Estate / Collection: Property of a New York Art CollectorPendant signed Lassaw. Length 16 inches. Egyptian-born American artist Ibram Lassaw was an early to mid-century pioneer of abstract sculpture. Born to Russian parents in 1913, Lassaw's family immigrated to Brooklyn in 1921. He was educated in the arts and developed his techniques at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Clay Club, and New York's Beaux Arts Institute of Design and City College. Lassaw learned his welding technique while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, which he applied heavily to his art. He was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Julio Gonzàlez, the Russian Constructivists, among others, as well as his passions and studies of biology, cosmology and Zen Buddhism. His first solo show debuted at Kootz gallery in New York City in 1951. After that, he exhibited widely until his passing in East Hampton, NY in December of 2003.Condition Report:Some silvery patina of another metal on center. 3 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches.Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and our Organization shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available.
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West Indies.- Brief and perfect Journal (A) of The late Proceedings and Successe of the English Army in the West-Indies...By I.S. an Eye-witnesse, first edition, with "Successe" on the title-page, lacking final blank f., some highly skilful marginal repairs, tiny hole within text to B1, light browning, modern half calf, g.e., [Wing S35; Sabin 7854 & 74616], small 4to, 1655. *** An account of the unsuccessful attempt of the Commonwealth navy to conquer the Spanish West Indies. The expedition redeemed itself in the taking of Jamaica.
JOHN HOPPNER RA (1758- 1810) THE HON. ROBERT FULKE GREVILLE (1751-1824) Oil on canvas With old labels inscribed (on the reverse) 78 x 64.5cm (30½ x 25¼ in.) (2)Provenance: By descent to The Rev. William R. Finch Hatton.Literature: W. McKay, W. Roberts, John Hoppner R.A., London, 1909, pp. 110, 164. (with the following lot) W. McKay, W. Roberts, Supplement and index to John Hoppner, R.A., London and New York, 1914, pp. 59, 61. (with the following lot)The Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1824) was the third son of Francis, 1st Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth (née Hamilton), and brother to George, Lord Greville, and Charles Francis Greville. He was educated at Edinburgh University between 1764-67 and joined the British army in 1768. In 1777 he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the 1st Foot Guards, although he saw little active service. Between 1781 and 1797, he was Equerry to George III, a period when the king was first inflicted with mental illness, then known as madness. Greville recorded the king's illness in his diaries and in his Journal of His Majesty's Most Serious and Afflicting Illness (1788-89), now held in the Royal Collection (RCIN 1052593 and 1047014). From 1800-1818, Greville was appointed Groom of the Bedchamber to the king, and again from 1812 was a witness to the final onset of George III's illness at Windsor Castle. In parallel to his Royal duties, he was MP for Warwick (1774-80) supporting the Tory government of Lord North, and New Windsor (1796-1806). In 1794, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. On 19 October 1797, he married his first cousin, the Scottish noblewoman and widow, Louisa, Countess of Mansfield (1758-1843), whom he had been in love with for some years. (see the proceeding lot). The writer, Fanny Burney referred to him as 'Colonel Wellbred', and described him as 'so elegant' and 'so pleasing' that it was impossible not to 'see him with approbation, and speak of him with praise' (Diary Letters of Mme D'Arblay, ed. Dobson, iii. 385; iv. 357). As an interesting aside, Emma Hamilton, Lord Nelson's lover was also (somewhat earlier) romantically involved with Greville's brother Charles and Robert Fulke Greville was called upon by her for financial assistance after Nelson's death.The painting, together with the following lot, passed to their second daughter, Lady Louisa Greville (1800-83) who was married to The Rev. Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton, and thence by descent to their son, William.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (BRITISH 1723-1792) PORTRAIT OF LADY STANDISH Oil on canvas 75 x 61cm (29½ x 24 in.) Provenance: Lady Catherine Standish;Elizabeth Ramsden née Smyth (heraldic co-heiress - Smyth arms quartered within those of Ramsden) Thence by descent to Col. R. C. P. Ramsden, Wigthorpe Hall, near Worksop, 1958 Thence by descent to Mrs Butroid. Her sale, Christie's 24 June, 1977, Lot 73. Private collection, United Kingdom. Literature: A. Graves & W. V. Cronin. A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 4 vols, London 1899-190. Volume III, p. 927 (sitter wrongly identified) David Mannings. Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, 2 vols, London: Yale University Press, 2000. Vol I, Text, p. 430; Vol II, Plates, p. 133 (fig. 365) Lady Catherine Standish (d.1780), née Catherine Frank, was born into the prominent Frank family of Pontefract, Yorkshire. Her mother, Elizabeth Lowther, was the daughter of Sir John Lowther Bt., M.P. for Westmoreland, and Catherine's father, Robert Frank MP (1660-1738), was active in borough politics and appointed Recorder for the Corporation of Pontefract in 1686. Although his appointment was contested several times during the dynastic and constitutional tumults of the late seventeenth century, he notably held office until his death in 1738, and served as an M.P. for the borough between 1710 and 1716. Frank was notably blacklisted as a 'Tory patriot' by the Hanoverians who held their crown by Whig support. Frank ensured that his daughter's marriages were advantageous and her first husband, John Smyth J.P. (1685-1731) of Heath Hall, Heath, was heir to a vast mercantile fortune. His father used this to cement their family's newfound place in the county gentry, purchasing the Heath estate near Wakefield and becoming 'the first squire of Heath.' His life was cut short however, and Catherine would soon remarry to Sir Thomas Standish of Duxbury, 2nd Baronet of Duxbury, becoming Lady Standish. However, it was through her daughter by her first marriage, née Elizabeth Smyth (b. 1727), that her acquaintance with Sir Joshua Reynolds was made. Elizabeth married Robert Ramsden of Osberton (1708-1769) in 1753, the fourth son of Sir William Ramsden, 2nd Bt. He was a captain in the British Army during the War of the Austrian Succession and served with distinction at the Battle of Dettingen on the 27th June 1743 and at the Battle of Fontenoy on the 11th May 1745. Robert was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1755, sitting to the artist on four occasions. The portrait, which depicts Ramsden in a 'plum-coloured coat,' on a 'luminous greeny-grey background' was likely the inspiration for the commissioning of this portrait by his mother-in-law three years later, for in 1758 Lady Standish would also sit for Reynolds four times. The resultant half-length portrait depicts her wearing a white dress and black wrap. A great experimenter with paint, Reynolds was hailed by his admirers and reviled by his critics. This portrait is typical of the artist's work of the 1750s when he developed the technique of 'dead colouring,' in which monochrome, or near monochrome, paint layers were used to create luminous flesh tones. That this technique is made explicit here makes this striking portrait a testament not only to the sitter's patronage, but also to the pioneering painter himself. Condition Report: Canvas relined and on later stretcher which is providing good support. Fine surface cracking across the image but the paint appears to be stable. Under UV light there a scattered spots of retouching most of these are in background areas, but the face is untouched. There is also a diagonal line of retouching across the centre of the sitter's dress which probably covers a deep surface scratch, this is approx. 10 cm long but quite narrow. It has a layer of discoloured varnish. Condition Report Disclaimer
λ AUGUSTUS JOHN (BRITISH 1878-1961) CANADIAN SOLDIER Ink 38.5 x 21.5cm (15 x 8¼ in.)Together with a pencil study of a Canadian Soldier by the same hand, 40 x 25cm (2)In October 1917 Augustus was commissioned by the British MP and Canadian press baron Lord Beaverbrook to paint a vast panorama of the Canadian army fighting on the Western Front. Augustus was given the rank of Major in the Canadian army and for five months Oct 1917 - March 1918 drew and sketched hundreds of Canadian soldiers, travelling between the Somme, Lens & Liévin. Many of these drawings are now in Canada and the Imperial War Museum, London. We are grateful to Rebecca John for her kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.
MIXED, complete, inc. Wills, Aviation, Association Footballers; Teofani Past & Present B series; Sarony Celebrities And Their Autographs; Ruddell Grand Opera Series; Players, Wonders Of The World, Wild Birds, Wild Animal Heads, Victoria Cross, Uniforms Of The Territorial Army, Tennis; Doncella Napoleonic Uniforms, Golden Age Of Steam; SCWS Burns etc., in modern album, some FR, mainly G to EX, Qty.
MIXED, military, complete & part sets, inc. Players, Army Corps & Divisional Signs 1914-1918 1st & 2nd, War Decorations & Medals; Drapkin Celebrities Of The Great War (36, printed back); silks, My Weekly Battle Series (9), Sunday Stories The King And His Soldiers (6), Phillips BDV Leaders (24), P size etc., in modern album, FR to VG, Qty.
MIXED, complete & part sets, inc. Players, Poultry, Uniforms Of The Territorial Army, Aviary & Cage Birds, Tennis, Footballers 1928, Dogs, National Flags & Arms; Wills, Speed, Wild Flowers 2nd, Do You Know 4th, The Coronation Series; Churchman, Well-Known Ties 1st & 2nd; Abdulla Feathered Friends; Phillips, Bird Painting, Famous Crowns; De Reszke What The Stars Say etc., a few FR, rest G to VG, Qty.
MIXED, part sets, inc. Ogdens Jockeys And Owners Colours; Players, Napoleon, Ships Figureheads, Regimental Uniforms; Wills, Famous Inventions, Allied Army Leaders, Aviation; Lambert & Butler World's Locomotives, Salmon & Gluckstein Pottery Types, silks, large etc., generally G, some VG, 285*
A collection, in eight albums, of commemorative and definitive stamps in cylinder blocks including regional issues, phosphor issues, first day covers including Royal Marines from 1973 to 1975 and Regimental National Army Groups, pre-decimal and early decimal including high value unused unmounted mint Condition Report:No condition report available. We highly recommend viewing this lot in person. Please contact the office.
Stedman (Charles). The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War, Volume One (of 2) only, 1st edition, London: printed for the author, 1794, seven folding engraved maps and plans of battles and military positions, the first folding plan (Bunkers Hill) with several closed tears and some scattered toning, but without loss, other plates with some offsetting from adjacent text leaf, some portions of text with light spotting or marginal toning, 19th-century armorial bookplate fo Grantham to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled full calf, re-backed with original spine laid down, stamped in gilt to upper cover Newby Hall, rubbed and some wear to extremities, spine somewhat darkened, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Sabin 91057; Howes S-914; Reese, The Revolutionary Hundred, 89. 'The finest collection of plans assembled by an eyewitness.' (Reese).The engraved plans present are A Plan of the Action at Bunkers Hill, on the 17th. of June 1775, Sketch of General grants position on Long Island, A Topographical Map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting the plan of Fort Washington, A Plan of the Operations of the King's Army under the command of General Sr. William Howe, K. B. In New York and East New Jersey, Plan of the Position which the Army under Lt. Genl. Burgoine took at Saratoga on the 10th of September 1777, Plan of the Attack of the Forts Clinton & Montgomery, upon Hudson River... on the 6th of Octr. 1777, and Sketch of Fayette's Position at Barren Hill. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.
Ellis (Henry). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, and Liberty of Norton Folgate, in the Suburbs of London, London: J. Nichols, 1798, extra-illustrated and expanded into three volumes, including autograph items of Lord Burleigh, John Wilkes, David Garrick, Horace Walpole and the author Henry Ellis (2) including one about the book’s scarcity, autograph signatures of Robert Vyner, Robert Aske, Thomas Bloodworth and John Hobby together on a slip of paper, plus approximately 330 engravings, comprising portraits, views, and antiquities, etc., plus 2 original drawings, printed items and extracts including a scare David Garrick playbill, etc., some occasional spotting or browning, red morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle, top edges gilt, late 19th-century red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, some edge and corner wear, 4to (280 x 210 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: John Bullock (author’s autograph letter signed to Mr Bullock, Guildford, 29 September 1859: ‘… You quite astonish me to find a copy of the History of Shoreditch (illustrated too) at Guildford. There were but two hundred and fifty copies printed: and I believe the largest portion of them were lost in Mr [John] Nichols’s Fire [February 1808]; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).The autograph items include:Cecil (William, 1520-1598), 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550-1553 and 1558-1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Document Signed, ‘W. Burghley’, 8 May 1594, being a warrant, in a clerk’s hand but signed by William [Cecil], Lord Burghley, instructing his former secretary Vincent Skinner, now Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, to issue £100 to Sir Roger Williams for his ambassadorial mission to Henri IV of France, as the queen’s warrant has not yet been signed, dated 8 May 1594; annotated by Skinner with instructions to Mr Taylor, one of the tellers, to pay the amount, and that that this warrant would be replaced with a further order, whereupon this warrant is to be cancelled, dated 13 May 1594, a little spotting, old bookseller’s brief printed catalogue entry pasted to lower left blank margin, one page, folio [tipped in opposite p. 23]For William Cecil (1520-1597), Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer, see ODNB.Sir Roger Williams (1539/40-1595), soldier and author, was a flamboyant Welshman who fought on the continent from 1557, between 1574 and 1577 in the Spanish army of Flanders (where he may have served as an intelligence agent on behalf of Sir Francis Walsingham). Williams spent the Armada year, 1588, in England. He helped to prepare the English militia to do battle with the Spanish (whose military methods he knew so well) and was second in command, to Essex, of the cavalry of the army gathered at Tilbury. Elizabeth had always tolerated rather than liked Williams, but in 1594 he was finally granted a life pension of £300 a year. In that year and in 1595 he was sent as special ambassador to Henri IV. These appointments reflect his special expertise in French affairs and friendship with the French king, but also perhaps a growing acceptance of him by Elizabeth—and probably most of all the influence at court of his patron, Essex. Williams died of fever on 12 December 1595 after a four-day illness, with Essex at his side. His extensive ODNB entry endorses the speculation that he might have served as the model for Fluellen, the fiery yet witty, consummate Welsh professional soldier in Shakespeare’s Henry V.Vincent Skinner (c. 1540-1616) entered Trinity College in Cambridge in 1557 and Lincoln’s Inn in 1565, occupied administrative positions in Lincolnshire between 1575 and 1583. He may already have been in Burghley’s service in 1571, when he was elected MP for Truro, the first of his eight parliamentary seats. A puritan, he was serving as Burghley’s secretary by at least 1578. Skinner left Burghley’s personal service in 1593, when he became auditor of the receipt, by that time the principal office in the lower Exchequer. His career after this date was an unhappy one, and he died intestate at a debtor’s prison on 28 February 1616 (History of Parliament).Burghley’s inability to obtain proper authorisation for this payment can be explained by the queen’s itinerary: on 7 May 1594 Elizabeth arrived at Lambeth Palace, where she remained until departing for Wimbledon, the house of Burghley’s son Sir Thomas Cecil, on 11 May. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington: The Elizabethan court day by day – 1594.Wilkes (John, 1725-1797), English radical journalist and politician, magistrate, essayist and soldier, Lord Mayor of London 1774-75. Document Signed, ‘John Wilkes’, 12 July 1775, concerning blood money in settlement of £40 for the assault and robbery by Charles Whittle of William Watlington in the Parish of St Leonard’s Shoreditch, 6 May 1774, on vellum, countersigned by Sergeant Glynn (recorder), some soiling, one page, docketed, 230 x 310 mm [window-mounted as a double-page between pages 4 & 5]Garrick (David, 1717-1779), English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘D.G.’, no place, no date, c. 1770s, to the actors [at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane], in full: ’Gentlemen, I have long seen and felt the great evil you complained of – it came with double weight upon me this season but as I resolv’d to quit the direction of your theatre I gave up all thoughts of finding out a remedy for it. - As I most sincerely wish you well, if you can point out to me any justifiable method of serving you, I will do that for you, which I have hitherto delay’d to do for the proprietors’, several deletions and corrections, endorsed in Garrick’s hand, ‘My letter to your performers’, 1 page, 4to [opposite page 141]Walpole (Horatio, 1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. Unsigned autograph manuscript note, no date, ‘I cannot call on your Ladyship this evening, nor go to the Duchess of Montrose, as I have just now been sent for to the Pavilions; but I shall be very glad of the honour of seeing your Ladyship tomorrow morning.’ [window-mounted beneath an engraved portrait opposite p. 11]The two drawings are: ‘View taken in the fields between Shoreditch and Hackney’ by O. N., no date, late 18th century, monochrome watercolour en grisaille, titled and initialled to lower margin, 205 x 300 mm [opposite p. 100]; ‘Balme House, Finsbury Fields’, by C. H. M., no date, early 19th century, pen and ink and sepia watercolour wash, titled and initialled to lower margin, 150 x 180 mm, [opposite p. 124].Portraits include: The Author (a private plate lithographed by H. Corbould), 9 plates of Jane Shore (including one by Bartolozzi), Charles I, and St. Agnes (mezzotints by J. Smith); Garrick as Romeo, etched by T. Paurland, 1851 (only 20 copies executed); The Rev. Arthur Biford (Jeremy Collier's coadjutor in his work on the Immorality of the English Stage); Richard Gough, FSA (private plate); Foster Powell, the Pedestrian, etc.Engravings include: Both Views of Lunardi's Balloon Ascent from the Artillery Ground (with his Autograph); Original print of the performance of Topham, the Strong Man, 1757; and several others.
Dépôt général de la guerre. Mémorial topographique et militaire, rédigé au dépôt général de la guerre; imprimé par ordre du ministre, 6 volumes, 1st [and only] edition, Paris: Imprimerie de la République, [1802-05], 26 folding engraved maps, plans, diagrams and tables, including one of the Battle of Leuthen in 1757, one of the Black Forest, and one of Swabia, title to each volume with wood-engraved vignette, and ink library number to head of each title, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Suchtelen to front pastedown of first volume, a few minor marks, contemporary uniform red half morocco gilt, one or two spines a little discoloured, lightly rubbed, 8vo QTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: Count Piotr Sukhtelen (1751-1836), a military engineer who joined the Russian service in 1783, and served for Russia over more than half a century. He became a lieutenant-general in the Russian army, was a hero of the War of 1812 against Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and later Russian ambassador at Sweden. A true bibliomaniac, his enormous library was acquired by the Russian government in 1836, being delivered by warship to St. Petersburg.Rare. Divided into three topographical parts and three historical parts, this set of volumes provides detailed information on military topography and reconnaissance, including surveys of the Tyrol and Black Forest, as well as a history of the Dépôt Général de la Guerre, and a list of the best available published maps of the various parts of Europe.The Dépôt Général de la Guerre, which was in charge of military mapping for the French army, published this Mémorial around the same time as plans were afoot to create a training school for military engineers, dedicated to geodesic surveying, field surveys, and cartography, which became known as the Ecole des ingenieurs-geographes, created in 1809.“Que la terre soit, d’après Descartes et Leibnitz, un petit soleil encroûté, ou, selon Buffon, une éclaboussure de notre soleil, peu importe aux militaires. Lorsque, défenseurs ou conquérans, bravant les fatigues et les dangers, ils s’élèvent sur ces plateaux, ces cols, ces noeuds de monts agglomérés (...) peu leur importe de connaître les brillantes théories par lesquelles le génie borné de l’homme a voulu expliquer la formation de ces grandes masses qui participent à l’immensité.” (Introduction to volume V)
The Mycielski service, a 19th century French silver Fiddle and Thread pattern canteen for twelve, by Victoire-Josephine Godot, Paris 1830's, the reverse of the terminals with initials, a crest and armorial, comprising: sixteen table forks, twelve dessert forks, twelve tablespoons, twelve dessert spoons, and twelve teaspoons, plus twelve table knives, and twelve dessert knives, (two dessert knives a.f), all re-bladed, approx. weight 136oz..Provenance: General Mycielski, and then by family descent to the current owner.General Michal Mycielski (1796-1849) joined the army of the Duchy of Warsaw at the age of sixteen and quickly rose through the ranks in the Regiment of the French General Grouchy. He was awarded the Virtuti Militari, the highest Polish military decoration for outstanding combat merit. He became adjutant to General Dąbrowski, and He fought at Denewitz and Leipzig in the 1813 campaign. He continued following Napoleon and fought at Hanau. He then joined the 2 Regiment of the Ulans under General Siemiatkowski and took part in the campaign of 1814. He was awarded the Legion d'Honneur.
Mixed Victorian magic lantern slides, Red Riding Hood x 5, Bristol Army x 7, Wellington S.C.P. lantern slides, life and death of Nelson, (negatives) further sets including clouds, Welsh landscapes, from junior lecturer series, Never Ride a Strange Horse (Baboon riding an Ostrich) Tiger and the Tub, Mother Hubbard, with script, together with further Magic lantern slides in colour, Theobald, The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight, c,1890, others including Mother Goose with script and box, humorous pigs, etc
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