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Click here to subscribeALFRED GREY (1845-1926) "Cattle watering", a study with trees on a hilltop in background at sunset, oil on canvas, signed bottom left "A Grey RHA", bears old label verso "J D Spence, Print Seller, Fine Art Dealer, Artist`s Colour Man, Picture Frame Maker, 38 Westmoreland Street, Dublin AD 1864", 61 cm x 82 cm (ILLUSTRATED)
North American Diary. My Diary in America, March 4 to August 30, A.D. 1871, a photographically illustrated diary, written up in a neat fair hand by an unidentified Lancashire (?cotton) merchant, possibly ‘A. Dykes’, with three pages of proposed route, 174 pages of diary on ruled paper (approx. 40,000 words), the diary illustrated with 234 mounted mostly small-format albumen print photos (the majority 7.5 x 7.5 cm and similar, the largest 13.5 x 18.5 cm), the diary ending with four pages of actual route taken and eight pages relating to later Alpine Expeditions made by the same author between 1872 and 1874, the American journey starting with the voyage from Liverpool to New York on boar The Algeria, then from New York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Killona, Vicksburg, Jackson, Memphis, Bowling Green, Louisville, Cincinnati, Denver, Georgetown, San Francisco, Calistoga, Modesto, Flornitos, White & Flatch, Yosemite Valley, Coulterville, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Chicago, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Whitehall, Fort William, Saratoga, Albany, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Merrion, Cape May, Long Branch, Newport, Boston, etc., some spotting, a.e.g., contemp. crushed red morocco gilt with gilt decorated spine, slightly rubbed, folio (31.5 x 20 cm). The long trip of nearly six months is partly centred on leisure with much socialising, theatre-going, buffalo hunting, and meetings with relatives, friends and fellow British travellers. However, with a series of letters of introduction, the unidentified traveller does get to meet dignitaries, businessmen, librarians, museum curators, senators and even President Ulysses S. Grant himself: ‘Wednesday April 5 : ‘The [Smithsonian Institute] building stands in the centre of a small park, at noon I called upon Judge Barringer who accompanied me to the White House and presented me to the President. General Grant is proverbially a man of few words so that very little passed between us beyond the usual hand shaking process. He welcomed me to the country, hoped I should have pleasant time and I thanked and congratulated him upon the late Republican triumphs in Connecticut to which the sentiment he responded in suitable terms, and I then withdrew, in personal appearance General Grant is a short thick set man, wearing a closely cropped beard & moustache & during our interview was smoking his historical cigar. I called upon Mr Summer and Mr Bayard and in the afternoon I walked up to the Capitol, but as the old Ku Klux story was still going on I remained only a short time. In the evening I dined with Mr Saville…‘. Other incidents described in the early part of the diary include calling upon Mr Victor with a letter from Mr Belcher of Liverpool, calling upon Mr Houghton with a letter from Richardson, Spence & Co. of Liverpool, calling upon Messrs. Lea, his uncle’s agents in New York; going over the print works at Schuylhill; going over his uncle’s mill with Tom at Morristown; going to the Senate and listening to General Blair making a speech on the Ku Klux Klan Bills. While much of the writing is fairly perfunctory, the author occasionally adds in some local colour concerning his thoughts on indigenous people and workers, religion (including Mormons at Salt Lake City), plus architecture, scenery, politics, etc. The photographs are largely taken from life and show views of places mentioned in the text, plus carte-de-visite size portraits of dignitaries and North American natives. (1)
* Bulldogs. Ward Binks (Reuben), Bulldogs on a Beach, pub. F.Travers Carlton, November 1914, uncoloured gravure, boldly signed in pencil by artist below image, 460 x 830 mm, framed and glazed. Ward Binks cleverly represents the pugnacious nature of his dogs with a line of battleships on the horizon. An atmospheric print published in the early days of the 1914 - 18 war. (1)
* Hokusai (Katsushika, 1760-1849). Fukagawa, Mannen-bashi no shita (Under the Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa in Edo), from the series Fugaku sanju-rokkei (Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji), c. 1829-1833), [but later], oban yoko-e colour woodblock print, together with twenty other views from the same series, all later re-issues, some minor marks, sheet size 25.5 x 37 cm (10 x 14.5 ins). (21)
* Kunisada (Utagawa, 1786-1864). The Kabuki Onnagata Sawamura Tanosuke III, as Hatsuhana in prayer under the Gongen waterfall at Hakone, 1861, single sheet from an oban tate-e colour woodblock triptych, with artist’s signature Toyokuni-ga in a toshidama cartouche, publisher’s mark of Shimizu-ya Naojiro, combined aratame censor and date seal, some marks to sheet edges, 35.5 x 24.5 cm (14 x 9.75 ins), together with another Kabuki print of two warriors by Kunisada, and four others various. (6)
* Utamaro (Kitagawa, 1753-1806). Three girls in an interior, oban colour woodblock print, lightly faded and some surface soiling, 31.5 x 21.7 cm (12.5 x 8.5 ins), hinge-mounted to upper corners only. The left hand section of a triptych showing three courtesans, including one playing a samisen. Possibly one from the series Ongyoku Hiyoku no Bangumi, or Programmes of Musical Entertainments on Eternal Love. (1)
Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Marilyn (Announcement), 1981 Sérigraphie en couleurs, épreuve signée dans la marge en bas à droite. Edition publiée par Castelli Galleries, New York 30,7 x 30,7 cm Cette édition est le carton d`invitation pour l`exposition à la Castelli Graphics, New York, Andy Warhol "A Print Retrospective 1963-1981", 21 novembre - 22 décembre 1981
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![* Scott (Peter). [Wigeon over the Marsh], pub. Arthur Ackermann & Son, Sept. 15th. 1944, colour print, signed by artist i](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2860743/635-201233111158_468x382.jpg)
