Author: Rowlandson, Thomas ( 1757-1827); Aquatint by Samuel Alken (1756-1815); After drawing by Henry Wigstead (British, 1745?-1800)
Title: Bookseller and Author. First Edition of the Aquatint
Description: London : Publish’d Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, 1784]. Color aquatint. Sheet 33 x 39cm. Mounted on a support sheet. Central text beneath the image missing part of title and publisher's imprint.. Walpole Library, Yale: In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a sloping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen..From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr. the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .
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Title: Bookseller and Author. First Edition of the Aquatint
Description: London : Publish’d Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, 1784]. Color aquatint. Sheet 33 x 39cm. Mounted on a support sheet. Central text beneath the image missing part of title and publisher's imprint.. Walpole Library, Yale: In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a sloping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen..From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr. the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .
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Price: US$ 600.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5280
- Book number: 16-5280
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