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Cottonus Matherus. S. Theologiae Doctor Regiae Societatis Londinensis Socius et Ecclesiae apud Bostonum Nov=Anglorum nuper Praepositus Aetatis Suae LXV, MDCCXXVII.
P. Pelham ad vivum pinxit ab Origin, Fecit et excud.
[Late 19th century impression.]
Mezzotint 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") on cartridge paper. Some spotting.
A half-length portrait in oval of Cotton Mather (1663-1728), wearing velvet clerical robes, bands and shoulder-length wig. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, engraving this plate from life shortly afterwards. This impression was published after the plate was brought to England.
CS 26, state ii of ii, 'so far as as known, the first mezzotinto engraving executed in America'. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64859] £450.00
P. Pelham ad vivum pinxit ab Origin, Fecit et excud.
[Late 19th century impression.]
Mezzotint 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") on cartridge paper. Some spotting.
A half-length portrait in oval of Cotton Mather (1663-1728), wearing velvet clerical robes, bands and shoulder-length wig. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, engraving this plate from life shortly afterwards. This impression was published after the plate was brought to England.
CS 26, state ii of ii, 'so far as as known, the first mezzotinto engraving executed in America'. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64859] £450.00
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[O'Higgins.]
[C. Turner sculp.t.]
[London, Published 1828 by Longman & Co.]
Scarce mezzotint, proof before letters. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Large margins soiled and creased.
Half-length portrait of Chilean independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778-1842), in dress uniform, hand under his arm. The plate was later used as the frontispiece of vol II. of John Miller's 'Memoirs of General Miller in the Service of the Republic of Peru'.
Whitman 408. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64965] £360.00
[C. Turner sculp.t.]
[London, Published 1828 by Longman & Co.]
Scarce mezzotint, proof before letters. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Large margins soiled and creased.
Half-length portrait of Chilean independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778-1842), in dress uniform, hand under his arm. The plate was later used as the frontispiece of vol II. of John Miller's 'Memoirs of General Miller in the Service of the Republic of Peru'.
Whitman 408. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64965] £360.00