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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18. William Say (1768-1834) after John James Masquerier (1778-1855) Miss Mellon in the Character of Mistress Page |
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Miss Mellon in the Character of Mistress Page
Mezzotint with stipple and drypoint, 1804, 675 x 423 mm., Le Blanc N.D. Superb impression on tan india-appliqué with good margins; a few minor scuffs and scratches. For some unknown reason, the print is mentioned neither by Le Blanc nor in the British Museum Catalogue of Engraved English Portraits, but it is clearly signed by Say. The scene is from Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene I, with Mistress Page vowing revenge on Falstaff. Harriet Mellon (1777-1837) came from a dubious background to become one of the great comic actresses of the British stage, later the wife of the richest untitled man in England and finally, by dint of a second marriage, Duchess of St. Albans.
