Theatre.- Pine (Robert Edge) The Death Mask of David Garrick, mezzotint, 1779.
Theatre.- Pine (Robert Edge, publisher) The Death Mask of David Garrick, mezzotint, scratch letter proof, with [?]collector's initials in brown ink in lower right corner of lettered margin, a slightly rubbed impression on laid paper mounted on support, platemark 240 x 154 mm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in), sheet 304 x 250 mm (12 x 3/4 in), old folds visible, surface dirt, minor abrasion, pencil inscriptions to lower margin, marginal spotting, unframed, 1779.
Literature:
Chaloner Smith 68
⁂ Scarce at auction. Only a small number of impressions have appeared on art market in the last two decades; most notably the Christopher Lennox-Boyd copy selling at Christie's in 2008 (see British Mezzotints and Printed Handkerchiefs, 3rd December 2008, lot 18)
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Theatre.- Pine (Robert Edge, publisher) The Death Mask of David Garrick, mezzotint, scratch letter proof, with [?]collector's initials in brown ink in lower right corner of lettered margin, a slightly rubbed impression on laid paper mounted on support, platemark 240 x 154 mm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in), sheet 304 x 250 mm (12 x 3/4 in), old folds visible, surface dirt, minor abrasion, pencil inscriptions to lower margin, marginal spotting, unframed, 1779.
Literature:
Chaloner Smith 68
⁂ Scarce at auction. Only a small number of impressions have appeared on art market in the last two decades; most notably the Christopher Lennox-Boyd copy selling at Christie's in 2008 (see British Mezzotints and Printed Handkerchiefs, 3rd December 2008, lot 18)