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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![[Spranger Barry] M.r Barry in the Character of Macbeth.](jpegs/66076.jpg)
[Spranger Barry] M.r Barry in the Character of Macbeth. Axt 2.d Scene 3.
Ja.s Gwim. [engraved by Michael Jackson.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller in Fleet Str.t. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament
Scarce mezzotint. 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), large margins. Edges rubbed. Messy.
A full-length portrait of Irish actor Spranger Barry (1719-77), a daggar in each hand. He was a rival of David Garrick: in 1750 the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and the Covent Garden Theatre put on competing performances of 'Romeo and Juliet', and the critics preferred Barry's Romeo to Garrick's.
CS I, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66076] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
Ja.s Gwim. [engraved by Michael Jackson.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller in Fleet Str.t. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament
Scarce mezzotint. 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), large margins. Edges rubbed. Messy.
A full-length portrait of Irish actor Spranger Barry (1719-77), a daggar in each hand. He was a rival of David Garrick: in 1750 the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and the Covent Garden Theatre put on competing performances of 'Romeo and Juliet', and the critics preferred Barry's Romeo to Garrick's.
CS I, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66076] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ann Elliot] Miss Elliot in the Character of Minerva.](jpegs/66077.jpg)
[Ann Elliot] Miss Elliot in the Character of Minerva.
R. Cosway Pinx.t. J. Saunders Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act Directs Feb.ry 24, 1774 by H. Bryer at N.º 12 Stephen Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Rare mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Collector's blindstamp in image.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of actress Ann Elliot (16 November 1743-69) wearing helmet, medusa collar and carrying a shield. She had relationships with playwright Arthur Murphy, Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland, younger brother of George III.
CS 108, iv of iv. G. 88; Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1778-1860), MP.
[Ref: 66077] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
R. Cosway Pinx.t. J. Saunders Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act Directs Feb.ry 24, 1774 by H. Bryer at N.º 12 Stephen Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Rare mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Collector's blindstamp in image.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of actress Ann Elliot (16 November 1743-69) wearing helmet, medusa collar and carrying a shield. She had relationships with playwright Arthur Murphy, Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland, younger brother of George III.
CS 108, iv of iv. G. 88; Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1778-1860), MP.
[Ref: 66077] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)