ref. PR121491A young woman shown almost half-length directed slightly to right looking towards the viewer hair dressed up with two plaits over the crown of her head and a coil loose over right shoulder pearl earrings and wearing a square-necked gown with heavy puffed sleeves decorated with bows a long necklace and a light scarf hanging over right shoulder.Inscribed at bottom: Done from an Original Picture of Titians by Chas. Corbutt. / London Printed for Robt. Sayer Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street.On verso an inscription in pen and brown ink.According to the British Museum Richard Purcell's London prints are possibly entirely piracies of other mezzotints and it is a question how he and Sayer avoided prosecution for copyright infringement. This doubtless explains his use of pseudonyms especially ""Charles Corbutt"". Another pseudonym may have been Johson.NL Een jonge vrouw op bijna halve lengte iets naar rechts gericht kijkend naar de kijker haar opgestoken met twee vlechten over de kruin van haar hoofd en een rol los over de rechterschouder pareloorbellen en het dragen van een japon met vierkante hals met zware pofmouwen versierd met strikken een lange halsketting en een lichte sjaal hangend over de rechterschouder. Mezzotint on paper with small margins; total: 336 x 238 mm; traces of previous mountings on verso some repaired tears light smudges overall in fair condition. unknown

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur · Países Bajos242,00 €

Richard PurcellBiblio.com

Barack Obama's Literary Legacy: Readings of Dreams From My Father

ref. B9781349699124Paperback / softback. New. President Barack Obama's Dreams of My Father 1995 and The Audacity of Hope 2006 have received positive and extensive critical attention from both professional reviewers and University scholars. While literary intellectuals have praised Obama's memoirs for the style in which he composed them social scientists and partisan political analysts have thus far generally monopolized discussion of President Obama's writings. Yet there has been a recent surge of interest in the literary merits of Obama's writings. Our volume understands "literary" to indicate a host of a priori relationships that successful artful writing brings to the surface of a written work. These are instantiated in narrative form thereby revealing what Edward W. Said famously defined as the "worldliness" of the literary object. In the case of President Obama's writings and Dreams from My Father in particular those relationships are evident in the author's negotiation of literary tradition rhetorical modes and historical narratives. By positioning the "literary" at this vantage at the point where writing and the world converge the volume's contributors assert the indispensable and urgent import of understanding the President not only in political terms but more importantly in literary terms that place him within a long tradition of American literary-political authorship. paperback

The Saint Bookstore · Reino Unido78,81 GBP≈ 94,52 €

Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766Biblio.com

Correspondence Museum Etching Museum Quality A3

ref. 486873Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Ycba. Created in the 1th century undated. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A3. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown

Contentum · Chipre49,99 €

Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766Biblio.com

Correspondence Photo Rag Bright White Premium Quality A2

ref. 486875Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Ycba. Created in the 1th century undated. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag Bright White premium quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown

Contentum · Chipre79,99 €

Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766Biblio.com

Correspondence Museum Etching Museum Quality A2

ref. 486876Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Ycba. Created in the 1th century undated. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown

Contentum · Chipre99,99 €

Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766Biblio.com

Correspondence Photo Matt Fibre A2

ref. 486874Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Ycba. Created in the 1th century undated. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Matt Fibre in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown