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BRIAN DAVIS Known for his magnificent flowers, Brian Davis transforms exquisite blossoms like roses and orchids into romantic, compelling images with sharpness, color, movement, edge, and light. ORCHID POSTER 24" x 36"
ITEM# 060P0519P-EX1 $21.00 |
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PINKIE Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794) and The Blue Boy by Gainsborough, are often paired in popular esteem. However, Pinkie was painted about twenty-five years later than Gainsborough's masterpiece and had no association with the earlier painting until they both arrived at the Huntington in the 1920s. The young girl, Sarah Barrett Moulton, was born in Jamaica to a wealthy plantation family. The portrait was painted on commission for her grandmother after the girl came to England for her education. Unfortunately, Sarah died within a few months of the portrait's completion. Her brother, who later owned the painting, was the father of poet Elizabeth Barret Browning. POSTER 16" x 24" interior dimensions (20" x 29" exterior) ITEM# A07PST $18.00 6" x 9" interior dimensions (9.75" x 14" exterior) ITEM# A04PST $6.00 FRAMED 11" x 14" framed ITEM# J100PST $65.00 |
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THE BLUE BOY The Huntington's most famous British portraits are currently displayed in the Erburu Gallery. The most celebrated painting in the gallery, Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy (c.1770), represents Jonathan Buttall, the son of a successful hardware merchant who was a close friend of the artist. Gainsborough dressed the boy in a costume familiar through the portraits of the great Flemish artist, Anthony Van Dyck, who lived and worked in England during the early seventeenth century. Gainsborough had unbounded admiration for the work of Van Dyck and seems to have planned The Blue Boy as an act of homage to him. POSTER 16" x 24" interior dimensions (20" x 29" exterior) 6" x 9" interior dimensions (9.75" x 14" exterior) ITEM# A01PST $6.00 FRAMED 11" x 14" framed ITEM# J101PST $65.00 |
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'ROYAL VIRGIN ROSE' Among the holdings in The Huntington Library is A Collection of Roses from Nature published in 1799, illustrated by Mary Lawrence. From this book, we have reproduced the illustration of the 'Royal Virgin Rose' onto a stretched, 11" x 14"canvas. ITEM# R000GFT $65.00 |
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STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS Still Life with Flowers and Birds Nest belongs to a series of some 40 small scale paintings dating from the mid 1850s through the 1860s that Rosen executed on wooden panels. A particularly fine example, it bears the hallmark of his style and the devices he often employed in his paintings of flowers: brilliant color, an overall, even, clarifying light, an exuberant profusion of flowers contained in a simple class vase, a birds nest with 3 eggs to symbolize life, and a marble supporting the entire arrangement. POSTER (LARGE) (22 1/2" x 17" exterior)
(10" x 7 3/4" exterior) FRAMED 14" x 11" framed ITEM# J103PST $65.00 |
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GEORGE WASHINGTON Gilbert Stuart (1775-1828) POSTER 16" x 20" interior dimensions (18 1/2" x 24" exterior) ITEM# E83PST $18.00 |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN George Henry Story (1835-1923)
POSTER 16" x 20" interior dimensions (18 1/2" x 23 1/2" exterior)
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SARA SIDDONS AS THE TRAGIC MUSE One of the
great actresses of the Georgian stage, Sarah Siddons was also
one of the most frequently portrayed. Here, Reynolds, who was
then the President of the Royal Academy, employs a variety of
visual effects and references to convey the dramatic power of
this tragedian. Painted in rich, but somber tones that contribute
to the sublimity of the image, Siddons is shown seated in a
grand chair that seems to float on a cloud. Her pose is borrowed
from one of Michelangelo's prophets in the Sistine ceiling.
In the background, behind the seated actress, stand shadowy
figures, representing Pity and Terror who hold the attributes
(dagger and cup respectively) of Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. POSTER 16" x 23" interior dimensions (20" x 26" exterior) ITEM# D56PST $18.00 6" x 9" interior dimensions (9.75" x 14" exterior) ITEM# A19PST $6.00 |
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YOUNG KNITTER ASLEEP Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) POSTER 14.5" x 18" interior dimensions (17" x 22.5" exterior) ITEM# D43PST $18.00 |
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CLAVERING CHILDREN Romney's Clavering Children portrays Thomas John and Catherine Mary, children of George Clavering of Greencroft, in Durham. The Huntington has thirteen works by Romney, and this is one of the finest from a phase in that artist's career otherwise unrepresented. In this lyrical composition of pastel tones, the youngsters and their dogs move gently through an undefined landscape. When he painted it, Romney had just returned from a period of study in Rome and the graceful poses of the figures reflect his familiarity with classical sculpture. The attitudes of the children also effectively capture their adolescent state as well as their gender roles as master of animals and nurturer. This painting was one of forty-two pictures--Dutch, French, Italian as well as English--bequeathed to the Huntington by Mildred Browning Green and Judge Lucius Peyton Green in 1978 in memory of Mrs. Green's mother, Adele Browning. POSTER CANVAS 11" x 14"canvas ITEM# L347GFT $65.00 |
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BREAKFAST IN BED Mary Cassatt's Breakfast In Bed reflects the artist's aesthetic ties with its broken brush strokes and bright colors. The subject of a woman and child is a recurring theme in her work and this particular example is an especially telling treatment. POSTER 24.5" x 20" interior dimensions (28.5" x 25" exterior) ITEM# D13PST $18.00 |
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SALISBURY CATHEDRAL John Constable's painting of the Salisbury Cathedral is sometimes known as the "Small Cathedral" or the "Wedding Present" picture. POSTER 20" x 17" interior dimensions (24" x 20" exterior) ITEM# A16PST $18.00 |
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VIEW OF VENICE, WITH ST. MARK'S Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) POSTER 9.75" x 7 interior dimensions (14" x 10" exterior) ITEM# A24PST $6.00 |
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THE LONG LEG The works of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) exemplify the highest achievement of American realist painters who practiced in the second quarter of the twentieth century. POSTER 29" x 19" interior dimensions (38" x 25" exterior) ITEM# D22PST $18.00 |
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HERB GARDEN CHART Decorative plan of our Herb Garden,
by well-known garden writer and illustrator Allison Mia Starcher,
gives a bird's eye view of the garden with details of the planting
plan. Quotations from The Library's collection of early herbals
run down each side of the print. An overlay listing the plants
found in each bed is included. ITEM# H333PST $11.00 |
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