Prints / Portraits & Caricatures

[Plate] Mörner, Hjalmar

Harmony in Leicester Square.

[London] Printed by Graf & Sorel. [1832] Image 20,5 x 31 cm. The whole sheet 27,5 x 38,5 cm.

Nice condition.

A carricature depicting the chaotic and noisy every day life in Leicester Square. Mörner, a swedish artist and noble man lived in Italy in the 1820s, where he among other things published his most famous work "Il Carnevale di Roma". In the early 1830s he stayed in London where he published two caricature albums "Humorous Sketches" and "Miscellaneous Sketches of Contrasts". The present plate is from the first of these two works. Printed on Whatman paper. An uncommon plate.

Item No: 3796