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Click here to subscribeTv and Film. Cliff Robertson and Henry Fonda Signed Battle of Midway 10 x 8 inch Colour Print Photo. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.
Lt General Sir Colin Campbell 1st Baron Clyde, (Commander of the Highland Brigade during the Crimean War 1854-1856) hand written letter dated May 31st 1856 to his nephew Edward discussing his travelling arrangements across a flooded Europe mounted in glazed frame with print of 'The thin red line at Balaclava 1854'
Two horse racing related prints, comprising after Peter Deighan, Dunwoody's Best, signed limited edition print number 224/850, 39cm x 48cm, and after Stuart McIntyre, tribute to Lester Piggott, print, 42cm x 46cm, together with after John Trickett, Out For The Count, signed limited edition print number 241/500, 21.5cm x 30cm. (3)
A pair of Indian Madhubani pictures, comprising a cat with fish, and a work depicting a repeat pattern of fish, coloured ink on paper, 25cm x 35cm, together with a Chinese painting on silk depicting a bird on flowering branch, red character mark, 32cm x 24.5cm, and after William Halewijn, study of Middle Eastern women, signed print dated 14th October 1966, 28cm x 21cm.
Four prints, comprising after James Priddey, View Of Snowdon, colour etching, 26cm x 30cm, print of a hare, art by R S Prime, signed limited edition print number 12 of 95, 52cm x 34cm, golfing related photograph, and after Julio Amaro, the black and white study of vegetable pickers, print, 21cm x 29cm.
AFTER HUGH PATON "Venice", black and white etching, inscribed lower left "James Welsh's Trial Proof for The Venice Set", signed to the margin in pencil, together BARTOLOZZI AFTER GUERCINO "Christ and St. John", sepia print, five various watercolours, print on silk of "Winged figures" and coloured engraving "All a blowin'!", published November 1st 1812 by S & J Fuller (9) CONDITION REPORTS Trial proof etching "Venice". Overall measurements including frame 22.2 cm x 44.2 cm. Image size 5.4 cm x 30.1 cm. Condition appears good with arguably slight browning to the paper. The mount is browned particularly to the top and bottom edge. Frame with some scuffs to the edging but basically sound. See images for further detail on this piece and other items in the lot.
PETER S HALL "Two young bears in childrens' clothing", a study, watercolour, unsigned, inscribed top left "For Charlotte Inspiration for the family of bears. Very best love always Peter", 46 cm x 60 cm, together with three further watercolour studies of bears, a pencil multiple study of bears and an unframed colour print of "Lovers by a wall", indistinctly signed within the print
Two sets of six early 20th Century photographic print buttons, each depicting a young lady in early 20th Century fashion, housed in yellow metal mounts, together with a set of six depicting HMS Dreadnought in metal mounts and a further set of six depicting various dogs CONDITION REPORTS All buttons have some fading and some areas of discolouration, particularly prominent on the dogs and the HMS Dreadnought. The mounts have some pitting and wear to the metal finish. Otherwise all have general wear and tear conducive with age and use to include surface scratches, etc. See images for further detail. The round case is very threadbare to the silk and the velvet lining is coming away in places. Possible replacement. The leather outer is ripped, worn and the hinge has been reinforced, etc. The other cases have either been refitted or have wear and tear especially to the corners. See images for further detail.
A set of five print set buttons with hunting theme decoration, together with a set of four cake type buttons, set with hounds and deer and a set of four large buttons set with huntsman on horse and various prey to include fox, deer and hare and a smaller matching button set with deer decoration
RAILWAY PRACTICE Samuel Charles Brees Only 12 years after the inaugural run of Stephenson’s ‘No. 1 Locomotion’ this volume describing the development of the railways first appeared in print. It covers bridge and viaduct construction and is extensively illustrated with 75 plates, 15 of which are fold outs. It was originally published in 1837 in London. It is bound in slate-blue Irish Linen Buckram, blocked in two colours on cover and spine.
* Gillray (James). An Old Maid on a Journey, H. Humphrey, November 20th 1804, etching with contemporary hand colouring, corners trimmed to the painted margin, 255 x 380 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:BM Satires 10300. The caricature is purported to show Miss Sarah Sophia Banks (sister of the naturalist Sir Joesph Banks) arriving at an inn (The Cock in Breeches) with her entourage. Miss Banks was an enthusiastic print collector and numismatist, whose collection was gifted to the British Museum by her brother after her death.
* Gillray (James). Hope [and] Despair, H. Humphrey, April 8th 1802, pair of etchings with bright contemporary hand colouring, old adhesion marks to the verso, each approximately 255 x 210 mm, with another copy of 'Despair'QTY: (3)NOTE:'Despair' shows Richard Bateman Robson, M.P. for Okehampton, who created a sensation by stating that the finances of the Government were desperate and that it was unable to pay its bills. Under pressure, he said that payment had been refused at the Sick and Hurt Office for a bill of £19. 17s. He was censored for his intemperance. Seated behind him are John Horne Tooke, Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones and Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. 'Hope' shows William Dickinson - an engraver and print seller - with Prime Minister Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool on his feet addressing the house in the background.
* Dawe (Philip, attrib.). A Hint to the Husbands, or the Dresser properly Dressed, R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 25th Jany. 1777, mezzotint droll with bright contemporary hand-colouring, slight staining, 350 x 250 mm, together with Carington Bowles (publisher). Slight of hand by a Monkey - or a Lady's head Unloaded, 25th October 1776, mezzotint with bright contemporary hand colouring, slight toning to the margins, 350 x 255 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:The first print shows a lady sits at her dressing table, whilst attended by a handsome young hairdresser, who is arranging her elaborate coiffure. The lady turns around towards her husband who has entered the room threatening the hairdresser with a whip. A smiling maidservant stands at the door making the sign of the cuckold over the husband's head. The second image is a satire on fashion: a monkey on a wall snatches a huge wig from the head of a female macaroni, revealing her to be almost bald, to the delight of a passing butcher's boy and a man picking pears who looks over the wall.
* Starcke (C. after James Gillray). Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or - an Experimental lecture on the powers of Air [1802], hand-coloured etching published in 'London und Paris', old folds, lower left corner trimmed, but not affecting the printed image, 260 x 350 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:An acidic comment on a public lecture at the Royal Institution. The audience includes recognisable politicians, diplomats and intellectual women (‘bluestockings’). They look amused or disgusted as Sir J. C. Hippisley is given nitrous oxide gas by the physician Thomas Garnett and his assistant Humphry Davy. A diary entry by Lady Elizabeth Holland relates an event very similar to what Gillray portrays. Gillray makes the most of a fart joke to reference the ‘hot air’ that contemporaries criticised in both gas research and radical politics. This print is one of several public attacks that led to nitrous oxide research being abandoned because of its proponents’ supposedly dangerous political views. Eight days after the publication of the original etching, Joseph Banks would propose Davy be promoted to Professor of Chemistry. Davy, however, failed to grasp the significance of the gas as an anaesthetic, treating it instead as a curio and conversation piece.
London. Lewis (Samuel). [Atlas to the Topographical Dictionary of England] circa 1844, lacking title and preliminaries, uncoloured folding engraved map of England and Wales and London and 42 (only) engraved county maps, some folding, some spotting throughout, some maps detached, upper hinge broken, contemporary cloth, lacking spine, 4to, together with Tegg (T. T. & J. publishers). New Plan of London &c. with 360 references to the Principal Streets etc. circa 1832, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight staining, short split along one old linen fold, 440 x 625 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slipcase with publisher's green & black label to the upper cover, some wear to the extremities of the slipcase, with Crutchley (G. F.). A New & Improved Map of the Environs of Windsor extending from 14 to 18 Miles round the Castle, J. B. Brown, Book & Print Seller to the Royal Family Windsor, circa 1830, engraved map with bright contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 300 x 240 mm, bound in contemporary green gilt cloth boards, plus another approximately 75 late 19th & 20th-century folding maps of London and its environs, with examples by or after Bacon, Ordnance Survey, Philips, Gall & Inglis, Smith & Son, W H Smith, "Geographia", Kelly, Bowen and Stanford, various sizes and conditionQTY: (approx. 80)NOTE:The second item described. Howgego number 295, state 8.
* Gillray (James). Four caricatures relating to the Weather, Very Slippy Weather, Raw Weather, Delicious Weather [and] Dreadful Hot Weather, H. Humphrey, Feby. 10th 1808, four etched caricatures, all with contemporary hand-colouring, all trimmed to the neat line, each approximately 250 x 190 mmQTY: (4)NOTE:BM Satires numbers 11094, 11099, 11098 & 11097. The first described item is one of the few self-portraits of Gillray, showing him falling over on the ice and snow outside the print shop of his patron, Hannah Humphrey.
* Gillray (James). Mother-Goose of Oxford, H. Humphrey, May 12th 1807, etched caricature with bright contemporary hand-colouring, trimmed to neatline and laid onto a near contemporary card album leaf, 320 x 240 mm, together with Dighton (Robert). Mother Goose of Oxford, July 1807, etched caricature with contemporary hand-colouring, three stitch holes to the left-hand vertical margin but not affecting the printed image, 275 x 195 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:Rebecca Howse, née Wildgoose, was a famous Oxford flower seller who had formerly been a brothel keeper. After she went blind her husband led her around town selling flowers. She became a well-known character, nicknamed 'Flora' by the students of Oxford University. She was immortalised in this print by James Gillray in 1807 and by his rival Robert Dighton, later in the same year.
A pair of historically interesting mid 19th century Mexican silver spurs, with deeply embossed foliate decoration and multi spiked iron rowels, the arms of each finely engraved in flowing script "Su Exelencia Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna", the inside of the arms bearing silver marks, with silver buckles and leather straps. Good Condition. Santa Anna was a prominent though controversial politician who served five spells (some say six) as President of Mexico between 1843 and 1855, playing a notable role in the fall of the First Mexican Empire, the fall of the First Mexican Republic, the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War among other things. He was renowned for frequently switching sides to suit his political ends, and after a series of leadership failures was overthrown and exiled in 1855. The spurs were handed down from a family member who married an American GI during the war and after suffering abuse from him was given them to help pay for her passage back to the UK in 1948. With this lot is a US Treasury Department invoice for bounty paid to John Roberts on discharge from the 1st Mass(achusetts) Vol(unteers) in 1872 (slightly creased and torn), and a print out of the Wikipedia entry on Santa Anna. £600-900
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