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GOSDEN, Thomas -- Benjamin MARSHALL (1768-1835) -- [An album of aquatints in various states of Marshall's The Sportsman. London: T. Gosden, c.1820.]
2° (307 x 242mm). Engraved portrait of Marshall, Le Chasseur Anglais by William Ashby, 10 aquatints (each 265 x 190mm to the plate mark), one coloured, one proof on India paper, 7 of these before letters, all signed by Thomas Gosden, ALS from Marshall window mounted. (Some marginal spotting.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt lettered labels to spine (rubbed and worn). Provenance: Thomas Gosden (bookplate, inscriptions) -- Walter Gilbey, Bart (1831-1914, wine merchant and horse breeder; bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate).
[With: A small archive relating to Gosden and the album, including: 3pp. ALS from Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867, painter) to Gosden ('Dear Gosden') dated 18 September 1824 discussing travel in Swizerland; 1 p. ALS from Samuel Shepherd (1760-1840, lawyer and politician) to Gosden ('Sir') dated 1 January 1830 asking for the return of some books; 4 pp. autograph document, possibly in Gosden's hand, in the form of a dialogue and giving an account of financial difficulties and a benefaction by Samuel Shepherd; 4 pp. of correspondence between S.H. Maille and Schwerdt, two engraved views of The Pantheon, Oxford Street; Gosden's bookplate and trade card, both designed and engraved by John Scott.]
THE PUBLISHER'S AND LATER THE GILBEY-SCHWERDT COPY of this album composing 10 states of George Maille's engraving of Ben Marshall's The Sportsman. 'Joseph Farington recorded in his Diary of 28 March 1804 that "Bourgeois spoke of Marshall a horse painter as having extraordinary ability and that Gilpin had said that in managing his backgrounds he had done that which Stubbs and himself never could venture upon". This ability to capture the vagaries of the British climate and landscape together with the depth of character in his portraits of all those connected with the sporting world raise Marshall well above the range of the average sporting artist' (DNB). (2)
2° (307 x 242mm). Engraved portrait of Marshall, Le Chasseur Anglais by William Ashby, 10 aquatints (each 265 x 190mm to the plate mark), one coloured, one proof on India paper, 7 of these before letters, all signed by Thomas Gosden, ALS from Marshall window mounted. (Some marginal spotting.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt lettered labels to spine (rubbed and worn). Provenance: Thomas Gosden (bookplate, inscriptions) -- Walter Gilbey, Bart (1831-1914, wine merchant and horse breeder; bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate).
[With: A small archive relating to Gosden and the album, including: 3pp. ALS from Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867, painter) to Gosden ('Dear Gosden') dated 18 September 1824 discussing travel in Swizerland; 1 p. ALS from Samuel Shepherd (1760-1840, lawyer and politician) to Gosden ('Sir') dated 1 January 1830 asking for the return of some books; 4 pp. autograph document, possibly in Gosden's hand, in the form of a dialogue and giving an account of financial difficulties and a benefaction by Samuel Shepherd; 4 pp. of correspondence between S.H. Maille and Schwerdt, two engraved views of The Pantheon, Oxford Street; Gosden's bookplate and trade card, both designed and engraved by John Scott.]
THE PUBLISHER'S AND LATER THE GILBEY-SCHWERDT COPY of this album composing 10 states of George Maille's engraving of Ben Marshall's The Sportsman. 'Joseph Farington recorded in his Diary of 28 March 1804 that "Bourgeois spoke of Marshall a horse painter as having extraordinary ability and that Gilpin had said that in managing his backgrounds he had done that which Stubbs and himself never could venture upon". This ability to capture the vagaries of the British climate and landscape together with the depth of character in his portraits of all those connected with the sporting world raise Marshall well above the range of the average sporting artist' (DNB). (2)
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