Thomas Landseer, “Hand and Wrist of ‘Duncan’”, 1817, after Benjamin Robert Haydon

Thomas Landseer (1795–1880)

“Hand and Wrist of ‘Duncan’”, 1817, from a series of seven soft-ground etchings after Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), published in 1817 by Thomas Landseer in “Haydon's drawing-book”. See this etching and another plate showing two hands described by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1013-420-420-. Although I may be wrong, the subject possibly relates to Hadon’s studies for “The Murder of Duncan – Macbeth Stabbing Duncan” (see https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:28274).

Soft-ground etching on chine collé on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 17.8 x 30.5 cm; (plate) 15.2 x 28 cm; (chine collé) 15 x 28 cm.

Lettered in plate along the lower edge: (left) “DUNCAN/ B. R. Haydon. del^t.”; (centre) “Pub. May 1. 1817 by T. Landseer 33 Foley Str: London.”; (right) “T. Landseer Sc^t”.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression, trimmed around the platemark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond slightly dusty margins to the original sheet, the sheet is in a good condition with no tears, holes, folds, significant stains or foxing.

I am selling this simply magnificent and exceptionally rare study of a hand executed as a soft-ground etching for the total cost of AU$251 (approximately US$163.97, EUR 139.91 or GBP 119.48), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this very fine hand study, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Thomas Landseer’s soft-ground etching, “Hand Studies of ‘Sleeping Groom’ and ‘Duncan’”, 1817, after Benjamin Robert Haydon

Thomas Landseer (1795–1880)

“Hand Studies of ‘Sleeping Groom’ and ‘Duncan’”, 1817, from a series of seven soft-ground etchings after Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), published in 1817 by Thomas Landseer in “Haydon's drawing-book”.

See this etching and another plate showing a single hand and wrist as described by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1013-420-420-. Although I may be wrong, the subject possibly relates to Hadon’s studies for “The Murder of Duncan – Macbeth Stabbing Duncan” (see https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:28274).

This impression is undoubtedly a prepublication annotated proof as the upper inscribed title, “SLEEPING GROOMS”, has been corrected with the “S” cancelled—note that in the BM’s copy of this print shows the inscribed title as: “SLEEPING GROOM”.

Soft-ground etching (with dot roulette?) on chine collé on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (support sheet) 37.1 x 33.8 cm; (sheet) 21.1 x 21 cm; (plate) 19 x 19 cm; (chine collé) 18.9 x 18.8 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (left of centre) “SLEEPING GROOMS”; (lower right corner) “DUNCAN”.

Lettered in plate along the lower edge: (left) “[B.] R. Haydon. del^t.”; (centre) “Pub. May. 1. 1817 by [T.] Landseer 33 Foley Stree[t] London.”; (right) “T Landseer S”

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond slightly dusty/handled margins to the original sheet, the sheet is in a good condition with no tears, holes, folds or significant stains.

I am selling this simply magnificent study of hands executed as a soft-ground etching, for the total cost of AU$237 (currently US$165.31/EUR152.60/GBP135.20 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this exceptionally fine annotated proof-state etching of hand studies, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Note that the earlier listing of Landseer’s superb, “Hand and Wrist of ‘Duncan’” is (amazingly) still available; see https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2022/12/thomas-landseers-soft-ground-etching.html. 

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Thomas Landseer’s soft-ground etching, “Hand Study from ‘The Sleeping Groom’”, 1817, after Benjamin Robert Haydon

Thomas Landseer (1795–1880)

“Hand Study from ‘The Sleeping Groom’”, 1817, from a series of seven soft-ground etchings after Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), published in 1817 by Thomas Landseer in “Haydon's drawing-book”, with an inscribed extract from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act 2, Scene 2, lines 6–10 (see https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translations/macbeth/act-2-scene-2).

See this etching and another plate showing two hands described by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1013-418-419.

Soft-ground etching on chine collé on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (support sheet) 33.7 x 34.2 cm; (sheet) 20 x 21.2 cm; (plate) 19.1 x 19 cm; (chine collé) 19.1 x 19.2 cm.

Lettered in plate along the lower edge: (left) “B. R. Haydon. del^t./ SLEEPING GROOM”; (centre) “Pub. May 7. 1817 by: T. Landseer 33 Foley Street, London.”; (right) “T. Landseer Sc^t./ — “The surfeited Grooms/ “Do mock their charge with snores. I’ve drugg’d their possets/ “That Death and Nature do contend about them. — Lady Macbeth.”

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression, trimmed around the platemark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond slightly dusty margins to the original sheet, the sheet is in a good condition with no tears, folds, significant stains or foxing.

I am selling this marvellous study of a hand executed as a soft-ground etching, for the total cost of AU$237 (currently US$159.29/EUR151.36/GBP130.77 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this exceptionally fine hand study, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Thomas Landseer’s etching, “The Widow”, 1827

Thomas Landseer (1795–1880)

“The Widow”, 1827, plate 25 from the series of 26 illustrations to “Monkey-Ana, or, Men in Miniature”, published in London by Francis Graham Moon (1796–1871), Boys & Graves (fl. 1827–1836).

Archive.org offers an online view of this publication and this plate in its context: https://archive.org/details/monkeyanaormenin00land/page/n99/mode/2up.

Etching on chine collé (China paper) on heavy wove paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 36.4 x 25.4 cm; (plate) 20.3 x 16.4 cm; (chine collé) 20.2 x 16.1 cm.

Inscribed in plate below the image: (lower left) [flourish of artist’s initials] “T L”; (right of centre) “'— now will canker Sorrow eat my bud,/ And chase, the native beauty from his cheek,’/ Shakespeare./ Published Dec^r. 1 1827, by Moon, Boys & Graves 6, Pall Mall. A Paris chez Piers Bernard, Boulevard des Italiens.”

British Museum Satires XI. 15628; Nagler VII. 273.1; Bk. Pr. Cur. 1909, #1315 (26 plates); Brunet III.815; Graesse IV.96; Le Blanc II.488.5 (References from THE MET: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/395575).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“In a grassy glade an ape lies as if asleep. His desolate mate sits on her haunches, watching him. They do not wear clothes. Below: '"— now will canker Sorrow eat my bud, / And chase the native beauty from his cheek," Shakespeare.' ['King John', III. iv.] 1 December 1827
Etching printed on chine collé” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1945-0927-3).

The Curator of the British Museum advises that the portrayed scene is an example, “not of pathos, but of sentiment travestied” (op. cit.).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression. There are two small printer’s creases (?) in the lower vegetation, otherwise the sheet is in almost pristine condition with no tears, holes, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this superb masterwork of etching and a fine example of singerie (i.e., anthropomorphism using monkeys to portray human sentiments)—here capturing the underlying narrative of Shakespeare's “King John”, Act 3, Scene iv”—for AU$226 in total (currently US$165.72/EUR140.20/GBP119.65 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this extremely sensitive etching that to my eyes expresses soul-draining grief in an unambiguously way, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.