Anne Killigrew. [&] [Mrs Anne Killigrew Painted by her self.]
Anne Killigrew Pinxit. [&] I. Beckett fec:
A.Blooteling ex. Cum Privilegio [n.d., c.1680]. [&] I. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1685].
Two mezzotints, 17th century watermark. 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½") & sheet 205 x 175mm (8 x 7"). Blooteling trimmed close to plate, slight loss of image top left 3 small wormholes, laid at edges on 18th century album sheet; Beckett trimmed within plate laid on album sheet at edges, losing inscriptions.
Two half-length portraits of poet and painter Anne Killigrew (1660-85), both from her own painting for Walpole's ‘Anecdotes of Painting'. Beckett's is the earlier, with Blooteling engraving a copy in reverse.
Chaloner Smith: Beckett 56. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64773] £480.00
A.Blooteling ex. Cum Privilegio [n.d., c.1680]. [&] I. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1685].
Two mezzotints, 17th century watermark. 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½") & sheet 205 x 175mm (8 x 7"). Blooteling trimmed close to plate, slight loss of image top left 3 small wormholes, laid at edges on 18th century album sheet; Beckett trimmed within plate laid on album sheet at edges, losing inscriptions.
Two half-length portraits of poet and painter Anne Killigrew (1660-85), both from her own painting for Walpole's ‘Anecdotes of Painting'. Beckett's is the earlier, with Blooteling engraving a copy in reverse.
Chaloner Smith: Beckett 56. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64773] £480.00