TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, 13 plates and illustrations (4 colour), advertisement leaf, map endpapers by the author printed in red and black, publisher's pictorial light green cloth, upper edge green, age soiling [cf. Hammond A3(a) and p.13], George Allen & Unwin, [1937]Footnotes:The second impression dated 1937, but actually published in January 1938, saw the first appearance of four additional colour illustrations by Tolkien. Some 2300 copies were printed, although 423 unbound copies were destroyed at the binders during the Blitz in 1940.Provenance: G.W. Sutcliffe, pencil ownership inscription, and further pencil inscription from George to Martin, Christmas 1940 on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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WELLS (H.G.)The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents... Cheaper Edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO EDITH NESBIT, inscribed 'To Mrs. Hubert Bland from H.G. Wells' on the half-title, Methuen, 1903; Twelve Stories and a Dream, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed 'To all the Blands from H.G. Wells (more coming)' on the half-title, New York, Charles Scribner, 1905, BOTH WITH EDITH NESBIT'S BOOKPLATE; In the Days of the Comet, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Nesbit ('E. Nesbit Bland') on the front free endpaper, Macmillan, 1906; New Worlds for Old, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Hubert Bland (1908) on the front free endpaper, Archibald Constable, 1908; Marriage, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Nesbit ('E. Nesbit' in pencil) on the front free endpaper, and with 8 passages marked in the margin with an index of page numerals to these at the end, hinges weakened, Macmillan, 1912, publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo (5)Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPIES FROM H.G. WELLS TO EDITH NESBIT, author of the Railway Children, whom he had met together with her husband Hubert Bland as fellow members of the Fabian Society. Wells wrote that Edith 'was a tall, whimsical, restless, able woman who had been very beautiful and was still very good-looking; and Bland was a thick-set, broad-faced aggressive man, a sort of Tom-cat man. The two of them dramatized life and I had as yet met few people who did that. They loved scenes and 'situations'' (Experiment in Autobiography, 1934). Wells would visit the couple at their 'easy-going hospitable Bohemian household at Well Hall, Eltham' or their house at Dymchurch. The friendship continued, despite in 1906 Bland rallying support to 'defeat Wells's attempt to take over and change the Fabian Society' (ODNB) until 1908, when Wells 'made a bid for Bland's daughter, the plump, attractive Rosamund... [They tried to run away together] but Bland caught up with them at Paddington Station, punched Wells, and took Rosamund home' (ODNB). The two inscribed books were inscribed during the height of the authors' friendship between 1903 and 1905. Edith's copy of Marriage (1912) has several pages marked up, including mentions of prostitution, the Fabian Society, 'Children' and a passage noting that 'The young need particularly to be told truthfully and fully all we know three fundamental things... God... their duty towards their neighbours... and the third Sex'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PHOTOGRAPHY - FOX TALBOTTALBOT (WILLIAM HENRY FOX) Coley Avenue, Reading, salt print from calotype negative, mounted on card, verso with unrelated pencil note in Calvert Jones' hand [Schaaf no. 326], 160 x 175mm., c.1845Footnotes:Fox Talbot set up a photographic studio in Reading in 1844 (the 'Reading Establishment'), and many of the images for The Pencil of Nature - the first book to be illustrated with photographic prints - were printed there.Provenance: Sotheby's, 8 May 1992, lot 138; Bonhams, San Francisco, 7 November 2007, lot 628.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISONDAVISON (GEORGE) A group of 11 vintage photogravures, EACH SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, including views of Harlech Castle and surrounds (6), Mersea Island, Essex (2, including 'The Onion Field'), Bournemouth, Esher and France, photogravures, printed on Japanese paper, original window-mounts, each signed by the author ('G. Davison') in pencil in lower right corner, held in contemporary cloth portfolio with ties (age soiling), captioned on mount (lower right), images approximately 155 x 205mm., sheet size 200 x 280mm., [c.1890-1913, printed before 1919] (11)Footnotes:Fine group of vintage photogravure prints by George Davison (1855-1930), an early champion of naturalism and pictorial photography, exemplified by 'An Old Farmstead (1888), taken with a pinhole camera to produce a 'soft focus', [which] had won a prize at the PSGB exhibition of 1890. Retitled The Onion Field [as captioned in our image], it became his most famous photograph, and was fairly typical of his impressionist style' (ODNB). Davison was a founding member of the Linked Ring, published by Alfred Stieglitz in Camera Works, and having made a fortune through his early involvement with George Eastman and Kodak, was able to establish 'an extraordinary centre for the arts' (ODNB) at his home, Wern Fawr, near Harlech in Wales.Images comprise: 'The Onion Field, Mersea Island', 'The Saltings - Mersea Island' [with additional printed label 'The Saltings. Christmas Greetings 1914']; 'Harlech Castle from Wern Fawr Music Room', 'Harlech Castle', 'Harlech from the Sand Hills [Golf Course]', 'Harlech', 'Towards Snowdonia', 'Near Porthmadog' [with additional pencil note, 'Christmas Greetings 1920], 'Reflections - Esher', 'The Haven, near Bournemouth', and 'On La Chambolle - Aix les Bains' [Houses at Aix les Bains].Provenance: Eugene Goossens (1893-1963) and his first wife, Dorothy Millar ('Boonie'), inscribed inside portfolio 'To Eugene and Boonie, 18th November 1919 from J.V.G.' The English composer and conductor Goossens was a close friend of Davison. He dedicated his Piano Quintet in G Minor (Op. 21) to him in 1921, and was a regular visitor to Davison's home at Wern Fawr, near Harlech (the setting for six of the photogravures in this portfolio); by family descent to the current vendor.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GREECE - LANGUAGEAtakta, 5 vol. bound in 7 (as published), FIRST EDITION, text in Greek (excepting final index volume in Greek and French), dampstaining and browning, rodent damage to blank upper fore-corner of one volume (not touching text), a few colour pencil underlinings and corrections (?probably by Philip Argenti), contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettered 'Atakta' on spines, rubbed, 8vo, Paris, K. Everartou. Se trouve chez F. Didot, père et fils F. Didot, 1828-1835Footnotes:'A five-volume collection of material entitled Atakta (1828–35) [which] includes a critical edition of Byzantine vernacular poems and a total of more than 1500 pages containing lists of about 8000 Modern Greek words with comments on their etymology and usage' (Peter Mackridge, Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976, 2009). Koraes (1748-1833), founder of the Library at Chios, was instrumental in the movement towards Greek Independence, whose 'advocacy of a revived classicism laid the intellectual foundations for the Greek struggle for independence. His influence on modern Greek language and culture was enormous' (Britannica).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
VALLET (PIERRE)Le jardin du roy tres chrestien Loys XIII, etched architectural title, portrait of Vallet, 93 etched plates (numbered 1-30, 32-57, 58-89, 91-95 and 99), all hand-coloured in a good later hand, without the portrait of Robin, light dampstain in the fore-margin of text leaves with some light pencil annotations in the margins, small light stain just touching image of plate 39, modern vellum [Nissen BBI 2039, calling for only 90 plates; cf. Hunt 187; Pritzel 9672], folio (343 x 216mm.), Paris, Pierre Vallet, 1623Footnotes:'THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUM... A WORK OF GREAT BEAUTY' (Blunt). First published in 1608, this second edition was expanded with a further 20 plates and re-dedicated to King Louis XIII. The flowering plants that Vallet depicts were collected and cultivated by Jean Robin, director of the royal gardens at the Louvre Palace. Robin had introduced a number of exotic flowers from Spain and the archipelagos off the coast of Guinea, and a brief synopsis of these is given in the text.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BRUNEL (MARC ISAMBARD)Portrait of an elderly Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), seated in an armchair at his writing table, pencil and watercolour, label on reverse 'Sir M.I.B. writing with his left hand after his stroke', 95 x 78mm., with frame 138 x 120mm., c.1845-1849Footnotes:The present image bears certain similarities to a watercolour by Dubuisson depicting Brunel and his wife Sophia sitting together and published in Celia Brunel Noble's biography, The Brunels: Father and Son, 1938, p.96. He was paralysed by a second stroke in 1845, necessitating his writing with his left hand as shown here. Brunel was painted several times in his career, by James Northcote in 1812-13 (NPG 978) and depicted in front of the Thames Tunnel by Samuel Drummond (NPG 89). The National Portrait Gallery also holds a pencil and chalk portrait of Brunel as an elderly man by William Brockendon (NPG 2525 (28)).Provenance: Isambard Brunel (1837-1902); his brother Henry Marc Brunel (1842-1903); his niece Celia Noble; her daughter Cynthia Noble; Miles Jebb, Lord Gladwyn; thence by descent to his niece, the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WHITE (GILBERT), SELBORNE AND THE HOLT-WHITE FAMILYAn archive of books, watercolour and scrap albums, photographs, portrait miniatures, silver and other ephemera relating to the White, and Holt-White families, including: HOLT-WHITE (RASHLEIGH) The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne, 2 vol., AUTHOR'S COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.55 additional plates (of which approx. 20 photographic, including images of the Selborne Great Oak, the house, etc.), several autograph letters by later family members, and manuscript receipts of eighteenth century, green half morocco gilt, by F.T. Neale of Hastings, John Murray, 1901Silver tray, with the arms of Rebecca White (nee Luckin, 1664-1755) who married the vicar of Selborne in 1687, together the grandparents of Gilbert White (1720-1793), diameter 256mm., hallmarked John Robinson, 1746Album, with artwork attributable to Mary (b.1809), Caroline (b.1811) and Anna Holt-White (b.1813) and other family members, approx. 42 pencil drawings, 18 watercolours (botanical, costume, portraits), of which many signed with initials, 1 gouache of Switzerland, 4 watercolours on rice paper, mostly mounted one per page, contemporary morocco, covers detached, 4to, [c.1832-1840]Album, belonging to Louisa Rose White (1804-1870), approx. 155 mounted engraved or lithographed views of British scenes (including one of White's residence at Selborne), loosely inserted a lithographed plan with view of the Selborne Estate issued for the auction held by George Robins on 28 July 1840, contemporary half morocco, rebacked, folio, [c.1840]Album, associated with Algernon Holt-White (1807-1880), with newspaper cuttings, printed ephemera (electioneering, schools projects, etc), architectural drawings (including 'Plan of the Intended Lodge at... Clements Hall, the Residence of A.W. Holt' signed by G.B. Crowes, Surveyor, 1842), all loose, original calf, worn, folio, [1840/50s]A collection of approximately nine portrait miniatures, mostly of members of the Holt-White family, mostly mounted, framed and glazed, various sizes, [late nineteenth-early twentieth century]Miscellaneous others, including 2 twentieth century albums of watercolours, an album of nineteenth century cuttings with a signed document by Leon Gambetta, approximately 40 albumen and silver gelatin photographs, etc. (collection)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CARLE (ERIC)Original collage of a large standing bear, coloured hand-painted papers, heightened with black pen, pencil and some watercolour, on pasteboard ('Bainbridge Board... Charles T. Bainbridge's Sons Inc., Edison, N.J.'), signed 'Eric Carle' lower right in black ink, and inscribed 'Grrr...[upper right] for Bill with best wishes' [lower right], window-mounted, framed and glazed, 335 x 245mm., [undated]Footnotes:Fine large illustration of a bear executed in collage of coloured papers, and inks by Eric Carle (1929-2021), best known for his Very Hungary Caterpillar and other children's books.Provenance: William Noce ('Bill', 1956-2020), gift from the artist; by whom given to the vendor.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Signature ('Winston S. Churchill') in ink, beneath a pencil portrait by Sylvia Arnold, affixed to a mount with calligraphic quotation from his 4 June 1940 speech in ink below ('We shall fight on the seas and oceans...'), signed and dated by the artist 'Sylvia Arnold/ 1940' on the portrait, 400 x 280mm., with frame 550 x 420mm., 1940Footnotes:Sylvia Arnold joined the office of Lord Hastings Ismay, Churchill's chief military advisor, as a teenager in 1938, and worked in the Cabinet War Office from 1938 to 1947. She travelled with Ismay to Yalta in 1945 and on the RMS Queen Mary with Churchill to America. Another sketch of Churchill, together with her collection of wartime letters, photographs and memorabilia was included in the Sylvia Arnold and the Role of Women in World War Two exhibition at the Jewish Military Museum, Hendon, in 2013. Provenance: Sotheby's, 4 December 1972, lot 464; Christie's South Kensington sale; Private Collection, UK.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
EGYPT - BRITISH SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH AND STUDENT INSURRECTION, 1945-1946An archive of 'Top Secret' materials relating to Egyptian actions against British rule in 1945-6, compiled by Capt./Major L.B. Mountford, S.I.B., C.M. Police, including: 'Assault by Egyptian Mob on C.M.P. Outpost in Ramleh Square, Alexandria, on 4th March, 1945' [...'culminating in the death of two British Miliary Policemen...'], 'Confidential' investigation report carried out by Mountford, upwards of 100 typescript pages, 60 gelatin silver print photographs, including the 'mob' attacking, the aftermath showing the damage to C.M.P. building, forensic images of the deceased soldiers, the bullets, a suspect, etc., a sheet of fingerprints of the victims, hole punched, some pages loose, in original cloth-backed boards, O.H.M.S. label on upper cover, folio, [4-12 March, 1946]'Death of Sayid Abbas Sayid Ritha, an Iraqi of Karbala, from a Revolver Shot Wound Inflicted by 2326931 Sign... of No. 3 Coy., 4 G.H.Q., Signals, Paiforce', 'Confidential' investigation report carried out by Mountford, approximately 70 typescript pages (some signed ink), one photograph of the bullet used in the shooting, annotated in ink, hole punched, in original stiff wrappers, printed 'On His Majesty's Service' label with report subject on upper cover, folio, Baghdad, 1 December 1945'Secret Reports', folder of 'Top Secret' reports, mostly drawn up by Mountford, including: 'Unlawful possession of W.D. firearms. Arrest of four natives', 'Bomb outrages by Egyptian Civilians', '... Hand-made bomb in Sharia Dar El Shifa', 'Arrest of five natives for conspiracy and receiving three Mills Grenades from a B.O.R.', 'Discipline - Officers' [relating to obtaining of a ring from a Greek spinster 'under the promise of marriage... now believed to be false...' by a British officer] , arrest of Salem Abdel Aziz Weheba, a member of the Misr El Fatat (Young Egypt) Society, upwards of 100 typescript pages, some pencil notes and transcriptions of evidence from the Arabic, several photographs of a member of the Young Egypt Society (and S.I.B. informer, noted 'Frequents native brothels in Berka'), loose in contemporary cloth-backed portfolio, inked 'Political Dept., C.C.P.' on upper cover, folio, [1946] Folder of printed ephemera, including hotel and travel receipts (Alexandria, Tripoli, Cairo etc), and 6 pages of 'fairly confidential' typescript instructions relating to drills and allowed usage of words for corresponding with wives of soldiers, hole punched, in original stiff portfolio wrappers, folio, [1946]Miscellany including: 2 letters written by Mountford, from Cairo in July 1946, to his wife ('... Apart from the local bomb outrages things are quiet enough... I have decided I do not like this country, its people or its climate...'); three original caricatures, 2 seemingly portraits of Mountford; six photographs of deceased persons, one captioned in pencil on the verso '28 Aug. 45... soldier murdered by rifle fire by his friend, after an argument. Syrian type, from Transjordan'; metal cigarette case, with 'Oriental' view engraved on upper cover, engraved 'Capt. L.B. Mountford, Baghdad 1945' inside lid, items loose, various sizes, [1945-1946] (collection)Footnotes:'BOMB OUTRAGES BY EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS... UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF W.D. FIREARMS... ARREST OF FIVE NATIVES FOR CONSPIRACY...' - A remarkable archive of top secret case studies kept by a high ranking member of the Special Investigation Branch during the student riots against British occupation in Egypt in the 1940s. Includes reports into the deaths of British military personnel, riots on 4 March 1946 (supported with a series of photographs showing the movements of the 'mob' attacking a police station), the murder on a train of an Iraqi student by a drunken British soldier, illegal sale of weapons, double-crossing Egyptian civilian police officers, visits to brothels, and an understanding of the wider political picture. Mountford, the S.I.B. who wrote up most of the cases, wrote his wife (12 July 1946) that 'I think that the whole shoot of international politicians are actuated by something more than mere patriotic fervour. Big business has got it's finger in the pie again'.Mountford was the source of many of the dramatic true cases written up by Norman Phillips in Guns, Drugs and Deserters. The Special Investigation Branch in the Middle East, Werner Laurie, 1954, a dust-jacketed first edition of which is included in the lot. Mountford is named often in the text.Provenance: Leonard B. Mountford, Special Investigation Branch ('S.I.B.'), Cairo District. In these papers he is referred to either as Major in his role as Assistant Provost Marshal, or Captain in the Military Police. The letters written home to his wife are sent to addresses in Catford, or Bromley, South London, and it is known that on his return to England Mountford joined the Flying Squad.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A collection of Commemorative coins, three Pobjoy Mint silver-gilt Commemorative Crowns to commemorate the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the United States of America 1976; other Commemorative crowns; a Parker Sonnet fountain pen; two steel Parker pens; a boxed Parker steel ball point and pencil set; a pair of silver-plated sugar tongs.
A.B. White (British, fl.1880-1931), 'The Latest News', pencil, coloured chalk, heightened with white, signed.Qty: 1Footnote: A.B. White's illustrations are found in various early 20th Century children's books and annuals, e.g. Stirring Adventures For Girls by Captain F.A.M. Webster et al., published by J. F. Shaw, 1920
Football related programmes and Subbuteo items, annuals, cutlery and flatware, and pictures to include a Science and Technology limited edition lithograph print after Roy Anthony Nockolds published by Thackwell & Co Monte Carlo, titled and numbered in pencil 22/100, 66cm x 90cm mounted in a glazed frame; a wooded river landscape, oil on canvas, signed lower right 61cm x 91.5cm in a gilt frame; an Impressionist style oil on board of a French town scene with figures walking down the street, signed, 63.5cm x 48cm framed; and a framed and glazed print of the Cutty Sark after Montague Dawson (4)Location: LWM
Three War Office Post-Second World War Booklets:- Imperial Policing and Duties in Aid of the Civil Power 1949. War Office, 13 June 1949. Restricted. WO code no. 8439, with a pencil note on front cover: "1300 copies. DN/8439. New."; Administration in the Field.Volume I. Administration Within the Division. War Office, 20 November 1951. Restricted. WO code no. 8690.; and, The Armoured Division in Battle. 1952. War Office, 19 February 1952. Restricted. WO code no. 8715 (3)Footnote:- formerly the property of Major M R R Goulden, R.E., who served in the war as a Sapper and later at the War Office.Condition report: Rusting to staples, some foxing to fore-edges. Generally good condition.
A Second War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Flight Sergeant R. Clacher, Royal Air Force British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (568716 A/Flt. Sgt. Robert Clacher R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 13 June 1946 The original Recommendation states: ‘Acting Flight Sergeant Robert Calcher, R.A.F. Station Scampton, is a Fitter II who has been employed on the duties of inspection of operational aircraft since July 1940. In this capacity he has worked with commendable efficiency. His ability, initiative, and keenness have been of the highest order and an inspiration to those working with him. He has shown exceptional qualities of leadership. In recent months the shortages of N.C.O.s and the relative inexperience of personnel have entailed constant supervisory vigilance and instruction. His technical ability, initiative, and reliability, and his willingness to undertake responsibilities beyond those normally required of him have made him an outstanding figure in his section. He has a splendid record of achievement and has set a magnificent example of devotion to duty.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 2 June 1943. Robert Clacher served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War at R.A.F. Scampton, and subsequently in civilian life with Monarch Airlines. Sold together with the recipient’s Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, dated 2 June 1943; a group photograph of members of No. 617 Squadron taken outside the Officer’s Mess, R.A.F. Scampton, with G. P. Gibson at centre, the reverse dated in pencil ‘17/5/43’ (the day after the Dambusters’ Raid); a No. 617 Squadron R.A.F. lapel badge; and the recipient’s Monarch Airlines Retired Employee identity card.
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901-1979) Carrier Pigeon, Royal Welsh Show, Bangor 1958, Fancy Pigeon series, pencil and watercolour with annotations, measurements 28 x 24 cm, frame 56 x 40 cmProvenance: private collection AngleseyFootnote: In the 1950s and 1960s Tunnicliffe created hundreds of ‘fancy pigeon’ paintings showcasing rare and prized breeds for a series intended to be published in a definitive book on behalf of his friend Thomas Forshaw, who was a fancy pigeon breeder himself. Tunnicliffe visited countless fine breeder collections to observe the birds and also travelled around many of the rural agricultural events such as the Royal Welsh Show to seek out award-winning breeds for his studies.
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901-1979) Show Homer, Fancy Pigeon Series, pen, pencil and watercolour with annotations, measurements 28 x 23 cm, frame 45 x 39 cmProvenance: private collection AngleseyFootnote: In the 1950s and 1960s Tunnicliffe created hundreds of ‘fancy pigeon’ paintings showcasing rare and prized breeds for a series intended to be published in a definitive book on behalf of his friend Thomas Forshaw, who was a fancy pigeon breeder himself. Tunnicliffe visited countless fine breeder collections to observe the birds and also travelled around many of the rural agricultural events such as the Royal Welsh Show to seek out award-winning breeds for his studies.
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901-1979) German Show or 'Beauty' Homer, pencil and watercolour with annotations, Fancy Pigeon Series, measurements 28 x 29 cm, frame 45 x 45 cmInscribed 'as long as a large racing homer, not so large as English show homer'Provenance: private collection AngleseyFootnote: In the 1950s and 1960s Tunnicliffe created hundreds of ‘fancy pigeon’ paintings showcasing rare and prized breeds for a series intended to be published in a definitive book on behalf of his friend Thomas Forshaw, who was a fancy pigeon breeder himself. Tunnicliffe visited countless fine breeder collections to observe the birds and also travelled around many of the rural agricultural events such as the Royal Welsh Show to seek out award-winning breeds for his studies.
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901-1979) Male Ptarmigan, Fancy Pigeon Series, pencil and watercolour with annotations 'via T Forshaw', measurements 26 x 29 cm, frame 43 x 46 cmProvenance: private collection AngleseyFootnote: In the 1950s and 1960s Tunnicliffe created hundreds of ‘fancy pigeon’ paintings showcasing rare and prized breeds for a series intended to be published in a definitive book on behalf of his friend Thomas Forshaw, who was a fancy pigeon breeder himself. Tunnicliffe visited countless fine breeder collections to observe the birds and also travelled around many of the rural agricultural events such as the Royal Welsh Show to seek out award-winning breeds for his studies.
Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756-1827) Newport Statute Fair, Isle of Wightinscribed in pencil with the title (lower centre)pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper13 x 25cmProvenance:Spink, LondonFootnote: The present watercolour was most probably executed during one of Rowlandson's tours of the Isle of Wight in the 1790s. With its recorded population of 3,700 by the early 1800s, Newport was regarded as the most important town on the island.Condition report: 38 x 49cm (framed)
North Wyke Experimental Station, Devon; and The Farm Entrance, North Wykeboth signed and dated 'L R Squirrell 1961' (lower left)watercolour and pencil on paper32.5 x 57.5cm, a pairProvenance:Crepping Hall, SuffolkCondition report: Framed 63 x 88.5cmThe watercolours are in good overall condition and there are no visible issues. Colours are strong. The mounts and glass are dirty. Not examined out of frames.
Aimé-Jules Dalou (French, 1838-1902) A study for Les Moissonneurs (The Reapers) from the artist's sketchbookstamped with the mark of Auguste Becker 'A.B.' (lower right)pencil on paper 10.5 x 18cmFootnote: This study comes from the collection of Auguste Becker, Jules Dalou’s assistant and friend, who had gathered all the documentation found in the studio (drawings and archive documents) upon the death of the sculptor in 1902. A part of the Becker collection was dispersed during the Galerie Delestre sale in 1978, and the rest is still in private hands. A patinated plaster relief of this subject, executed between 1895 and 1898, is in the Petit Palais, Paris.Condition report: 27.5 x 35cm (framed)Generally, the paper is in a good and stable condition, with no visible signs of major damage or repair. There is a vertical crease down the centre where presumably the paper was once folded in a sketchbook. There is light surface dirt and overall discolouration that is expected with age.
J H Bell (British, fl. Bath, 1798-1809) Portrait of Sir John Jervis-White-Jervis, 1st Baronet (1766–1830) of Bally Ellis, County Wexford, Ireland, full-length, as Captain of the Somerset Riflemen, circa 1804pencil on paper, in a black and gilt verre églomisé mount with period frame42 x 30cmFootnote: In 1803, Sir John Jervis-White-Jervis raised the Somerset Riflemen, a company sized unit, as part of the volunteer movement intended to resist an anticipated French invasion. The depicted site on the Somerset coast is identifiable as Clifton Downs, near Bristol. The tower is Cook’s Folly, Sneyd Park, site of the present Clifton Observatory.Condition report: 50.5 x 38.5cm (framed)
English School, 18th century Portrait of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743-1805), in the uniform of Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards, circa 1790coloured crayon and pencil on paper25 x 18.5cmFootnote: Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh was the third son of Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751) and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and a grandson of King George II. Prince William Henry served as Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards (later the Grenadier Guards) from 1770 until his death in 1805.Condition report: 34 x 29cm (framed)
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS by Giorgio Sommer, Fratelli Alinari, Edmund Behles , Robert Bird and others, depicting Italian Landscape subjects, including scenes at Capri, Rome, Florence, Venice, Verona, Milan, Naples and Sorrento, the albumen prints ( the majority sized c. 8 x 10 in or c. 7 x 9 1/2 in) mounted on album pages, the pages with varying degrees of browning/discolouration, many of the images bearing pencil or printed inscriptions underneath, within a dark green Album by De La Rue ,London, gilt embossed ?Photographs' on front cover, the album and binding worn at edges, the album covers with some surface scratching; (two pages have unrelated 20th century inscriptions on them); the images comprise : 1. Observatory Vesuvius 2 La Basilica e il tempo di Nettuno , Paestum 3 L?Ospedale Milano 4 La Loggetta Venezia 5 Tivoli Grotta di Nettuno. 6 Pisa Battistero 7 Torino Piazza S Carlo 8 Moncenisio Vahala 9 Campanile di Giotto 10 Firenze Panorama 11 Arch di Vespasian 12 Arch G 13 Panorama Val Pisano, Rome 14 S. Maria Maggiore 15 Castel di Ponti-St.Angelo Rome 16 Rome S. Pietro 17 Rome 18 Roma Arco di Constantine 19 Roma Arco Antonina 20 Fono Romano 21Rome Campidoglio 22 Foro Romano 23 Foro Vestavano 24 Rome Colosso 25 Arena Verona 26 Venise Place S. Marco 27 Venise Elite de la Salate et Grand Canal 28 Venise Pont de Rialto 29 Sorrento Pris de Capodimonte 30 Bay of Naples 31 Naples Posilipe de S Martin 32 Capri 33 Capri prise des Oliviers de Sorrento 34 Sorrento 35 Naples Cemetiere et Vesuve 36 Bay of Naples 37 Sorrento vieve gene a Capodimonte 38 Grotto Naples (after print) 39 Mummified Figures , Pompeii 40 2 Mummified Figures, Pompeii 41 Pompeii, Vue des Tombeaux 42 Pompeii Ampitheatre 43 Pompeii forum pris du temple Jupiter 44 Pompeii Panorama deiscavi Nuovi e Anfiteatro 45 Pompeii Fontaine Maison au grand balcon 46 Neapolitan scene with figures (after print) 47 Pompeii 48 Wreck of Barque 1860 (after print) 49 A Palace 50 Palace Courtyard 51 Decorated Urn 52 Venice . Crucifixion relief 53 Interior San Marco 54 Interior San Marco 55 Relief 56 Cathedral Venice interior 57 Palace de San Marco, Venice 58 Backwater Venice 59 Interior Church, Venice 60 Venice from high point, with Steamer 61 Interior Cathedral 62 Venice 63 Venice Square 64 Venice, Bridge of Sighs 65 Venice Duomo 66 Venice 67 Interior 68 Venice with Gondola 69 Venice Statue San Marks 70 Iron Gate
WILLIAM MONK R.E. (1863-1937). A collection of unframed drawings, mostly in pencil, a few in pastel, subjects including 'A Rally in Hyde Park, April 4, 1914, against the Liberal Government's Proposal for Home Rule'; various other London scenes; figure subjects, landscape studies; cloud studies; Venice, various dates, many from the 1914-1931 period, the majority in pencil, a few in pastel, unframed, 7½ x 10½ in (approximately 200)
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