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Lot 304
THOMAS MAJOR AFTER D. TENIERS. ENGRAVING. `The Laboratory`. 14" x 10 3/4" (35.6cm x 27.3cm). BERNARD EYRE WALKER (1862-1972). ETCHING. `Langdale`. signed and titled in pencil. 3 1/3" x 3 3/4" (8.3cm x 12.1cm). SET OF 12 UNFRAMED BLACK AND WHITE LITHOGRAPHS. Bygone Manchester and Salford Street scenes. 11" x 15" (28cm x 38.1cm) approx (14).
Lot 250
Sir Henry Moore, RA (1898-1986) "ELEPHANT SKULL XI" signed and numbered BL. XI 2/100 in pencil etching from the series "Elephant Skull Portfolio"; complete with title folder "Skull side view - jaw articulation" etching, published by Gerald Cramer, Geneva 1970 (See Cramer (Gerald) Henry Moore, The Graphic Work vol. 1) 25 x 19.5cms; 9 9/8 x 7 5/8in. (plate size), unframed. See illustration
Lot 57
T. Gainsborough - A pastoral scene with figures and animals, pen and ink with wash, bears signature, 27 x 33 cm to/w A.L. Armitage - 'A loyal friend', etching of a spaniel, pencil signed and titled to margin and legend 'with the artist's compliments', 17 x 12 cm (2) Condition Report Pen and ink good condition, etching with foxing
Lot 248
**AN ETCHED SAXON HALBERD FOR THE GUARD OF CHRISTIAN II, ELECTOR OF SAXONY (591-1611), CIRCA 1602with robust central spike,curved axe blade formed with a pair of lugs top and bottom, down-curved rear spike, tapering socket, and a pair of straps, etched on each side of the head with the Saxon arms within a scrollwork cartouche, a strapwork panel in the centre, and the abbreviated inscription`CDAHZSC` for Christian der Andere Herzog zu Sachsen Churfurst (extensively pitted and worn, etching obscured), on a wooden haft70 cm; 27 1/2 in headProvenanceThe Saxon Electoral Armoury, DresdenMarch Brown, Surrey, England, 14th April 1930JWHA Inv. No. 1275
Lot 278
**A COMPOSITE ETCHED NORTH ITALIAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, LATE 16TH CENTURYcomprising close helmet with one-piece skull (patched at the rear) rising to a high roped medial comb and fitted at the nape with a plume-holder of brass, visor, upper bevor and bevor (the first two associated) attached by common pivots (replaced), the visor pierced beneath its stepped, centrally-divided vision-slit with six vertical ventilation-slots, the prow-shaped upper bevor trimmed to fit its present context, the skull and bevor fastened to one another at the left of the neck by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, and formed at their lower edges with a hollowed rim serving to lock over and rotate on the upper edge of the collar, the latter formed of two lames front and rear, breastplate formed of a main plate of deep "peascod" fashion, fitted at is arm-openings with movable gussets, pierced at the right of the chest with a pair of holes for the attachment of a lance-rest and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive an associated fauld of one lame and a pair of pendent tassets each of six lames (the first two of the left restored and the third patched), one-piece backplate (patched) flanged outwards at its lower edge, two large symmetrical pauldrons (not a pair), each of seven lames, the third of which is fitted with a detachable haute-piece (the left associated and the right restored), that of the left extending over the entire front of the pauldron, pair of fully articulated vambraces formed of a tubular turner and upper cannon (the right associated) linked by a winged bracelet couter of three lames to a tapering tubular lower cannon opening at the front, two gauntlets (not a pair) each formed of a flared and pointed one-piece cuff closed by rivets at the inside of the wrist and fitted with five metacarpal-plates, the last of the left shaped between the knuckles and the last of the right fitted with the greater part of its transversely-ribbed knuckle-plate, long one-piece cuisses (the right restored) each fitted with an associated poleyn of four lames, the third furnished with a small centrally-puckered side-wing and decorated at the point of the knee with a roped medial rib, ankle-length greaves (with various corrosion losses and perforations), each fitted at its outside with a hinged side-plate, open at its inside rear, and pierced at its lower edge with holes for the attachment of mail shoes, now represented by fragments of Oriental mail, and a pair of later toe-caps (restored) pierced around its edges with similar holes, the main edges of the armour otherwise formed with inwards turns, mostly roped and bordered at points by roped ribs terminating, in the case of those decorating the neck of the cuirass and the front and rear of each pauldron, in volutes, and its surfaces etched and gilt overall (the latter surviving only as traces) with bands and borders of classical trophies and dolphins on a stippled and blackened and ground enclosed in each case by narrower bands, mainly of guilloche, and enclosing in the interspaces of the fronts and rears of the main plates of the pauldrons cartouches framing figures of classical warriors (the etching of the visor and upper bevor of the helmet, the top three lames of the right pauldron, the vambraces, the gauntlets, the right cuisse, the poleyns and all restored elements later)See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance:Baron de Viga de Hoz, MadridSenor Don Alberto Gonzales, Abreu, SevilleDuveen Bros, New York, No. 244445, 18th January 1928 JWHA Inv. No. 429.a-tExhibitedWorcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1928-30Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 1943-June 1944Science Fair, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, 19-21 April 1956
Lot 283
**A COMPOSITE ETCHED NORTH ITALIAN CORSLET, LATE 16TH CENTURYcomprising morion in the `Spanish fashion, with tall one-piece crown of almond shape rising to a short stalk at its apex (patched), and `swept` integral brim rising to an acute point front and rear (the latter patched), collar of one lame front and rear, one-piece breastplate of late `peascod` fashion flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a pair of pendent one-piece tassets (restored), one-piece backplate (restored), large symmetrical pauldrons each formed of eight lames connected by a turner to a fully articulated vambrace formed of tubular upper and lower cannons (the inner plate of the latter restored) and a winged bracelet-couter of three lames, and two gauntlets (not a pair), the right formed of an obtusely pointed one piece cuff (its upper edge damaged) and a single metacarpal-plate (associated), and the right (restored) formed of a rounded cuff with a separate inner plate, five metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate and detached finger-scales, the main edges of the armour formed with inward turns, mostly roped, and its surfaces etched with bands and borders of classical trophies on a stippled and blackened ground enclosed in each case by narrow bands of an guilloche, and enclosing in the interspaces of the morion and of the fronts and rears of the main plates of the pauldrons cartouches framing busts and figures of classical warriors (the etching of the rear plate of the collar, the cuirass, the right turner, the inner plates of the lower cannons, the metacarpal-plate of the right gauntlet and all restored elements later, and that on the points of the pauldrons refreshed) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands ProvenancePhilip Rhinelander II, New York, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17th November 1944, lot 77JWHA Inv. No. 2777.a-j
Lot 293
**A SOUTH GERMAN COMB MORION, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1580, WITH LATER ETCHED DECORATIONwith rounded one-piece crown rising to a high roped medial comb, and integral brim turned down at each side and rising to an obtuse point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border struck within its right rear end with the quality-control mark of the city of Nuremberg (the right of the brim cracked and each side of it pierced with a later wiring-hole), and the base of the crown encircled by fifteen (originally sixteen) round-headed lining-rivets with rosette washers of iron (one missing), etched to either side of the crown with a circular cartouche enclosing at the left and right respectively the Sacrifice of Isaac and a mounted huntsman, and overlaying in each case a design of alternating bands of arabesque interlace and scrolling foliage inhabited by birds, the latter repeated on the comb and the brim, and in the former case involving at each side an oval cartouche enclosing at the left and right respectively a drummer and a soldier holding a banner, the etching in all cases set against a blackened ground, in part stippled25.5 cm; 10 inProvenanceClapp & Graham Co. Inc., 514 Madison Avenue, New York, 7th May 1930JWHA Inv. No. 1078ExhibitedAssumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1 May-27 June 1961Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1 February 1979Schenectady Museum, New York, 4 June-13 September 1979LiteratureIda Sinkevic (ed.), Knights in Shining Armor, Myth and Reality, 1450-1650, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 2006, p. 28
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