LIBERTY & CO: a 'Cymric' silver bowlBirmingham 1902The design attributed to Archibald Knox, the stylised circular bowl on three raised flat-sectioned hooped feet, each inset with a chrysoprase cabochon, length 17cm, diameter of bowl 16.5cm.Footnotes:The Property of a Private European Collector. 'The Seawolf Collection'Published in The Seawolf Collection, a personal touch, late 19th and 20th century silver. Published by Rotterdam : Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen : NAi Publishers in Association with Veena Duncker, VD Private Collections, Munich, 2003,pages 80.Published to accompany a travelling exhibition.Literature: A sketch of a variation of the bowl: Liberty & Co, record books of silver sketches, Victoria and Albert museum, no.2047For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Brigadier-General the Honourable "Alec" Alexander Villiers Russell CMG, MVO (1874-1965) - his important and unique archive, including the Boer War Staff Diary, Gabbes Column, August 22nd to December 1901, Kept by Major the Honble A.V.F.V. Russell/S.O.., inscribed in ink MS by Russell throughout typical records of military life during the war, including conflict with the enemy, loosely inserted sepia photograph of the column and a 'Rough Sketch from memory of engagement at Bloedzuigers on 22.12.01 showing positions of opposing forces at about 12 noon'; previously unpublished memoirs in their entirety, "My World as in my Time": Some reminiscences of [...] Russell], Parts I & II, typed MS in two ledgers, from birth to entry in World War Two, including insights to Russell's Sandhurst contemporary Sir Winston Churchill; excerpt from the latter which has before been published, a typed manuscript of his Berlin memoirs, From the Fighting Forces, March 1924: Reminiscences of the German Court, a further two carbon copies, (3); his photograph album, applied with images of his life from serving as attaché in Berlin before the war - leisure and work, the ambassador Sir Edward Goschen, various manoeuvres with his fellow attachés in Sweden, the King of Sweden, the Kaiser's Birthday Parade, a zeppelin and the Ottoman Turkish leader Enver Pasha, further family scenes throughout the first-half of the 20th century, boundary commission work in Hungary, Brigadier-General Russell inspecting the Sussex Cadets in World War Two, further post-War life, including family homes and pets, marbled ledger album; Edwardian period studio portrait photograph of the then Major Russell, easel frame; World War One, 4 Mentioned in Despatches certificates, dated from 4th January 1915 - 8th November 1918, (4); Mrs Russell's photograph album, compiled in England during World War One, and illustrated with b/w photographs of domestic life, the Russells' children at various ages, etc., including the then Major home on leave, some inserted telegrams, the album itself partially-full, contemporary morocco binding by Truslove & Hanson Ltd., stamped, earlier carte-de-visites of the young Hon. Alexander Villiers Russell taken in Berlin where his father was German Ambassador, the album 21.5cm x 17.5cm; his own copy of Cecil Hunt's book 'The Gallant Campeador, London: 1941, 8vo; a late Victorian Russell family photography album, comprising b/w photographs of British and Irish country houses, leisurely photographs of the family, their dogs, cattles and a fox hunt, regimental and further formal dinners, a trip to India via the Suez Canal, illustrating Lucknow and its ruins, ancient sites, Colonial architecture and further edifices of the Raj, boats, trains and railways, further transport infrastructure, monkeys, scenes of domestic native life, etc., quarter-calf over cloth album, oblong 4to (disbound); further loose photographs, studio portrait photographs of Russell before, during and after the Boer War, others of his wife as a debutant, their children, etc; correspondence, including those of celebration and consolation on Buckingham Palace and Sandringham headed notepaer; General Russell's ticket for the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as a director of the Sun Insurance Office Ltd., correspondence relating to his directorship; Elizabeth II 1953 Coronation souvenir programmes, (2); the Russell's visitor's book, Ketches, Newick, Sussex, inscribed from January 9th 1937 to 21st & 22nd January 1957, illustrated with b/w family photographs throughout, contemporary green calf (disbound, rubbed and worn), oblong 4to; [archive collection]The Hon. Alexander Victor Frederick Villiers Russell (1874-1965) was the son of Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill of Milton Ernest Hall, Bedfordshire, and Lady Emily Theresa Villiers. He was educated at Wellington College before entering the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Gaining the rank of brevet Major in 1899 serving in the Grenadier Guards. Fighting in the Boer War between 1899 and 1902 he was twice mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the Queen's Medal with 6 clasps and the King's with 2. Subsequently he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1908. Between 1908 and 1910 Russell was a General Staff Officer at the War Office before serving as the Military Attaché in Berlin just prior to World War One, and subsequently fighting at the front and being mentioned in despatches three times. In 1918 Russia and France, grateful Allied Powers, awarded the then Major Russell the Companion Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) and the Chevalier Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur. With peace held the office of Military Attaché to Berne with the rank of Brigadier-General from 1919-1920. After which he went on a special mission to Chile later in 1920, and then held the office Romanian Boundary Commissioner between 1921 and 1926. Later, in much-earned retirement, and after the death of wife Marjorie (née Guiness) in 1949, Brigadier-General Russell became a director of the Sun Insurance Office. Provenance: Direct family descent until consigned for sale by the recipient's eldest son.
Local Interest - an archive collection of Miss F Martin, Sheffield, late 19th/early 20th century: three cloth bound sketchbooks with ties, each 7 x 4in (18x10cm) with sketches, sepias and watercolours of N Derbyshire & South Yorkshire scenes; also a collection of unsigned watercolours on cartridge paper, sizes ranging from 7 x 4 in (18 x 10cm) to 9.5 x 7in (24 x 18cm) also 14 x 10in (36 x 25.5cm), all country scenes; four mounted watercolours signed F Martin, 1887 & 1888, two competent watercolours by JLB: East Hagbourne, Berks 7/9/1869 & In Appuldurcombe Park IoW 8/1859, four others by various anonymous hands, mid-20th century rolled up print of harbour scene signed on mount S. Billin 32 x 39.5cm; Album 6.5 x 8 (16.5 x 20cm) 1898 onwards with quotations, sketches and cartoons, incl. a sketch of Norton (Derbys.) by Charles Ashmore & a print of Wagner; set of four German lithographic 19th century scenes 22 x 13cm, also 7 colour prints of paintings of the Thames and Wey valleys by Albert Bowers, some family photographs and printed ephemera, also 8vo leather bound Lord Wharton Bible & Book of Common Prayer, (Oxford 1846) impressed donation rubric on (detached) cover & contemporary inscr. on flyleaf., along with framed watrercolour of an upland river valley, signed F Martin/1901, [collection]
Hydrotherapy & Topography - [Phillips (Richard)], A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a Description of the Lakes; A Sketch of a Tour in Wales; and Itineraries, Illustrated with Maps and Views, A New and Improved Edition [...], London: Printed for Richard Phillips, [n.d. 1810], pp: iv, 1-244, [lacking Folkestone: 245-248], 249-528, [8], 2 ink MS pages of lists, illustrated with 34 engraved plates (of which 5 are folding), 22 engraved maps (of which 6 are folding) and 1 fold-out chart, 20th century red half-morocco over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth of Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers en suite, 12mo, (1); Granville (A.B., M.D., F.R.S.), The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Midland Spas, London: Henry Colburn, 1841, pp: ix, [i], 324, frontispiece, vignettes throughout, fold-out table to recto (torn with losses), contemporary half-calf over cloth boards, 8vo, (1); etc., (1), [3]
Modern First Editions: Sassoon (Siegfried): Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, with Illustrations by Barnett Freedman, first illustrated edition, London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1931, 15 colour illustrations, further vignettes, pictorial cloth over boards and endpapers, 8vo, &, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, with Illustrations by William Nicholson, first edition, second impression, London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1929, 7 woodcuts, further vignettes, pictorial cloth and endpapers, 8vo, (2); Association Copy, Sitwell (Osbert), Triple Fugue, first edition, London: Grant Richards Limited, 1924, contemporary cloth over boards, Ex Libris Martin Secker, Bridgefoot [House], Iver, [Buckinghamshire], 20th century Pictorial bookplate to recto pastedown and tipped-in typed and signed 'Private & Confidential' letter from the author on notepaper from his Carlyle Square residence to Martin Secker [of Secker & Warburg] viz. the 'swindler' Grant Richards, dated February 15th, 1957, later 20th century Chippendale Armorial bookplate: Ex Libris Robert Innes-Smith, 8vo, (1); Sitwell (Osbert): Escape with Me!: An Oriental Sketch-Book, London: 1940, red cloth, 8vo, &, Collected Stories, London: 1959, ex-lib, 8vo, (2); Children's, Struther (Jan), Sycamore Square and Other Verses, Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, first edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932, green cloth pictorial gilt, 8vo, (1); Wodehouse (P.G.), Very Good, Jeeves!, first edition, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930, contemporary orange cloth, 8vo, (1); etc, [8]
Topography - Bingley (Rev. W., F.R.S.), A Tour Round North Wales, Performed During the Summer of 1798: Containing [...] a Sketch of the History of the Welsh Bards; An Essay on the Language; Observations on the Manners and Customs; and the Habitats of above 400 of the more rare Native Plants; intended as a Guide to future Tourists, first edition, two-volume set, London: Sold by E. Williams [...], 1800, pp: [ii], 8, xvi, 513; viii, [483] (mispaginated: 240, 225-468), volume II with 16 copperplate printed pages of 'Select Specimens of Welsh Music' at pages 290/291, 4 full-page aquatints engraved by Samuel Alkin (1756-1815) after The Reverend William Bingley, F.R.S. (1774-1823): 2 per volume, contemporary speckled calf, the covers outlined with a gilt single-fillet,the spines gilt-lettered and tooled in the Regency taste, red-stained edges, volume I recto pastedown with a contemporaneous ink MS inscription: Bought at Bingley's Sale Nov:r 1818, ** Lloyd, 8vo, [2]
Books - Topography and Local Interest - The Aristocratic Estate: The Hastings in Leicestershire and South Derbyshire, 1982, original wrappers, 8vo; further Derbyshire and Leicestershire interest; Nottingham through 500 Years: A Short History of Town Government, 1949, pictorial dustjacket over green cloth board; further Nottingham and Nottinghamshire history; other county and municipal works; Automobilia, The Roadfaring Guides, No. 3: Road Touring in Central England, Illustrated by Original Sketch Maps, London: [n.d., c. 1920]; cartography, further early 20th century and later maps, including Ordnance Survey; pamphlets, many of regional interest; some signed and dedicated association copies, [2 boxes]
UNATTRIBUTED; oil on board, coastal town scene with various figures and waves breaching harbour wall, 25 x 35cm, framed and glazed, unattributed; watercolour, a cow, indistinctly signed lower right, framed and glazed, a sketch of a moustachioed gentleman smoking a pipe, framed and glazed and a set of three sepia photographs mounted in single glazed frame (4).
A collection of books including 'English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages', 'Common Objects of the Sea-Shore' (illustrated), 'ABC of Gothic Architecture', 'The Clans and Tartan of Scotland', 'The Elements of Drawing' by Ruskin (1857), 'A Sketch of Chinese Arts and Crafts' by Hilda Arthurs Strong, 'The Book of English Place Names', 'Treen or Small Woodware Throughout the Ages' and 'A Handbook of Celtic Ornament' (9).
HENRY SCOTT TUKE (1859-1929) Boys diving from a rowboat, pencil sketch, 22cm x 15.5cm together with a further sketch of sailing yacht mooring by a quay, both signed by the artist, 23.5cm x 19.5cm Condition: both with some minor marks to the paper and set in frames with minor marks but generally good condition overall
TWO FRAMED PENCIL SKETCHES one with a label to the reverse attributing them to Reverend Henry Robinson Wadmore, both of architectural studies, within reeded ebonised frames, both unsigned, one 18cm x 24.5cm the other 24.5cm x 18.5cm, one with possible indistinct signature together with a further pencil sketch depicting a grand pulpit, 25.5cm x 17.5cm Condition: the first two pictures in good condition, as are the frames; the second picture with browning to the paper and possible remains of a selotape mark to the inscription, the frame in good condition (3)
Ephemera, to include a G & J Cary map of Hertford and part of Essex 1823, a 19th Century pen and ink sketch book with various figures drawn, an Old Pal Farm Ds and Cs of Dead Stock binging enclosing poetry, a Crest book, another with crests and signatures from the 19th Century, miniature book Dewdrops', 15th Edition, published Religious Tract Society, circa 1856, (6)
Topography & History, Essex painted by L. Burleigh Bruhl, 1909, The Great Tide, Hilda Grieve, Arcadia for All, Dennis Hardy, Tramways in Essex Vol 1, Tramways of Southend on Sea, England East, Sydney R Jones together with a pencil sketch from the book, Cotbank and its Folks illustrated by H.C. Preston, (8)
Early 20th Century hand drawn plans of criminal cases at the Old Bailey by PC Harry Woodley, to include Plan of the Back Yards of 14 & 15 Buxton Street, Clerkenwell, 49cm diameter, Plan of Gibraltar Walk, 69cm diameter, Sketch of the rear of the house, 68cm diameter, Plan of Backyard, 69cm diameter, Plan of Ground and First Floors 131 Cornwall Street, 70cm diameter and Plan of portion of Commercial Road, 61cm diameter, (6)
Attributed to William Young Ottley (1771-1836). Sketchbook from the artist's tour of Italy, circa 1791-99, 75 leaves of laid paper (cockerel watermark; countermarked 'D'), unfoliated, leaves [1-2] with pencil annotations in Italian and an architectural pencil sketch (somewhat faded), leaf [3] with annotated bookplate of Thomas Ashby and additional annotation 'Drawings by Wm Young Ottley' probably in Ashby's hand, 4 medial leaves left blank, the remaining 68 leaves containing 25 sketches in pen and brown ink over occasional traces of pencil and approximately 43 pencil sketches, nearly all rectos only (one sketch to a page; one pencil sketch double-page; one on verso), mainly studies after paintings but several apparently from life (including landscapes, clothed figures, and 3 sketches captioned 'Nature' and depicting a boy with a dog, a woman with a child on her back, and a crouching boy), 12 further sketches with legible manuscript captions (see note), tide-mark to upper outer corners gradually fading and receding but touching edges of image in about 10 cases, cords split between penultimate and final quires, first 3 leaves and final quire (6 leaves) with modern clear tape reinforcement in gutter, floral-patterned endpapers, contemporary Italian vellum binding with envelope flap, vellum soiled, tie perished, 4to (18.2 x 13.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1. Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), British archaeologist in Italy and director of the British School at Rome (bookplate, with manuscript aquisition note 'Wey[?], Charing X Rd, 18/7/6, 2 vols, Vol 2'). 2. Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Ottley, the son of a plantation owner entered the Royal Academy in 1787, studying briefly under John Brown, and was in Italy from 1791 to 1799. After his return to London ' Ottley established himself as a writer, connoisseur, and marchand-amateur . He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and, as a leading arbiter of taste, he advised others on the purchase of works of art' (ODNB). He was responsible for a number of ambitious art publications and in 1833 became keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. A number of the sketches have manuscript captions in Italian referring to the original work, the artist or its location, the inconsistencies in spelling suggesting a non-native author. These include 'Bologna, Domenchino [sic] in S. Agnese' (after Domenichino, Martyrdom of St Agnes; a section), 'Turino palazo [sic] Reale, Carlo Cignani' (after Cignani, Adonis and his Dog , cf. Palgrave, Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy, 1847, p. 20), and 'Tizziano [sic], palazzo Reale a Parigi' (after Titian, Venus Anadyomene ); briefer captions indicate originals by Guercino (the sketch depicting a woman holding a jug), 'Reggio' (presumably Raffaellino da Reggio), and Coreggio ('Coreggio a Parma'); the Palazzo Caprara and the Palazzo Bonfiglioli are cited as locations for originals which are otherwise unidentified.
* Dutch School. Tobias and the Angel, first half 17th century, sepia pen & ink sketch on laid paper, some soiling and marks, further pen & ink sketches to verso (5 figure studies), 2 nicks in upper edge, sheet size 16.4 x 20.9 cm (6.5 x 8.25 ins), tipped onto early-mid 19th century laid paper watermarked 'JW', with contemporary pencil attribution 'Eckhout' to lower margin, together with: Hermit and dog, mid 17th century, sepia pen & ink drawing on laid paper (laid down on paper), of a man seated beside a tent with a dog, and a church in the background, toned and a little rubbed, sheet size 9 x 13.3 cm (3.5 x 5.25 ins), mounted, plus a late 16th/early 17th-century pen & ink sketch on laid paper, head & shoulders portrait half-profile to right of a bearded man in a hat, indistinctly inscribed in a contemporary hand to left-hand margin ' ? bouroy', sheet size 6.7 x 4.4 cm (2.5 x 1.75 ins), tipped onto laid paper and mounted on board, and a 17th-century pen & ink drawing on laid paper (laid down on paper) of a church procession, dust-soiled, 16.3 x 25.2 cm (6.5 x 10 ins), mountedQty: (4)NOTESProvenance: Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
* Loud (Arthur Bertram, 1862-1930). An album of drawings and watercolours, seven tipped-in drawings by Arthur Bertram Loud, comprising: a pencil sketch of a terrier, signed and dated 1914 lower left, and titled in pencil on album leaf below image 'A Faithful Friend'; a grisaille watercolour of an elderly woman entitled 'The Old Cottager', titled and signed in pencil to album leaf; a small pencil drawing of a terrier in profile mounted above a pencil drawing of the back view of a man on horseback, both initialled lower right, latter additionally dated 1910; a watercolour of two terriers lying down, pencil title 'Doggies' and signature on album leaf; a watercolour of stonework, garden gate, and path, dated Sept 28th lower left, pencil signature and title 'A Welsh Cottage' to album leaf; and a pencil drawing of a windmill, pencil signature and title 'The Old Mill at Waterloo' on album leaf, with several drawings by other artists direct on album leaves, comprising: A pencil sketch of a foliage sprig by Gertrude Jekyll, titled 'Sweet Bay' and signed by her in pencil; a watercolour by Arthur Kynaston (1876-1919), depicting a young lady and two naked children in a garden, signed lower right, additionally signed, dated March 1909, and titled '"Bloom of Spring"' in ink below image; a watercolour landscape with Florence Cathedral, entitled '"Florence at Evening"', signed by Muriel Burnett; and a pen & ink drawing by Winifred Cooper (1879-1931), of a wistful young lady leaning on the plinth of a statue of the Virgin Mary, within a frame of sunflowers incorporating three verses by Jean Moréas, signed and dated 1910 lower left, one page of manuscript quotations near front of volume signed 'Winnie' and dated 1908, remainder of album blank, album leaves 20.5 x 15 cm (8 x 6 ins), gilt floral endpapers, all edges gilt, original sheep, spine rubbed, spine ends and corners worn with loss, upper cover elaborately gilt blocked with a rose wreath and borders, 8voQty: (1)NOTESArthur Bertram Loud was a painter of portraits and landscapes, working mainly in oils. As a boy he was taught by his father, artist Charles Jones (whose surname he dropped in 1908 when he changed his name by deed poll). In 1880, at the age of 17, Loud entered the Royal Academy Schools, and he subsequently studied at the Académie Julian, arrriving there in 1883. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1884 onwards, and in 1890 followed in his father's footsteps by becoming an elected member of the Royal Cambrian Academy.
Original Walt Disney pencil sketch from animator Mike Royer. 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 £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.

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