Grosvenor Prints, catalogue n°113
Grosvenor prints has the pleasure in sending out our new catalogue, a festive miscellany of over 300 items. Highlights include:Cover image: A Tigress.Engraved by John Murphy by Permission of Mr. George Stubbs from the Picture Painted by himself and in his Possession.London, Published July 27, 1798 by J. Murphy, North side Paddington Green.Rare and extremely fine mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24¼”). Framed. Thread margins. Unexamined out of frame.A superb example of the finest images produced in the history of mezzotint, depicting a a recumbent tigress, probably the Royal Tiger inStubbs’s possession when he died. The painting had...
