TURNER J. M. W.: (1775-1851) English Painter. Two extremely rare, early ink signatures, William Turner, on a slim folio page removed from the Attendance Book of the Plaister Academy at the Royal Academy, London, n.d. (27th - 29th October 1790?). The fifteen year old Turner's bold signatures appear to the recto and verso of the page, which also bear 59 signatures of 42 other students (some signing their names twice) including Thomas Barrow, Charles Brome, William Chamberlain, James Chapman, George Chinnery, Robert Clamp, William Dixon (who entered the R.A. on the same day as Turner), James Earle, William Evans, John Fairbone, James Green, Thomas Hargreaves, William Hobday, Thomas Kearsley, Arthur Morris, Thomas Morris, John Mowson, Thomas Nugent, Peter Ogier, James Oliver, Stephen Ponder, Robert Porter, William Pyne, Thomas Roberts, Joseph Robinson, James John Russell, Robert Saunders, Alexander Scott, Martin Shee, John Tallent, Henry Thomson, Francis Charles Wingrave and John Wright. Several of these students became recognised artists in their own right and some suffered short and tragic lives. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and a neat horizontal split at the centre (repaired to the verso) and with very slight traces of former mounting to the right edge of the verso, otherwise VG Joseph Mallord William Turner, known within his family as William, entered the Royal Academy Schools as a promising student at the age of 14. The young Turner first worked in the Plaister Academy, drawing from casts of antique sculpture. In the biography Turner In His Time (1987) Andrew Wilton notes that Turner's 'name appears fairly frequently in the registers between 21st July 1790 (the earliest record extant) and 8th October 1793. Provenance: Some of the Attendance Books now in the Library of the Royal Academy were once the property of the renowned British collector Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919) and bear his Ex-Libris to the inside boards. Upon the dispersal of his large collections, the Registers, with a number of pages removed, were apparently re-acquired by the Royal Academy. The present, previously missing page, were re-discovered in Australia, tipped into an old Victorian album.
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Takashi Murakami (b.1962) - Murakami the book, 2007, signed and dedicated with a drawing by the artist in black ink on the title-page, with essays by Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf, Paul Schimmel, Mika Yoshitake and reproductions, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York, bound as issued in the original boards and printed wrappers, overall size 325 x 250 mm (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in)
JOSH FISHER (1859-1943); pen and ink drawing of the Duke of Westminster, specially commissioned for the Echo Newspaper for the obituary of the Duke, signed lower left, 41 x 31cm, framed and glazed, also three vintage picture frames and six various prints and engravings, one framed and glazed (10).
Alfred Wainwright, original pen and ink drawing, "The Nantlle Ridge". 18 cm x 22.5 cm, framed, signed (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: Generally good order. The picture is framed and glazed. There is slight discolouration to the edges of the image around the border and the pencil title beneath the green ink title is very faded. The image itself is crisp.
James Ward (1769-1859) - Herd of deer resting beneath the shade of a cedar tree on a rise at Needwood Park, Staffordshire Oil on canvas Painted circa 1814 45 x 34 cm. (17 3/4 x 13 1/2 in) Provenance: Sale.: Sotheby's Olympia, 19th Century British, Continental & Sporting Art , 12th October 2005, lot 9 (as 'Attributed to') A signed and dated preliminary pen and ink drawing by Ward for the present painting was with Leggatt Brothers in the mid 1960s, and the composition and execution of the drawing validates with a degree of certainty that the painting is by Ward himself.[1] Besides the preliminary study, the handling of the paint and structure of the composition compares very closely with a number of other paintings by Ward, such as Landscape with Deer under an Oak Tree now in the Paul Mellon Collection (see Yale Center for British Art, acc.:B2014.5.7), and A Landscape Overlooking a Bay, formerly in the Roland Collection (illus. in Geoffrey Grigson, The Vision of the English Romantics, 1946, p. 7) . [1] Illustrated in an advert for Leggatt Brothers: Connoisseur, November 1966.
Follower of James Pollard (1792-1867) - North Country Mails at The Peacock, Islington; The Elephant and Castle on the Brighton Road A pair, oil on canvas Each c. 52 x 78.5 cm. (20 1/2 x 31 in) Literature: For Peacock Inn : cf. Selway, N.C., The Regency Road, The Coaching Prints of James Pollard, 1957, p. 72, no. 23. Engraved: The Peacock Inn, aquatint, circa 1823 Elephant and Castle , aquatint by or after[?] Thomas Fielding, circa 1826 A larger version (just more than twice the size of the present example) of the North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington , was sold at Sotheby's, London, on the 30th November 1960 (see lot 175), which is now part of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (see acc.: B1981.25.506). One other variant version of The Peacock Inn scene has come to market over the last one hundred years, first offered at Sotheby's in 1937 (see Spicer Sale, 17th March 1937, lot 120), and then again in 1961 (see Parke-Bernet, 10th November 1961, lot 86). The Paul Mellon Collection also hold a prepartory pen and brown ink drawing by Pollard for North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington , dated 1815 (see acc.: B2001.2.1101).
ANNOUNCE THERE ARE ONLY TWO ITEMS IN THIS LOT AS CATALOGUED NOT THREE AS PRINTED (3) IN BRACKETS Carrosseria Caproni Vizzola - Alfa Romeo c1940s: coachbuilder’s original drawing design for a 40-seater Motor Coach on the Alfa-Romeo 110HP Chassis, indian-ink on drafting paper, mounted in glazed frame: together with a companion original drawing design for an Inter-Urban Motor Coach on the Alfa-Romeo ‘500’ Chassis, scale 1:20 signed by the designer and dated 18-6-1948, in glazed frame. Largest 44.5x77cm (3)
*William Crozier (1930 - 2011), five Indian ink landscapes, each signed, two dated August '82, the other three 27.11.82, unframed, smallest 42cm x 60cm, largest 59.5cm x 84.5cm CONDITION REPORT From a local private collector. The two large images have torn pieces missing. Drawing- pin holes in corners and some scuffs to edges
Churchill - The British Gazette, Issues 1-8 [complete run] ( Sir Winston Spencer, editor ) The British Gazette , Issues 1-8 [ complete run ], 8 double-sided broadsheets chronicling the 1926 General Strike (browned and silked) , signed by Winston S. Churchill, Stanley Baldwin and J.C.C. Davidson on front free endpaper , original ms. ink notice captioned as "Original notice to the press of the General Strike May 12 1926. It was sent from 10 Downing Street to be reproduced on the Secretaries Typewriters and was handed by Mr Churchill to the British Gazette in place of a typewritten copy", mounted on rear free endpaper, printed letter to Vice Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall signed by the members of staff from the Morning Post and original T.L.s May 12 1926 relaying a message from Sir Andrew Caird to the Morning Post regarding the printing of an advertisement in the British Gazette announcing the new issue of the Morning Post for one penny signed by the Morning Post's editior H.A. Gwynne (both loosely inserted), original drawing by Leonard Raven-Hill ( mounted on rear free endpaper) and two contemporary prints of the same, attractive modern red half morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, folio , 1926.
WINSLOW HOMER [US 1836-1910], PENCIL DRAWING ON PAPER, C. 1885, IMAGE SIZE: H 4", W 6 5/16", "SKETCH FOR GULF STREAM": Unsigned; framed. Provenance: Mrs. Lois Homer Graham, Poughkeepsie, NY; Joan Michelman, Ltd., NY. Literature reference: "The Life and Work of Winslow Homer" by Gordon Hendricks, Abrams, NY, 1979, p. 196, illustration #299; "Drawings from the Sketchbook of Winslow Homer, cover, Steven Straw Co., Inc., Winter 1979. Unsigned ink drawing of a house and floor plan, 2 7/8" x 5 1/8", on the reverse.
Scrapbook. Japanese scrapbook, circa 1880s, approximately twenty leaves, rectos and versos with mounted woodblock prints and a few original drawings of flowers, birds and animals, patterns, figures, etc., including hand-coloured woodblock prints of an early steam locomotive, an otter, water birds (captioned in manuscript), and an aubergine plant (with manuscript annotations), and a pen, ink, and watercolour drawing of a blue & white vase, original blue card covers (somewhat soiled), bound concertina-style, o-obon, large 4to (33 x 24cm/13 x 9.5ins) (1)
Dartmoor Army Manoeuvres. Reminiscences of the Autumn Manoeuvres 1873 (Dartmoor), manuscript title and 20 leaves with pen and ink drawing to rectos only, some full page and some vignettes, a few initialled W.C.H. and dated [18]73, showing departure for Dartmoor on the train, camp scenes and army manoeuvres, one drawing with some additional monochrome watercolour and one further leaf with pencil sketch, remaining leaves blank, some leaves excised from rear and now missing, plus 3 pen and ink sketches loosely inserted (2 related), contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, 4to (28.5 x 23cm) A modern military presence on Dartmoor is usually dated back to August 1873, when national manoeuvres involving thousands of men and horses, were held in poor weather. Drawings similar to these, by the unidentified soldier/artist W.C.H., were published in journals such as The Graphic at the time. (1)
*BAC - Sud. Aviation Concorde. An original Concorde Technical Drawing for BAC, in French and English titled "Fuselage Cut Outs Diagram" dated 5 October 1964, with Sotheby's Authentication plate No.D20. 4906, signed in ink by Brian Trubshaw (Concorde Chief Test Pilot), 75cm x 133cm, framed and glazed (cracked) Provenance: Given to the current owner by Wensley Hayden Baille who was a collector of aviation and maritime memorabilia. (1)
*Patterson (Frank). 'Yarrow. The Vale of Yarrow....Gordon Arms in the distance', the drawing has a more detailed image of 'The Gordon Arms' in the top right-hand portion, next to the title, the sheet is rather dust-marked, with some creasing, but an attractive image, nonetheless, signed in the bottom left-hand corner, but not dated, 'Cycling Editorial Department' ink stamp on the reverse, with a dark green card mount, image size 13 x 12in (33 x 30cm) (1)
Rolls-Royce 20-25hp. A circa 1934 36pp. large format cord-tied brochure with a single-fold chassis line drawing, good line drawings of the engine, component parts, braking system and specifications, six sepia photographs are tipped-in, showing different body styles, Landaulet, Touring Saloon, Sedanca and DHC, together with the often missing loose page covering the Seven Seat Limousine, the cover a little rubbed and creased on the corners and spine, a Paddon Bros rubber stamp, manuscript date in ink, the editorial in very good order (1)
Pictures and Prints - John Bangay (Contemporary), after, Lincoln, The Caste Gate from Inside, ink drawing, dated '75, titled and signed in ink, 10.5cm x 14cm; another, The Glory Hole, Lincoln; a Day and Son county map of Hertfordshire, framed, 32cm x 43cm; another, similar, smaller, Middlesex, 19cm x 24cm; etc. (18)
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