Portrait Bust (6 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A splendid antique portrait. Printed from a photograph in 1884 . This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an antique portrait of this eminent personage . Attractive and decorative.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Frontispiece Portrait After Painting By Joshua Reynolds; Frontispiece After Bust By The Margravine (illustrator). 1st Edition. Viii, 430; 406 Pp. Very Old And Worn And Frayed Quarter Calf Over Marbled Boards, One Board Detached, One Board Lacking, Foxing To Frontispieces And Title Pages, Dampstain At Top Of Frontispiece Of Vol I, Contents Otherwise Generally Clean, Crisp And Square, Edges Of Page Block Colored (Faded) Red And Polished. Note At Front "The Margravine Ws Half Sister To Louisa Harvey, So Aunt To Mrs. John Drummond And Grandaunt To My Wife. Cam. Munro".Elizabeth Craven (Née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley) (17 December 1750 - 13 January 1828), Princess Berkeley (Though Often Styled "Margravine Of Brandenburg-Ansbach"), Previously Lady Craven, Of Hamstead Marshall, Was An Author And Playwright, Perhaps Best Known For Her Travelogues. She Was The Third Child Of The 4Th Earl Of Berkeley, Born In Mayfair In The West End Of London. Early In Her Literary Career She Wrote A Number Of Light Farces, Pantomimes, And Fables, Many Of Which Were Performed In London To No Great Acclaim. She Knew Samuel Johnson And James Boswell, And Became A Close Friend Of Horace Walpole, Who Published Her Early Works . Her Life Was Full Of Scandal: After Thirteen Years Of Marriage, Seven Children, And Affairs Reported On Both Sides, She And Her First Husband, William Craven, 6Th Baron Craven, (Married Since 30 May 1767), Parted Permanently In 1780. Thereafter She Lived In France And Travelled Extensively On The Continent. For A Number Of Years She Maintained A Romantic Relationship With Charles Alexander, Margrave Of Brandenburg-Ansbach. His Wife Since 1754, Princess Friederike Of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Died In Germany On 18 February 1791, And Lady Craven's Husband Died In Lausanne On 26 September 1791. The Couple Then Married In Lisbon On 30 October 1791 And Settled In England. While The Margravine Was Snubbed By Ladies Mindful Of Their Reputations, As Well As By Her Latest Husband's Cousin, King George Iii Himself, And As Well As By Queen Marie-Antoinette When She Visited France, The Couple Lived A Full And Opulent Life In Hammersmith, London, And Benham Park At Speen In Berkshire. Nonetheless, Elizabeth Was Never Legally Entitled To Share Her Husband's German Rank And Title: On 20 February 1801, She Was Granted The Morganatic Title Of "Princess (Fürstin) Berkeley" By The Last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis Ii.[3] In Fact, Charles Alexander, Being The Last Of His Cadet Branch Of The House Of Hohenzollern, And Childless, Had Exchanged His Hereditary Birthright To The Appanages Of Ansbach And Bayreuth For An Annuity Of 300,000 Guilders From His Pater Familias, King Frederick William Ii Of Prussia, A Month After His Second Marriage. In England, However, The Couple Were Usually Known As The "Margrave And Margravine Of Brandenburg-Ansbach". (Wikipedia). The Greatest Work Of Fiction In The English Language Is . Burke's Peerage (Oscar Wilde).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Thomson (illustrator). A fine steel engraving. ca. 1850. Mounted and ready to frame. Engraving of a bust of Rev Charles Burney by Nellekins. A fine opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. From the Bust By Francis (illustrator). A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 34 Pp. Bound In Thin Wood Boards, Gray Paper Spine Label And Endpapers, Printed In Black On Gray Paperfine In Oversize Clear Glassine Dust Jacket. Per Wikipedia, Miriam Constance Beaumont-Vaughan (1901-1979), Better Known By Her Pseudonym Olive Moore, Was A Modernist English Writer Best Known For Three Well-Esteemed Novels: Celestial Seraglio (1929), Spleen (1930), And Fugue (1932), And For The Acerbic Essay Collection The Apple Is Bitten Again (1934). She Also Produced An Essay On D.H. Lawrence, Entitled Further Reflections On The Death Of A Porcupine, Which Was Privately Printed In 1933 And Included In Her Essay Collection. Her Collected Writings Was Published In 1992. Born In Hereford, Moore Was Acquainted With The Bloomsbury Literary Circles In London During Her Prolific Years, And With The Poet Hugh Mcdiarmid And The Radical London Bookseller And Publisher Charles Lahr. She Briefly Worked For The Daily Sketch. In The Early 1920'S, She Married The Sculptor Sava Botzaris (1894-1965). Otherwise, Little Is Known About Her Life, Beyond A Brief Autobiographic Sketch In 1933. Moore Claimed To Be Working On A Novel Entitled Amazon And Hero: The Drama Of The Greek War For Independence, Which Was Never Published. Due To Her Rapid Disappearance From The London Literary Scene, The Date And Location Of Her Death Remain Unknown, Though She Is Believed To Have Died Around 1970. Moore Has Been Termed "A Cross Between Virginia Woolf And Djuna Barnes, But With A More Biting Wit." Her Novels Make Free Use Of Modernist Techniques Such As Stream Of Consciousness In Their Frank Dealings With Issues Of Sexuality And Disability. Though Considered A Highly Talented Experimental Writer, Moore's Disappearance (And The Rarity Of Published Versions Of Her Texts Until The Mid-1990'S) Has Led To A Relative Critical Neglect Of Her Work, Until Recently.

Attractive portrait bust of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), dressed in a jacket with two medals on his left chest. The bronze bust is raised on a circular socle with a square base on which the name 'Napoleon' is impressed.A tiny hole on the back of the left shoulder. Otherwise in good condition. Patinated bronze portrait bust.