Designs by Mather Brown.
Drawn by Mather Brown & Published by Vincent Zanetti, No 5 Wrights Court, Market Street, Manchester. Nov.r 1. 1816, Where may be had a Book of other Designs by the same Artist. Prince 7/6.
4to (235 x 200mm (9¾ x 8), limp boards; stipple frontis. and eight plates, all in original hand colour. Disbound, frontispiece slightly soiled.
A very scarce reissue of Mather Brown's drawing book, with two plates still with his publication line. The frontispiece and two plates feature cherubs, three are portraits of young girls and three are sketches of tree trunks. One of the trees is signed 'Mary Ann Rumball''; Brown painted her portrait in London in 1808.
[Ref: 60676] £850.00
4to (235 x 200mm (9¾ x 8), limp boards; stipple frontis. and eight plates, all in original hand colour. Disbound, frontispiece slightly soiled.
A very scarce reissue of Mather Brown's drawing book, with two plates still with his publication line. The frontispiece and two plates feature cherubs, three are portraits of young girls and three are sketches of tree trunks. One of the trees is signed 'Mary Ann Rumball''; Brown painted her portrait in London in 1808.
[Ref: 60676] £850.00