LOT DETAILS

Materials:

the complete set of nine chiaroscuro woodcuts and the rare frontispiece on heavy laid paper

Size Notes:

and similar

Description:

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Condition:

fine to good impressions, printed from four blocks, seven plates and the frontispiece printed in black or dark brown, two shades of grey and mushroom, and two plates (B. 2 & 6) printed in black, grey and two shades of ochre, B. 3 with half of the separately printed pilaster at left, most plates printing sharply and with considerable gaufrage, generally trimmed to or just outside the borderlines, some plates with backed tears or smaller defects, B. 2 & 6 laid down, generally in good condition, framed

Provenance:

Sold by Thomas Philipe, London (with his presumed number 220/10 in red crayon on the mounts verso), in 1808 (to Roscoe). William Roscoe (1753-1831), Liverpool (cf. L. 2645); his sale, Winstanley, Liverpool, 9-20 September 1816, lot 1288 (£ 2.14.0 to Hesketh). Charles Robert Blundell (d. 1837), Ince Blundell, Lancashire. Bequeathed to Thomas Weld, then by descent to Colonel Sir Joseph Weld, O.B.E, T.D., Lulworth, Dorset; Christie's, London, 30 June 1976, lot 151.