NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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6. John Smith (1652-1743) after Sebastien Bourdon The Virgin Mary |
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The Virgin Mary
Mezzotint, 1684-5, Unrecorded in Nagler, Chaloner Smith, Wessely and LeBlanc, 174 x 114 mm. A fine impression on laid paper with thread margins. This beautifully handled little print is here largely because of its rarity. Apparently unrecorded by anyone, it was published by Edward Cooper and, because it lacks the royal privilege, which Cooper obtained in 1686 and used ever afterwards, it must have been made and published in 1684-85. It ostensibly reproduces a painting, or part of a painting, by the French artist Sébastien Bourdon, though we have been unable to locate such a painting and the work just might be an original conception by the engraver, purposely mislabeled. The print is lacking in the vast British Museum collection of Smith’s work. It has no profound religious insight to convey; it is, rather, an image of pure sensibility.
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$650.00 |  |
