An Album of Illustrations for Tatler, the Guardian and the Spectator
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Edward Francis Burney (1760-1844), Richard Corbould (1757-1831), Robert Smirke (1779-1853), and others
An Album of Illustrations for Tatler, the Guardian and the Spectator
some with inscriptions, the majority numbered (on the reverse); and with a contemporary list of titles including: 'Blind Milton dictating his Paradise Lost to his youngest daughter'(Tatler); 'Chevy Chase. Death of Gail Douglas'(Spectator); 'The Shield with Two Sides'(Tatler); 'Custom of telling Ghost Story to children'(Spectator); 'The Lover to his Reindeer'(Spectator); 'The Rake reclaimed by his father's liberality'(Tatler); 'Fatal Curiosity'(Guardian); 'Success of the Henpecked Husband'(Spectator); 'Paetus & his wife'(Tatler); 'William The Game Keeper'(Spectator) and 'Shipwreck'(Tatler)
pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, sixteen with watercolour, a few heightened with gum arabic or with scratching out; oval; two with pen and ink borders, 40 watercolours laid down on the pages of the album, the album with watermark 'J WHATMAN'
4 x 3 in (10.2 x 7.6 cm.); the album 15 1/8 17/8 in. (40)
An Album of Illustrations for Tatler, the Guardian and the Spectator
some with inscriptions, the majority numbered (on the reverse); and with a contemporary list of titles including: 'Blind Milton dictating his Paradise Lost to his youngest daughter'(Tatler); 'Chevy Chase. Death of Gail Douglas'(Spectator); 'The Shield with Two Sides'(Tatler); 'Custom of telling Ghost Story to children'(Spectator); 'The Lover to his Reindeer'(Spectator); 'The Rake reclaimed by his father's liberality'(Tatler); 'Fatal Curiosity'(Guardian); 'Success of the Henpecked Husband'(Spectator); 'Paetus & his wife'(Tatler); 'William The Game Keeper'(Spectator) and 'Shipwreck'(Tatler)
pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, sixteen with watercolour, a few heightened with gum arabic or with scratching out; oval; two with pen and ink borders, 40 watercolours laid down on the pages of the album, the album with watermark 'J WHATMAN'
4 x 3 in (10.2 x 7.6 cm.); the album 15 1/8 17/8 in. (40)
Exhibited
Henry Haes, Esq.