Hope. Hope springs eternal in the human breast...[etc.]
Angelica Kauffman Invt. et Delint. [Wm. Wynne Ryland Sculpt.]
[Publish'd Feby. 7th. 1775 by W.W. Ryland, Engraver to his Majesty, No. 159, Strand London.]
Very fine stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. Proof before engraver and publisher. 225 x 190mm (9 x 7½"), with very large margins. Staining in margins just going inside plate mark on right.
Portrait after a self-portrait of Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), in a circle, her head resting on her hands, leaning on an anchor and looking dreamily at the viewer, wearing a turban. Four lines of verse by Alexander Pope (1680 - 1744) below image.
[Ref: 66025] £320.00
[Publish'd Feby. 7th. 1775 by W.W. Ryland, Engraver to his Majesty, No. 159, Strand London.]
Very fine stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. Proof before engraver and publisher. 225 x 190mm (9 x 7½"), with very large margins. Staining in margins just going inside plate mark on right.
Portrait after a self-portrait of Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), in a circle, her head resting on her hands, leaning on an anchor and looking dreamily at the viewer, wearing a turban. Four lines of verse by Alexander Pope (1680 - 1744) below image.
[Ref: 66025] £320.00