Love Wounded
Stipple engraving dawn
by Samuel
SHELLEY (1750/56-1808) engraved by Robert Cooper
(fl.
1795-1836) Published John Young, 58 Upper Charlotte Street, London:
March 14, 1798 11.75 x 9.25 inches, plate mark 13.75 x 11.25 inches,
overall .Depicting Venus, the goddess of love, stepping from her
chariot and extending her helping open arms to Cupid, messenger of
love, who points to an injury on his hand within a classical landscape
also seen printed in sepia,this has an old faint soft tint. . . .
Samuel Shelley was born in Whitechapel, London, but nothing is known of
his parents. He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 21 March
1774; their records state that he was '17 last August'. He
was
self-taught as a miniaturist, but was greatly influenced by the Royal
Academy and its first President, Sir Joshua Reynolds.
£125
framed glazed inc /DP
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