Jane Shore,Give gentle mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more'. King Rich.d III Act 3.Sc I.
F.Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t.
London Pub.d as the Act directs Feb.y 1.1790.by E. Harding No.132 Fleet Street.
Colour-printed stipple engraving. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5¼") large margins.
Jane Shore (c. 1445 - c. 1527), the first of the three mistresses of King Edward IV he described respectively as the 'merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots in his realm'. A petite woman of round face and fair complexion, she was more captivating by her wit and conversation than by her beauty, yet she was comely, too. Thomas More, writing when she was still alive but old and withered, declared that even then an attentive observer might have discerned in her shriveled countenance some traces of its lost charms.
[Ref: 44158] £95.00
London Pub.d as the Act directs Feb.y 1.1790.by E. Harding No.132 Fleet Street.
Colour-printed stipple engraving. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5¼") large margins.
Jane Shore (c. 1445 - c. 1527), the first of the three mistresses of King Edward IV he described respectively as the 'merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots in his realm'. A petite woman of round face and fair complexion, she was more captivating by her wit and conversation than by her beauty, yet she was comely, too. Thomas More, writing when she was still alive but old and withered, declared that even then an attentive observer might have discerned in her shriveled countenance some traces of its lost charms.
[Ref: 44158] £95.00