Eccentrics.- Mezzotints.- Faber (John) Bampfylde-Moore Carew, King of the Beggars, after a painting by Richard Phelps, mezzotint, platemark 330 x 225 mm (13 x 8 7/8 in), small margins, unframed, 1750; together with four further mezzotints and four other portraits, including a portrait of the notorious thief and prison escapee 'John ["Jack"] Sheppard' and, after Thornhill, with a related song sheet, Robert Sayer's 'Shop-Lifter Detected', Laurie & Whittle's 'The Gypsie Fortune-Teller', and John Bowles' 'The Flemish Ballad', a portrait of John Sakehouse the kayaking Inuit from Greenland who visited London, and another of the 'Fire King' famous for entering an oven, mezzotints, engravings, lithographs, various sizes, all unframed, mainly 19th century (9)
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