Theatre and David Garrick - Sayer (Robert) and John Smith of Cheapside. [Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage], one engraved title in English, with 44 engravings, 23 being early impressions without numbers, including 6 rare variant impressions, by Charles Grignion some after Johann Ludwig Wernhard Faesch and Zoffany, each plate approx. 95 x 75 mm. (3 3/4 x 3 in), five with full margins, the rest trimmed within the plate marks and inset into uniform paper margins, loose, all unframed, Robert Sayer and John Smith circa 1769-75, (45). ⁂ The present composite group - the prints loose as issued - includes six particularly rare variant impressions, which show transitional stages in the preparation of the plates.
Theatre and David Garrick - Sayer (Robert) and John Smith of Cheapside. [Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage], one engraved title in English, with 44 engravings, 23 being early impressions without numbers, including 6 rare variant impressions, by Charles Grignion some after Johann Ludwig Wernhard Faesch and Zoffany, each plate approx. 95 x 75 mm. (3 3/4 x 3 in), five with full margins, the rest trimmed within the plate marks and inset into uniform paper margins, loose, all unframed, Robert Sayer and John Smith circa 1769-75, (45). ⁂ The present composite group - the prints loose as issued - includes six particularly rare variant impressions, which show transitional stages in the preparation of the plates.
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