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Beffin, [Sarah] | "The Greatest Wonder in the World" at the Bartholomew Fair

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Beffin, [Sarah]
The Greatest Wonder in the World ... The Celebrated Miss Beffin. Miniature Painter Who Was Born Wtihout [sic] Hands & Arms. Lambeth: T. Romney, [1811]

Large letterpress broadside (738 x 496 mm). Printed in red and black in an assortment of wood types, woodcut vignette of the Royal coat of arms; not examined out of frame, folds, small loss at margin, light soiling around some red inking. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas.

The only artist to approach Mathew Buchinger's fame in Great Britain was Sarah Biffen (sometimes Biffin, Beffin, Beffen). Unlike Buchinger (see lots 99-136), she balanced her brush on her shoulder and directed it with her mouth when producing her pictures. She was particularly lauded for her miniatures rendered on ivory — advertised in the present broadside, an unusually large and striking example of printer's craft at the turn of the nineteenth century (EE).

REFERENCE:
Exemplars, p. 242; EE, pp. 66-67; LP&FW, p. 65

PROVENANCE:
Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger’s Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay," January 8, 2016–April 11, 2016

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Beffin, [Sarah]
The Greatest Wonder in the World ... The Celebrated Miss Beffin. Miniature Painter Who Was Born Wtihout [sic] Hands & Arms. Lambeth: T. Romney, [1811]

Large letterpress broadside (738 x 496 mm). Printed in red and black in an assortment of wood types, woodcut vignette of the Royal coat of arms; not examined out of frame, folds, small loss at margin, light soiling around some red inking. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas.

The only artist to approach Mathew Buchinger's fame in Great Britain was Sarah Biffen (sometimes Biffin, Beffin, Beffen). Unlike Buchinger (see lots 99-136), she balanced her brush on her shoulder and directed it with her mouth when producing her pictures. She was particularly lauded for her miniatures rendered on ivory — advertised in the present broadside, an unusually large and striking example of printer's craft at the turn of the nineteenth century (EE).

REFERENCE:
Exemplars, p. 242; EE, pp. 66-67; LP&FW, p. 65

PROVENANCE:
Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger’s Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay," January 8, 2016–April 11, 2016

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