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A Flight Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain Dessert Service, circa 1830, painted with named botanical specimens within a green border and gilt gadrooned rim, comprising two sauce tureens and covers, four shell shaped dishes, four square dishes, four lobed oval dishes, a circular pedestal bowl, and twelve plates, printed marks and painted titles See illustration
Irish caricatures.- A scrap album of prints and drawings, with 30 works of mainly Irish interest, including two scarce Dublin-printed caricatures, 'The Mighty Agitators at their Incantations' published by Holbrooke & Son, 1828, and 'Tight Lace' published by J. Le Petit, alongside 8 well executed landscape drawings by various hands, a detailed botanical watercolour, and other mixed prints and drawings, graphite, watercolour, etchings and engravings, lithographs, various sizes, most loosely inserted in album, upper cover with gilt morocco label that reads 'Echlin/ Of/ Echlinville/ Co. Down/Ireland/ Capt. John Echlin Matthews', rebacked, worn, folio, [mainly early 19th century].Provenance:Echlinville Library, Co. Down, IrelandLiterature:(caricatures) not in BM Satires
AFTER M HART (19TH CENTURY),SEVENTEEN HAND COLOURED ENGRAVINGS FROM "THE BOTANICAL REGISTER"engraved by Smith (2) and J Watts (15), each annotated in ink by unknown handLargest image size 20.5cm x 12.5cmAll unframedNote: Published by J Ridgeway & Sons, 170 Piccadilly, London, between 1816 and 1819. The designs of M Hart were the basis of engravings published in the botanical periodicals "The Botanical Magazine", "Flower Garden Displayed" and Syndham Edward's "The Botanical Register".
Botany - Alpine Plants: Figures and Descriptions of Some of the Most Striking and Beautiful of The Alpine Flowers, edited by David Wooster, F.R.H.S., second edition, two-volume set, George Bell & Sons, London 1874, illustrated throughout with full-page botanical chromolithographic plates, contemporary blue buckram as issued, 4to; Pratt (Anne), Wild Flowers, Published [...by the] Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, London [c. 1853], each page accompanied by two chromolithographs of each botanical specimen, embossed green cloth as issued, crown folio, [3]
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, And Register of Flowering Plants, volumes II to V, Orr and Smith, London 1836 - 1838, illustrated throughout with hand-coloured full-page and pull-out double-page engravings after F.W. Smith of botanical and floral specimens, harlequin quarter morocco or calf and marbled board bindings, the spines with gilt-embossed title and volume labels, 4to, (4)
A mixed lot of late 18th/19th century pottery: comprising a 'Whieldon' tortoiseshell-ware dish, 30 cm [riveted]; three creamware named botanical plates; a marbled creamware mug; a slipware small mug; a pearlware jug with 'Market Lass' and 'The Tythe Pig' transfer prints; and a pearlware cottage pastille burner and cover [damages].
An Arms, crest and monograms bound book filled with decoupage pages and sketches The pages with watercolours, pen and ink drawings, monochrome watercolours, botanical drawings, drawn crest, and further sketches. CONDITION REPORT: Lot 340 - Approximately 56 original artworks are in this album.
A mixed group of collectable items To include a Bunnykins sleep time figure group DB15, a album containing various cigarette cards approximately 200 cards, including football, ship, automobile, botanical examples from Wills cigarettes, Casket cigarettes, Lambert & Butler, etc, comprising approximately 200 cards, together further Churchmans cigarette cards. (qty)
*Album. 'Scraps of Friendship' by Elizabeth Ambrose of Hagloe House, Gloucestershire, circa 1825-42, containing approximately 36 original watercolours, 18 original pencil drawings, and 90 various engravings, all mounted on 70 album leaves of differing colours, many with contemporary pencil inscriptions or captions, some signed, contemporary gilt-decorated plum full morocco, rubbed and some wear, with covers detached and backstrip deficient, 4to (30 x 24 cm, 11.75 x 9.5 ins) Attractive album compiled by Elizabeth Ambrose, presumed daughter of William Ambrose (died 1843), who married Elizabeth Thomas (died 1838) in 1810. Hagloe House is located near Blakeney in Gloucestershire in the Forest of Dean, overlooking the River Severn. Watercolours in the album include: a portrait of Miss Ambrose, another of Amy Roberts, a tulip by James Jones, an urn of flowers by A.H., dated February 1832, with 8 lines of handwritten verse, a pink rose with verse by A. Harrison, another of snowdrops, a fruit still life, several other watercolours of flowers and botanical subjects, a watercolour with pencil of a young couple gathering fruit by W. Hardwick, dated 1827, an unsigned view of the Lake District, an unsigned watercolour of a peacock, a watercolour of a girl on a stile, by E.L., dated 1828, two coastal scenes by Captain McArthur [possibly John McArthur, 1791-1862, a sketcher and naval officer who commanded the naval garrison at Port Essington (Northern Territory), Australia, from 1838, and returned to England in 1850], attractive watercolour of the Hagloe Crab (a cider apple regarded in the 18th century as second only to the stire), and a watercolour of smugglers in a cave. Drawings include: Silhouette profiles of the Ladies of Llangollen by A.H., a view of Abe Bridge, by Jno. Coleman, a pencil view of Valle Crucis, a fine miniature calligraphic design of the Lord's Prayer and Apostle's Creed, a moonlight scene of boats and windmill, a study of eggs, another of a yacht, a view of Hagloe, by A.E.E., dated August 10th, 1842, and two further pencil views of an island castle and moor on horseback, a view of Kirkstall Abbey, a landscape sketch by William Varley (1785-1858), dated 1825, presented to Miss Roberts with the artist's respects, June 8, 1825, three small views, probably of Hagloe, and a pencil study entitled The Cousins (on Turnbull's Super Fine London Board). Prints include: a colour lithograph title (published by G. Tregear), a lithographic view of Goodrich Court, published by G. Rowe, Cheltenham, lithographic view of Henbury Church, another of Cardiff Castle, four lithographic views of the River Avon, nine small lithographic views of Blaise Hamlet, a coloured engraving of Spanish peasant boys by J. Rogers after Murillo, published by J. McCormick, and another similar portrait of Napoleon by W. Nicholas after David, two colour lithographs of Indian birds, several Baxter prints, two colour lithographs of game birds, four colour lithographs of deer, etc. (1)
*Armfield (Maxwell Ashby, 1881-1972). Three studies of plants and flowers, watercolour and pen & ink with coloured pastel, inscribed, 24 x 17 cm (9.5 x 6.75 ins) and similar, each mounted, with M.A. Studio inkstamp to verso, together with a group of 15 botanical watercolours and studies by Constance Philott, circa 1850s, various sizes (18)
Armstrong (Mrs C.C.) New Zealand Ferns, nd. (presentation inscription dated 1882), Dunedin, twenty four leaves with mounted botanical specimens of ferns, alternate leaves have a centrally mounted albumen print depicting New Zealand street scenes, surrounded by ornately arranged specimens. On the other leaves, the specimens are named in manuscript, quarto half roan album with the compiler's label to pastedown
*Royal Worcester. A small archive relating to William Taylor of Royal Worcester, circa 1840, comprising approximately 15 engravings, 100 pencil sketches, plus eight pen and ink and 90 watercolours, many of botanical subjects and insects used for porcelain designs, partly contained in eight notebooks, with some records of items made against print patterns and prices, plus a small qauntity of personal correspondence to his parents, prior to starting work at the Royal Worcester factory William Taylor was born circa 1828 and became a floral artist for the Royal Worcester factory from about 1845 to 1870. (a small carton)
Curtis (John). Farm Insects; being the natural history and economy of the insets injurios to the field crops of Great Britain and Ireland, 1860, numerous colour engraved plates, some minor toning, bookplate to front pastedown, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Milne (Colin), A Botanical Dictionary; or, Elements of Systematic and Philosophical Botany, 3rd edition, printed for H.D. Symonds, 1805, 25 colour engraved plates to rear, bookplate to front pastedown, later endpapers, some light spotting, later spine retaining contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco boards, boards and spine rubbed with loss and partially detached, 8vo, and Chaumeton (F.P., et al), Flore Medicale, 3 volumes (of 6), Paris, 1828, 119 colour plates, some spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards and spines rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, plus other 19th century and modern botanical and natural history reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, many dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)
Pennant (Thomas). History of Quadrupeds, & Genera of Birds, 3 volumes bound two, printed for B. White, 1781, engraved title to each volume, 52 and 16 engraved plates to each work respectively (68 plates in total), some light scattered spotting and offsetting, marbled endpapers, with bookplate of Clarkson Palmer to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary tree full calf gilt, rubbed and some minor wear to edges, covers detached, 4to, together with Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de), A Natural History, General and Particular: containing the history and theory of the earth, a general history of man..., translated from the French by William Smellie, new edition, corrected and enlarged, to which is added A History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, 2 volumes, published by Richard Adams, 1817, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, 52 hand-coloured engraved plates, some minor marks and occasional spotting, index leaves at front of first volume with slight fraying to fore-edge, contemporary bookplate of S. Wakefield, Digbeth, Birmingham, to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary gilt-decorated full calf, rubbed and scuffed (generally a good copy), 4to, plus three others related Culpeper's Complete Herbal, new edition, Thomas Kelly, circa 1820s, with hand coloured botanical plates, bound in contemporary black half calf, 4to, & Oliver Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 volumes, A. Fullarton & Co., circa 1850s, with hand coloured plates, some spotting, contemporary green half calf gilt, large 8vo (7)
ITALIAN SCHOOL, EARLY 17TH CENTURY BOTANICAL SUBJECTS two, the second numbered 42, watercolour, 38 x 23cm and 41 x 28.5cm (2)Provenance: (by repute) Accademia dei Lincei, Rome.Further drawings from the same album were sold Christie's, 6 December 2012, lot 120.++Smaller drawing - minor creases and flattened creases, several small brown stains.Larger drawing - minor creases, small spots of faint foxing
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