❤️ Catalogue 143: just in time for Valentine's Day! ❤️

Cover: Cupid. C. Vanloo pinx.t. C. Corbutt [Richard Purcell] fecit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller; at N,,º 53 in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1765]. Very rare mezzotint with fine hand colour. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere. Very decorative image, Cupid stands by a rosebush, drawing his bow and aiming at the viewer, his quiver and loose arrows at his feet. A mezzotint copy of an etching, 'L'Amour menaçant' by Christian von Mechel after Carle van Loo, 1764 (BM 1875,1009.356), engraved by Richard Purcell under his pseudonym Charles Corbutt. Lennox-Boyd records it being listed in the catalogues of Sayer in 1766 & Sayer & Bennett in 1775, but we have found no other mention. Not in CS or BM. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. [Ref: 65315 ] We are pleased to present our listing: Catalogue 143. It contains just under 400 items, consisting mostly of wonderful 18th-19t...