Peterus Paulus Rubens & c.
P. Pelham fec: et Excud: 1724.
Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1735]..
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Thread margins.
A half-length self-portrait of Flemish baroque painter Petrus Paulus Rubens (1577-1640). The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS 33, only state but suggesting an earlier state without the address of John Bowles, see our item 61642.
[Ref: 64857] £260.00
Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1735]..
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Thread margins.
A half-length self-portrait of Flemish baroque painter Petrus Paulus Rubens (1577-1640). The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS 33, only state but suggesting an earlier state without the address of John Bowles, see our item 61642.
[Ref: 64857] £260.00