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L'Hyver.
Pierre Aveline del. Sculp. Cum privilegio Regis.
a Paris chez Charpentier rue St Jacques au Coq.
Engraving., 18th century watermark 340 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"), large margins.
An allegorical scene of winter, with three naked cherubs, one winged, warming themselves at a campfire.
[Ref: 54055] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Winter. Pleasure is fled - save where the Ball or play, / Or Opera, invite the Young and Gay; / Now Blustering Winds & rude inclement Skies / The Tippett, Muff, and Cardinal defies.
R. Pyle Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed just within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Slight creasing.
A three-quarter length portrait of a fashionably-dressed young woman in a winter landscape, arms folded in an ermine-trimmed cloak (tippet). From a set of Seasons by Robert Pyle, which was also engraved by Richard Houston, Charles Corbett (pseudonym used by both Richard Purcell and Houston) & Georg & Johann Rugendas.
[Ref: 53387] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Tragedy.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[Pub.d June 30. 1788 by Macklin...]
Stipple. Sheet 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publisher's inscription, creased bottom left.
A female allegorical figure of Tragedy leans against a balustrade. At her feet are three sleeping cherubs, about to be scared awake by a fourth who holds her mask over his face. De Vesme 733, iii of iii.
[Ref: 53331] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
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