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[MORLAND, George (1763-1804).] 'Facetiae'. An album of fine, hand-coloured erotic plates. [London: n.p., n.d. but ca. 1790.]
2° (330 x 240mm). 13 handcoloured mezzotints after Morland, probably by William Ward and John Raphael Smith. (Outer margins strengthened, occasional light marginal soiling.) Later black morocco, turn-ins with gilt double fillet (rebacked, endpapers renewed.) Provenance: Michel Simon -- Gerard Nordmann (label; sold, Christie's Paris, 27 April 2006, lot 283).
A SUITE OF FINE, UNUSUALLY LARGE, HAND-COLOURED EROTIC PLATES illustrating scenes from Fielding's Tom Jones, Cleland's Fanny Hill, and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse and Les Confessions. These lavish mezzotints, radically different from Morland's elegant portraits of well-behaved young ladies, may either have been issued separately or in related groups. They were almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful print-making partnership and shared a somewhat dissolute life; he and Ward escaped creditors together and married each others' sisters in 1786. AMONG THE BEST EXAMPELS OF 18TH-CENTURY EROTIC ART. Galitzin 91; Ashbee (Catena, pp. 83-84, 98, 102, 408-409); Eros invaincu 56.
2° (330 x 240mm). 13 handcoloured mezzotints after Morland, probably by William Ward and John Raphael Smith. (Outer margins strengthened, occasional light marginal soiling.) Later black morocco, turn-ins with gilt double fillet (rebacked, endpapers renewed.) Provenance: Michel Simon -- Gerard Nordmann (label; sold, Christie's Paris, 27 April 2006, lot 283).
A SUITE OF FINE, UNUSUALLY LARGE, HAND-COLOURED EROTIC PLATES illustrating scenes from Fielding's Tom Jones, Cleland's Fanny Hill, and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse and Les Confessions. These lavish mezzotints, radically different from Morland's elegant portraits of well-behaved young ladies, may either have been issued separately or in related groups. They were almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful print-making partnership and shared a somewhat dissolute life; he and Ward escaped creditors together and married each others' sisters in 1786. AMONG THE BEST EXAMPELS OF 18TH-CENTURY EROTIC ART. Galitzin 91; Ashbee (Catena, pp. 83-84, 98, 102, 408-409); Eros invaincu 56.
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