Edward Calvert (1799-1883)

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Edward Calvert (1799-1883)

The Bride (Finberg 1; Lister 8c)

engraving, 1828, the extremely rare first state (of three), a very fine impression, from the very small edition published by Calvert, London, 1824 (there was also a posthumous edition of 350 published in a Memoir in 1893 and the Carfax edition of 30 in 1904), trimmed on or fractionally inside the platemark, very slight staining, laid at the reverse upper edge, S. 78 x 129 mm.; and The sleeping Shepherd, Early Morning, by S. Palmer (L. 6 iii/iv) (2)

Lot Essay

In his description of states Finberg records an impression of the first state in the British Museum (A. J. Finberg, Edward Calvert's Engravings, The Print Collector's Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 143-4, no. 1, repr. pl. 1)

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