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Prince of Orange on a Rearing Dark Gray Charger, circa 1815
€465
$520 · £395
Original print, not a reproduction.
Ships worldwide from the Netherlands, flat or rolled, insured and tracked. 14-day returns.
- Date
- circa 1815
- Technique
- Engraving
- Coloring
- Hand colored
- Condition
- Good. Light uneven toning, browner towards the edges. Marked handling soiling along the left, right and top edges. Foxing over much of the margin. Complete sheet, all four corners present. Several larger brown marks. The publication line below the caption is cut through along the lower edge, so only the tops of its letters remain.
- Collection
- Uniforms & regiments
- Era
- 1790 to 1815, Napoleonic wars
- Stock no.
- BG-14400-13
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
An original antique engraving, colored by hand, captioned "THE PRINCE OF ORANGE." The young prince sits a dark gray horse rearing up to the left, its forelegs raised high and its long gray mane flying. He wears a black bicorn with a white plume and a gold ornament, a red coat with gold epaulettes and gold frogging, a yellow shoulder belt, an order with a white cross on his chest, a crimson waist sash, white breeches and black riding boots with spurs. A sword blade reaches forward past the horse's neck. The saddlecloth is blue edged with yellow, with a fur holster cover in front. At the lower left grow plants with red flowers, and a single hill rises on the distant horizon. The face is worked in stipple.
Below the image at the lower left the plate is signed "Romney. scu." and at the lower right it carries the page reference "Page 443." The publication line below the caption is cut through along the lower edge, so only the tops of its letters survive and the date cannot be read; the year is therefore given as circa 1815. The Prince of Orange later reigned as King William II of the Netherlands.
It belongs to The History of the Wars occasioned by the French Revolution by William Nicholson, LL.D., printed in London for Thomas Kelly of 17 Paternoster Row. Its title page promises biographical sketches of the public characters of Europe and carries the story through the Congress of Vienna, the escape from Elba, Waterloo and the exile to Saint Helena. The plates themselves name Richard Evans of Whites Row, Spitalfields, in their engraved publication lines.
A lively, rearing pose that makes a strong single picture or a good companion to the other equestrian portraits from the same book.
Condition: Light uneven toning, browner towards the edges. Marked handling soiling along the left, right and top edges. Foxing over much of the margin. Complete sheet, all four corners present. Several larger brown marks. The publication line below the caption is cut through along the lower edge, so only the tops of its letters remain.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
