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Click here to subscribeA PRESSED WOOD PORTRAIT MEDALLION, A COLD PAINTED TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT MEDALLION AND A GILTMETAL RELIEF PORTRAIT, ALL OF LORD BYRON, 19TH C the first 12cm diam++Rim of pressed medallion slightly nibbled, oval medallion in thick old discoloured paint with engrained dirt, gilding on metal object almost all present but slightly rubbed and dirty
CARRINGTON BOWLES, PUBLISHER (1724-1793) AFTER HENRY ROBERT MORLAND THE FAIR NUN UNMASK'D hand coloured mezzotint, 1769, 35.5 x 25.5cm and another, similar, The Beauty Unmask'd, 1770 (2)++Both with old damp damage and repairs, the first with tiny losses on right shoulder; both requiring conservation but attractively coloured examples
BY AND ATTRIBUTED TO MIERS AND FIELD (FL 1823-1829) SILHOUETTE OF A GENTLEMAN; A LADY two, painted on plaster, verre eglomise border, 12 x 9.5cm and 10 x 8.3cm, pearwood or giltmetal surround, papier mâché frame, the second with rose hanger, the first with printed trade label++Slight dust under the glass verre eglomise surround of the gentleman slightly scratched
[JANE AUSTEN] ENGLISH PROFILIST, EARLY 19TH CENTURY A GROUP OF LIFE SIZE SILHOUETTES OF THE REVEREND WILLIAM KNIGHT, FORMERLY AUSTEN RECTOR OF STEVENTON, HAMPSHIRE AND SIX OF HIS CHILDREN cut paper with pencil inscriptions:William Knight born 10 Oct 1798 Rector of Steventon, Hants (1823-1873) died Nov or Dec 1878Elizabeth Caroline Knight (afterwards Harrison) born 17 July 1826, died 16 Jan 1927 buried at Droxford Hants Gertrude Knight born 20 Oct 1827 died 5 March 1916 buried at St Patrick's HoveEdward Bridges Knight born 7 Dec 1829 died June 1878 buried at Dorking or possibly Frederic William Knight born 14 Oct 1828 died 1902 buried at NorwoodArthur Charles Knight born 30 Aug 1833 died in New Zealand about 1902 [1905] or Richard Knight died in New Zealand Richard Knight died in New Zealand [1830-1866] or Arthur Charles Knight born 30 Aug 1833 died in New Zealand about 1902Frances Louisa Knight (afterwards Parker) 13 Feb 1837 died 19 Nov 1911 buried Fair Oak Hants 48 x 37cm, later Regency style ebonised frames (7) William Knight (Austen) was a nephew of Jane Austen and rector for 50 years of the church where she worshipped and where her father had been rector. Steventon Rectory, newly built for William's growing family by his father in whose gift was the living, replaced the earlier house. William was the third son of Jane's elder brother Edward Austen and his wife Elizabeth Bridges.The present silhouettes - an astonishing discovery at the Newark Fair many years ago - are portraits of six of Knight's eight children by his first wife Caroline Portal. They are likely to have been cut and kept at Steventon Rectory during Knight's long incumbency.In January 1809 Jane Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra (at Godmesham Park) "I hope... William will be soon as well as ever. His working a footstool for Chawton is a most agreeable surprise to me, and I am sure his Grandmama will value it very much as a proof of his affection and industry - but we shall never have the heart to put our feet upon it." Jane's warm regard for her nephew was undiminished when he was 19, writing "William and I are the best of friends. I love him very much. Everything is so natural about him, his affections, his manners and his drollery. He entertains and interests us extremely."++Marginal tears, creases and time stains, one or two with water stains
AFTER GEORGE F BRAGG GREAT EXHIBITION BUILDING [CRYSTAL PALACE] ON THE DAY OF ITS BEING OPENED... MAY 1ST 1851 hand coloured lithograph by Vincent Brooks, c1851, arched top, 52 x 68cm, painted faux walnut frame and another contemporary lithograph of the Crystal Palace (2)++Both with stains, dirt and creases, the first print with localised loss
ENGLISH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF MISS ELIZABETH PIGOT OF SOUTHWELL bust length in a dark blue dress and lace cap with ribbons, oil on canvas, 74 x 61cmIllustrated: Boyes (M), Love Without Wings a Biography of Elizabeth Pigot, Derby 1988, p60.Elizabeth Pigot (1783-1866) of Southwell was seven years older than Byron when they met. His mother had rented Burgage Manor as they were obliged to let Newstead Abbey. In Southwell, the small town Byron described as "full of parsons", Elizabeth Pigot at twenty one was a lively intelligent and self assured young woman, an amateur watercolourist and keenly interested in literature. They soon became affectionate friends, exchanging letters and books while Byron was away at Cambridge.His one confidante in the area, she did much to ensure the appearance of Byron's first published work, Fugitive Pieces printed locally in Newark in November 1806.After Byron's death she was of invaluable assistance to his first biographer, Thomas Moore and corresponded with publisher John Murray.The present portrait remained in the possession of the Pigot/Becher family until it was acquired privately by the present vendor. When the collection of books and papers of the Pigot family was sold at Sotheby's on July 19, 1993, the picture was illustrated in the catalogue introduction but not included in the sale.++Lined in probably the later 19th or early 20th c, on the stretcher an old stencilled auctioneer's stock number (1116 CF). One or two small retouched repairs and minor surface scratches lower right and left
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1800-1810 PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICER bust length, oil on panel, oval, 30 x 23cmThe style of the sitter's single breasted tunic and lace at the throat dates the present portrait to the first decade of the 19th century or thereabouts. The relatively plain uniform and black epaulette is of the type worn by some, but not all, of the many penal corps that served in the West Indies. The officer's cross belt shows no regimental inscription.++The medium a little thin in places and with some possible retouching, the varnish requiring a light clean, the panel not warped or split, the giltwood cavetto frame regilt in a bronzing paint and larger chip on edge of frame at 8 o'clock
FOLLOWER OF THOMAS HICKEY PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN small full length in black stock, red coat, yellow breeches and waistcoat, his tricorn on a cannon before a tent in Indian landscape with a fort in the distance, a letter in his left hand addressed J Wallerich Bombay, oil on canvas, oval, 44 x 35cmThe sitter, whose identity may be established on removal of the 'strengthening' of the signature would, it seems safe to assume, have either been a civilian of the Bombay Presidency or an Officer of the same in undress. The tent, a reference to service in the field, cannon and fort taken together point to his involvement in some way with a siege operation. There were several such sieges in the first Anglo-Maratha war, 1775-1782, including that of the great fortress of Gwalior in 1780.++The support somewhat brittle possibly as a consequence of damp and with light overall craqueleur, some retouching, the inscription on the envelope strengthened and somewhat indistinct and difficult to decipher, on what maybe the original stretchers and in contemporary or near contemporary gadrooned gilt frame
ENGLISH(?) NAIVE ARTIST, EARLY 19TH C PORTRAIT OF A CHILD WITH A BASKET watercolour, 14 x 11.5 and a slightly later watercolour of a girl, half length in profile in a blue dress, inscribed Harriet Blake aged 12 years (2)++The first faded and lightly browned, the second brighter with slight foxing
A SÈVRES PLATE, 1793-7 painted with a bouquet and three border panels of birds on a bleu celeste ground, 24cm diam, painted RF Sèvres and painter's and gilder's marks of Sophie Binet nee Chanou and Henri-Martin Prevost respectively and one and a pair of re-decorated 18th c Sèvres plates (4)++First plate broken in two and riveted with chip on rim. The later decorated plates in good condition with slight wear
A FRAGMENT OF CRIMSON DAMASK OF THE NEWLYWED BYRONS' BED HANGINGS FROM HALNABY HALL, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH C approximately 4 x 47cmProvenance: John Todd, by whom acquired with his purchase of Halnaby Hall and estate from Sir John Milbanke in 1843; thence by descent at Halnaby to Lady C J C Wilson-Todd, nee Russell (1860-1948); her nephew, Brigadier General Henry Pelham Burn and his wife Mrs Katherine Eileen Staveley Pelham Burn, nee Staveley-Hill (1903-1989) by who given to the present vendor in November 1974.Illustrated: The bed and it's hangings were photographed in situ at Halnaby Hall for the Country Life article published April 8, 1933.After an engagement of four months from September-December 1814, Byron and Annabella Milbanke were married on January 2nd, 1815. The honeymoon was spent at the Milbanke seat Halnaby Hall in Yorkshire. In addition to Lady Byron's Statement and Narrative in connection with the subsequent separation there are the accounts of servants and others including Samuel Rogers who recalled reading in Lord Byron's own destroyed memoirs: "on his marriage-night, Byron suddenly started out of his first sleep: a taper which burned in the room, was casting a ruddy glare through the crimson curtains of the bed; and he could not help exclaiming, in a voice so loud as to awaken Lady Byron "Good God I am surely in hell!" Writing of the morning after, Annabella recorded "Perhaps the deadliest chill that ever fell on the morning after my wedding day; he was late in appearing, but as soon as he came down stairs I went to him in the Library. With the most forbidding aspect and in the tone of cold sarcasm, he said, "It is too late now - it's done you should have thought of it sooner". Lady Byron's Statements were written a year or more after the events of that ill fated three weeks at Halnaby at the request of her lawyers. Matters of fact are probably to be relied upon but less confidence can be attached to certain inferences: "One night in bed he said he would tell me to what he alluded as preying upon his mind, if it were not another person's secret. I asked if Augusta knew it. He replied with the greatest horror "O for God's sake don't ask her." He said he never ought to have married me, on account of former circumstances... he absented himself from me during the greater part of the day at Halnaby..." Later, in the same Statement: "He used to get up almost every night, and walk up and down the Long Gallery in a state of horror and agitation which led me to apprehend he would realise his repeated threats of suicide..." and later that night, or another night "....after he had been walking up and down the Long Gallery at Halnaby like a maniac and he returned to bed I laid my head upon his shoulder and he said you should have a softer pillow than my heart".++Good condition
TWO BLUE OR BLACK PRINTED PEARLWARE TEAPOTS AND COVERS, C1800 the first with ochre enamel rims, the second with chained cover, 15 and 16cm h and a Wedgwood blue and black printed whiteware copy of John Wesley's teapot and cover, c1900 (6)++Blue and white example - small chip to tip of spout and minor chips around the cover, the interior of the teapot stainedBlack printed example - tip of spout chipped, flange of cover damaged not visible when in positionWesley teapot and cover in good condition
GEORGE WHITE ( 1684-1732) AFTER SIR JAMES THORNHILL JOHN SHEPPARD mezzotint, 35 x 25cm and two other mezzotints, William Faithorne after John Closterman - Lord Henry Scot and A Blooteling - Charles Earl of Derby (3)++Minor creases, surface dirt and slight stains but all acceptable, the first thought to be a proof
ENGLISH NAIVE ARTISTS, EARLY 19TH C PORTRAITS OF AN OFFICER AND OTHERS one with inscription and date on the backboard E.T.S. Ipswich 1846 aet 13, ink and watercolour, the first heightened in gilt, 14 x 10cm and c, rosewood, maple or other frames (5)Provenance: (Officer) according to a letter of Muriel de Crespigny of Blandford Dorset to a Mrs Ffinch, May 7th, 1939, the portrait is of the writer's great uncle Robert.
BOWLES & CARVER, PUBLISHERS (1793-1832) AFTER ROBERT DIGHTON QUARRELSOME TAYLORS OR TWO OF A TRADE SELDOM AGREE hand coloured mezzotint, 1793-1795, 33.4 x 25.5cm and a similar contemporary print published by Carrington Bowles - A Deep One and a Knowing One (2)++The first a particularly attractive example with one or two minor stains and spots, the second with tiny retouched repair above stick held in left hand
SCOTLAND. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO GENERAL JOHN CAMPBELL, 4TH EARL OF LOUDOUN (1705-1782) comprising: 1. Major David Cuningham, autograph letter signed, Stirling Castle, April 6th 1753, 1s a detailed request for clothing for "97 private men, 4 corporals, 2 drummers & 4 sergeants" and in addition, because "our Drums are very bad, so I wish you could order me two new Ones..." 2. Major General James Mure Campbell of Rowallan, 5th Earl of Loudoun (1726-1786) autograph letter signed, Edinburgh, March 16th, 1754, 1.5s, on various matters including the imminent General Election 3. The same Rowallan, May 4, 1754, letter signed also on the election "...Bailley Glen will certainly be at Ayre, but says he cannot travel in a wheel machine I shall send to him on munday and shall see to provide him in a horse if he wants one..."4. Christopher D'Oyly (c1717-1795) First Clerk War Office, letter signed, War Office, August 27, 1763, 1s, about a deserter 5. Elizabeth, Lady Cathcart (1691-1789) letter signed, Tewin Water, May 6th, 1770, 1s, requesting a "way of applying for an Apartment in Summerset House or a small one in St James's Palace (taped tear)6. Carrington, letter signed, War Office, October 30, 1770, 1s, concerning enlistment7. Sir John Dalrymple (1726-1810) autograph letter in third person, ?place, April 5, 1771, 1s, entreating Loudoun's assistance on behalf of two young brothers and two other 18th century letters to the Countess of Loudoun, one from Mrs Fullarton of Fullarton Park (informing her that she has sent "six pounds of breakfast tea... the price is seven shillings and six pence per pound", and two enclosures (9)++++
SAMUEL FREEMAN (1773-1857) AFTER MARIANNE, MRS LEIGH HUNT LORD BYRON AS HE APPEARED AFTER HIS DAILY RIDE AT PISA & GENOA engraving, published by R Ackermann, 1826, 28.5 x 20cm, another, the same published by H Colburn, 1828 and a silhouette of Shelley (3)++The first print lightly browned and water stained, the others in good condition
A CREAMWARE CHAMBER POT AND TWO EARTHENWARE CHAMBER POTS, EARLY AND MID 19TH C the first printed and painted to the interior with an aghast man saying "O! Me what do I See" the exterior with two verses in brightly painted surround, 32cm over handles++Creamware pot with long winding horizontal riveted crack in the lower part of the body otherwise good condition, no professional restoration. The two other pots with some professional restoration
JOHN MARSHALL, PUBLISHER (FL LATE 18TH C) THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON a set of four, etchings published 1790, 11.5 x 16.5cm and others comprising Paul Barnaschina - The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Carrington Bowles - The Parable of the Prodigal Son, two part sets of four and three respectively and J Evans - Louis XVI Taking Leave of his Family.... and the Death of Louis XVI... (13)++The first four in apparently very good condition in early ebonised frames. The others in typical dusty/lightly stained condition, unrestored
CARRINGTON BOWLES, PUBLISHER (1724-1793) PLENTY hand coloured mezzotint, 41 x 30cm and Bowles & Carver - A Sharp between Two Flats (2)++The first somewhat grubby with handling marks and minor creases, the second heavily stained with title inked in and small losses upper centre. Requiring conservation
Isabella ConYErs, 1828 Quin Abbey pencil, 16 x 19cm, a drawing of a farm by an early 19th c naive artist and four other small drawings and prints (6)++The two first items in reasonably good condition with slight fading/time staining, the others in variable condition as will be apparent from the images
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS WRIGHT (1773-1845) OF UPTON HALL NOTTINGHAMSHIRE UNPUBLISHED ILLUSTRATED AUTOGRAPH MEMORIAL POEMS TO HIS SONS each of eighteen lines (two octave stanzas and a couplet) written in a neat hand in brown ink on card "To the memory of Charles Manners Wright aged 8 years Died April ye 29th 1816/Thomas Langford Wright aged 10 years died April ye 18th 1829" on card, the upper third with watercolour portrait, sky background, 14.5 x 10.5cm, contemporary scarlet morocco cases Of the family of well known Nottingham bankers, the art collector, patron of J M W Turner and admirer of Richard Wilson, Thomas Wright was himself an accomplished amateur landscape painter. He wrote the first biography of Richard Wilson, published in 1824. He married in 1804 at Averham, Newark a widow, Sophia Frances Sutton, nee Chaplain (1770-1844), the mother of the two young boys commemorated. Wright built the neo classical Upton Hall near Southwell to house his picture collection. The house survives as the BHI Museum of Timekeeping.++Good condition, leather cases slightly scratched and stained
ENGLISH PROFILIST, EARLY 19TH C EIGHT SILHOUETTES OF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE READ, CREED AND VINCENT FAMILIES cut paper, together mounted, inscribed with the sitter's names, several dates and three watercolour shields of arms, 35 x 25cm, two silhouettes of ladies called Miss A Birch and Miss Ryves September 1783, painted on paper together framed and the silhouette of two children, 1980 in Regency style frame (3)Of the first item, seven of the eight sitters can be identified as Major Henry Creed (1732-1786) of the 33rd Regiment and his wife Hannah Creed, nee Read (b1747), their sons George Vincent (1753-1832) and ExhamVincent (1763-1818), George's wife Elizabeth Vincent, nee Read (1766-1837) whom he married at Leeds on May 26th 1784, their son George Vincent (1788-1862) and her mother Hannah Read, nee Buxton (1711-1783).
EDWARD FISHER (1722-1782) AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MISS KITTY FISCHER [FISHER] mezzotint, published by Robert Sayer [1759], 35 x 25cm and three other contemporary mezzotints of ladies comprising John Raphael Smith after Sir Joshua Reynolds - Mrs Mordaunt, James Wilson after Francis Farrel - Miss Louisa Williams and Richard Houston after Francis Hayman - The Sense of Hearing (4)++The first in apparently very good condition with some very faint spotting, the three others in typical country house condition with old dust and time stains
A George III oak longcase clock, 30cm square brass dial inscribed Pattison, Halifax, Roman and subsidiary Arabic numerals, rolling moon phase to arch, subsidiary calendar dial, engraved to the centre with ho-ho birds and swags, 30-hour movement striking on a bell, the case with swan neck pediment and brass sphere finials, shaped rectangular door to waist flanked by reeded quarter columns, plinth base, 233cm high, c.1775John Pattison of Halifax was working 1760-1801, at first as partner of John Burton, but took over business on latter's death in 1783.
A collectors' lot to include a pair of WWI leather gaiters, a Morse code signalling arm, a commemorative brass plate for the Coronation of George VI May 12th 1937, a certificate of character of No.2464 Private Alfred Charles Butler of Army Reserve and First Regiment of Dragoons, 20th June 1891, a cased OBE medal with framed and glazed certificate signed by Queen Elizabeth, presented to Cecil Edward Butler Esq 12th June 1958, a Buffaloes Grand Lodge silver medal presented to Brother William CF Duffy 2nd June 1932, an Aero Club Association enamel badge and a small quantity of tie pins, cufflinks etc.
A pair of c1750 figures, a young man in period costume playing the flute and tambourine, hand-painted and gilt-heightened with applied floral decoration and a young woman in period costume with applied floral decoration and dance mask in hand (af), both on stylised floral-decorated stepped bases, red anchor marks to bases, height of each approx 17cm, a further pair of c1750 figures of a lady and gentleman in period costume, the gentleman playing the flute, the lady holding flowers, each standing against a background of a flower-strewn tree, hand-painted and gilt-heightened decoration, both on stylised flower-applied and gilt-heightened bases, with red anchor marks to the back, height of each approx 17cm and a Continental figure of a young lady holding a lamb (af) (5). CONDITION REPORT First pair: There is something missing from one of the lady's hands, some floral decoration is chipped and broken. Some signs of age-related wear, no obvious signs of restoration.Second pair: Some signs of age-related wear, no obvious signs of restoration.Lady with lamb: One of the lamb's legs has broken off, some age-related wear. No obvious signs of restoration.
A black Echolac briefcase containing a quantity of ephemera to include, 'Royal Air Force Guide to Service for Non-Commissioned Officers', 'Release and Resettlement' booklet, 'Services Guide to Cairo' and other Air Force related booklets, a quantity of photographs and copy photographs of aircraft to include Concord, first day covers related to British Aerospace, first day cover and commemorative coin for the first supersonic commercial flight London to Bahrain on Concord, other Concord-related ephemera to include the menu, an album containing various militaria-related ticket stubs, photographs from Egypt, Istanbul and various other locations in the Middle East etc.
A large collection of mainly 20th century hardback publications to include 'At Lady Molly's' by Anthony Powell, 'Margaret Ogilvy' by her son, J M Barrie, 'The Devils of Loudun' by Aldous Huxley, 'Masquerade' by Sir Terry Pratchett, 'Selected Poems' by John Masefield with handwritten paper label to the inside front board, as this was the first book issued by Cardiff Public Central Libraries, which opened on Friday June 27th 1930, etc (2).
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