John Goldar Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk 1784

John Goldar Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk 1784
An original copperplate engraving on laid paper by English artist John Goldar (1729-1795) titled "Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk", 1784. Comes from the "History of England" portfolio. Printed and published by Harrison & Co for Paul Rapin de Thoyras in London, UK. Recently framed in gold molding and silk cotton mats from Holland. All archival. Framed size: 20.25" x 15.25". Platemark size: 12.25" x 8". Image size (with border): 8" x 6.75". Some faint foxing associated with age. In otherwise very good condition.Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk KG PC (1473 – 25 August 1554), was a prominent English politician and nobleman of the Tudor era. He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII, namely Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both of whom were beheaded, and played a major role in the machinations affecting these royal marriages. After falling from favor in 1546, he was stripped of his dukedom and imprisoned in the Tower of London, avoiding execution when Henry VIII died on 28 January 1547. He was released on the accession of the Roman Catholic queen, Mary I, whom he aided in securing her throne, thus setting the stage for tensions between his Catholic family and the Protestant royal line that would be continued by Mary I's half-sister, Elizabeth I.John Goldar, born at Oxford in 1729, resided in Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, Southwark. He made a couple of forays into print publishing on his own account (of John Dixon after William Lawrenson, and much later of naval prints and after Henry Richter), but mostly worked for the book trade. On 16 August 1795 Goldar died suddenly of apoplexy while walking with his daughter through Hyde Park, London. Goldar is best known for his engravings of the pictures painted by John Collet, in imitation of William Hogarth. Four of these, published by John Boydell in 1782, represent a series entitled "Modern Love", and among others were The Recruiting Sergeant, The Female Bruisers, The Sacrifice, The Country Choristers, and The Refusal. A similar subject matter was in his engravings after Philip Dawe, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, and Herbert Pugh.Goldar also engraved portraits, including those of the Rev. William Jay, James Lackington the bookseller, Peter Clare the surgeon, and others. In 1771 he exhibited an unfinished proof of an engraving after John Hamilton Mortimer at the exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists. As an illustrator, Goldar's work included a History of England (1789) for John Harrison. This was based, at some distance, on that by Paul de Rapin. He also had some plates in The New English Theatre (1777) published by Lowndes. Please check out Lot #'s 0482 & 0483 The Callcott and the Shayer original art, These are important original antique paintings .

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