![[Cupid on a raft.]](jpegs/63479.jpg)
[Cupid on a raft.]
[after Fanny Corbeaux]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Two rare mezzotints, one with fine hand colour. Each 130 x 155mm (5¼ x 6"). Coloured plate with narrow bottom margin, pasted on album paper; uncoloured trimmed just within plate at bottom, loose from album paper.
Cupid on a makeshift raft, using his bow as an oar and an arrow for a mast. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. On the album paper is a quote from Tennyson's 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights' in old ink mss.: ''When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free / In the silken sail of infancy'.
[Ref: 63479] £380.00
[n.d., c.1825.]
Two rare mezzotints, one with fine hand colour. Each 130 x 155mm (5¼ x 6"). Coloured plate with narrow bottom margin, pasted on album paper; uncoloured trimmed just within plate at bottom, loose from album paper.
Cupid on a makeshift raft, using his bow as an oar and an arrow for a mast. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. On the album paper is a quote from Tennyson's 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights' in old ink mss.: ''When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free / In the silken sail of infancy'.
[Ref: 63479] £380.00