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V. Alfiéri, Poëte dramatique Italien né en 1749, mort en 1803.
Lith. de V. Raltier.
Galerie Universelle. Place Vendome No. 24 Publiée par Blaisoz [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 270 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"). Mounted in album paper at borders.
Count Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803), Italian dramatist and poet considered the 'founder of Italian tragedy'.
[Ref: 63619] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Lith. de V. Raltier.
Galerie Universelle. Place Vendome No. 24 Publiée par Blaisoz [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 270 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"). Mounted in album paper at borders.
Count Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803), Italian dramatist and poet considered the 'founder of Italian tragedy'.
[Ref: 63619] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Francis Beaumont. Esq.
Geo: Vertue Sculp 1729. [Early issue]
Engraving. 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), large margins. Small printer's crease on left edge.
A portrait in oval of playwright Francis Beaumont (1584-1616),
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63881] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Geo: Vertue Sculp 1729. [Early issue]
Engraving. 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), large margins. Small printer's crease on left edge.
A portrait in oval of playwright Francis Beaumont (1584-1616),
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63881] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[George William Campbell] A View of Argyle.](jpegs/63806.jpg)
[George William Campbell] A View of Argyle.
Drawn Etchd [---] by Richd. Dighton. May 1819.
Pub.d by T McLean Haymarket [n.d., c.1825].
Etching. 280 x 150mm (11 x 6"), with large margins, watermarked 1825. Several small tears in right margin, publication line weakly inked. Mint.
A full-length, slightly satirical portrait of the actor George William Campbell (1768-1839), 6th Duke of Argyll.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63806] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn Etchd [---] by Richd. Dighton. May 1819.
Pub.d by T McLean Haymarket [n.d., c.1825].
Etching. 280 x 150mm (11 x 6"), with large margins, watermarked 1825. Several small tears in right margin, publication line weakly inked. Mint.
A full-length, slightly satirical portrait of the actor George William Campbell (1768-1839), 6th Duke of Argyll.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63806] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ann Catley & Colonel Kerr] A Fashionable Shittlecock.](jpegs/63562.jpg)
[Ann Catley & Colonel Kerr] A Fashionable Shittlecock. (Alas! what a Race of Men.)
[drawn and engraved by Matthew Darley]
London, Publish'd by Robert Sayer, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1786].
Etching with hand colour, 18th century watermark. 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
This caricature is an updated version of a print originally issued in 1772 by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91). In the original version the figures were identified as Ann Catley (1745-89, a singer, actress and prostitute, later Anne Lacelles), who stands with the tiny figure of Colonel William John Kerr (1737-1815, 5th Marquess of Lothian from 1775) balanced on her fingertips. For this issue Catley has been updated with a wide-brimmed hat, loose curly hair and a voluminous fur-bordered pelisse, while Kerr keeps his outdated clothes. Whether the objects of the caricature have changed is unclear.
BM Satires: 8258. See Ref: 63561
[Ref: 63562] £320.00
[drawn and engraved by Matthew Darley]
London, Publish'd by Robert Sayer, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1786].
Etching with hand colour, 18th century watermark. 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
This caricature is an updated version of a print originally issued in 1772 by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91). In the original version the figures were identified as Ann Catley (1745-89, a singer, actress and prostitute, later Anne Lacelles), who stands with the tiny figure of Colonel William John Kerr (1737-1815, 5th Marquess of Lothian from 1775) balanced on her fingertips. For this issue Catley has been updated with a wide-brimmed hat, loose curly hair and a voluminous fur-bordered pelisse, while Kerr keeps his outdated clothes. Whether the objects of the caricature have changed is unclear.
BM Satires: 8258. See Ref: 63561
[Ref: 63562] £320.00
![[Ann Catley & Colonel Kerr] The Fluttering Macaroni.](jpegs/63561.jpg)
[Ann Catley & Colonel Kerr] The Fluttering Macaroni. Say little, foolish, fluttering, thing, &c.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 7. 1772 by MDarly, 39, Strand.
Etching, on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Very small margins.
The giant figure of Ann Catley (1745-89, a singer, actress and prostitute, later Anne Lacelles) stands with the tiny figure of Colonel William John Kerr (1737-1815, 5th Marquess of Lothian from 1775) balanced on her fingertips. A caricature by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91).
BM Satires: 4706. See Ref: 63562
[Ref: 63561] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 7. 1772 by MDarly, 39, Strand.
Etching, on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Very small margins.
The giant figure of Ann Catley (1745-89, a singer, actress and prostitute, later Anne Lacelles) stands with the tiny figure of Colonel William John Kerr (1737-1815, 5th Marquess of Lothian from 1775) balanced on her fingertips. A caricature by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91).
BM Satires: 4706. See Ref: 63562
[Ref: 63561] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
John Dryden, whose tunefull Muse affords The sweetest numbers, and the fittest Words. Addison. Nat 1632 denat Aetat 68. Praenobili Dno. Dno. Edoardo Comiti Oxoniae &c. ad Archetypu Museo Harleyano asservatum Quâ par est Ovservantiâ D.D. Vertue Sculpt.r.
G. Kneller eques pinxit. Geo: Vertue London Sculpsit 1730.
[Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"), large margins.
John Dryden (1631-1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his age. He established the heroic couplet as the standard meter of English poetry, by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays in it; he also introduced the alexandrine and triplet into the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet-Auden referred to him as "the master of the middle style"-that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century. The considerable loss felt by the English literary community at his death was evident from the elegies which it inspired.
Alexander 606. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63875] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
G. Kneller eques pinxit. Geo: Vertue London Sculpsit 1730.
[Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"), large margins.
John Dryden (1631-1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his age. He established the heroic couplet as the standard meter of English poetry, by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays in it; he also introduced the alexandrine and triplet into the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet-Auden referred to him as "the master of the middle style"-that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century. The considerable loss felt by the English literary community at his death was evident from the elegies which it inspired.
Alexander 606. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63875] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mr W Farren as Sir Peter Teazle.
Drawn Etchd [---] by Richd. Dighton.
Pub.d by T McLean H [***][n.d., c.1824].
Etching. 300 x 195mm (11¾ x 7¾"), large margins. Several small tears in right margin, publication line weakly inked.
A full-length, slightly satirical portrait of the actor William Farren making his first London appearance as Sir Peter Teazle (in Sheridan's The School for Scandal), at Covent Garden in 1818.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63805] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn Etchd [---] by Richd. Dighton.
Pub.d by T McLean H [***][n.d., c.1824].
Etching. 300 x 195mm (11¾ x 7¾"), large margins. Several small tears in right margin, publication line weakly inked.
A full-length, slightly satirical portrait of the actor William Farren making his first London appearance as Sir Peter Teazle (in Sheridan's The School for Scandal), at Covent Garden in 1818.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63805] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Joannes Fletcher Episcopi Lond. Fili 9. Honoratiss Dno. Dno. Johanni Vicecomiti Percival &c. Hanc Tabulam ad Archetypum expressam.
Geo: Vertue Sculp. 1729. Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
[Early issue]
Engraving. 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"), large margins.
John Fletcher (1579-1625), a Jacobean playwright who followed Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men. He was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivaled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
Alexander 583. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Geo: Vertue Sculp. 1729. Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
[Early issue]
Engraving. 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"), large margins.
John Fletcher (1579-1625), a Jacobean playwright who followed Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men. He was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivaled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
Alexander 583. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno. Dom 1687. Aetat 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto Vates, en redivivus ades. Immortale duplez micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tua a Penna Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp. 1711. [Early issue]
Sold by G. Vertue at his house the further end of Brownlow street from Drury Lane.
Fine engraving. 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637), Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
Alexander 75. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63873] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp. 1711. [Early issue]
Sold by G. Vertue at his house the further end of Brownlow street from Drury Lane.
Fine engraving. 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637), Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
Alexander 75. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63873] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
William Shakespeare Obt. Ano. Dom: 1616. Aetat 53. Shakespeare! such Thoughs inimitable shine, Drest in thy Words, thy Fancy seems Divine; 'Tis Natures Mirrour where she views each Grace, And all the various Features of Face. Done from the Original now in the Possession of Robert Keck of the Inner Temple Esq.r.
[after John Taylor.] Geo: Vertue Londini Sculpsit 1719. [Early issue]
Sold by G. Vertue [---] Brownlow street Drury Lane.
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 365 x 245mm (14½ x 9½"), large margins.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), dramatist and poet, copied from the so-called 'Chandos portrait', the only one belived to be painted from life, attributed to John Taylor, painted c.1610. The painting, the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, was first recorded on the death of Robert Keck, the year this print was engraved.
Alexander 292. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63874] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[after John Taylor.] Geo: Vertue Londini Sculpsit 1719. [Early issue]
Sold by G. Vertue [---] Brownlow street Drury Lane.
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 365 x 245mm (14½ x 9½"), large margins.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), dramatist and poet, copied from the so-called 'Chandos portrait', the only one belived to be painted from life, attributed to John Taylor, painted c.1610. The painting, the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, was first recorded on the death of Robert Keck, the year this print was engraved.
Alexander 292. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63874] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)