拍品專文
This and the following lot were respectively pages 49 and 70 from the first of three volumes containing 201 caricatures by the artist. The drawings were mounted and bound in 1780.
Print Quarterly Charity Auction
at approximately 4.30 p.m.
(lots 500-599)
When Print Quarterly was first published in 1984 its founders believed that one of the fundamental reasons that so little attention was given to the study of prints was the absence of any obvious vehicle in which to publish the results of any new research. Their faith that the existence of a new journal (whose title was chosen to echo that of the much-loved Print Collectors Quarterly) would stimulate scholarship has been abundantly and most gratifyingly borne out by the record of what are now 45 issues containing 4,852 pages. The Editorial Board has always tried to gather a wide variety of material, to keep the outlook as international as possible, and to vary the tone with lighter pieces as well as those most densely packed with information. Above all, it has tried to make every article literate and intelligible, and contribute to the advancement of knowledge and understanding.
We (If I may lapse into the first person) think we have succeeded, and that Print Quarterly is now in the front rank of specialist art-historical journals. For this we have to thank in the first place all our contributors, all our subscribers and all our advertisers. The initial finance was provided by a small group of shareholders, and the J. Paul Getty Trust for three years gave us a generous grant that enabled us to get on our feet. Thanks are owed to all of these. But those involved throughout are the best placed to know that the journal would not exist without the vision, commitment and enormously hard work of the editor, David Landau.
The journal is probably the only one of its standing in the world to rest on the support of no institution or society. It has become too important to rest on its present frail base, and it is time to secure the future. Hence Print Quarterly Ltd has been replaced by a registered charity, Print Quarterly Publications, and an appeal has been launched for an endowment that will enable publication to continue for a future that will outlast the present Editorial Board.
In the name of all the members of Print Quarterly Publications and the Editorial Board I would like to thank all those who have helped by contributing works to this auction and those who will help by purchasing them. We are especially grateful to Christie's for so generously offering to hold it on our behalf, to Simon Theobald for his very hard work, and to Noël Annesley for agreeing to conduct the sale itself.
Antony Griffiths
Chairman of Print Quarterly Publications
Donated by Artemis Fine Arts, London
Pier Leone Ghezzi
細節
Pier Leone Ghezzi
The Abbé de Vertamon
inscribed 'Sen Abbate de Vertamon Cavalier Francese, e un suo parente, cavalier dello spirito santo, in Med. V. Abb: è stato alla arena a sue spese fa la mis sione et un uomo assai docto e Di molta consideratione, fatto da mo...' and with inscriptions on the mount 'sig. RE Abbate de Vertamon Cavalier Francese' and '49'; black chalk, pen and brown ink
S. 302 x 191mm.
The Abbé de Vertamon
inscribed 'Sen Abbate de Vertamon Cavalier Francese, e un suo parente, cavalier dello spirito santo, in Med. V. Abb: è stato alla arena a sue spese fa la mis sione et un uomo assai docto e Di molta consideratione, fatto da mo...' and with inscriptions on the mount 'sig. RE Abbate de Vertamon Cavalier Francese' and '49'; black chalk, pen and brown ink
S. 302 x 191mm.
來源
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and by descent to the 7th Duke of Wellington.