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[Giovanna Baccelli] Mademoiselle Baccelli.
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Pub.d. Jan.y 20, 1793 by J.R. Smith N.º 83 Oxford Street.
Mezzotint, sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed to plate with printer's crease.
A half-length portrait in oval of Venetian ballerina Giovanna Bacchelli (Francesca Antonia Giuseppa Zanerini, 1753-1801), holding a mask. She was the mistress of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, who commissioned this portrait from Reynolds (now at Knole, Kent). CS 6.
[Ref: 69346] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Carina Anna] Carina.
Eduard Kaiser 1865. Druck v. Reiffenstein & Rösch.
Commissions. Verlag v. F. Wessely vormals H.F. Müller's W.we in Wein. Mit Vorbehalt der Vervielfaltigung.
Tinted lithograph on chine collé, printed backing sheet. Total 415 x 320mm (16¼ x 12½"). Scuffs and stains, signed dedication old ink mss. in inscription area. 1863
A three-quarter length portrait of Austrian soprano Katharina Gschmeidler (stage name Anna Carina, 1839-85).
[Ref: 69320] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Letitia Cross.] M.rs Cross.
Tho.Hill pinx.
[n.d., c.1700.] Sold by J.Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden.
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 355 x 245mm (14 x 9¾"), with very large margins. Small holes in margins. Light staining. Abrasions in title area.
Portrait of Letitia Cross (1682 - 1737), British actress and soprano. She appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre and was the mistress of Peter the Great (1672-1725) while he visited England. CS 70 ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69449] £360.00
[The Duenna] Father Paul in his Cups, or the Private Devotion of a Convent.
London, Printed for R. Sayer, Map, Chart, and Printseller, N.º 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 25, Sep.r 1786.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
A scene from 'The Duenna', the highly successful 1775 comic opera with music by Thomas Linley the elder and younger, with a libretto by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A group of monks drink around a large table, drinking. BM Satire 4626. dated 1778. Ex. Collection the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69253] £320.00
L'Indifferent. Tirée du Cabinet de M.r Massé.
A, Watteau pinxit. G. Scotin Sculp.
a Paris avec privilege du Roy [n.d., 1729].
Etching with engraving. 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"), large margins.
A man with a tricorn and cape dances in a wooded landscape.
[Ref: 69481] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Ivanhoé] The Maid of Judah. Fancy Sketches N.º 4.
Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 53, Newman S.t.
London: Published by G.S. Tregear, 96, Cheapside [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph. Printed area 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8").
A young Jewish girl plays a lyre. Gioachino Rossini's three-act opera 'Ivanhoé' was first performed in England in 1829, with the title 'The Maid of Judah'. It is likely this is a portrait of the singer playing Rebecca.
[Ref: 69478] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Edward Miller. Mus: Doct: Doncaster.
Painted & Engraved by T. Hardy.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins. Old ink mss. ownership inscription on top edge of Colonel Cooke M.P.
A half-length portrait of Edward Miller (1731-1807), musical director, organist and historian of Doncaster. As a composer he is most noted as the writer of the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway. For a time he was a flautist in Handel's orchestra. In 1756 he was appointed organist of St George's Minster Doncaster, where he remained for 50 years. In 1786 Cambridge University awarded him a doctorate.
[Ref: 69296] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
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