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拍品專文
The armchair's Grecian-scrolled frame is caned for a 'French' squab cushion, and has bowed 'Venus' dolphin arm-supports as featured on a Roman couch-bed pattern in the French published Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet Dictionary, 1803 (pl. 17). In the late 18th century the Mount Street 'Upholders' William Marsh and Thomas Tatham had supplied Powderham Castle, Devon with a celebrated 'Dolphin' suite bearing the chair-makers brand of B. Harmer (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, fig. 476). This chair may have been commissioned by Rogers following his visit to Paris in 1802.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1856), poet and intimate of Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Fox and Richard 'Conversation' Sharp, built his house at 22 St James's Place with the assistance of John Flaxman (1755-1826) and Thomas Stothard (1755-1834). He had taken advantage of the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and visited Paris to view Napoleon's spoils of war at the Louvre. His best known poem remains The Pleasures of Memory of 1792, although his later epic, Columbus of 1810 was ambitious, it was poorly received. A measure of his stature can be gauged by his refusal of the laureateship on the death of Wordsworth in 1850 in favour of Tennyson. His collection including his extensive library was sold at Christie's in May 1856.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1856), poet and intimate of Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Fox and Richard 'Conversation' Sharp, built his house at 22 St James's Place with the assistance of John Flaxman (1755-1826) and Thomas Stothard (1755-1834). He had taken advantage of the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and visited Paris to view Napoleon's spoils of war at the Louvre. His best known poem remains The Pleasures of Memory of 1792, although his later epic, Columbus of 1810 was ambitious, it was poorly received. A measure of his stature can be gauged by his refusal of the laureateship on the death of Wordsworth in 1850 in favour of Tennyson. His collection including his extensive library was sold at Christie's in May 1856.