Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Los 161
* Artwork. A collection of twenty-three pencil drawings, c.1890s, incl. seventeen portrait studies of men and women, some head studies, others full-length, and six other pencil drawings, mostly architectural, one with watercolour, all carefully executed, each approx. 39 x 18cm (15 x 7ins), together with twelve leaves of calligraphic manuscript, Biblical and literary quotations, alphabets, etc., mostly in red and black ink, two with colours and illumination, incl. Tennyson’s The Brook, mostly approx. 46 x 29cm (18 X 11.5ins), but one or two smaller, plus two port. engs., incl. one of Sir Josiah John Guest, and a photograph of West End Studio, Morecambe. Purchased by the current owner from an Oxford auction house approximately eight years ago, as part of a collection of ephemera from the estate of Lady Charlotte Guest. Lady Charlotte, later Charlotte Schreiber, was a translator, businesswoman and collector, and was a great patron of the arts. An important figure in the study of Welsh literature and the Welsh language, she is best known for her pioneering English translation of the major medieval work, the Mabinogion. (a folder)
