Thomas
Landseer (1795–1880)
“Hand and Wrist
of ‘Duncan’”, 1817, from a series of seven soft-ground etchings after Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), published
in 1817 by Thomas Landseer in “Haydon's drawing-book”. See this etching and
another plate showing two hands described by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1013-420-420-.
Although I may be wrong, the subject possibly relates to Hadon’s studies for “The
Murder of Duncan – Macbeth Stabbing Duncan” (see https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:28274).
Soft-ground
etching on chine collé on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the
platemark and backed with a support sheet.
Size: (support
sheet) 34.2 x 44 cm; (sheet) 17.8 x 30.5 cm; (plate) 15.2 x 28 cm; (chine collé)
15 x 28 cm.
Lettered in
plate along the lower edge: (left) “DUNCAN/ B. R. Haydon. delt.”;
(centre) “Pub. May 1. 1817 by T. Landseer 33 Foley Str: London.”; (right) “T.
Landseer Sct”
Condition: a
strong and well-printed impression, trimmed around the platemark and laid onto a
support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond
slightly dusty margins to the original sheet, the sheet is in a good condition
with no tears, holes, folds, significant stains or foxing.
I am selling
this simply magnificent study of a hand executed as a soft-ground etching, for
the total cost of AU$237 (currently US$161.32/EUR153.08/GBP131.31
at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling
to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed
by some countries.
If you are
interested in purchasing this exceptionally fine hand study, please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
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