Continental School (circa 1700) Study of an eagle; Red chalk study of hands (verso) Graphite and red chalk With Collector's Stamp for Bruce Ingram 18.5 x 13.5cm (7¼ x 5¼ in.) Together with a late 18th/early 19th century pencil and ink sketch of a donkey 8 x 11cm (2) Provenance: The collection of Bruce Ingram A gift from the above to the present owner Bruce Ingram (1877 - 1963) was a publishing entrepreneur and philanthropist credited with introducing greater use of photography in the news. With a keen interest in art, Ingram was both the Honourable Keeper of Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Honourable Advisor on Pictures and Drawings at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. On occasion of his 80th birthday in 1975, Ingram donated 700 seascapes by the Van Der Velde family to the National Maritime Museum. After his death further paintings, now refereed to as the Ingram Collection, were also donated to the museum. Further bequests can be found in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Birmingham Art Gallery and the Royal Scottish Museum.
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A large quantity of vintage children's games and toys to include a Thomas Salter chemistry set, Cluedo, a Revel Grumman F-14A Tom Cat model aeroplane, a battery-operated 'Happy Dog Family', a weaving loom, a Merit 'Sketch-o-Matic', a Deluxe 'Mastermind' game, a Videomaster Super Score Plus Home TV Game, a Viewmaster and a small quantity of slides, a Sketch-a-Graph, a small cordless automatic slot machine, a quantity of vintage playing cards, a Wade pig money bank and a stone hot water bottle etc (2).
ƟThe Horwer Missal, written by Johannes Horwer for the Church of Schwerzenbach, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Switzerland (Zurich), dated 1485] 153 leaves (plus 3 modern paper endleaves at each end), complete, collation: i9 (last probably a singleton), ii-x8, xi6, xii-xix8, xx6 (last 2 leaves of original quire cancelled blanks), some catchwords and contemporary foliation in red ink at head of each recto, double column of 27 lines in an excellent and angular Germanic bookhand, capitals touched in red (some with ornamental cadels reaching into upper and lower margins), red rubrics , small initials in alternate red and blue (some with ornamental cadels reaching into margin), larger initials in ornate red brushstrokes (some with tightly twisting penwork in contrasting colours, and those in lowermost lines with long whip-like penstrokes filling the bas-de-page, a few with human faces and that on fol. 98r with a red dragon’s muzzle), major sections opening with burnished gold initials with pink and khaki-green penwork (some with coloured foliage sprouting into border, and that facing Canon miniature with a dragon’s head at foot and human face at top, opening of text with two sided borders of scrolling coloured foliage with golden fruit, good dry-point sketch of a bird in flight in bas-de-page of fol. 99r, good pen and ink drawing in bas-de-page of fol. 98r of a red-billed stork raising its foot to stamp on a stylised frog, one full-page Crucifixion miniature before the Canon of the Mass, the figures before a burgundy sky set with liquid gold stars and all within a realistic pale green frame, some contemporary or near-contemporary marginal additions, marks on edges of some leaves from leather page markers once glued there, leaves at each end of volume with old water damage leading to cockling, some offset and shine-through in places and a few leaves with damage to their top edges, overall in good and presentable condition, 345 by 245mm.; nineteenth-century brown leather over pasteboards, gilt-tooled with floral and simple fillet frames around a blind-tooled floral cabouchon, “Missale” and “Cod. Membr. /Anni 1484” gilt on spine, in brown felt-lined fitted case This impressively large and weighty codex is one of the tiny proportion of medieval manuscripts for which we know almost all of the circumstances of its creation: its scribe, commissioner and which community it was made for, as well as the date of its completion Provenance:1. Written and illuminated by Johannes Horwer in 1485 for Andreas ‘Molitor’ (Müller), rector of the church in Schwerzenbach (a few miles east of Zurich, and incorporated within the city from 1402): Horwer’s signature discretely in white within the cross bar of the initial ‘S’ on fol. 140r (now mostly erased) and more openly in gold in a banderole in the lower margin of the frontispiece on fol. 2v (another banderole in the outer margin with the date in gold). Molitor is named in the inscription on fol. 89r: “Ego Andreas Molitoris de Keiserstuel rector huius ecclesie in Schwerzenbach pro remedio anime et benefactorum retuli hunc librum 1485” followed by his coat of arms (per fess sable a lion or passant and or a demi waterwheel sable). He is recorded as leutpriester (substitute priest) in Schwerzenbach in 1470, 1489 and 1493.2. From a nineteenth-century episcopal library: two repeated inkstamps on recto of first leaf with galero and six tassels per side, above initials perhaps to be read “ R A”. Text:The volume comprises: an Ordo specialis boni, a list of special feast days (fol. 1r), here functioning as an index to the codex; the Temporal (fol. 2v); the Ordo Missae (fol. 84v); the Canon (fol. 89r); the Sanctoral (fol. 94r), with readings for SS. Felix and Regula, martyred by decapitation near Zurich, and with text here that singles out and lauds Zurich: “O thuregum Rome regum regale palacium” (‘O Zurich royal palace of the kings of Rome’), and again in the text on Charlemagne on fol. 99r: “urbs Thuregum famosa”; the Common of the Saints (fol. 130v); the Missae votive (fol. 137r); and the Collecte speciales (fol. 153r). The Scribe-Artist:We are fortunate that Johannes Horwer’s work is known from more than one extant codex. He signed another Missal produced for the Knights Hospitallers dated 1469 with his name in a similar banderole in purple ink highlighted with gold (the summer part now surviving in s’-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh, MS. 15: A.S. Korteweg, Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts and Incunabula at Huis Bergh Castle in s’-Heerenberg, 2013, no. 98), and in that he specifically names himself “scriptor”. However, the decoration and miniature of that codex are so close to the present example as to suggest he was also the illuminator. A third volume, a Gradual, was to be found in St. Petersberg in the early part of the twentieth century, and is recorded in a publication of 1925 by O. Dobiasch-Roschdestwenskaja as written by “Johannem Horwer von Lichtensteig burger Zürich” (in ‘Die Satire am Rande der mitteralterlichen Hss.’, Analecta Medii Aevi, I, 1925). Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
![* Christopher Bramham [b.1952]- Fred's Clown, a Christmas card,:- inscribed and dated Dec '99 on the reverse oil on board, 24](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/77e39e34-bc64-4c86-bf0c-a98c00d37319/f0790de4-406e-4496-b745-a99000d39c5e/468x382.jpg)
* Christopher Bramham [b.1952]- Fred's Clown, a Christmas card,:- inscribed and dated Dec '99 on the reverse oil on board, 24.5 x 16cm, [Fred is the artist's son], together with a watercolour sketch on an envelope of a 'Crow', two unframed screen prints of Bald Eagles, a group of postcards from Bramham to Charles Sutcliffe circa 1999/2000, five Marlborough Fine Art exhibition catalogues and press cuttings.
Two sketch books of predominantly erotic drawings, in the manner of Avinash Chandra (Indian artist, 1931-1991), mostly pen and ink, partially complete, book one containing 61 studies, bearing signature and monogram and dated throughout 1981-1983, book two containing 27 studies, 24.5cm x 18cm (2).
‡Edmund Blampied (1886-1966)Study of a horse thought to be a preparatory sketch for the etching ‘Restless’ 1957Signed and dated Aug 57Pen and ink with charcoal15 x 13cmLots 1 to 30 - The Property of a GentlemanSee lot 181 for a sculpture of a similar horse by the same hand and see lots 234-237 by the same hand++One or two thunderbugs under glass - don’t appear to have affected paper good condition
![[Thackeray (W.H.)] The Irish Sketch Book, by Mr.M.A. Titmarsh 2 vols. 8vo L. 1843. First Edn., 2 engd. frontis, text illus. o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c31b6c73-f51a-4a24-b9c4-a99700bb5c44/a1414cee-1cb6-4cc1-b81e-a99d00b9268f/468x382.jpg)
Northern Ireland - Photographs: A very good late 19th Century 4to Album of Photographs, mostly of Northern Ireland interest, approx. 76 photos, varying sizes from 6" x 8", 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; & 3 1/2" x 4 1/4", a few of Donegal & Wicklow, some by W. Lawrence, but some anonymous, and an original pencil sketch of Ballywoolen House, Killyleagh, Co. Down. As a coll., of photos, w.a.f. (1)
Co. Wexford: Cullen (Rev. Sylvester Marshalstown, Enniscorthy) Life in Ballymarescal No. 2 or, The Wedding of Katey Dempsey, (A Sketch of Country Life) 8vo Wexford (J. English & Co.) 1919. Sole Edn., front blank inscribed 'Joseph Ranson, C.C. Enniscorthy, 1942,' orig. ptd. green cloth. Scarce. (1)
The Deane Butler Architectural Drawingsfor Morristown Lattin, Co. KildareButler (Wm. Deane) Architect. An important and significant collection of original hand-drawn Architectural Drawings for various parts of the proposed re-design to Tudor-Revival style, of Morristown Lattin, Co. Kildare, on behalf of G.P.L. Mansfield in 1845. The collection consists roughly of the following:1. Kitchen Window2. Details of Bower Windows3. Sketch of Dining Room Chimneypieces 4. Plan of the Hall Ceiling 5. Cornice for Bedroom6. Elevation of Gothic .. for Ceiling of Inner Hall 7. Details of Cut Stone Work and Principal Elevation 8. Details of Drawing Room and Dining Room Doors 9. Details of Hall sash Door and Shutters 10. Rear Elevation of Lutchen Wing 11. Details of Cut Stone Work for Bower Window on principal front 12. Details of Finishing for Door and Window in Hall 13. Bower Window for Garden Front 14. Details of Gallery Railing 15. Details of Stairs 16. Elevation and Plan of Proposed Arcade 17. Details of Library Fixtures for Morristown Lattin 18. Bound Set No. 1 - Principal Elevation No. 2 - Rear Elevation No. 3 - Plan of Principal Storey No. 4 - Plan of Second Storey No. 5 - Plan of Attic StoreyNo. 6 - Transverse Sections No. 7 - Longitudinal Sections, all signed and dated by Dean Butler (24 identified plans and drawings )19. Revised Sketches and other sketches for Furniture, unsigned for Morristown Lattin -Including Elevation of cast iron Parapets (indistinctly signed) -Longitude section of Sewer, Carvings, Stairs, etc. (14 additional architectural drawings).Approx. 40 drawings in all, mostly in fine condition. A rare collection. As a m/ss, w.a.f.Note: William Deane Butler was born about 1793, son of a Dublin Solicitor. He firstly studied at the Royal Dublin Society's School of Architectural Drawing. In 1836, he was awarded a premium by the R.D.S. for Plans and Estimates for Farmhouses and Buildings. In 1837 he published a book "Model Farmhouses and Cottages for Ireland". In 1844, he is named as Architect to the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1853, he was appointed architect in ordinary to the Lord Lieutenant. He specialised in Churches, Institutional Buildings and fine Country Houses, and his work is evident throughout Ireland.
The Sketch Books of Renowned Irish ArtistDuncan (Mary)Artist. Two sketch books, one approx. 26cms x 21cms and the other approx. 21cms x 13cms, inscribed with the name of M. Duncan, also written in Irish as M. ni Dhonnachadha of 17 Rathmines Road, Dublin. Her work is to be found in the Hugh Lane Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, London.The larger of the two books consists of pencil sketches in which the figures are drawn with sensitivity and skill. They include Dublin and foreign street scenes, and old town buildings (a few in ink). Some have captions in Irish: a man in a stream is inscribed 'Fuair sé é fein is lár na hábhann," and a horseman and woman with broom 'Do chaith a bhlais an scuab i na dhiadh, The smaller book contains rough pencil sketches. There is also included a mounted photograph of Mary Duncan's oil painting entitled "The Mirror". As albums, w.a.f. (2)Mary Duncan (1885 - 1964) was born in England, and moved to Dublin in 1910. She was a friend of the cousins Estella Solomons and Louise Jacobs, and her portrait of Solomons is now in Trinity College. During the 1920's she moved to London, and later to Cornwall.
Yeats (John Butler) A Sketch of the playwright possibly a preparatory sketch of John Millington Synge, Irish Playwright, pipe in hand, apparently reading galley proofs, pencil on paper, approx. 7" x 5", with an engraving of Yeats' finished portrait of Synge, 1905.Provenance: Yeats family collection.
Anon. 'A Work of Mercy' A short typescript sketch, 6pp, with a few ms. corrections, apparently unpublished. Mrs.O'Reilly is asleep in her hospital bed. Mrs. Ryan is at the bedside, helping herself to Mrs. O'Reilly's fruit, when Mrs. Brady and Mrs. Murphy arrive on a visit. There follows about ten minutes' worth of humorous Dublin dialogue before Mrs.O'Reilly rises up and tells the others to get out. It is unsigned, but is very much in the style of Brendan Behan.Provenance: Collection of Nora Lever.
Original Sketch by Charlie Chaplin, SignedChaplin (Charlie) An original pictorial advertising postcard for the restaurant 'Chez Kellar,' on Plage de la Garoupe, Cap d'Antibes, France, inscribed in black pen, 'La Cusine est merve eux /Merci beaucoup / Charli Chaplin / Hollywood / July 22nd '31 / with a sketch of his head, wearing his signature bowler hat. V. good. Extremely Scarce. (1)
Best Wishes from Mickey Mouse Disney (Walt) A fine pencil Sketch of his celebrated cartoon character Mickey Mouse. Signed by Disney 'for Anne [Farmer] with best wishes,' in a very good autograph book collected by Ms. Farmer, also including Signatures of Eamon de Valera, Kathleen O'Connell, Brinsley MacNamara, Danny Kaye, 'Movita,' Judy Garland, Margaret [Burke] Sheridan and many others, mainly from the world of theatre and show business, including also a good pencil sketch of the painter Sean O'Sullivan, and other sketches. Surely the only time de Valera appeared in the same book with Mickey Mouse. In a dark green morocco Album, in excellent condition. (1)
Signed by The AuthorBehan (Brendan) Borstal Boy, 8vo N.Y. (A.A. Knopf) 1959, First U.S. Edn. Signed and dedicated on f.e.p., grey cloth, silver lettering, pictorial d.j., price clipped; Brendan Behan's Island, An Irish Sketch-Book, 8vo L. (Random House) 1962, First Edn. Signed by Behan and Paul Hogarth (illus.), green oatmeal cloth, gilt lettered spine, illus. d.j. (not clipped) both good copies. (2)
Original Sketch Book: Lane (John Quiller) Victorian artist and antiquarian. A large quarto volume bound in hf. calf, marble sides and ends, approx. 60pp, containing finely executed pencil and watercolour sketches of glassware, mostly Venetian, giving dimensions, drawn c. 1875. Also some botanical sketches and notes, and some sketches made in 1879, of Greek and Roman Vases etc. There are some designs for greeting cards,including one for Thomas Quiller Couch of Bodmin, Cornwall, a relation of the artist, and father of author Arthur Quiller Couch. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
Wood-Martin (W.G.) Pagan Ireland An Archaeological Sketch.., L. 1895. First Edn., fold. plts. plans, illus. thro-out, gilt decor. cloth; MacAlister (R.A.S.) Ireland in Pre-Celtic Times, roy 8vo D. 1921. First, illus; also The Archaeologicalogy of Ireland, L. 1928, First, illus., both cloth & d.w.'s. (3)
Attributed to A.W.N. Pugin. A mid 19th century Reformed Gothic oak breakfront open bookcase, probably made by J.G.Crace, with crocheted finials to the frieze, fitted with adjustable open shelves, flanked by stop-chamfered and fish-scale pattern pilasters, the wing sections inset with linenfold side panels, the bracket feet with foliate and berry carved spandrels, W.7ft 10in.Literature: The design of this bookcase bears similarities to a pen and ink sketch, E.1551-1912, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, by A.W.N. Puginwhich he describes as 'Winged bookcase; china; books'. The cornice, fish scale pilasters and carved spandrels to the bracket feet are very similar although his design incorporates doors with linenfold panels. Another Pugin design for a dwarf bookcase, museum no. E.1552-1912, has similar linenfold side panels and stop-chamfered pilasters.
Augustus Edwin Mulready, oil on canvas, ' A Naturalists Window ', signed and dated '78, also signed and dated verso, 23ins x 18.5ins, housed in a gilt slip frame CONDITION REPORT Crazing to paint in darker areas, also canvas has a join on the left from top to bottom, has been done before the sketch was painted. Needs cleaning and re-framing.
Marshall Claxton (British, 1812-1881), 'A Canny Scotchman', signed lower left on the window frame, oil on canvas, 14in x 10in (36cm x 26cm), together with a letter from the artist dated September 10th 1875 (2) The letter refers to the picture, explaining that it was not a portrait of anyone, but done from a sketch taken in the bus, and he thought the man looked like a Canny Scotchman. Marshall Claxton was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1812, and his work consisted predominantly of narrative scenes and portraits. When he was 17 he studied under John Jackson, RA, and in 1831 he enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy, where his first exhibited portrait was of his father. In 1834 he was awarded the first medal in the Academy`s school of painting, and in 1835 his portrait of Sir Astley Cooper won him the Gold Medal of the Society of British Artists. He painted in Italy between 1837 and 1842 and then travelled to Australia in 1850 where he worked and exhibited, and visited India and Egypt before returning to England in 1858.
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