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Brontë (Patrick Branwell).- Homer. The Odyssey, Branwell Brontë's copy with ink inscription "To P.B.B. from his dear friend J.B.L. to head of title, engraved frontispiece and title, ink notations and sketches to front endpapers, and verso of final f. in a contemporary hand, engraved illustration loosely inserted, upper hinge tender, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine rubbed and faded, spine ends and corners bumped, 12mo, [c.1840].⁂ An interesting association copy with an original pen and black ink portrait study to front pastedown, and a further small portrait sketch to rear pastedown, possibly by an artist in the Circle of Branwell Brontë with the first portrait bearing some physiognomic similarities to Branwell's portrait of his friend James Fletcher held in the Brontë Parsonage Museum,J.B.L. is likely Joseph Bentley Leyland (1811-51), sculptor and friend of Branwell.
Australasia.- Australia.- Hunter (John) An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island with the Discoveries....in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean ..., first edition, stipple-engraved portrait after R.Dighton, engraved vignette title and 15 maps and plates, 2 maps folding, list of subscribers, foxing, particularly to portrait and title, bookplate of Rear-Admiral Richard Worsley, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, one or two scratches, corners a little worn, rebacked preserving old spine with red roan label, [Ferguson 152; Wantrup 13], 4to, John Stockdale, 1793.⁂ John Hunter served under Arthur Phillip in the first convict fleet and succeeded him as the second Governor of the colony from 1795 to 1799. His journal contains much information on the early settlements of Australia and includes 'View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson 20th August , 1788', the earliest published representation of Sydney, after a sketch by Hunter, and a plate of a New South Wales family engraved by William Blake after King.
§ Arnold Henry Mason, RA (British, 1885-1963) Study of a girl; and Study of a girl, with a sketch of a woman to the reverse the first signed lower right "A H Mason" pencil and charcoal, unframed, 16 x 12cm and 17 x 12cm (2) Provenance: A gift from the artist to the vendor's grandmother and by descent Other Notes: Arnold Mason studied at the Macclesfield School of Art, the Royal College of Art, London and the Slade School, London in 1918–19. Mason worked in Paris and Rome and in 1906 he was Assistant to Sir William Richmond on the internal decorations of the Old Bailey Courtrooms, London. He served in the Artists' Rifles from 1915–1918, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, from 1919. In the 1930s he had a studio in Chelsea. Best known as a portrait painter in oils and pencil portraits on paper, his work can be seen in the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy in London. Both unframed together with a newspaper cutting of an obituary for Arnold Mason, both have scuffed edges, the second one has folds to the paper.
§ John Aldridge, RA (British, 1905-1983) Italian landscape pencil on paper, in a grey painted frame 16 x 21cm (6 x 8in) Provenance: The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex, where acquired by the vendor Other Notes: The present sketch probably dates from the 1950s Several foxing spots to the sky
PUGIN VASE. A gilt brass & enamelled altar vase by John Hardman & Co., Birmingham, after a design by A.W.N. Pugin. The enamel decoration to both sides. Note: There is a sketch by Pugin of a similar vase illustrated in the Hardman & Co., catalogue. Also, See Atterbury's 'A.W.N. Pugin Master of Gothic Revival', Pg.312 for a comparable pair of vases. Height 26cm.
An Art Deco, pen and ink sketch of tree-lined landscape with hand written dedication "To Mrs C.M. Talbot Rice Bloomfields Win... 1938" (sight size 29 cm x 38 cm) together with another sketch of a tree (sight size 34.5 cm x 25.5 cm) and a 19th century, boat crossing a lake scene; watercolour unsigned; sight size 16 cm x 25 cm together with a hand coloured engraving of a 19th century coach. (4)
Louis William Wain [1860-1939]-Mrs Tabby's Academy:-signed bottom rightwatercolour, pen and ink on paper35.5 x 50cm.* Biography Born in Clerkenwell in London on 5th August 1860 to an English father and French mother, Wain was one of six children and the only boy. He did not attend school until he was ten and often played truant. In his late teens, Wain attended the West London School of Art and eventually became a teacher at the school.Louis Wain decided to strike out on his own and became a freelance artist. His speciality was drawing animals and rural subjects in which he became extremely successful and worked for journals such as Illustrated London News and Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. In 1883 Wain married Emily Richardson, his sisters' governess. Richardson was ten years older than Louis and this caused quite a scandal. She suffered from breast cancer and during this illness she was comforted by their pet cat Peter, who Louis would sketch. Emily died three years later and it is this sad episode that was to define the rest of the illustrator's career. He continued sketching cats and his first drawing of anthropomorphised cats was published in an Illustrated London News Christmas issue in 1886. His cats would parody humans while he satirised fashion and popular trends of the day. In his early years, the cats generally remained on all fours and were much more naturalistic in their poses; it was only later in his career that he produced cats walking upright with wide eyes and broad smiles, also wearing clothing. Despite his phenomenal output in both postcards, sketches and book illustrations, his mental state was frail and in 1924 he was committed to a pauper ward of Springfield Mental Hospital suffering from schizophrenia. He remained in several different institutions, although he carried on sketching cats for pleasure right up until his death in 1939. * Provenance. With The Parkin Gallery, 1988, where sold for £1750
John Hayter (1800-1895) Portrait of a lady, head and shoulders seated, wearing a bonnet Signed and indistinctly dated, pencil, together with a further pencil figurative sketch of two young children arranging a bowl of fruit signed Isabey, two Continental 19th century pencil studies depicting a town on the Rhine, another of a stone archway attributable to Henry Guest and an etching of a bearded gentleman wearing a beret, 22cm by 17cm and various other sizes (5)
Follower of Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) Studies of hands and ears (recto and verso) Red conte crayon, together with a further pen and ink drawing in the style of Pietro da Cortona depicting Nessus carrying off Deianeira, with Heracles aiming his arrow, and a further unframed pencil sketch attributable to Giovanni Battista Cipriani depicting gladiators fending off a lion, 22.5cm by 17cm, 17cm by 27cm and 19cm by 30cm respectively (3)
Joseph Newington Carter (1835-1871) ''On the Exe River Near Starcross-Devon'' Initialled, pencil, together with a collection of unframed sketches depicting ''Dirleton Castle near Berwick'', ''View on the Humber, Moonlight'', ''Boston from the Great Sluice'', ''Guisborough Priory'', ''Wreck, South Bay Scarborough'', ''Whitby from Church Street'' views of York and Devon, ten in total, each 10.5cm by 17cm (10) Provenance: From the Estate of the Great Grand Daughter of Henry Barlow Carter (1803-68), father of Joseph Newington Carter (1835-71) The drawings are from a sketch book belonging to Henry Vandyke Carter. Abbey Galleries, Whitby Private Collection
SIX ASSORTED WATERCOLOURS to comprise a city across a river by James Baker Pyne, 11 x 35cm. [see illus.]; a village view by John Flower (pupil of de Wint), 13.5 x 33cm.; a scene at Mortlake by Thomas Lindsay, October 1832, 11 x 21cm.; a town scene by W. H. Harriott (style of Prout), 23 x 16cm.; a view of Ben Blanen by John Adam Houston, 12 x 16.5cm.; and a sketch of Maidstone by Robert Streatfeild, 11 x 18cm. (6) ++ Mixed condition; generally satisfactory
A group of engravings including a portrait of Sir Norton Knatchbull, Knt. & Bart. after Hoogstraten and a depiction of the bombardment of Algiers, all framed and glazed, a number of predominantly military themed prints to include '1919. The First Airship to cross the Atlantic', The Thin Red Line, etc, and a pencil sketch depicting Reginald Cheethman in the RAF when stationed in Germany, July 1947.
§ Keith Tyson (British, b.1969) Turner prize winner 2002, Biro sketch titled 'Breadboard Sketch', signed and dated 1996, 8cm x 8cm. Provenance: Purchased by an employee from Antony Reynolds Gallery London in the late 1990's and then gifted to the current vendor. ARTIST RESALE RIGHT UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 4% MAYBE PAYABLE IN ADDITION TO THE HAMMER PRICE ON THIS LOT IF SOLD ABOVE THE THRESHOLD. PLEASE SEE THE DACS WEBSITE WWW.DACS.ORG.UK FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Walter Richard Sickert (British, 1860-1942). Pencil sketch of a Bath street scene, titled 'Bath ' and signed 'Sickert' lower right. Framed. With Rowley Gallery Label verso. Image size: 20x15cm. Frame: 39x31cm. Significant fading to paper throughout where sketch has been exposed as visible from the images of the sketch out of the frame, sign of slight warping to paper lower left corner. Possible that there is some later overdrawing by another hand to the central section. See images of sketch out of frame. Provenance: owned by a London based art collector, by family decent to current owner, some possible auction house chalk / pencil markings verso and Rowley gallery label.
A collection of paintings on silk by Dorothy Pile (of Piles Isinglass Company) late 19th or early 20th century, Great Grandmother of vendor, including lace and crochet work, a/f. Together with a printed photograph of Cecil Rhodes, and a photo mechanical copy of the pencil sketch portrait of Rhodes by Violet Manners.
Louis Wain (1860-1939)A Cat Holding a Lobster, by the Coastsigned, pen and ink, 14cm x 11cm; another, Dog Coming, titled, pen and ink, 13cm x 10.5cm, framed as oneProvenance: Purchased by the vendor from the descendants of one of the elderly Wain's nurses, Mrs. Blinkhorn. The paper of each anthropomorphised cat sketch was taken from the then Nurse Blinkhorn's day book.

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