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	AGASSE, After Jacques-Laurent (1767-1849) Stage Waggon London: J. Watson, 20 November 1820. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by James Baily (expert repair to lower margin affecting publication line). Image size (including text): 11 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. A fine view of a wicker-work stage wagon on an English side road. The stage wagon, a much slower pre-cursor of the stage coach, made only from ten to fifteen miles in a long summer's day; that is, supposing them not to have broken down by pitching over the boulders laid along the road, or stuck fast in a quagmire, when they had to wait for the arrival of the next team of horses to help to drag them out. The wagon, however, continued to be adopted as a popular mode of travelling until late in the eighteenth century, and lingered on into the nineteenth century on the less frequented routes. Agasse "studied as a boy in his native Geneva and later under David and Vernet in Paris... In 1800 he settled in England... He painted a number of very fine equestrian and greyhound portraits for Lord Rivers... He quickly found other patrons, many of them friends of Lord Rivers, and his ability to portray horses sympathetically and with anatomical accuracy was widely recognised." (Charles Lane British Racing Prints p.72). Lane Sporting Aquatints and their engravers I, p. 89; Siltzer p.41. #5338$1,750.00
	AGASSE, Jacques-Laurent (1767-1849) engraved by J. PORTER The Rht. Honble. George Pitt Lord Rivers London: Published by M. Colnaghi, 23 Cockspur Street, May 9, 1827. Mezzotint. Printed on wove paper. In good condition with the exception of some surface soiling in the margins. Crease within center of image. Mended tear on top margin not extending into image. Mended tear on right margin. Fold along bottom margin. Image size: 15 7/8 x 13 inches. Plate mark: 19 3/8 x 14 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 26 1/4 x 20 inches. A remarkable portrait by James Agasse of his patron George Pitt, the second Baron Rivers, with his two prized greyhounds. James Laurent Agasse was a noted animal and landscape painter who worked in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Agasse was born in Geneva and received his first artistic training there. In 1800 he settled in London at the invitation of his patron the Hon. George Pitt, the second Baron Rivers. While in London he painted a number of fine equestrian and greyhound portraits for Pitt, including this portrait, which is noted as one of his most successful paintings. His devotion to the study of anatomy and his meticulous painting style made him a huge success in England, and he was widely recognized as one of the most adept animal painters of his day. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1845, and this distinguished portrait is a wonderful example of his skillful painting and meticulous anatomical observation. Quoted in the Dictionary of National Biography, the writer of the panegyric states, "that it was not for bread or for grain that he laboured, but that he was urged forward by the resistless force of natural genius." O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits...in the British Museum 1; Lane Sporting Aquatints and their engravers 72-73; Dictionary of National Biography. #14023$1,200.00
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