London Pub:d 6 April 1813, by H Humphries St James Street.
Coloured etching. 240 x 300mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins. Light creasing where previously folded and restored. Creasing.
A caricature portrait of Prince Pyotr Borisovich Kozlovsky (1783-1840) riding a fine horse, his obesity forcing him to lean backwards. The title is a nickname, which Kozlovsky used himself. A Russian diplomat and a man of letters, Kozlovsky visited London in 1812-3, when his girth was caricatured in George Cruikshank's 'Longitude and Latitude of St. Petersburgh'. Lord Byron planned to accompany him back to Italy in 1813 but didn't.
BM Satires 12126.
[Ref: 69105] £160.00
Coloured etching. 240 x 300mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins. Light creasing where previously folded and restored. Creasing.
A caricature portrait of Prince Pyotr Borisovich Kozlovsky (1783-1840) riding a fine horse, his obesity forcing him to lean backwards. The title is a nickname, which Kozlovsky used himself. A Russian diplomat and a man of letters, Kozlovsky visited London in 1812-3, when his girth was caricatured in George Cruikshank's 'Longitude and Latitude of St. Petersburgh'. Lord Byron planned to accompany him back to Italy in 1813 but didn't.
BM Satires 12126.
[Ref: 69105] £160.00