Jean Jacques Rousseau. Vitam Impendere Vero.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t. 1766. C. Corbutt [pseudonym of Richard Purcell] fecit.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
Half-length portrait of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wearing fur hat and fur-lined coat, the Armenian costume he wore when he fled his native Switzerland to settle in Paris. This portrait was painted during his stay in England (January 1766 to May 1767). The engraver was Richard Purcell, who used the pseudonym Corbutt when pirating the works of others, often for Robert Sayer, in this case one by David Martin. Chaloner Smith was not a fan of Rousseau: in his entry for the Martin plate he writes Rousseau wrote ''plays and novels'' and ''published other works of a quasi philosophical character".
CS 67, state i of ii.
[Ref: 65614] £680.00
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
Half-length portrait of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wearing fur hat and fur-lined coat, the Armenian costume he wore when he fled his native Switzerland to settle in Paris. This portrait was painted during his stay in England (January 1766 to May 1767). The engraver was Richard Purcell, who used the pseudonym Corbutt when pirating the works of others, often for Robert Sayer, in this case one by David Martin. Chaloner Smith was not a fan of Rousseau: in his entry for the Martin plate he writes Rousseau wrote ''plays and novels'' and ''published other works of a quasi philosophical character".
CS 67, state i of ii.
[Ref: 65614] £680.00