CIRCLE OF THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (BRITISH 1727-1788)PASTORAL LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE AND DROVERS AT DUSKOil on canvas104 x 136cm (40¾ x 53½ in.)Provenance:Lady SassoonGeorge Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston sold in the Scarsdale Heirlooms saleSale, Christie's, London, 18 July 1930, lot 93 (as by Gainsborough painted in emulation of Jan Both)Sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1991, lot 75 (£10,000 hammer price) Exhibited:Shepherd Gallery, St. James, London in 1906The Art Treasures Exhibition, 1911Literature:George Encil, Experiences and Adventures of a Collector, 1989, p. 290 (illustrated)Condition Report: The canvas has been relined and is on later stretcher which is providing good support. In the lower left quarter there are some small areas of paint flaking but generally the surface appears to be stable. Under UV light there are scattered areas of retouching mainly in the darker pigment in the foreground including on the cattle. There also appears to be a scratch which runs along the lower left edge of the painting. There are older and finer spots of retouching across the sky. The varnish layer is slightly discoloured and there is some surface dirt. Condition Report Disclaimer
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A Japanese lacquered album containing 48 printed postcards of Japan, including postcards titled 'Nishimon-dori Nanko, Kobe', 'Cherry Blossom at Yokohama Park', 'View of Kawasaki', 'Miyagino River, Hakone' and printed portrait postcards of Geishas.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
PHOTOGRAPHS, RAILWAY. A collection of photographs and postcards relating to railways and Southern railway locomotives, including photographic postcards of engines named 'Brighton', 'Beachy Head', 'Tulsehill' and 'Portsmouth', and photographs of engines named 'Lullington', 'Patcham', 'Hove', 'Edenbridge', 'Southsea', and a cabinet size photograph titled 'Stevens & Sons, Signal Engineers, London & Glasgow, London & South Western Ry., A Box, Waterloo, May, 1892'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
EPHEMERA, ALBUMS. A collection of 9 albums and sketchbooks of women's personal collections of verse, mounted prints and sketches, the majority mid-19th century.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An album containing approximately 762 postcards of various subjects, including British topography, social history, military, cats, dogs, horses and comic, including cards by Louis Wain, F. Spurgin, Donald McGill, Mabel Lucie Attwell, T. Gilson and photographic postcards titled 'Otterburn Mill', 'Five Rise Locks, Bingley', 'Lifeboat Launch, Tenby', 'Millbay, Salcombe' and 'Banjo Groyne and Electric Railway Station, Kemptown, Brighton'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
GUIDEBOOKS. A collection of British travel guides and souvenir pamphlets, including 'Rambles in Shakespeare Land and the Cotswolds' by Hugh E. Page, 'Stroud Midst Cotswold Splendour' and 'Harrow and Harrow School, A New Guide Containing Street Plan District Map and Illustrations, Fourth Edition'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of approximately 54 postcards of Suffolk, including photographic postcards titled 'High Street, Lavenham', 'Bull Hotel, Barton Mills, Suffolk', 'Hartest Village', 'Chediston Street, Halesworth', 'The Mayor's Ball, Eye 19.2.14', 'Swimming Bath, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook', 'The Rookery, Yoxford' and 'River Stour'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
THEATRE PROGRAMMES. A collection of theatre programmes and small group of theatrical ephemera, including a programme for 'Flowers for the Living' at the Duchess Theatre signed in black ink by Nova Pilbeam and Kathleen Harrison, and souvenir programme for the 'Royal Film Performance… Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square London, Monday November 4th 1957' with accompanying ticket and traffic instructions, circa 1897-1967.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
AUTOGRAPH, ROYALTY. A colour photograph of Charles and Diana signed and dated 1983 in black ink to mount, within a Jarrolds of Knightsbridge green leather frame with gilt Prince of Wales insignia, overall 136mm x 193mm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of Ireland stamps on leaves from 1922 Great Britain overprinted mint and used, with Seahorse 2sh 6d and 5sh used, pairs and 10sh two used singles, and 1930s sets mint and used.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A Great Britain 1929 PUC £1 used (small fault), low values used, forged first day cover with 'Congress' double circle and 2010 Royal Mail reproduction pack.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of 29 postcards of First World War interest, including photographic postcards titled 'Frith Hill Camp', 'Hamilton and Rollestone Camps, Salisbury Plain', '1st Welsh R. 3. A. Camp Chepstow' and 'The Duke of Lanc Tr Own Yeo Camp Sals, Plan [sic]', together with 8 reproduction postcards of military locomotive interest.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of approximately 49 postcards of Java, Batavia and Indonesia, including photographic postcards titled 'Kampongsche Koffiehuis', 'Pasar Ikan, Batavia (Java)' and printed postcards titled 'Soerabaja Chineesche Wijk' and 'Station Wonokromo der Electrische Tram', together with a postcard-size photograph of Java.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of 21 postcards of Storrington, West Sussex, including 9 published by F. Douglas Miller and another titled 'A Morning Call at the Rectory, Storrington'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
EPHEMERA, BRIGHTON. A collection of ephemera relating to Brighton property and land, including a sale notice and 'Particulars and Conditions of Sale, of Several Valuable Pieces of Land… at Brighton… On Wednesday, the 21st of June, 1797' with marginalia detailing realised prices, an autograph letter dated 1821 relating to intended houses on Edward Street with pen and ink elevation, an annotated hand-coloured sketch of 'a Plan for a New Street in Brighthelmstone' circa 1820, a manuscript volume titled 'Memoranda relative to, or descriptive of, the Real Estates of William or Sarah Dillwyn, and their respective Titles thereto' and approximately 22 legal documents relating to No. 4 and No. 5 Cannon Place, Brighton.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An album containing approximately 120 postcards the majority British topographical views and social history, including photographic postcards titled 'Alfriston', 'Stratford Co-operative Employees Band', 'Smith Brothers Seed Growers & Merchants, Basingstoke', 'The Silent Pool Cottage, Albury', 'Lower Dip, Blaina' and two photographic postcards of decorated Stratford Co-operative Society horse and carts, together with an album containing approximately 150 postcards, greetings cards, cartes-de-visite, cabinet-size photographs and other ephemeral items.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of Great Britain stamps 1840-1951 in F. Godden album with three 1d blacks (one fine 4 margins), 1840 2d blue (4 margins), 11 reds, surface printed used, 1867 1sh green plate four mint, 1867 5sh rose used, 1883 2/6d, 5sh, 10sh used, 1891 £1 green used, Edward VII ½d to £1 used both printings, 1912 10sh mint, Seahorses to 10sh used, 1929 PUC £1 used, 1939-48 high values mint and used, 1951 high values mint.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Ten albums of stamps, including two early Lincoln albums with Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Palestine, Sudan, Middle East, China, mostly early material, plus loose on leaves (2 boxes).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
PHOTOGRAPHS, TRAVEL. A leather-bound album containing approximately 132 mounted albumen-print photographs, including portraits, works of art, British and French topographical views, particularly of Nice and Monte Carlo, circa 1860-65, leaves 225 x 285mm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of approximately 35 postcards relating to cricket, including printed postcards titled 'H.K. Foster (Captain) Worcestershire', 'J.T. Tyldesley', 'E.H. Killick', 'Cranleigh, Cricket Ground', a photographic postcard titled 'County Cricket Ground, Ashby-de-la-Zouch' and 4 postcards from Series 77 by Ernest Nister.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A set of 20 Taddy & Co. 'Clowns & Circus Artistes' cigarette cards, circa 1915 (1 card with minor surface abrasion and light staining to bottom margin, 2 cards with minor surface abrasion and 1 card with minor marginal staining). Provenance: by family repute these cards were gifted to the vendor's grandfather, an avid cigarette card collector, by an employee at the Taddy factory.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
PHOTOGRAPHS. A leather-bound album containing 19 cartes-de-visite size mounted albumen-print portrait photographs of ethnographic subjects, 14 of the photograph mounts are later captioned in pencil 'W.W. Hooper'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An album containing approximately 256 postcards, the majority comic/humorous, including approximately 83 postcards by Donald McGill and others by Arthur Butcher, Reg Carter, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Fred Spurgin, Reg Maurice, Perly and George F. Christie.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
AUTOGRAPHS, FILM. A collection of approximately 48 signed photographs of actors and movie stars, all relating to the life and career of makeup artist Michael Morris, including a photograph of Spike Milligan signed 'To Mike - thanks for making me feel old - Spike 1883', and photographs signed by Anthony Quayle, Michael Caine, Dennis Waterman, Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Hopkins, together with an album of photographs relating to Morris' makeup work for films including 'Man Into Space', 'Elephant Man' and 'I, Claudius'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Great Britain decimal issues on pages, stock book, loose mint blocks, presentation packs, miniature sheets, booklets.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Six albums containing approximately 1399 postcards of France, the majority French topographical views, railways and street scenes with shop front interest, predominantly Southern regions, including printed postcards titled 'Saint Raphaël - Les Gares P.L.M. et S.F.', 'Les Arcs - Vue de la Gare', 'Cavalière - La Gare', 'Nice - Hippodrome du Var', 'Monte-Carlo - La Gare', 'Cannes - Intérieur de la Gare', 'Bordeaux Le Marché des Capucins', 'Saintes - La Gare des Chemins de Fer de l'Etat', 'Vichy - La Gare' and 'La Haute-Garonne, Encausse, La Terrasse des Hotels et Cafés'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
PHOTOGRAPHS, SCHOOLS. Two albums containing approximately 379 mounted photographs, the majority relating to schools with some social history, British and European topographical views, including photographs captioned 'Twyford School Midsummer 1894', 'Twyford School, Theatricals, Christmas, 1894', 'Pegasus Club Races 1902, Harefield' and photographs of Marlborough College captioned 'Marl: Coll: Choir 1902', 'Littlefield Midsummer 1902' and 'Marl: Coll: Common Room Mids: 1903'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of Great Britain stamps in three albums and two stock books from 1840 1d black and 2d blue, George V and George VI mint and used, decimal issues in mint blocks, booklets, Machins in cylinder blocks and prestige booklets.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Three albums containing approximately 342 postcards and greeting cards, the majority greetings postcards, including several by Louis Wain, Ellam, Lawson Wood, Donald McGill and Violet Roberts, together with two framed Louis Wain prints.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of approximately 42 postcards of Shropshire, including photographic postcards titled 'Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury', 'The Old Market Square & Clive Statue, Shrewsbury', 'The Manor House, Little Stretton', 'Little Nell's Cottage, Tong', 'Littleworth House', 'High Street & Town Hall, Bridgnorth' and 'Hanmer Mere Taken from the Inside of the Church Porch'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Five albums of world stamps, including two Lincoln albums with Great Britain, British Commonwealth and USA, mostly early issues.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A large collection of world stamps in ten albums and stock books, album leaves and loose sorted into packets, with British Commonwealth, China, Europe, South America, Ecuador, flowers theme, Middle East, Austria (3 boxes).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of world stamps in five albums, used, plus box file of German 1920s inflation period stamps unused in sheets (damp affected).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of 26 postcards of Steyning, Beeding and Bramber, West Sussex, including photographic postcards titled 'Bramber Flood, 1925', 'Post Office, Steyning', 'King Charles II, Steyning Village 1913', 'High Street, Steyning', 'The Vicarage, Steyning', 'Bramber Road, Beeding' and 'A Corner of Old Steyning'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of stamps including Great Britain decimal mint with miniature sheets 1990-2014, prestige booklets, self adhesive booklets, plus Gibraltar Year Packs 1997-2013.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Five albums containing approximately 1223 postcards of France, the majority French topographical views, railways and street scenes with shop front interest, including printed postcards titled 'Louveciennes (S.-et-O.) - La Gare', 'Brasserie Lipp', 'Asnières - Vue Générale de la Gare', 'Chateau-Thierry - L'Hôtel de L'Éléphant', 'Nantes - La gare de la Bourse', 'Vierzon - Rue Voltaire', 'Roquevaire - La Gare', 'Aix-en-Provence - La Gare des Voyageurs', 'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts - Architecture Atelier Pascal', 'Ax-les-Thermes, La Galerie du Modèle Etablissement Thermal' and 'Dauphiné - Uriage-les-Bains - Les Tennis'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of approximately 555 postcards of mixed subjects, the majority British and foreign topographical views, artist cards and social history, including photographic postcards titled 'The Post Office, Plaxtol', 'Entrance, Grand Stand, Ascot Race Course', 'Sandown Park Race Course Esher', 'Bombardment of Lowestoft Apr 25th 1916, Cleveland Rd South Side', 'Weald Village, South', 'Waiting for H.S.H. Prince Francis of Teck', 'Market Sqr Pretoria', 'Vaal Ry. Bridge Vereeningin', 'Lewisham Hospital, The Kitchen', 'The Pontoon, Grimsby' and 'D. Coy. East Lancashire F.C.'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera, including two leather-bound albums containing approximately 70 cartes-de-visite and cabinet-size photographs, five albums containing mounted small-format family photographs, a collection of loose photographs, genealogical ephemera and typed proof of 'The Personnel of Fairyland' by K.M. Briggs.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
AUTOGRAPH. A black and white photographic postcard signed by Frank Sinatra in green ink, 90mm x 140mm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of autographs, including an autograph letter signed in ink by Oswold Mosley, dated 5/7/22, a manuscript document signed and sealed by the notary public of Florida, dated 1847, a typed letter signed in ink by Douglas Fairbanks, dated 29th September 1952, and other letters, clipped signatures and related ephemera signed by notables including Thomas Crofton Croker, Samuel Baker, Colin Davis, Gerald Kelly, Basil Cameron, Richard Barham, documents related to sale of land in Canada dated 1849 and 1866 and a framed photograph of Queen Alexandra with facsimile signature.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
PHOTOGRAPHS, RURAL LIFE. Two albums containing approximately 173 postcards and post-card size photographs of the Hayes and McKibbin family at Kents Green House Farm, Gloucester, circa 1910.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of cigarette and trade cards relating to cricket, all part-sets and odds, including 1 (of 16) Barratt & Co. 'South African Cricketers Series', 1 Godfrey Phillips large-size 'Cricketers (Pinnace)', 20 Chums Periodical 'Cricketers', 15 Godfrey Phillips large-size 'Cricketers (Brown Back)' including duplicates and 2 J. Baines cricket 'Well Hit' and 'Well Caught' trade cards for Liverpool and Morecambe.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
PHOTOGRAPHS. Two albums containing 64 cartes-de-visite photographs, the majority Royal portraits, including Sultan Abdulaziz, King Amadeo I of Spain, Queen Maria Vittoria del Pozzo of Spain, Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria, Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Queen Victoria.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of cartes-de-visite and cabinet-size portrait photographs in nine albums.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An album containing approximately 92 postcards of shipping interest relating to P&O line ships, including photographic postcards titled 'P. & O. Stratheden Tourist Childrens' Nursery', 'P&O Arcadia 1st Class Swimming Pool', 'P&O Arcadia 1st Class Nursery', 'S.S. Oronsay - Tourist Sports Deck', 'P. & O. Stratheden 1st Class Dance Floor' and 'P. & O. Stratheden First Class Sales Shop'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An album containing approximately 156 glamour postcards by artists including A. Penot, A. Popini, Xavier Sager, Raphael Kirchner, T. Corbella and Maurice Milliere.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A collection of Great Britain commemorative stamps in ten albums from 1924-2016, definitives, high values booklets.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

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