Madame Catalani The Celebrated Opera Singer Early 19th.Century Colour Printed Stipple Engraving After Adam Buck 1807 Robert Sargent Austin Original pen ink and gouache

Original pen ink and gouache design for a poster advertising Bostocks Circus

5 by 29 cms framed overall

Prominent and influential Anglo-Irish Churchman

Hills studied at the Royal Academy from 1788

A Stipple Engraving Published by Ryland and Torre London 1779

Madame Catalani The Celebrated Opera Singer Early 19th.Century Colour Printed Stipple Engraving After Adam Buck 1807 Robert Sargent Austin Original pen ink and gouacheEarly 19th. Century English School colour printed stipple engraved portrait by Freeman after Adam Buck. Madame Catalani. 19 by 25 cms image. 29. 7 by 38. 5 cms overall framed. Angelica Catalani 1780 1849 celebrated Italian opera singer. Her voice, a dramatic soprano of nearly three octaves in range. Its unsurpassed power and flexibility made her one of the greatest bravura singers of all time. She was a close friend to both Beethoven and Rossini.