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.
VAT included (see terms) | Exclude VAT
S.r John Falstaff and his Companions at Gad's Hill.
J. Nicholls Delin. J. Basire sculp.
[London: Printed for & Sold by J. Janeway, 1734.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 190mm (7¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to printed border, affecting title, laid on album paper.
Falstaff plots with Prince Hal (the future Henry V) and Poins to rob wealthy pilgrims and traders passing through Gad's Hill. Despite being a fictional character, this scene (in which the men are all wearing contemporary dress), was published in Captain Charles Johnson's 'A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, etc.'.
[Ref: 69211] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
J. Nicholls Delin. J. Basire sculp.
[London: Printed for & Sold by J. Janeway, 1734.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 190mm (7¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to printed border, affecting title, laid on album paper.
Falstaff plots with Prince Hal (the future Henry V) and Poins to rob wealthy pilgrims and traders passing through Gad's Hill. Despite being a fictional character, this scene (in which the men are all wearing contemporary dress), was published in Captain Charles Johnson's 'A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, etc.'.
[Ref: 69211] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
M.r John Hippisley, Comedian. in the Character of Scapin. Drawn & Etched by John Hippisley Green from an original Picture in his Possession.
Published June 30, 1801, at N.º 1, Wells Street, Oxford Street.
Scarce etching. 245 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"). Loss in margin lower right, glue stains in corners.
A half length portrait of John Hippisley (1696-1748), wearing a coat with slashed sleeve, counting on his fingers, in Otway's adaptation of Molière 'The Cheats of Scapin'. The etcher authored 'The Complete Aquatinter: being the whole process of etching and engraving in aquatinta'. He was probably the son of the actor's daughter Jane Green (1719-1791), also an actress.
[Ref: 69183] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published June 30, 1801, at N.º 1, Wells Street, Oxford Street.
Scarce etching. 245 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"). Loss in margin lower right, glue stains in corners.
A half length portrait of John Hippisley (1696-1748), wearing a coat with slashed sleeve, counting on his fingers, in Otway's adaptation of Molière 'The Cheats of Scapin'. The etcher authored 'The Complete Aquatinter: being the whole process of etching and engraving in aquatinta'. He was probably the son of the actor's daughter Jane Green (1719-1791), also an actress.
[Ref: 69183] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Anthony Leigh or the Spanish Fryar.
G. Kneller pinx: 1689 [in image on right] J. Smith fecit.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell-Street Covent-Garden.
Mezzotint. 415 x 245mm (16¼ x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
Portrait of comedian Anthony Leigh (d. 1692), in the role of the 'Spanish Friar' in Dryden's eponymous tragi-comedy. Leigh was popular with Charles II and the public, and played the friar in 1681-2 and Charles, Earl of Dorset, commissioned Kneller to paint Leigh's portrait to commemorate the performance. The play was later forbidden by James II.
CS 155, state ii of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69068] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
G. Kneller pinx: 1689 [in image on right] J. Smith fecit.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell-Street Covent-Garden.
Mezzotint. 415 x 245mm (16¼ x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
Portrait of comedian Anthony Leigh (d. 1692), in the role of the 'Spanish Friar' in Dryden's eponymous tragi-comedy. Leigh was popular with Charles II and the public, and played the friar in 1681-2 and Charles, Earl of Dorset, commissioned Kneller to paint Leigh's portrait to commemorate the performance. The play was later forbidden by James II.
CS 155, state ii of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69068] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. William Penkethman Sworn Comedian to ye Queen of Great Britain.
R. Shmutz pinx.
J. Smith fecit et ex. [n.d. c.1709.]
Mezzotint, in pencil verso "Bt at Mr Dodds Sale Oct 1796". 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
A half-length portrait of comic actor William Penkethman (c.1660-1725), holding a sheet with "Ridentibus arrident Vultus", which paraphrases a quote from Horace's 'Art of Poetry', ''Faces smile at those who laugh'. Penkethman ('Pinky') was part of the United Company at Drury Lane before becoming a manager, opening theatres in Greenwich and Richmond.
CS: 199. Harvard Volume III. p.338: 1. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69087] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
R. Shmutz pinx.
J. Smith fecit et ex. [n.d. c.1709.]
Mezzotint, in pencil verso "Bt at Mr Dodds Sale Oct 1796". 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
A half-length portrait of comic actor William Penkethman (c.1660-1725), holding a sheet with "Ridentibus arrident Vultus", which paraphrases a quote from Horace's 'Art of Poetry', ''Faces smile at those who laugh'. Penkethman ('Pinky') was part of the United Company at Drury Lane before becoming a manager, opening theatres in Greenwich and Richmond.
CS: 199. Harvard Volume III. p.338: 1. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69087] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. William Penkethman Sworn Comedian to ye Queen of Great Britain.
R. Shmutz pinx.
J. Smith fecit et ex. [n.d. c.1709.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Small margins. Cockling in top corners where previously glued down.
A half-length portrait of comic actor William Penkethman (c.1660-1725), holding a sheet with "Ridentibus arrident Vultus", which paraphrases a quote from Horace's 'Art of Poetry', ''Faces smile at those who laugh'. Penkethman ('Pinky') was part of the United Company at Drury Lane before becoming a manager, opening theatres in Greenwich and Richmond.
CS: 199 II of II. Harvard Volume III. p.338: 1. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69144] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
R. Shmutz pinx.
J. Smith fecit et ex. [n.d. c.1709.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Small margins. Cockling in top corners where previously glued down.
A half-length portrait of comic actor William Penkethman (c.1660-1725), holding a sheet with "Ridentibus arrident Vultus", which paraphrases a quote from Horace's 'Art of Poetry', ''Faces smile at those who laugh'. Penkethman ('Pinky') was part of the United Company at Drury Lane before becoming a manager, opening theatres in Greenwich and Richmond.
CS: 199 II of II. Harvard Volume III. p.338: 1. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69144] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)