Sailors Carousing.This Plate (is with permission) dedicated to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence by his most obedient & devoted humble Servant Ja.s Linnell.
J. Ibbetson pinx.t W.m Ward sculp. Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
London Published Aug.st 21.st 1807, by Ja.s Linnell, No.2. Streatham Str.t Charlotte Str.t Bloomsbury.
Mezzotint with large margins. Plate 527 x 655mm (20¾ x 25¾"). Repaired corner to upper right.
An interior full of sailors, some around a punch bowl on a table on the left, one sitting on top of a chest in the centre waving his hat, violinists in the left foreground beside three sailors playing a game on the floor involving a saucepan and watches, with empty bottles, cards and pipes littering the floor, a sailor supported by a girl in the right foreground, another dancing with two women behind.
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Frankau: 246. CS: undescribed.
[Ref: 29029] £380.00
London Published Aug.st 21.st 1807, by Ja.s Linnell, No.2. Streatham Str.t Charlotte Str.t Bloomsbury.
Mezzotint with large margins. Plate 527 x 655mm (20¾ x 25¾"). Repaired corner to upper right.
An interior full of sailors, some around a punch bowl on a table on the left, one sitting on top of a chest in the centre waving his hat, violinists in the left foreground beside three sailors playing a game on the floor involving a saucepan and watches, with empty bottles, cards and pipes littering the floor, a sailor supported by a girl in the right foreground, another dancing with two women behind.
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Frankau: 246. CS: undescribed.
[Ref: 29029] £380.00