A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Grimaldis Leap Frog, in the Comic Pantomime of the Golden Fish.
Drawn and Etchd by WHeath.
Pub Jany 21st 1812 by T Palser Bridge Road Lambeth.
Etching. Sheet 245 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
Two images of renowned clown Joseph Grimaldi, wearing his distinctive white makeup and diamond-decorated costume. On the left he offers a giant frog a bowl. On the right the frog leaps over the crouching clown. ''Harlequin & Padmanaba, or The Golden Fish'' was performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1811-2, adapted by Charles Farley from a story in the Arabian Nights. It was the first pantomime to include a living elephant. William Heath (1794-1840) was still a teenager when this print was published.
Not in BM Satires, but 1948,0214.769.
[Ref: 67169] £320.00
Drawn and Etchd by WHeath.
Pub Jany 21st 1812 by T Palser Bridge Road Lambeth.
Etching. Sheet 245 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
Two images of renowned clown Joseph Grimaldi, wearing his distinctive white makeup and diamond-decorated costume. On the left he offers a giant frog a bowl. On the right the frog leaps over the crouching clown. ''Harlequin & Padmanaba, or The Golden Fish'' was performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1811-2, adapted by Charles Farley from a story in the Arabian Nights. It was the first pantomime to include a living elephant. William Heath (1794-1840) was still a teenager when this print was published.
Not in BM Satires, but 1948,0214.769.
[Ref: 67169] £320.00
Little Huline, in his Celebrated Feat.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Sheet 310 x 220mm (12¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed, creasing and staining.
A harlequin clown doing a headstand on a chair balanced on another chair with its legs on four bottles, on a table.
[Ref: 67177] £490.00
[n.d., c.1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Sheet 310 x 220mm (12¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed, creasing and staining.
A harlequin clown doing a headstand on a chair balanced on another chair with its legs on four bottles, on a table.
[Ref: 67177] £490.00