Christopher Anstey Esquire. Aetat 52.
T. Lawrence R.A. del.t. W. Bond sculp.t.
Published March 1st 1807, by Cadell and Davies, Strand.
Stipple. Sheet size: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within platemark.
A half-length seated portrait of English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805), at his desk, writing. He is best known for his famous rhymed letters, 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', 1766. The work had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original kind of humour by Walpole and Gray. Anstey was buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath but has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey, Esq.'.
[Ref: 67852] £140.00
Published March 1st 1807, by Cadell and Davies, Strand.
Stipple. Sheet size: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within platemark.
A half-length seated portrait of English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805), at his desk, writing. He is best known for his famous rhymed letters, 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', 1766. The work had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original kind of humour by Walpole and Gray. Anstey was buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath but has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey, Esq.'.
[Ref: 67852] £140.00