Pierce Egan. Author of the Original Works Of Life In London, Tom & Jerry, Life of an Actor, Trip to Ascot Races, Boxiana, Show Folks, Walks through Bath. Book Of Sports, &c.&c. and Life In Dublin, produced at the Theatre Royal, Hawkins Street, Dublin, on Tuesday, Feby. 18, 1834, with the most decided success.
Drawn by George Sharples. Engraved on Steel by C. Turner.
Printed for Pierce Egan, Jun.r June 1st. 1832, 4. Paget Place, Waterloo Road, London.
Mezzotint on steel. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾"), large margins. with Egan's ink mss presentation label. Trimmed within plate, surface crack through image, mounted in album paper,
A very scarce portrait of Pierce Egan the elder (1772-1849), author of ‘Life of London' and other social journals. He wrote first about boxing in his serial publication, 'Boxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism' (1813-28). The presentation label, addressed to the Birmingham Theatre and dated August 9th 1838, consists of seven hand-written lines. This example is a reissue of the plate, first published in 1823, by his novelist son Pierce Egan the younger (1814-80).
Whitman: 175, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66473] £480.00
Printed for Pierce Egan, Jun.r June 1st. 1832, 4. Paget Place, Waterloo Road, London.
Mezzotint on steel. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾"), large margins. with Egan's ink mss presentation label. Trimmed within plate, surface crack through image, mounted in album paper,
A very scarce portrait of Pierce Egan the elder (1772-1849), author of ‘Life of London' and other social journals. He wrote first about boxing in his serial publication, 'Boxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism' (1813-28). The presentation label, addressed to the Birmingham Theatre and dated August 9th 1838, consists of seven hand-written lines. This example is a reissue of the plate, first published in 1823, by his novelist son Pierce Egan the younger (1814-80).
Whitman: 175, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66473] £480.00