CALCUTTA - STREET PHOTOGRAPHYA fine archive of 339 vintage photographs of Calcutta (mostly street scenes and festivals, also film studios, burning ghats, etc.) taken by Frank Buck Rockwell, an American G.I., journalist and photographer, gelatin silver prints, each mounted on paper sheet with type-written description, sheets housed in a wooden box, the images 100 x 100mm., the sheets 200 x 135mm., [c.1945/6]Footnotes:An impressive series of vintage photographs of Calcutta taken by Frank Buck Rockwell, an American photographer, working out of an office at the Eagle Lithograph Company in the Entally district in the late 1940s. Each photo is mounted with a short typed descriptive text beneath, the whole produced as a Christmas present, the result of 'over a year of picture taking and a lot of hard work'. The tone is set with an opening image of the photographer 'in front of Ferrizini's sweet shop the leading tea and cake palace of downtown Calcutta'. The majority of photographs (taken with a Zeiss Super Ikonta) are of Rockwell's everyday milieu, including workplace, street scenes, traders, festivals etc. rather than historical sites. Includes views of his residence at Agabeg's Hotel near the Lower Circular Road; workplace at the Eagle Lithograph Company (the staff making up copies of 'Yank Magazine', 'Sanka... in the lab with a big lithograph camera', monotype operators and proof readers, the 'charming scene of our office latrine', views of and from the building), street activities (dung makers, traffic controllers, shoe shine boys, vendors of oranges, lemonade, tea, drinking water, etc, monkey wallahs, basket weavers), street musicians, 'a Moslem fakir', street markets, the city 'after dark, typical bustling scenes of 'dreary, evil-smelling streets' and the street poor ('this little girl is probably all of ten years old. I watched her paw through the garbage pile...'), washing of both humans and animals, labourers, popular performers, a sequence of scenes at the Nimtala Burning Ghat (watched by a party of American G.I.s), swimming in the lake beside the Victoria Memorial ('erected at a cost of over 7,6000,000 rupees... pretty much a waste of money'), dance performers, the fire brigade, Sikhs, Jains and Muslims, religious festivals ('Durga Puja Immersion Ceremony'; Muhharam), areas near the Hooghly bridge, Hanshari Temple ('... I seriously doubt any American has ever visited this place before... we persuaded the keeper to unlock the bolted doors...'), and outer environs of the city, the race course and punters, a sequence of images from the Bengal Film area of Tollygunge (Rockwell talking to producer B.B. Sircar, the making of a film directed by P.C. Barua, on set and behind the scenes, perhaps for a production of Kajri in 1945), and some of other American G.I.s and American Red Cross employees.Alongside the photographer's chatty text the photographs provide a wonderfully vivid, gritty but slightly idiosyncratic overview of the city in all its aspects bringing the streets to life. Rockwell seems to have delighted in the city, but is aware of issues beyond the surface, suggested at by an image of men crowded onto a street tram who had been chanting 'Jai Hind' or 'Quit India', under which he notes 'Just a day later men would be killed and inured and trucks and cars burned...'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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AFTER JAMES RATTRAY (1919-1854'Kelaut-I-Ghiljie' [Kalat-i-Ghilzai], Afghanistanhand-coloured lithograph by R. Carrick after James Rattray, published by Hering and Remington, 1848; and 3 other views30 x 40cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/4in). (4)Footnotes:The other tinted lithographed images comprise: 'Roree on the Indus'; 'Camp Follower - Milk Women', and 'Main Guard and Government House, Hyderabad'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TIPU SULTANPortrait of Tippu Sultan, after Edward Orme, hand-coloured lithograph, captioned 'Perser', sheet to view 225 x 165mm., [early nineteenth century]--'Tippoo Saib's Two Sons Deliver'd Up to Lord Cornwallis... at Seringapatam..., in 1792', hand-coloured aquatint, cropped to image, 345 x 245mm., Laurie & Whittle, 1794--'The Storming of Seringapatam', hand-coloured engraving after Peter Krafft, image 340 x 478mm., [1853]--'Tipoo Saib. Quadrille brilliant... par Marc Demouy', 8pp., including pictorial lithographed title and 5 engraved pages of music, loose, oblong 4to (260 x 340mm.), Paris, Colombier, [1850s]; and 4 prints relating to the life of Tipu Sultan, all engraved by F. dal Pedro (8)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
After Sir Thomas Anburey (British, late 18th/early 19th Century)'View of Kalpy on the Jumna'; and 6 other views of India by Anburey, F.S. Ward, and G. Franklandhand-coloured aquatints by Francis Jukes after Anburey, published by Anbury and Jukes, 1799; hand-coloured aquatint by William Orme after F.S. Ward, published by Edward Orme, 1803; lithograph delineated by G. Frankland laid down, [c.1830]39 x 54cm plate size approximately 39 x 54cm. (15 3/8 x 21 1/4in.), and slightly smaller (7)Footnotes:Other views: 'Southern Entrance of Gundeotta Pass'; 'Neermul, a Fortress Belonging to Nizam Ally'; 'Mahore, a Fortress Belonging to Nizam Ally'; 'Northern Entrance of Gundecotta Pass'; 'The Burial Place of a Peer Zada, Anopther' (by Ward); 'Jehangeera Pagoda on the Ganges' (uncoloured, by Frankland).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
* DAVID SHRIGLEY, CHOCOLATE IS NOT THE PROBLEM lithograph on 150g silk paper image size 77cm x 57.5cm, overall size 83cm x 63cm Framed and under glass. Note: Original exhibition print made on the occasion of David Shrigley’s solo exhibition DON’T TOUCH THE WORMS at Copenhagen contemporary. Note 2: David Shrigley attended Glasgow School of Art from 1988-91 where he studied environmental art. He works in many disciplines including drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, animation and music. The variety of projects he is involved with are multi-faceted ranging from the video for Blur’s ‘Good Song’ to ‘Kingsley’ Shrigley’s mascot for the Scottish football team Partick Thistle to ‘Really Good’ a sculpture of a bronze fist with upraised, out of proportion thumb which he created for the Fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Shrigley was created an O.B.E. in 2020 for services to the visual arts. Recent notable exhibitions include those in Glasgow, Germany and Sweden and he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013. His work is held in a number of important public collections including the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate.
Antoniucci Volti (1915-1989) Female Nude Signed Lithograph. Antoniucci Volti (French, 1915-1989) Female Nude, Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil 135/150 with impressed Pierre de Tartas, Paris stamp. Pierre, Henri Lanauve de Tartas known as Pierre de Tartas , born on March 30 , 1928in Bordeaux , and died on July 10 , 2007 (aged 79) in Bièvres (Essonne), is a French printer and art publisher. Framed and glazed. Measures 64cm by 46cm.
1867 Allen Larkin & O'Brien (Manchester Martyrs) Memorial, Kilrush, Co. Clare, certificate of subscription. A memorial to the three Fenians was proposed in the 1890s and completed in 1903. The three had taken part in an abortive attempt to rescue a prisoner in Manchester, in which a policeman was killed. They were hanged in November 1867. Coloured lithograph, 14" x 18½" (35.5 x 47cm) unissued, attractively framed.
A large collection of Modern British School unframed folio works, to include sundry watercolours and colour lithographs, containing works by Allen Jones - Fast Car 13/30, Francis Kelly, William Gear, Harrison etc, overall subjected to water damage and with residue mould and further staining, particularly to lithograph printed studies, approx 40-50 in totalCondition report: Overall poor condition throughout.
William Russell Flint (1880-1969) - Nude Female Standing on the Beach, lithograph printed in colours, signed in pencil lower right, published in 1969 by Frost & Reed Ltd of Bristol and London, visible sheet dimensions 48 x 63cmCondition report: Very good and original condition throughout.No apparent faults.
Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962) - Woman and Cat, lithograph printed in colours, signed lower right, visible sheet dimensions 39 x 28cm, with The Redfern Gallery Ltd, 20 Cork Street, London, printed label with purchase date of 13th July 1951 versoCondition report: Colours are slightly faded throughout.Some light foxing, mostly to right hand edge.In original frame, mount and glazing.
After Joan Miró (1893-1983) Spanish ''La Melodie Acide'' Numbered 803/1500, lithograph, together with a further lithograph by the artist ''Parisian Girl'', 31.5cm by 23.5cm and 34.5cm by 24.5cm respectively (2) Each sold together with a certificate of authenticity Artist's Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business
Howard Hodgkin CH, CBE (1932 - 2017) ''Blue Skies, Nothing but Blue Skies'' Lithograph printed in blue on thin paper, crumpled and contained in the original blue paper-covered box, 13.2 by 5.8 by 4cm Published by Momart, London in 2002, as part of their annual limited edition Christmas card series. Artist's Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business See illustration The present work is from the edition of an unknown size
Sarah Lucas (b.1962) ''The Percival Mobile'' Offset lithograph in colours on thick card, a further lithograph with instructions, title and text page, needle, wire and box, 22cm by 32cm Published by Momart, London in 2007, as part of their annual limited edition Christmas card series. Artist's Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business See illustration
Lynn Leon (contemporary) Identities Signed and dated (19)94, pen and ink, 21cm by 29cm , together with an ink study by Phill Hopkins ''Christmas XC11'', a further lithograph ''Search for identity'' Kulhak (Czech), A Richard Ganton? ink and watercolour abstract, and a brass rubbing (6) Artist's Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business
NO RESERVE δ Sutherland (Graham) Untitled, from: Giorgio Soavi, Storia con Sutherland, lithograph, on ivory wove paper, signed in pencil and numbered from an edition of XXV, image 140 x 100 mm (5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in), under glass, framed, [published by All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1968]Provenance:From the collection of the late Mr. Laurence Lee δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Bianco (Pamela) Flora, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, frontispiece becoming loose, original decorative boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight creasing and chipping to corners and extremities, 1919 § Perez (Jizchok-Leib) Gleichnisse, lithograph frontispiece and 7 plates by Jakob Steinhardt, occasional faint spotting, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, slight spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Berlin, 1920 § Shakespeare (William) Romeo and Juliet, frontispiece and plates by Oliver Messel, one plate creased at edge. previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, small loss to corners and spine extremities, a little rubbed, 1936 § Foster (Myles Birket) Pictures of English Landscape, India Proofs, one of 1000 copies, 30 plates on India paper, titles in manuscript to verso, occasional faint spotting, original decorative vellum, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [1881]; and 11 others, all illustrated, 4to & folio (14)
Johns (Jasper).- Bernstein (Roberta) Jasper Johns: The Seasons, with original lithograph printed in green bound in (one of 3000 copies), original pictorial wrappers, New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, 1991 § Field (Richard S.) Jasper Johns: Prints 1960-1970, original cloth, dust-jacket torn and defective, New York & London, 1970, illustrations; and a prospectus for Beckett's Foirades/Fizzles of 1976 which was illustrated with etchings by Johns, 4to & 8vo (3)
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