The Porter and Hare.From a most Capital Picture of Mr Zoffany in the Possession of Mr Sayer.
J. Zoffany pinx.t. Rich.d Earlom fecit.
Rob.t Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer in Fleet-Street; Published as the Act directs 10 March 1774.
Mezzotint. 610 x 435mm (24 x 17¼"), with large margins. Slight spotting. Mounted at corners.
A pair of young boys acquire a hare from an old man, apparently for Zoffany, whose name is on the paper one boy holds up. The other boy eats a sandwich, the newly fashionable snack. The author Pierre-Jean Grosley saw sandwiches in London in 1765: his account ('Londres', published Neuchâtel in 1770 and translated as 'A Tour to London' in 1772) contains the first published version of the popular legend that the Earl of Sandwich invented them. The original oil is in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, bequeathed in 1955 by Ernest Edward Cook, grandson of travel agent Thomas Cook.
[Ref: 46189] £480.00
Rob.t Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer in Fleet-Street; Published as the Act directs 10 March 1774.
Mezzotint. 610 x 435mm (24 x 17¼"), with large margins. Slight spotting. Mounted at corners.
A pair of young boys acquire a hare from an old man, apparently for Zoffany, whose name is on the paper one boy holds up. The other boy eats a sandwich, the newly fashionable snack. The author Pierre-Jean Grosley saw sandwiches in London in 1765: his account ('Londres', published Neuchâtel in 1770 and translated as 'A Tour to London' in 1772) contains the first published version of the popular legend that the Earl of Sandwich invented them. The original oil is in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, bequeathed in 1955 by Ernest Edward Cook, grandson of travel agent Thomas Cook.
[Ref: 46189] £480.00