Landseer "The TRAVELLED MONKEY" mezzotint hand colored 1849 engraving Welch sc

Description: DESCRIPTION: They may tear down our statues, but not your wall. You can SEE the true depth within a mezzotint, a real highlight. For your history and ownership is an antique 1849 Superb Mezzotint fromGodey'sMagazine Aye this is the original, not some 20th century knockoff. and hand colored to match Edwin Landseer outstanding work from 1829 The folks at art museums have THEIR ideas as... "A monkey standing in 18th century dress, a walking stick in his hand and miniature hanging at his neck." NONSENSE As Landseer was close friends with folks in the Navy, Edwin is making fun of British Army Officers. Obviously a officers uniform AND note the SNUFF box on the ground and one monkey getting his swill of snuff. OK the other is fair.... Monkey pals "surrounded by other monkeys in contrasting natural poses, with the exception of one at right who has taken snuff from a box in the foreground, trees surrounding and a bay with buildings and the sails of three boats beyond". Image size is the following portraits are all octavo sized, on hand laid cotton paper ca. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches Image size 6 1/2" X 5" Engraving by Thomas Welch. Wow, American super sculptor The TRAVELLED MONKEY A steel plate Mezzotint engraving. No, you will not receive a piece of steel. The painting was inspired by John Gays Fables of the Monkey Who Had Seen The World, and is in the permanent collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. See Poem Below. John Gays fable tells the story of a monkey who travels to bring politer manners home, is captured, serves a lady, becomes refined, and then escapes to join his fellows.In the tale from Fables the monkey goes on to recommend flattery, malice, wit, and scandal as a recipe for worldly successLandseer turned freely to fable as a source for his anthropomorphic subjects. Monkeys, long symbols of folly, cruelty, cunning, vice, and perverseness, had an especial attraction for himThe hero of the fable is dressed in elegant eighteenth-century costume, with a cockaded hat, and tiewig, cravat and bow tie, gloves and cane, and a miniature of his mistress hung on a ribbon. The gold epaulets suggest that the costume is a form of livery. Most of the monkeys are rhesus macaques, although the one in the background is closer to a brown capuchin, and the one on the right, taking snuff and about to sneeze, looks like a baboon. The trees provide a framing device, isolating the central monkey against a distant view of the city, from which he has evidently traveled to join friends. (Quoted excerpts from: Sir Edwin Landseer, by Richard Ormond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Tate Gallery, London, 1981) The printed title, artist name and engravers name are in script, which appear in the lower plate margin, and was a very lightly struck plate impression with very faint lettering and some illegible text especially with Landseers text line, but technically reads as best as I can make out, Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer R.A., as appears printed very tiny lower left just under the image, Engraved by Huffam, as appears printed lower right respectively, and the title appears lower right in the plate margin with bigger script text. The publisher of this Restrike Engraving is the famous Thomas Ross Collection, Berkshire, England whose internal inventory number H129 and other inventory number 9835, appears hand written in pencil lower right in the outer margin corner. The Engraving is a modern Restrike by the well known UK studio & workshop of the Thomas Ross Collection, Berkshire, England who have a long history of producing some of the worlds finest hand crafted etchings and engraved prints. The company is something of a legend in the art trade, comprising what is thought to be the worlds largest single collection of engraved copper and steel intaglio printing plates, and the majority of plates in the collection are in excess of one hundred years old, and some examples date back to the early 1700s providing the firm with an artistic heritage that now spans four centuries. The Engraving is on a very nice heavy-weight cream-colored wove paper stock with nice ample margins. The Engraving is in Excellent Popular condition for with exquisite rich hand-coloring. When Thomas Welch is doing George Washington or Abe Lincoln or these families, this is quite a rush with our great American sculptor...WOW !! CONDITION: Please know, there is no foxing, which means if touched, your fingers will not fall off. If your elbow touches, your elbow will not fall off. Why pay $30-$50 to have it removed, when this is perfect. Pristine condition Please view ALL photos as they have a close up to provide a fine idea of quality.Please email with questions prior to bidding. SHIPPING & HANDLING: Package will be very tight with three pieces of corrugated with heavy duty slip to notebook store until it goes to the framer. Well protected. Will be USPS. Multiple winners in one shipping amount.

Price: 155 USD

Location: Canton, Georgia

End Time: 2025-01-13T04:23:48.000Z

Shipping Cost: 12.5 USD