*LOTTIE DAVIES (B. 1971) 'Venus, 2011' number 1 from the edition of 10, Digital c-type, 40.5cm x 51cm. Lottie Davies was born in Guildford, UK, in 1971. She grew up in Surrey and was educated in Alton and Godalming. After a degree in philosophy at St Andrews University in Scotland, she moved back to England to pursue a career in photography. She is currently based in London and Cornwall. Davies’ unique style has been employed in a variety of contexts, including newspapers, glossy magazines, books and advertising. She has won recognition in numerous awards, including the Association of Photographers’ Awards, the International Color Awards, and the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Awards. Her work has garnered international acclaim with the image Quints, which won First Prize at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Awards 2008 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, with Viola As Twins, which won the Photographic Art Award, Arte Laguna Prize in Venice in 2011, and her collaboration on Dreams of Your Life with Hide & Seek/Film 4.0 which was BAFTA-nominated in 2012. Davies’ work is concerned with stories and personal histories, the tales and myths we use to structure our lives. She takes inspiration from classical and modern painting, cinema and theatre as well as the imaginary worlds of literature. She employs a deliberate reworking of our visual vocabulary, playing on our notions of nostalgia and visual conventions with the intention of evoking a sense of recognition and narrative. Sandy Nairne, former director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, described Davies’ work as “brilliantly imaginative”.
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ATTRIBUTED TO THE SAINT LOUIS WORKSHOPS: A LARGE PAIR OF LITHYALIN GLASS VASES,circa 1850, of faceted ovoid form with tapering base, marbled in tones of green and brown, with a slender neck and waisted cup-shaped upper section, 34.25cm high.For a similar single vase see Sotheby's Olympia, 14th May 2003, lot 1, hammer price £3,360 Lithyalin glass is an opaque or translucent marbled glass with a surface resembling polished gemstones in a wide range of colours. It was first made by the chemist Friedrich Egermann (Bohemian, 1777-1864) in 1828 in northern Bohemia, and he patented the process in 1829. When this patent expired, similar pieces were made in France, Bohemia, China and Russia.
FRANCIS DERWENT WOOD (1871-1926) 'Alpes Maritimes' landscape view, signed, titled and dated 1923 lower left, watercolour, 26cm x 36cm. Provenance: Label verso for The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, dated August 1946. Better known as a sculptor, Wood was born in Keswick, Cumbria in October 1871. Wood studied in Germany and returned to London in 1887 to work under Edouard Lanteri and Sir Thomas Brock, going on to teach at the Glasgow School of Art from 1897 to 1905. During the First World War, Wood used his skills to open the Masks for Facial Disfigurement clinic, producing specialist thin metal masks for soldiers that had suffered facial injuries. Wood was professor of sculpture at the Royal College of Art from 1918-1923, with William Rothenstein as Principal.
*DEREK JARMAN (1942-1994) 'Neopolitan Servant - The Dreamers', costume design for the never-made Ken Russell production 'The Dreamers', titled, inscribed and dated 'May 69' in pencil, later signed in ink, pencil and watercolour, 58cm x 42cm. Provenance: A gift from the Artist. Note: Derek Jarman first came to prominence as a stage designer, with his break in the film industry coming as production designer for Ken Russell's controversial 1971 historical drama 'The Devils'. The work offered here shows that Jarman and Russell were already working together prior to that production.
SIX ROYAL DOULTON FIGURES: HN3384 'Sarah', HN2343 'Premiere', HN2348 'Geraldine', HN2803 'First Dance', HN2399 'Buttercup' and HN1537 'Janet' Condition Report : Good condition, not senconds, no signs of chips, cracks, or restoration Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
ASSORTED SPORTING COLLECTABLES comprising a pocket autograph book, the signatures including Viv Richards; Colin Cowdrey; Collis King; Derek Wing; Roy Fredericks; and Nick Finan; an England-Australia 1861-1961 souvenir programme; two Harlem Globetrotters basketball programmes, 1952 and circa 1962; a Rugby League First Test Match Great Britain v. Australia programme, circa 1964; a Rugby League Challenge Cup Final programme, Wakefield Trinity v. Wigan, 1963; a Sunday Empire News Football Annual, 1947-48; Sunday Chronicle Football Annual, 1948-49; Esso 1970 World Cup Coin Collection, complete on display card; and three Esso Top Team football sticker collections, each complete in card folder, (12).
THREE RADIOS comprising a Westminster brown bakelite radio, in working order; Philips Type 470A brown bakelite radio, serial no. M21521, not tested; and an Ekco Model A 239/1 radio, serial no. 11132, with a wood case, in working order. Safety notice: We recommend that these radios are inspected by a qualified electrician before first use.
FOUR RADIOS comprising a Cossor Melody Maker Model 501AC brown bakelite radio, serial no. 817533, not currently working; Ferranti 648 brown bakelite radio, not tested; Pye Model P.35 radio, serial no. 0369841, with a wood case, in working order; and an Ever Ready Sky King portable radio, not tested. Safety notice: We recommend that these radios are inspected by a qualified electrician before first use.
THREE RADIOS comprising a Philips 'Super Inductance' Type 577A radio, serial no. M15546, with a wood case, believed to be in working order; H.M.V. Model 1121 radio, serial no. A/14 107339, with a wood case, believed to be in working order; and a Vidor Model 277 radio, serial no. 3773, with a wood case, believed to be in working order. Safety notice: We recommend that these radios are inspected by a qualified electrician before first use.
THREE RADIOS comprising a Philips 'Super Octode' Type 580A radio, serial no. M11060, with a wood case, not tested; a British Second World War civilian or utility radio receiver, with a wood case, believed to be in working order; and an Osram 4 Music Magnet radio, with a wood case, believed to be in working order. Safety notice: We recommend that these radios are inspected by a qualified electrician before first use.
FOUR RADIOS comprising a Philips Type B3G 75U radio, serial no. BA 43767, in working order; KB Golden Rhapsody portable radio, not tested; Roberts Model R300 portable radio, serial no. 71555, believed to be in working order; and a Dansette Chorister portable radio, not tested. Safety notice: We recommend that these radios are inspected by a qualified electrician before first use.
FIVE RADIOS comprising a Philips Model L6X 38T portable radio, serial no. PL38529, not tested; Ultra Transistor 101 portable radio, serial no. 11448, not tested; Grundig Party Boy portable radio, serial no.14-1171-11, not tested; Dansette 222 portable radio, believed to be in working order; and a Bush Model BP61 portable radio, serial no. 247/114, not tested. Safety notice: We recommend that these radios are inspected by a qualified electrician before first use.
ASSORTED COLLECTABLES comprising cigarette card part sets, including seventy assorted Kensitas silk flags and Nostalgia Reprints of Taddy County Cricketers; approximately 125 Great Britain first day covers, most circa 1970s-80s; a quantity of Great Britain presentation packs (total decimal face value over £14); seventeen Jersey first day covers, circa 1970s; fifty Isle of Man first day covers, circa 1970s-80s; and a small quantity of other items.
FIVE ASSORTED FANS comprising one silk decorated with a hand-painted study of a seated musician, with bone guards, 30cm long (57cm wide when open); one fine net decorated with hand-painted pierrots and female dancers, with white painted wood guards, 35.5cm long (67.5cm wide when open); one late 19th century black ostrich feather fan, with ivory sticks, 27.5cm long (40cm wide when open); and two others; together with a late 19th century pair of ivory glove stretchers, (6). Condition Report : First named fan with 2.5cm tear and minor fraying to face and further tears to lining; second named with significant tears, but retaining strong design image; third named generally good; a further hand-painted feather fan with wear to feathers and paint, one broken guard repaired with a metal plate, one detached guard and several detached sticks. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A 1/12 SCALE DOLL'S ANTIQUE SHOP of sectional medium density fibreboard and wooden construction, the ground floor retail area and first floor accommodation each accessed from the top of their respective box section, overall 81.5cm high, 49.5cm wide, 33cm deep, set to a stand with a single drawer; together with a small quantity of accessories.
![[CHILDRENS]. ENID BLYTON Twenty assorted works, comprising Five on a Secret Trail, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, Lo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d457bba3-72fc-4604-b57a-ac9900d9453d/22a525a0-54c8-41f2-8e4f-ace9009cfd5e/468x382.jpg)
[CHILDRENS]. ENID BLYTON Twenty assorted works, comprising Five on a Secret Trail, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1956, boards, dustjacket, illustrations by Eileen Soper, octavo; and nineteen other titles by the same, seventeen with dustjackets (most worn), all later impressions.
![[CHILDRENS] Seventeen assorted works, including Rabier, Benjamin. Gideon in Africa, first British edition, Methuen, London,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d457bba3-72fc-4604-b57a-ac9900d9453d/8005c42f-b32d-425e-a25d-ace9009cfea4/468x382.jpg)
![[CHILDRENS]. ENID BLYTON Forty-five assorted works, including Five Have Plenty of Fun, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d457bba3-72fc-4604-b57a-ac9900d9453d/2c90a41c-0cc4-45fa-ac44-ace9009cffbd/468x382.jpg)
![[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Christie, Agatha. Crooked House, first edition, Collins Crime Club, London, 1949, boards, dustjacket](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d457bba3-72fc-4604-b57a-ac9900d9453d/5e7102fc-075e-42c3-9704-ace9009d080b/468x382.jpg)
[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Christie, Agatha. Crooked House, first edition, Collins Crime Club, London, 1949, boards, dustjacket, octavo (front free endpaper with ink gift inscription; jacket labelled 'First Cheap Edition' and badly torn); together with A Murder is Announced, first edition, Collins Crime Club, London, 1950, boards, dustjacket, octavo (jacket rubbed, chipped and torn; ink graffiti map to rear endpaper); After the Funeral, Collins Crime Club, London, no date, boards, dustjacket, octavo (covers damp marked; jacket torn; ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper); Hickory Dickory Dock, first edition, Collins Crime Club, London, 1955, boards, dustjacket, octavo (lacking front free endpaper; jacket price-clipped and with internal tape reinforcement, with associated staining); Ordeal by Innocence, first edition, Collins Crime Club, London, 1958, boards, dustjacket, octavo (lacking front free endpaper; jacket price-clipped); and Elephants Can Remember, first edition, Collins Crime Club, London, 1972, boards, dustjacket, octavo (jacket price-clipped and slightly faded along spine), (6).
![[SPORTING] Twelve assorted volumes, including Seaby, Allen. British Ponies, Running Wild and Ridden, first edition, Black, L](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d457bba3-72fc-4604-b57a-ac9900d9453d/849325f0-66a2-4c5f-8e9c-ace9009d0bcf/468x382.jpg)
[SPORTING] Twelve assorted volumes, including Seaby, Allen. British Ponies, Running Wild and Ridden, first edition, Black, London, 1936, pale tan cloth, illustrations throughout, quarto; and 'B.B.' [Denys Watkins-Pitchford]. The Sportsman's Bedside Book, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1937, two-tone cloth, illustrations by G.D. Armour and D.J. Watkins-Pitchford, octavo.
Georg Ehrlich (Austrian 1897-1966) - 'Head of Christ' bronze bust sculpture, mounted upon a rectangular wooden plinth, signature to shoulder, 16" high ** ex. Bealby-Wright collection - this sculpture is illustrated in the reference book 'Georg Ehrlich' by the art historian Erica Tietze-Conrat for Batsford Books first published 1956, fig.38. sold with a copy of the book, O'hana Gallery brochure and further exhibition ephemera. ** Georg Ehrlich was an Austrian sculptor though lived in London from 1938 and became a British citizen in 1947. Ehrlich has works in the Tate Gallery, British Arts Council, British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum**This sculpture is part of a deceased estate and has been in the same family by descent for over 60 years, having been purchased by the vendors Grandmother Jane Bealby-Wright, who was a friend and supporter of the artist Georg Ehrlich A.R.A.
Paul Stephens (20th/21st century) - 'Towards Mendip Hills near Cheddar' signed also extensively inscribed verso by the artist and numbered 152, oil on board, 20" x 30" *The artist exhibited with Arthur Maderson at The Crispin Gallery, Street, Somerset and also exhibited with Sir Peter Scott at the first wildlife exhibition in Bristol together with further exhibitions at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, The Colleton Gallery, Bath, Patricia Fine Art, Boca, Rason, USA and The Mall Galleries, London. He also designed the Radio One roadshow posters for Tony Blackburn and other disc jockeys
Bulova Accutron; A Retro 'Spaceview' Gent's Wristwatch, with centre seconds and visible movement, the case back numbered "3-791977", to integral tapering bracelet with fold over clasp marked "Bulova"; Together with A Super Xograph Hologram Postcard "Historic Moon Landing Mission of Apollo 11", postmark Cape Canaveral Sep 10 1969, bearing four 10c Air Mail United States First Man on the Moon stamps. (2)
* Attributed to Anthonie Andriessen (1746-1813). Girl resting with her dog and basket by a building, & Girl seated at a table, two pen, brown ink and grey wash drawings on laid paper, each with thin brown ink outer ruled border, very slight loss to lower left corner of the first work, sheet size 132 x 83 mm (5.25 x 3.3 ins) and 121 x 102 mm (4.8 x 4 ins), corner-mounted on two sheets of light brown backing card (each with 20th century pencil attribution to Andriessen), and mounted together in a 20th-century cream card window mountQty: (2)
* Attributed to Charles Francisco Burney (1760-1848). Evelina, circa 1780-1800, oval watercolour with touches of black ink, on pale cream wove paper, depicting a young woman, seated, half-length, in fashionable dress wearing a bonnet tied under her chin, head slightly tilted and facing the viewer, arms folded and resting on a table, 275 x 234 mm ( 10.9 x 9.25 ins), period gilt frameQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: David Talbot-Rice (1903-1972); thence by descent. An imagined portrait of the innocent heroine of Fanny Burney's classic novel Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's entrance into the World, first published in 1778. Fanny Burney's brother, the artist Charles Burney, is known to have made three illustrations of scenes from his sister's novel which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year.
* De Cort (Hendrik Frans, 1742-1810). Landscape with figure on horseback with Okehampton Castle in the distance, watercolour and charcoal on card, heightened with bodycolour, 11.1 x 27.8 cm (4.37 x 10.94 ins), framed and glazed, inscribed to verso 'This first fancy of 1806 for Rev.d Mr John Rogers. HDC', and 'Henrick de Cort' belowQty: (1)NOTESReverend John Rogers (1778-1856), Canon of Exeter Cathedral, of the Rogers family of Penrose, owners of the manors of Helston, Penrose, Carminow and other Cornish estates and mines.
Stubbs (George Townly, 1756-1815). A complete series of 14 stipple engravings for the Turf Gallery, by George Townly Stubbs after George Stubbs (1724-1806), Edward Orme, 1817, 14 large uncoloured stipple engravings on heavy wove paper, as issued by Edward Orme, with publication line altered to: London, Republished June 4, 1817, by Edwd. Orme, New Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, plate size 405 x 508 mm (16 x 20 ins) or very similar, sheet size 470 x 640 mm (18.5 x 25.25 ins), some plates with light spotting, mostly to margins (generally in clean condition), bound as a set of engravings, without title or associated text, short closed tear to right blank margin of Bobtail, bound in contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, somewhat heavily rubbed and marked, and with large red morocco gilt label to centre of upper cover, lettered Stubb's Turf Gallery, binding 481 x 648 mm (19 x 25.5 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESThe subjects are: Gimcrack, Anvil, Dungannon, Volunteer, Sweetbrier, Sharke, Marske, Protector, Pumpkin, Sweetwilliam, Bobtail, Mambrino, Eclipse, and Baronet. Lennox-Boyd 100, iii/iii, 102, iii/iii, 104, iii/iii, 106, iii/iii, 108, iv/iv, 110, iii/iii, 112, iii/iii, 114, iii/iii, 116, iii/iii, 118, iii/iii, 120, ii/ii, 122, ii/ii and 124, ii/ii. First issued in 1794 as a collaboration between George Stubbs and his son George Townly Stubbs, the Turf Gallery is probably the most famous set of racehorse prints in existence. The history of the original publication is described in detail by Lennox-Boyd (1989), and Judy Egerton (2007). This rare complete set is from the reissue of the original plates published by Edward Orme in 1817. Literature: Christopher Lennox-Boyd, Rob Dixon and Tim Clayton, George Stubbs, The Complete Engraved Works, 1989; Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue Raisonné (2007).
* Swanevelt (Herman van, 1603 ca.-1655). Vinia Mamfrona for della porta pinciana, 1653, etching on laid paper, from the series 'Diverses veuës dedans et dehors de Rome desinee par Herman van Swanevelt. Dediee aux Vertueux, 1653', a very good impression of the first state of three, trimmed to platemark, sheet size 113 x 183 mm (4.5 x 7.25 ins), window-mounted, together with: Hopfer (Hieronymus, circa 1500-1563). Design for Two Goblets, circa 1530-40, etching and engraving on off-white paper, after Albrecht Altdorfer, the second state, reissued by the German printer David Funck, circa 1700, trimmed to plate margin, sheet size 87 x 136 mm (3.4 x 5.35 ins), hinge-mounted in 20th-century cream card window mount, with printed label of Christopher Mendez, London, plus other various Old Master prints: Jan van de Velde II (1593-1641), Landscape with a Round Tower, circa 1616, etching on laid paper, Hans Baldung Grien after Albrecht Durer, St. Martin, circa 1505, woodcut on laid paper with watermark of a shield, Durer monogram to upper right, with margins, Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), St. Paul's from the south showing the spire (Ecclesiae Paulinae Prospectus...), 1657, published in Dugdale's History of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1658, trimmed to plate margins, Richard Gaywood (active 1644-1677), Tomb of Sir Francis Vere in Westminster Abbey, 1657, trimmed just outside the plate margin, with some marks to sheet edgesQty: (6)NOTESSwanevelt: Dutuit 54, i/iii. Hopfer: Hollstein 77, ii. Durer: Bartsch 18, Hollstein 124.
* Silvestre (Israel, 1621-1691). Veue du Chasteau de Fontainebleau, du costé du grand Canal, & Veue du Chasteau de Fontainebleau, du costé de l'Orangerie, 1678/1679 respectively, two copper engraved views, each with printed caption in French and Latin, plate size 375 x 505 mm (14.75 x 20 ins), with margins, a few minor marks (generally in good condition), matching old black and gilt frames, glazed, together with: After Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Les Delassements de la Guerre, & Recrue allent joindre le Regiment, two etchings, the first published by Gersaint, Paris, the second by Thomasin, and published by Chereaux, Paris, some spotting to the first work, both framed and glazed, plus Larmessin (Nicolas de, 1684 - 1755). La Soriée, after Nicolas Lancret, published by N. De Larmessin, Paris, framed and glazed, and other French antique engravings, including portraits of Boileau by Drevet after Rigaud, 1706, R. Cooper, View of the City and Castle Hill of Nice, a lithographic portrait of Madame Tallien, with contemporary autograph letter attached to the back of the frame by the Comtesse née Tallien de Calamus(?), three engraved music broadsides entitled The Sleighted Lover, The Delirious Lady, and The Submissive Admirer, all by George Bickham, a large engraved view entitled La Peche a la ligne by Benazech after Vernet, dated 1771, etc., all framed and glazedQty: (18)
* Borthwick (Alfred Edward, 1871-1955). Portrait of Tamara Talbot-Rice, circa 1925, oil on board, signed lower right, additionally inscribed to verso Mrs Talbot Rice, and with artist's name and address A.E. Borthwick, 8 Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh, 112.5 x 61 cm (44.25 x 24 ins), period gilt moulded frame, glazed (glass cracked to upper right corner)Qty: (1)NOTESRussian émigré Tamara [Elena] Talbot-Rice (née Abelson, 1904–1993) was a scholar of Russian and Byzantine art. After fleeing the Russian Revolution, she studied at Oxford in the early 1920's, where she met her future husband David Talbot-Rice. With a number of other students at Oxford, they formed part of the salon or open house at 37 Broad Street provided by their G.P. Herbert E. Counsell (better known to them as "Doggins"), which included Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton, later providing inspiration for Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Tamara and David Talbot-Rice initiated and curated the 1958 exhibition Masterpieces of Byzantine Art at Edinburgh, subsequently also shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum,?the first exhibition of Byzantine Art in Britain. Tamara was the author of many publications on Russian and East European art and culture, including Russian Art (Penguin, 1949); The Scythians (London, Thames and Hudson, 1957); The Seljuks in Asia Minor, (London, Thames and Hudson, 1961); Icons (London, Batchworth, 1962), and Ancient Arts of Central Asia (London : Thames & Hudson, 1965). Alfred Borthwick was a painter in oils and watercolour of portraits, as well as landscapes and religious studies (occasionally including stained glass window design). He trained at Edinburgh, London and the Academie Julian in Paris, settling in Edinburgh. He employed a free, wet style in the manner of the Scottish and Hague schools. Elected ARE 1909, RSW 1911, ARBA 1927, RSA 1938, President of the RSW 1932-51. Exhibited RA 7, RSA 88, GI 33, RSW 93, RI 1, AAS 12, L 8. :iterature: Elizabeth Talbot Rice, editor. Tamara: Memoirs of St. Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium (London, Murray, 1996). Herbert E. Counsell. Thirty-seven The Broad, the memoirs of an Oxford doctor (London: Hale, 1943).
* English School. Portrait miniature of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), circa 1790, oval watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, shown with powdered hair, brown coat and white neckcloth, gilt frame with eye-hook and card backing with various ink markings, 6 cm (2.25 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESFox was a prominent British Whig statesman and arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger. He served as Britain's first Foreign Secretary during the ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham in 1782, returning to the post in 1783 under Lord North. He subsequently spent the following 22 years facing Pitt and the government from the opposition benches of the House of Commons. He became noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty.
* Guffens (Gottfried Egide, 1823-1901). Portrait of a man in uniform, thought to be Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878), Last King of Sardinia and First King of Italy, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 73.5 x 60.5 cm (29 x 23.75 ins), later antique-style frameQty: (1)NOTESBelgian artist Godfried Guffens studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp under Nicaise de Keyser. While travelling in Italy, he met the German Nazarene painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck, who had a decisive influence on the development of his style. He is best known for his historical, orientalist and religious paintings and murals, as well as his portraits of the nobility, which include Comte Louis de Baillet Latour, Charlotte de Coster, Baroness De Vicq de Cumptich, and Joseph Thonissen (Belgian Secretary of State, and professor of criminal law at the University of Leuven).
*Manner of William Hogarth (1697-1764). Dorothy Fairfax (1655-1744), daughter of Henry Fairfax, 4th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, oil on canvas, half-length portrait of a lady wearing an embroidered terracotta gown and lace-trimmed fichu, a string of pearls and pendant pearl earrings, and a lace-trimmed black bonnet, a pink rose bud tucked into her bodice, overall craquelure, small indentation lower right with consequent loss of paint surface, old relining (probably late 19th-century), old auction reference in white chalk to verso '228 /1/', 19th-century handwritten label in brown ink to stretcher on verso 'Dorothy d. of Henry 4th. Lord Fairfax, wife of Bennet Sherard Esq by whom she was mother of Philip Earl of Harborough. (1655-1744) by Hogarth', 75 x 62cm (29.5 x 24.5ins)Qty: (1)NOTESDorothy Fairfax was the daughter of Sir Henry Cholmondeley Fairfax, 4th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and Lady Frances Fairfax née Barwick, daughter of Sir Robert Barwick. She married twice: her first marriage was to Robert Stapylton of Wighill, and her second was to Bennet Sherard MP (1649-1701). Her second marriage produced 10 children: 4 sons and 6 daughters, including Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough (circa 1680-1750) and Margaret Sherard, who married the Most Reverend John Gilbert, Archbishop of York.
* Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham. Oval silver medal, 1618, two embossed silver sheets (or clichés) joined at the rim, with half-length bust of Nicholas Wadham, facing slightly to the right, with ruff collar over plain cloak, and the words WHEN CHRIST WHO IS OVR LIFE SHAL APPEARE, to reverse, a half-length bust of Dorothy Wadham, turning slightly to the left, wearing damask gown, high ruff collar and broad-rimmed hat, and the words WE SHAL APPEARE WITH HIM IN GLORY, with four death's heads to the outer wreath-decorated border, 55 x 47 mm (2.2 x 1.9 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESMedallic Illustrations of the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II, 73 (page 220). Thought to have been issued on the death of Dorothy Wadham (1534-1618), daughter of Sir William Petre, principal Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth. Her husband Nicholas (1532-1609), a Somerset landowner, left funds in his will for the founding of what became Wadham College, Oxford. The first stone of the college was laid on 31st July 1610, with the first students being received in 1613.
* Greek Icon. Saint Nicholas, circa 1900, tempera over gold leaf on thick wooden panel, surface-loss, cracks and worming, 26 x 19.5 cmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 'Karazakoi Bala (1916), Struma Valley, Macedonia' (ink annotation verso); as such likely retrieved by a British soldier during the Salonika campaign in the First World War.
* Fletcher (William Teulon Blandford, 1858-1936). Village Gossips, oil on canvas, depicting a fair-haired young peasant girl leaning on a well conversing with a seated woman in a mob cap and shawl engaged in weaving reeds, and a dark-haired young woman seated beside, in a cobbled flower garden against a row of tall gabled red brick cottages with leaded windows and high chimneys, indistinctly signed lower right, 40.8 x 30.8cm (16 x 12ins), framed, with title/attribution plaqueQty: (1)NOTESBlandford Fletcher was one of the first artists to work in Newlyn in the early 1880s, although his sojourn there was brief. He attended the South Kensington School of Art between the ages of 16 and 20, where he won the Silver Medal and the Queen's prize, going on to study at Verlat's Academie Royale in Antwerp. He exhibited at many London and regional galleries from 1879, including the Royal Academy.
* Neapolitan School. S/S Woodcock, circa 1910, oil on canvas of a British merchant steamship off the Neapolitan coast, passing in front of Mount Vesuvius, titled below image, unsigned, 405 x 785 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESThe SS Woodcock was a 1673 ton steel screw steamer built by Gourlay Brothers (Dundee) Ltd in Scotland, for the British shipping firm General Steam Navigation Company, and launched on 7 June 1906. She was designed as a passenger cargo ship, fitted with triple expansion surface condensing engines, capable of a speed of 16 knots, with electricity and accommodation for 44 first class and 16 second class passengers. She made her maiden voyage to Edinburgh in September 1906. Taken over by P&O in 1920, she was sold in 1926 to Societa di Navigazione a Vapore "Puglia", based in Bari and renamed Otranto. In March 1934 on a voyage from Venice to Shanghai she was wrecked off North Luzon in the Philippines.
![* Gordon-Cumming (Constance Frederica, 1837-1924). Kalebooka Valley seen from Relugas [Ceylon], watercolour with pen and ink,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4146f66d-2f98-4dd2-af07-ace100a4025d/9ababdab-41a5-4323-a83b-ace200c4b2da/468x382.jpg)
* Gordon-Cumming (Constance Frederica, 1837-1924). Kalebooka Valley seen from Relugas [Ceylon], watercolour with pen and ink, and traces of pencil, titled and signed lower left, some marks and mount stains to outer edges of the sheet, 21.5 x 34 cm (8.5 x 13.4 ins), period frame, glazed, with early inscription to verso in ink 'View in Ceylon by F.C. Gordon-CummingQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Faith Shannon MBE (1938-2018), artist and bookbinder. Kalabokka Valley is located north-east of Kandy in modern-day Sri Lanka. Victorian artist and writer Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming was born into a family of like-minded travellers, including a brother John who was a Ceylon planter. She produced many watercolours of scenery in various parts of the world encountered during her many voyages. Her Two Happy Years in Ceylon, published by William Blackwood in 1892, was illustrated with her own watercolours. Gordon-Cumming had first visited Ceylon at the invitation of the widower Hugh Jermyn, later Bishop of Colombo, to visit him and his daughter in Ceylon. She reached Colombo on the 5th February 1873, and accompanied the bishop and his daughter on his 'extensive rounds of visitation, riding and driving circuitously across Ceylon'. The present work may date from this same period of 1872 to 1874. A similar watercolour view entitled St. Mary's Church, Kalibooka Valley, dated March 1874, was sold at auction by Christie's, King Street, London on the 5th June 1996 (lot 87).
* Griset (Ernest Henri, 1844-1907). An album of 15 original pen, ink and watercolour drawings, consisting of twelve pen, ink & watercolour drawings, mostly humorous illustrations or cartoons of people and animals, one large pen and black ink illustration of Orlando Furioso & the Lady Angelica, and two watercolour studies of a rustic figure, each signed, the first image in the album bearing a date in pencil of 1865 to lower blank margin, the illustration of Orland Furioso additionally titled to lower right, sheet size generally 28 x 19.5 cm (11 x 7.7 ins) and slightly smaller, the Orlando Furioso sheet measuring 26.5 x 33 cm (10.5 x 13 ins), the two watercolour illustrations 20 x 12 cm (8 x 4.75 ins), all mounted in contemporary half brown crushed morocco gilt album, lettered to spine, 'Grotesque drawings, Griset. 1865', all edges gilt, a little rubbed to extremities, folio (binding measures 43.5 x 30.5 cm, 17 x 12 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), English novelist and illustrator: thence by descent. Ernest Griset was an illustrator for Punch, and a friend of Thackeray, who also contributed drawings to the magazine.
* Murray (Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919). Tableau of figures encompassing a shrouded supine figure, 1870, brown wash heightened with white bodycolour, depicting a male figure in a shroud lying on a bier, encircled by a number of male and female figures in classical garb, demonstrating a variety of posture and gesture, signed with initials C.F.M. and dated on the back of a chair to the right hand side of the composition, sheet size 26 x 39cm (10.25 x 15.3ins), mounted on grey backing cardQty: (1)NOTESCharles Fairfax Murray became Edward Burne-Jones’s first studio assistant in 1867, and was rapidly drawn into the circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Philip Webb. He worked as a stained glass artist for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., working from Burne-Jones’s designs.
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