May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
RICHARD EARLOM (after Wright of Derby)
A Blacksmith's Shop.

Mezzotint, 1771. 611x432 mm; 24 1/4x17 1/4 inches, narrow margins. Auvergne watermark with letters IHS in a circle counter mark. A superb, early proof, with the artists' and publisher's names and address in the unclean, lower margin, but before the title. Wesselley 122.

With--VALENTINE GREEN (after Benjamin West). The Death of Chevalier Bayard, mezzotint, 1774 * THOMAS WATSON (after Joshua Reynolds). Two mezzotint portraits of women. Various sizes and conditions.