MORLAND, George (1763-1804).] 'Facetiae'. An album of fine, hand-coloured erotic plates. [London: n.p., n.d. but ca. 1790.
MORLAND, George (1763-1804).] 'Facetiae'. An album of fine, hand-coloured erotic plates. [London: n.p., n.d. but ca. 1790.] 2° (330 x 240mm). 13 handcoloured mezzotints after Morland, probably by William Ward and John Raphael Smith (Outer margins strengthened, occasional light marginal soiling.) Later black morocco, turn-ins with gilt double fillet (rebacked, endpapers renewed.) Provenance : Michel Simon -- Gerard Nordmann (label; sold, Christie's Paris, 27 April 2006, lot 283). A SUITE OF FINE, UNUSUALLY LARGE, HAND-COLOURED EROTIC PLATES illustrating scenes from Fielding's Tom Jones , Cleland's Fanny Hill , and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse and Les Confessions . These lavish mezzotints, radically different from Morland's elegant portraits of well-behaved young ladies, may either have been issued separately or in related groups. They were almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful print-making partnership and shared a somewhat dissolute life; he and Ward escaped creditors together and married each others' sisters in 1786. AMONG THE BEST EXAMPELS OF 18TH-CENTURY EROTIC ART. Galitzin 91; Ashbee (Catena, pp. 83-84, 98, 102, 408-409); Eros invaincu 56.
MORLAND, George (1763-1804).] 'Facetiae'. An album of fine, hand-coloured erotic plates. [London: n.p., n.d. but ca. 1790.
MORLAND, George (1763-1804).] 'Facetiae'. An album of fine, hand-coloured erotic plates. [London: n.p., n.d. but ca. 1790.] 2° (330 x 240mm). 13 handcoloured mezzotints after Morland, probably by William Ward and John Raphael Smith (Outer margins strengthened, occasional light marginal soiling.) Later black morocco, turn-ins with gilt double fillet (rebacked, endpapers renewed.) Provenance : Michel Simon -- Gerard Nordmann (label; sold, Christie's Paris, 27 April 2006, lot 283). A SUITE OF FINE, UNUSUALLY LARGE, HAND-COLOURED EROTIC PLATES illustrating scenes from Fielding's Tom Jones , Cleland's Fanny Hill , and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse and Les Confessions . These lavish mezzotints, radically different from Morland's elegant portraits of well-behaved young ladies, may either have been issued separately or in related groups. They were almost certainly engraved by William Ward (1766-1826) and John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), with whom Morland enjoyed a fruitful print-making partnership and shared a somewhat dissolute life; he and Ward escaped creditors together and married each others' sisters in 1786. AMONG THE BEST EXAMPELS OF 18TH-CENTURY EROTIC ART. Galitzin 91; Ashbee (Catena, pp. 83-84, 98, 102, 408-409); Eros invaincu 56.
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