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The Sunday Before Confirmation; Parson: What did your godfathers & godmothers...

1850

Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper. 6 3/4 X 9 5/8 inches (170 x 244 mm), margins trimmed, image intact. Rubbing in the lower left image area obscuring the publishing information (which reads Published by Mm. Darchery, St. James Street March 11, 1783), scattered light foxing, corner loss, top left corner, well outside of image area. "SMP" collector's stamp in red ink on the verso (not in Lugt), and the name "Renier" and the initials "AR" in black ink on the verso. Colors are extremely fresh. Impressions of this work may be found in the permanent collection of the British Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art. Ex-Collection of Anne & Ferdinand Gabriel (F.G.) Renier, reknowned for their inspriational collection of children's books and works on paper, now housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum. _____ The devil officiates at the wedding of Tory Lord North, and Charles James Fox, the Whig statesman whose career spanned almost four decades in Parliament. The satirical scene is the signing of the Fox-North coalition, which was a short-lived partnership the two formed while combining forces in the House of Commons to oust then Prime Minister William Petty, Earl of Shelburne. Fox had fallen out of favor with the Irish born Shelburne, also a Whig, whose ministry remained in power just long enough to see the American War of Independence...

Tears of sensibility- sympathy a poem- let's all be unhappy together ie the Whig club in distress etc. &c London: S.W. Fores, 1798. Etching on white wove paper, 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inche...

London: The Satirist, 1811. Etching with aquatint on buff wove paper with an 1808 watermark, 9 3/4 x 13 inches (248 x 330 mm), wide margins. Scattered paper repairs on the verso, as...

Deuchar, David (after van Ostade). The School Master. Edinburgh: c1800. Etching on cream wove paper, 5 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (134 x 114 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Adhesive residue a...

Date: 1888 Medium: Watercolor on Paper Dimensions: 19.00" x 23.00" Signature: "IS" Monogram and Date of 1888 lower left a colloquial scene of newsboys arguing on a street, with "IS"...

This intriguing engraving captures the enigmatic figure of Thomas Cooke, the notorious Islington miser. The portrait showcases his unique sense of fashion, with every detail meticul...

Itinerant cake-seller with baskets of cakes, 18th century. Nice New, a well-known character at Reading. Famous for his melancholy cry of Nice new! Nice New - A well known character ...

Thomas Hudson, Remarkable for his Misfortunes Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821. Date: 1 July 1821 Thomas Hudson lost his fortune in the South Sea Bubble after he had "ventured ...