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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1. Marcellus Laroon (1653-1702) The Quarrel at the Backgammon Game |
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The Quarrel at the Backgammon Game
Etching, 1680-1700, Hollstein (Dutch) 4; Wurzbach 4, 93 x 82 mm. Fine impression on laid paper trimmed slightly within the platemark, signed in the plate with initials on the edge of the game board. Like many seventeenth-century British artists, Laroon came from elsewhere, in his case, The Hague, which he left in about 1675 to work in England. His prints are few in number – Holstein lists 28, about half of them etchings, half mezzotints – and are apparently quite rare, as neither repositories nor sales are listed for any of them (the British Museum owns most of them). The image here verges on the bizarre, as one player seeks to strangle the other while the latter wields a knife. The print does not have the moralistic tone of a Hogarth, but is clearly an early step in the satiric criticism of human behavior. And all over a game of backgammon?
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$900.00 |  |
