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![[As You Like It] The Seven Ages of Man.](jpegs/67498.jpg)
[As You Like It] The Seven Ages of Man.
Published by William Cole, 10 Newgate Street. [n.d. c.1827]
Very fine hand-coloured etching, 220 x 380mm (8¾ x 15"), with large margins Tears in edges of paper. Surface dirt and light staining in margins.
Satirical scenes illustratrating Shakespeare's famous monologue from 'As You Like It.' The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".
[Ref: 67498] £320.00
Published by William Cole, 10 Newgate Street. [n.d. c.1827]
Very fine hand-coloured etching, 220 x 380mm (8¾ x 15"), with large margins Tears in edges of paper. Surface dirt and light staining in margins.
Satirical scenes illustratrating Shakespeare's famous monologue from 'As You Like It.' The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".
[Ref: 67498] £320.00
A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"), with large margins. Few miniscule wormholes.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''.
CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Ref: 67263.
[Ref: 67266] £360.00
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"), with large margins. Few miniscule wormholes.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''.
CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Ref: 67263.
[Ref: 67266] £360.00
A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper at borders. Cockling.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''.
CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel,
[Ref: 67267] £320.00
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper at borders. Cockling.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''.
CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel,
[Ref: 67267] £320.00
![[Lavinia Fenton] Miss Fenton.](jpegs/67248.jpg)
[Lavinia Fenton] Miss Fenton. While Crowds attentive sit to Polly's Voice...
J. Ellys Pinx. J. Faber Fecit. 1728.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins. creasing, laid on album paper at sides.
Oval portrait of the actress Lavinia Fenton (1708-60), with verse praising her performance as the original Polly Peachum in John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera', January 1728. In April she ran off with Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton; Gay wrote to Jonathan Swift: ''The Duke of Bolton, I hear, has run away with Polly Peachum, having settled £400 a year on her during pleasure, and upon disagreement £200 a year''. After waiting for the first duchess's death, Lavinia finally married him in 1751.
CS 127, state i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67248] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
J. Ellys Pinx. J. Faber Fecit. 1728.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins. creasing, laid on album paper at sides.
Oval portrait of the actress Lavinia Fenton (1708-60), with verse praising her performance as the original Polly Peachum in John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera', January 1728. In April she ran off with Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton; Gay wrote to Jonathan Swift: ''The Duke of Bolton, I hear, has run away with Polly Peachum, having settled £400 a year on her during pleasure, and upon disagreement £200 a year''. After waiting for the first duchess's death, Lavinia finally married him in 1751.
CS 127, state i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67248] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
Ph. Mercier inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13"). Crease top left, narrow margins, mounted on album paper on left.
A woman stands holding a basket of poultry. Behind, a man slips an arm into the basket while pushing another man away. A scene from George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer', which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers. A pair to 'A Scene in the Careless Husband'.
CS: 415. See Ref: 67266
[Ref: 67263] £350.00
Ph. Mercier inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13"). Crease top left, narrow margins, mounted on album paper on left.
A woman stands holding a basket of poultry. Behind, a man slips an arm into the basket while pushing another man away. A scene from George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer', which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers. A pair to 'A Scene in the Careless Husband'.
CS: 415. See Ref: 67266
[Ref: 67263] £350.00
M.rs Margaret Woffington.
Johannes Aegidius Eccard Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit 1745.
Price 1s 6d. Sold in Church Street S,,t Anns Soho opposite the Golden Ball.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, creases.
Half-length portrait of Irish actress Margaret 'Peg' Woffington (c. 1720-60), holding a volume with a portrait of Shakespeare on the cover, a finger being used to hold her place. Woffington danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in 'The Constant Couple' led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden. She lived openly with David Garrick, the foremost actor of the day, and her other love affairs were notorious.
CS: 391. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67346] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Johannes Aegidius Eccard Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit 1745.
Price 1s 6d. Sold in Church Street S,,t Anns Soho opposite the Golden Ball.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, creases.
Half-length portrait of Irish actress Margaret 'Peg' Woffington (c. 1720-60), holding a volume with a portrait of Shakespeare on the cover, a finger being used to hold her place. Woffington danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in 'The Constant Couple' led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden. She lived openly with David Garrick, the foremost actor of the day, and her other love affairs were notorious.
CS: 391. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67346] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)