"Be Not Amaz'd Dear MOTHER It Is Indeed Your DAUGHTER ANNE" Carington Bowles Mezzotint Engraving 1774

"Be Not Amaz'd Dear MOTHER It Is Indeed Your DAUGHTER ANNE" Carington Bowles Mezzotint Engraving 1774Be not amaz'd Dear Mother It is indeed your Daughter Anne. Mezzotint engraving printed for Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse No. 69 in St Paul's Church Yard London. Published as the Act directs June 14th. 1774. From an Original Drawing by Grimm. Rare late 18th. Century satirical engraving presented in a late 18th. Century gilt gesso frame. Gilding refreshed plate a little worn with age related staining to no real detriment. 30 by 40. 5 cms

Century Vedutisti

he supported himself through odd jobs

2 by 14 cms

to Madrid where he succeeded Jacopo Amigoni (1680/2–1752) as court painter

provided designs for Wedgwood's innovative pottery

Published London 1784

Portrait of a Lady holding a Negro Masquerade Mask

Finally announcing to her disbelieving shipmates that she was in fact a woman

Landscape with trees

scratched signature to reverse J Downman Fecit

He became a director of the Stadstekenacademie in Haarlem in 1769

Provenance: Gatewick