, chained under an overhanging rock forever threatening to fall.
[Ref: 13586]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Humourous Scene in the Lame-Lover.
Humourous Scene in the Lame-Lover.
T. Bonner del. et sculp.
[London Magazine, 1770.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides.
A scene from 'The Lame Lover, a three-act comic play by Samuel Foote, about Sir Luke Limp, a disabled man who pretends to be in love with a wealthy widow for financial gain. Foote, who wrote the play while recuperating from the amputation of his leg following a riding accident, played Limp in the original production
[Ref: 63504]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon, in the Mayor of Garratt]
[Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon, in the Mayor of Garratt]
J. Zoffany pinx.t J.G. Haid fec.t
Publish'd as ye Act directs Aug.st 1.st 1765 by J. Boydell in Cheapside
A rare proof mezzotint, platemark 430 x 510mm (17 x 20"). Repaired tear to top edge. Small margins.
Scene from Samuel Foote's play 'Mayor of Garratt', set in the hamlet of Garratt in Wandsworth, south-west of London. The plot centres around Foote's character Major Sturgeon, a Citizen and Fishmonger who is also a Major in the Middlesex Militia. Engraving after a painting by Johann Zoffany presumably commissioned by Foote, who left it in his will to William Fitzherbert, one of his executors.
CS 2; O'D 17; Lennox-Boyd 14 ii/iii. For a similar theatrical scene after Zoffany see ref. 27516.
[Ref: 46860]   £480.00  
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[And if he answers that, Madam, through my small guts, my breath, blood and mistress are all at his service]
[And if he answers that, Madam, through my small guts, my breath, blood and mistress are all at his service] From Scene I. Miss in her Teens, or the Medley of Lovers.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [c.1774]
Mezzotint, sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Fine impression; trimmed inside plate bottom edge, losing text; blue chalk marks.
A man demonstrates his courage and determination by brandishing his small-sword to the admiration of two women in a room. Scene from 'Miss in her Teens', a two-act farce by David Garrick which first opened to great acclaim in 1747.
[Ref: 40820]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Monsieur Thomas.
Monsieur Thomas. Vol. 3, p.1403.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾").
A scene from 'Monsieur Thomas', a Jacobean play by John Fletcher. The anti-hero is climbing a rope to a hoped assignation with Mary; however, when he reaches the window the maid Madge appears with a devil mask and makes to kiss him, cauing him to fall. Violinist at bottom.
[Ref: 45056]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Nicodeme. [&] Babichon.
Nicodeme. [&] Babichon.
L Vigee Pinx. Simon Duflos Sculp.
[French, n.d., c.1750s.]
Pair of etchings, each c.290 x 200mm. 11½ x 8". Several small filled holes.
Actor and actress dressed as characters from the Opéra Comique; in villagers' clothes, standing in a rural landscape. Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the tradition of popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne), which combined popular tunes with spoken sections. Four columns of verse in French as spoken by the character beneath each image. After portrait painter Louis Vigée (French, 1715 - 1767). Vigee presented three small paintings representing characters from the Opéra Comique at the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1751.
Not in Harvard.
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A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
Ph. Mercier invt. et pinxt. I. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Mezzotint, 276 x 323mm. Foxing, small marginal tear upper left.
Illustrates George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer'. Farquhar (1677 or 1678 - 1707) was an Irish dramatist noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy. The play follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
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[Road to Ruin] Harry Dornton,
[Road to Ruin] Harry Dornton, The Go.___Beating the Watchmen___Pl.3
Publish'd Sept.r 26, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint, platemark 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Late impression; trimmed inside margin lower edge; nicks in margins; 'CL-B' collector's stamp verso.
Scene from 'Road to Ruin', the major theatrical success of writer Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809). The play was first staged in 1792 and ran every season into the 1800s. The play satirises the reckless ways of Harry Dornton, who is shown here defending his friend against watchmen, a scene apparently set in Covent Garden Piazza.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
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[Roman Comique] Bataille arrivée dans le tripot.
[Roman Comique] Bataille arrivée dans le tripot. Liv. 1 chap III.
Inventé et gravé par J.B. Oudry. Avec Privilege du Roy.
A Paris chez Oudry Peintre du Roy au Château des Thuilleries cour des princes, Et chez Duchange graveur du Roy ruë St Jacques.
Etching. 370 x 450mm (14½ x 17¾"). Repairs. Vertical fold at centre.
A very early tennis scene from Paul Scarron's 'Roman Comique': the audience of a play being held in a tennis court start brawling, interfering with the tennis players, who join in. The two are shown using their rackets as clubs. The original painting in in the Louvre.
[Ref: 45016]   £390.00  
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Grisalda. [&] The Shepherdess of the Alps.
Grisalda. [&] The Shepherdess of the Alps. From the Original Picture in the Collection of George Bowles Esq, to whom this Plate is Dedicated by his most Obedient Humble Servant, W.Dickinson.
Painted by Angelica Kauffman. Engraved by F.Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd Feb.y 20th 1785 by W.Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller, No.158 Bond Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in sepia, scratch-letter proofs. Each 440 x 330mm (17¼ x 13"). Large margins on the Shepherdess; Small margins on Grisalda. Slight repaired hole on right in Grisalda.
A pair of scenes from 'The Shepherdess of the Alps', a play by Charles Dibdin's play, 1780, based on 'Patient Griselda', one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. In 'Grisalda' (later with the full title 'Gualtherus and Grisalda') Gualtiero, King of Sicily, meets the poor shepherdess, Griselda, who he had married years before but had forced to exile. The story has also been made into an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti (1721) and Antonio Vivaldi (1735).
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The Spanish Disaster or Cuckoldom by Contrivance.
The Spanish Disaster or Cuckoldom by Contrivance. Engrav'd for the General Magazine
[Anon., c.1760]
Rare crayon-manner etching printed in red; sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; tear to lower edge
Scene apparently illustrating John Dryden's comedy 'The Spanish Fryar' (first staged 1680), whose anti-Catholic satire made it a popular success. In the play one character, Gomez, tells another, Dominick the Spanish Fryar, that he is observing 'a cuckoldom of your own contrivance'.
For portraits of actors in the role of Dominick see refs 27255 and 31322.
[Ref: 39189]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Stage Medley representing the polite tast of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet Gay Polly Peachum & Capt. Macheath]
[The Stage Medley representing the polite tast of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet Gay Polly Peachum & Capt. Macheath] To the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor [...]
[Anon., 1728]
Three fragments from a larger medley print, trimmed and pasted on both sides of card sheet 220 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Damaged.
Three individual elements from a larger medley print which functioned as a satire on John Gay's phenomenally successful play 'The Beggar's Opera', in the form of a trompe l'oeil assemblage of nine smaller 'prints'.
BM Satires 1806
[Ref: 42105]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Theatre set] Osteria.
[Theatre set] Osteria.
A.Basoli inv. P. Candeglieri dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 305 x 380mm (12 x 15"), with very large margins.
A theatre set for a play set in Italy outside an osteria, or bar, where people are playing boules. Published in Antonio Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
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