Thomas
Landseer (1795–1880)
“Hand Study
from ‘The Sleeping Groom’”, 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”, with an inscribed extract from Shakespeare’s
“Macbeth” spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act 2, Scene 2, lines 6–10 (see https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translations/macbeth/act-2-scene-2).
See this
etching and another plate showing two hands described by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1013-418-419.
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) 33.7 x 34.2 cm; (sheet) 20 x 21.2 cm; (plate) 19.1 x 19 cm; (chine collé)
19.1 x 19.2 cm.
Lettered in
plate along the lower edge: (left) “B. R. Haydon. delt./ SLEEPING GROOM”;
(centre) “Pub. May 7. 1817 by: T. Landseer 33 Foley Street, London.”; (right)
“T. Landseer Sct./ — “The surfeited Grooms/ “Do mock their charge
with snores. I’ve drugg’d
their possets/ “That Death and Nature do contend about them. — Lady Macbeth.”
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, folds, significant stains or foxing.
I am selling
this marvellous study of a hand executed as a soft-ground etching, for the
total cost of AU$237 (currently US$159.29/EUR151.36/GBP130.77 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.
This print has been sold
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