Last Hurrah
- Hopfer, The Soldier and His Wife
- van Leyden, The Baptism of Christ
- Italian School (Tuscan?), Eagles
- Marco Dente, Entellus and Dares
- Vincentino, Temperance
- Hopfer, Battle of the Naked Men
- Circle of Romano, Roman Battle
- van Leyden, The Fall of Man
- Scultori, Eros Playing a Clavier
- Bonasone, The Wounded Scipio
- Brun, The Drummer
- Cort, The Assembly of the Gods
- Wierix, The Virgin Nursing
- Sadeler, Annunciation
- de Gheyn, The Rest on the Flight
- Sadeler, Death as a Welcome Visitor
- Callot, Les Intermèdes, No.1
- Brebiette, Woman Nursing
- Dutch or Flemish School, Four Biblical Episodes
- Vauquer, Ornament Plate
- Hondius, Uylenspiegel, or Owlglass
- Roghman, River and Rocks, Italy
- Castiglione, Noah and the Animals
- Piranesi, Frontispiece
- Piranesi, Carceri XI: The Arch
- Pether, A Farrier’s Shop
- Tiepolo, Self Portrait
- Turner & Dunkarton, The Temple
- Lucas, The Vale of Dedham, Essex
- Weir, Study for a Monument
- Lalanne, View of Groningen
- Richmond, Landscape at Otford
- Harpignies, Troncs d’Arbres
- Loizelet, Le Petit Coblentz
- Whistler, The Smith
- Forain, Loge de Danseuse
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Au Pied du Sinai
- Orlik, Still Life with Fruit
- Marin, Sestiere di Dorso Duro
- Roussel, The Snow
- Vergé-Sarrat, Chambre de Malade
- Oppenheimer, Ferruccio Busoni
- Levine, Sewing Machine Operator
- Picasso, Femme Nue à la Jambe
- Oppenheimer, The Rosé Quartet
- Villon, Mon Vieux Luxembourg
- Epstein, Jackie
- Tobey, Untitled
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26. William Pether (ca. 1738 – 1821) after Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) A Farrier’s Shop |
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A Farrier’s Shop
Mezzotint, 1771, Chaloner Smith 49, Clayton P 8, 505 x 350 mm., ex collection Christopher Lennox-Boyd (not in Lugt). A fine, soft and atmospheric impression on laid paper with good margins, laid down to a sheet of heavy wove paper; some ink and dirt in the margins, a few tiny surface scrapes touched in. Wright of Derby was famous for paintings with unusual lighting effects– from candles, torches, etc. – some of which were images of scientific experiments, others more conventional subjects, but all dramatically and inventively lighted. Pether made something of a specialty of interpreting Wright’s paintings in mezzotint, a medium well suited to dramatic interplay of light and dark. Together they created some of the most striking prints of the eighteenth century.
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$3,000.00 |  |
