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Porträt Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
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Portrait of Henry Fielding. The English playwright is shown here as a chest pattern in a profile to the right with wig, coat and neck scarf. His gaze goes in an indefinite direction. Henry Fielding was considered a novelist, satirist, playwright, journalist and jurist. His biography is equally diverse: he studied law at Eton College in London and at Leiden University. He worked in London for several years as playwright and theater director. He wrote so-called Ballad Operas, a kind of song opera with spoken dialogs and popular melodies, which gradually displaced the Italian opera in London and finally, supposedly, lead Georg Friedrich Händel to write no more operas.
The leaf was stabbed by Hopwood. Since no first name or any indication of which English stecher should be, this can only be speculated, we suspect that it could be William Hopwood (1784-1853). A second specimen of the paper could only be detected in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. This makes dating difficult.
Signature: Hopwood del et sculp. Tome X.
Caption: Henry Fielding. Ne en 1707, mort en 1754. ((Händel-Haus Halle Foundation)
Title: Porträt Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
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Portrait of Henry Fielding.
The English playwright is shown here as a chest pattern in a profile to the right with wig, coat and neck scarf.
His gaze goes in an indefinite direction.
Henry Fielding was considered a novelist, satirist, playwright, journalist and jurist.
His biography is equally diverse: he studied law at Eton College in London and at Leiden University.
He worked in London for several years as playwright and theater director.
He wrote so-called Ballad Operas, a kind of song opera with spoken dialogs and popular melodies, which gradually displaced the Italian opera in London and finally, supposedly, lead Georg Friedrich Händel to write no more operas.
The leaf was stabbed by Hopwood.
Since no first name or any indication of which English stecher should be, this can only be speculated, we suspect that it could be William Hopwood (1784-1853).
A second specimen of the paper could only be detected in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
This makes dating difficult.
Signature: Hopwood del et sculp.
Tome X.
Caption: Henry Fielding.
Ne en 1707, mort en 1754.
((Händel-Haus Halle Foundation).
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