[Luigi Schiavonetti after Henri Pierre Danloux]
Publisched by Mr Weber, 2 October 1802. 6 Reysell Street Leicester Square. [ink mss.]
Stipple, proof before all letters. 260 x 165mm, 10¼ x 6¾". Old ink mss. publication details outside bottom plate mark.
Oval portrait of Louis Antoine duke of Angoulême (1775 - 1844), as a young man, half-length, turned to the left and looking towards the viewer, wearing military jacket with epaulettes, sash, medal, and badge of the order of the Saint-Esprit on his left breast. A proof, inscribed by the publisher Joseph Weber, before the decorative frame was added. It was published in the third volume of Joseph Weber's Memoires concernant Marie Antoinette, which was translated as Memoirs of Maria Antoinetts Archduchess of Austria. The Germanic spelling of 'Publisched' suggests it was the publisher himself who wrote the mss.
See also print 41695 which has the same mss. BM 1928,1210.374.
[Ref: 11800] £120.00
Publisched by Mr Weber, 2 October 1802. 6 Reysell Street Leicester Square. [ink mss.]
Stipple, proof before all letters. 260 x 165mm, 10¼ x 6¾". Old ink mss. publication details outside bottom plate mark.
Oval portrait of Louis Antoine duke of Angoulême (1775 - 1844), as a young man, half-length, turned to the left and looking towards the viewer, wearing military jacket with epaulettes, sash, medal, and badge of the order of the Saint-Esprit on his left breast. A proof, inscribed by the publisher Joseph Weber, before the decorative frame was added. It was published in the third volume of Joseph Weber's Memoires concernant Marie Antoinette, which was translated as Memoirs of Maria Antoinetts Archduchess of Austria. The Germanic spelling of 'Publisched' suggests it was the publisher himself who wrote the mss.
See also print 41695 which has the same mss. BM 1928,1210.374.
[Ref: 11800] £120.00