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Preisdatenbank abonnierenWill Roberts (20th/21st century) ''Hen Stryd, Penlan'', signed oil on board; together with a 20th century portrait of an elderly lady, oil on canvas, 48cm by 69cm and 91cm by 71cm respectively (2) Artist's Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business
Attributed to Emmanuel Levy (1900-1986) Head and shoulders portrait of a lady wearing a red shirt and white scarf, signed, oil on board; together with a further oil portrait of a lady after Naviasky; a study of a Gypsy girl signed Masson; and another (4) Artist's Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business
Amelia Opie of Norwich (1769-1853), portrait engraving and autograph note signed, "Will thou give me the pleasure of thy company tomorrow evening to tea, and to meet the Brightwells & a dear Cousin of mine, Richard Woodhouse? A. Opie 8th 5th - 45. The Brightwell's referred to were Cecilia Lucy (1811-1875), etcher and author, and Thomas (her father), who wrote 'Fauna of East Norfolk', 1848. Amelia Opie is commemorated by Opie Street in Norwich today
[RUSKIN'S LAST AUTOGRAPH?]. 'The Portrait birthday-book of famous names', Seeley & Co, circa 1880. A 19th Century autograph album containing signatures of over 80 notable Victorian personages in the fields of Literature, the Arts etc, compiled by W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow who apparently distributed the pages of the book to various eminent people inviting them to write against the date of their birth. Entries include John Ruskin, Linley Sambourne (with caricature self-portrait & illustrated letter), Henry Irving, James McNeill Whistler (with his butterfly signature beneath), Ellen Terry, Richard Le Gallienne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Douglas Hyde, Edward Grey, W.E. Gladstone (with autograph postcard from his son W.H. Gladstone), Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.H. Hudson, Wallace Bruce (with ALS from the US consulate in Edinburgh). The main strength of the album being the Ruskin contribution, who was visited by Angus's friend William SInclair, Secretary of the Glasgow Ruskin Society: "I put before Mr & Mrs Severn the request of my friend Mr Craibe angus for the autograph of the Master. Mrs Severn looked puzzled and said that the Master had not signed his name for over three years, and she was not hopeful that he could use a pen...taking with her the Album, Mrs Severn promised to do her best for me. On returning from the Drawing Room...she said, 'Well he has done it but it is a very feeble attempt'. We examined the autograph with the melancholy foreboding that it might be the last penned by the hand that wrote 'Modern Painters'. [Signed] William Sinclair. (Ruskin died five months later. This account of Sinclair's visit and a transcript of a subsequent letter from Mrs Severn to Angus, are finely inscribed in a manuscript border around the relevant opening. also tipped in is part of an earlier ALS written by Ruskin in 1868. The album c.250pp + 19pp index, each opening covering 3 days with space for autographs on facing pages, decorative borders & miniature portraits in line throughout; uncut in handsome brown crushed morocco ruled and titled in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. Further list of signatures included available on request.
W.T. Stead: 'Real Ghost Stories: A Record of Authentic Apparitions - More Ghost Stories: A Sequel to "Real Ghost Stories".', Christmas and New Year Numbers of The Review of Reviews, 2 volumes in 1, first title London, Office of The Review of Reviews, [1892?], portrait frontis and illustrations throughout, 110pp, lacks preliminary pages before contents page; second title Editorial Office, Mowbray House, 1892, portrait frontis and illustrations throughout, vi, 104pp, 4to, old cloth backed marbled paper covered boards (worn). William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) was an influential English newspaper editor & pioneer of investigative journalism. He became increasingly interested in spiritualism in the 1890's, claiming he could communicate by telegraphy and receive messages from the spirit world. He died in the sinking of the Titanic, April 1912, having previously claimed he would die by lynching or drowning, and having published two articles on steam ship collisions resulting in high loss of life, one involving a ship colliding with an iceberg. Scarce
Aubrey Beardsley: 'Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse', London, John Lane, 1904, 1st edition, photographic frontispiece portrait of Beardsley at Mentone and 16 full page illustrations as called for, tipped to the rear pastedown is the address panel of a stamped envelope, franked "Paris, Avril 7 1907", in Beardsley's hand to "Leonard Smithers Esq., 4 Royal Arcade, Old Bond Street, London W, Angleterre", 4to, original bright blue cloth with bold peacock -feather designs in gilt on upper cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: purchased Maggs Bros 1995, catalogue 1188, photocopy of relevant page loosely inserted
Reverend James Edward Austen-Leigh: 'A Memoir of Jane Austen', London, Richard Bentley, 1870, 1st edition, engraved portrait frontis (foxed) + 3 engraved plates + facsimile autograph plate as called for, presentation copy inscribed "from the author" to verso FFEP, bookplate of Montagu George Knight of Chawton, related to Jane austen by her 2nd brother Edward who was adopted by his cousin Mr Knight of Godmersham Park and Chawton; Edward taking the name of Knight 1812 and becoming the heir, later allowing Jane to live at Chawton Cottage. Recased retaining vast majority of original cloth gilt (slightly worn), together with an 1871 2nd edition copy of the same work, original cloth gilt (recased), plus a 'Bentley's Standard Novels' series edition of Jane Austen's 'Emma', London, Richard Bentley, 1854, engraved frontis, 435pp, original decorative cloth gilt (3)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 10 works including first editions, comprising: 'The Scarlet Letter', London, 1851, 1st UK edition, rebound (not recent) cloth gilt; 'The House of The Seven Gables', Boston, Ticknor et al, 1851, 1st edition, ads at front dated November 1850, original cloth gilt; 'The Blithedale Romance', Boston, Ticknor et al, 1852, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; 'Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni', London, 1860, 3rd edition, 3 volumes, association copy with circa 80 mounted albumen print photographs including portrait of Hawthorne (frontis volume I) and views of Rome etc, plus 2 mounted pen, ink and watercolour illustrations, plus manuscript note from the sculptor John Gibson R.A. who died in Rome January 1866 (volume I), and a note from a Cardinal (volume III) etc, uniform crimson morocco gilt; 'Snow Image', 1851, 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt; 'Mosses From an Old Manse', 1846, 1st UK edition, 2 volumes, original cloth gilt, etc etc (13)
Eliphas Levi [i.e. Alphonse Louis Constant], 2 titles: 'Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual', London, Redway, 1896, 1st edition, portrait frontis + illustrations throughout as called for, 1 leaf adverts at end, orginal cloth gilt, 'The History of Magic', London, [1939], 3rd edition, frontis + plates and full page illustrations as called for, original buckram (2)
Arthur Henry Patterson and related, ten titles, all first editions, comprising 'From Hayloft to Temple', 1903, illustrations throughout, original blindstamped decorative cloth gilt (VGC); 'The Cruise of "The Walrus" on the Broads', [1923], photographic portrait postcard of author corner mounted at end, original cloth; 'Notes of an East Coast Naturalist', 1904, Frank Southgate coloured plates as caled for, original cloth gilt; 'Nature in Eastern Norfolk', 1905, Frank Southgate coloured plates as caled for, original cloth gilt; 'Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary', 1907, black and white plates as called for, original cloth gilt; 'Man and Nature on Tidal Waters', 1909, black and white plates as called for, original cloth gilt; 'Through Broadland by Sail and Motor', Blake's Ltd, 1930, illustrations as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; 'In Norfolk Bird Haunts in A.D. 1755', 1930, illustrations as called for, original cloth; Manning: 'Broadland Naturalist the Life of Arthur H Patterson', 1948, original cloth; Tooley: 'John Knowlittle the Life of the Yarmouth Naturalist Arthur Henry Patterso, ALS', 1985, signed, original pictorial wraps (10)
Francis Blomefield: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk', London, William Miller, 1805-1810, 11 volumes, mezzotint portrait frontis plus 3 folding engraved maps/plans plus 33 engraved plates (many folding) plus 14 pedigrees on 15 folding sheets as called for, half titles, handsomely rebound half calf gilt (not recent), armorial bookplates of Edward Southwell Trafford, of Wroxham Hall, Norwich (11)
A Victorian photograph album circa 1880's containing approximately 75 mounted albumen print photographs, views include Toledo; Algiers including "The Arab Town"; Oran port and le djebel Mourdjadje; Saint Andre de Mers al-Kebir; four portrait photographs of Arab girls; Biarritz; Bruges; Yorkshire coast including Flamborough Head; Stonehenge; Cromer; Overstrand Church; Sidmouth; Falmouth; Bournemouth; Venice; Florence; Milan; Vitznau; large image of Rome depicting Pont and Castel Sant'Angelo and River Tiber, Vatican in background (27 x 39cm) etc etc, folio, contemporary half calf gilt
Henry Seebohm: 'Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds', Sheffield, 1896, 1st edition, photogravure portrait frontis + 60 chromolithograph plates of eggs as called for, original cloth gilt; J.E. Harting: 'A Handbook of British Birds', London, Nimmo, 1901, 35 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt; Mullens & Swann: 'A Bibliography of British Ornithology', 1986 facsimile reprint of the original 1917 edition, green cloth gilt (3)
Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood', London, Taylor & Francis, inscribed by author inside front cover "Lilford Working Copy Nov. 83", interleaved with numerous manuscript pen and ink annotations throughout by author, imprint at foot of title page '1880 83.' crossed out by author and with his manuscript pen and ink date beneath "1880-1893", original cloth gilt; Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Ornithology of Northamptonshire 1879-1886', London, Porter, 1886, reprinted from 'The Zoologist', interleaved with blank pages, one of which with pencil notes in unknown hand, contemporary quarter leather gilt (worn); Henry Graves Bull: 'Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire', London & Hereford, 1888, 1st edition, copy of Lord Lilford with his ownership signature and dtaed 1888 beneath in his hand to front pastedown, mounted portrait photo frontis, original pictorial cloth gilt (3)
A collection of leatherbound books, including Richard Burn: 'The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer', 1764, 9th edition, three volumes; William Robertson: 'The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V', 1772, 2nd edition, four volumes, engraved portrait frontises to each volume; Robert Henry: 'The History of Great Britain', Dublin, 1789, 2nd edition, five volumes, morocco gilt spine labels, etc (17)
William Walker: 'Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina - A Dictionary of English and Latin Idioms', London, Thom. Newborough, 1695, 6th edition, added engraved title, [x], 538, [2]pp, contemporary calf worn, 'Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in miniature', 1801, 14th edition, engraved portrait frontis, 12mo, old calf worn (2)
FRENCH ENAMELLED METAL AND GREEN ONYX MOUNTED ENCRIER, late 19th century, the urn form inkwell with hinged cover, behind twin supports for a pen, on a shaped rectangular base on four toupie feet, 8cm high; a French enamelled metal chamberstick, late 19th century, 18cm long; and a French painted porcelain and enamelled metal mounted portrait of Christ, 16cm high (3) Provenance: Chateau les Combes, Dordogne, France
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 17TH CENTURY 'The Snufftaker' A half-length portrait of a gentleman wearing a long curled grey wig with a white scarf around his neck and a grey tunic with lace cuffs and large gilt buttons, an elaborate red sash draped over his arm and shoulder, holding an open tortoiseshell snuff box in his left hand and a pinch of snuff in his right, oil on canvas, 62cm x 71cm Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset
CIRCLE OF SIR GODFREY KNELLER (1646-1723) Portrait of a gentleman wearing full plate armour and lace jabot, depicted standing before a red curtain, his left hand resting on the hilt of his sword, his helmet being placed on a pedestal beside him by his black servant boy, the attendant wearing a blue uniform with silver collar and turban, a landscape visible beyond, oil on canvas, 125cm x 99cm Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset
ENGLISH SCHOOL, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY Half-length portrait of a young man wearing a green jacket and open shirt, various inscriptions verso, including "Said to be Gainsboro" (sic), oil on canvas, 18cm x 15cm (oval) Provenance: Hugh Golding Constable (1868-1949), the grandson of John Constable RA
CHARLES CROMWELL INGHAM (1796-1863) Head and shoulders portrait of a young boy, said to be Robert Foster Barnard II, son of John G Barnard and Jane Brand, inscribed verso "Chas. C. Ingham pinxit, August 1855, 384-4th Street, New York", oil on canvas, 49cm x 39cm (oval) John Gross Barnard (1815-1882) was a career engineering officer in the U.S. Army, serving in the Mexican-American War, as the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and as a General in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was also a distinguished scientist, engineer, mathematician, historian and author. Charles Cromwell Ingham was an Irish born portrait painter and later a founder of the New York National Academy of Design.
FREDERICK RANDOLPH SPENCER (1806-1875) Head and shoulders portrait of a young boy, said to be Frederic Morton Gilpin (1846-1913), inscribed verso "Painted by F.R. Spencer, Oct 1848", oil on canvas, 67cm x 53cm; together with the companion portrait of Frederic Morton Gilpin's sister Helen (later Mrs William Winterton), 67cm x 53cm (2)
ENGLISH SCHOOL Half-length portrait of a gentleman seated in an interior, painted inscription "Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society 1778-1820", oil on canvas, 75cm x 61cm Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He held the position as President of the Royal Society for over 41 years. The sitter in this portrait does not appear to be Banks however, a suggestion has been made that it is most likely William H Spottiswoode (1825-1883) who was President of the Society from 1878 until his death.
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