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CHEKHONIN, SERGEI(1878-1936)Design for a Niche with a Statue of the Virgin Mary, signed and inscribed "Paris".Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper, 33 by 25 cm. Fine art connoisseurs very often associate Sergei Chekhonin with Soviet agitprop porcelain. Chekhonin, however – as well as being a revolutionary pioneer in the field of industrial design (he was artistic director from 1918 to 1927 at the Petrograd, later Leningrad, State Porcelain Factory) – was primarily a consummate book designer. In the 1910s he proved to be one of the masters whose work established the high standard of Russian graphic art. With his impeccable grasp of lettering and ornamentation Chekhonin, in conjunction with Dmitri Mitrokhin and Georgiy Narbut, belonged to the younger generation of members of the World of Art group who raised graphic art in books to a new level. His exquisite pen and watercolour drawings became absolute Russian classics of the first quarter of the 20th century. The well-known Russian art historian Abram Efros called Chekhonin’s style “Soviet Empire”. The work in this catalogue is most probably a sketch for the decoration of an architectural niche. The artist produced it in Paris at the very end of the 1920s or beginning of the 1930s."
WALES. Four manu. notebooks numbered I - IV describing tours 1771 - 1773. The first book lays out a journey from Oxford to Swansea by way of Gloucester, Ross etc; the second is Swansea to Bristol; the third Oswestry to Harlech; the fourth Snowdon to Welshpool, good pen and wash and other sketches "bridge at Llandovey, Edward archt. who desigtned ye Taef bridge 80ft in span 1773.", "From Pembroke.", "General view of Mr. Morris's grounds from ye Windclif with ye curve of ye Wye at Severn.", good description of Bristol - "Bristol is a large overgrown City full of smoke from numberless Glasshouses and of tumult from all ye various transactions of an extensive commerce, which is here carried on wholly independent of London and perhaps ye only place in ye kingdom that is so in this respect...", this section includes pen and ink sketch of Gothick cottage at King's Weston; this lot also includes eight page note "Hints for a S. Wales Tour.". (See illustration)
SKETCH-BOOK. "Views taken in different parts of England." signed L. Wynne. 30 well finished detailed watercolours, each described on the blank reverse opposite; Stonehenge, two Teignmouth, Chudleigh, Haytor Rocks, three Tamar, Fowey, Polperrow, Malpas, Mount's Bay, Wells, Dunster, four Ilfracombe, Linmouth, Clovelly, Biddiford, Barnstaple, two Warwick Castle, Keddleston House, Robin Hood Stones Derbyshire, Newbath Matlock, Near Matlock, Matlock Bath, Blenheim House. Also page pencil sketches trees, orig calf-backed marble bds, oblong folio 9 x 13ins vg condition (one date noted "Sheldon - opposite Teignmouth, Bellona privateer sank Sept, 1779). (See front cover illustration)
SKETCH-BOOK. Interesting and Important Sketchbook. "Views taken in Ireland. Many of which are published by Mr Sandby in his Vertuosi's Museum." signed L. Wynne. 30 views, some well finished watercolours of an Irish Tour. "Dublin fr. Phoenix park, the Royal Hospital Ec.", "Trim castle, engraved by P. Sandby.", "L. Belvideres.", "Views of Drogheda...", "Cascade Powercourt.", "Glendaloch.", "Inniscorthy.", "Dunbroady Abbey...P. Sandby.", "Dunbroady Abbey...Ross river.", "The Passage over Waterford harbour...", "Carrick-beg...P. Sandby.", "Kinsale.", "The Fort at Kinsale fr Gen Folliots summer house.", "Cataract...Bantry.", Ross Castle on ye Lake of Killarny...P. Sandby.", Lake Killarney fr Mucrap.", Eagle's nest Killarney.", "Lake Killarney.", "Cascade...Killarney.", "Dunlow castle - Killarney.", "O'Sullivan's Cascade, Killarney.", "Addair Castle.", "Abbey at Addair.", "Archbishop's Palace, Cashel.", "Cathedral and Rock of Cashel.", "St. John's bridge, Kilkenny,", "Castle at Kilkenny - Entrance.", "Kildare Abbey.", "Fall of ye Liffy...". (2 of 30 views in this album are:- "Bridgenorth-Shropshire, 1774. Mr Sandby has made a large print of this drawing."; and "Bildemas or Bildas Abbey, Shropshire..." orig calf-backed marble bds, oblong folio 9 x 13ins, vg condition. (See illustration)
SKETCH-BOOK. Fine album "Coast of Cornwall and Devon.", 18 numbered watercolours, each with ruled col borders, possibly intended for framing or engraving, three Teignmouth, Babington, River Dart, Rocks near Dawlish (three), Dawlish, Lostwithiel, Probus, two St. Michael's Mount, Penzance. two Mousehole. Druidical Remains, Cape Cornwall, orig 1/2 calf, large oblong 8vo, 7 1/2 x 11 1/4ins, vg condition. (Some views not seen before this date - 1770s - from the vantage point chosen.) (See illustration)
SKETCH-BOOK. "Views in Portugal." signed L. Wynne. Album containing 20 watercolours "Penha de Francia.", "Cintra.", "Torre de Bellem (3).", "Alcobaca.", "Castello de Leyria.", "Encarnacao.", "Convento de Batalha.", "Figuera.", "Monte Morovelho.", "Lisbon at 7 miles distance.", "Arabide.", "Convento de Brancanas.", "Convento de S. Francisco.", "Fort S. Julien.", "Distant view of Lisbon," "Cascages and ye mountains of Cintra - here I took leve of the coast of Portugal." (Several seem to be sketched from a vessel looking shoreward), orig calf, ob 8vo, 5 1/2 x 8 3/4ins. (See illustration)
SKETCH-BOOK. "Views Taken in France." signed L. Wynne. Seven pen and ink and tint plus six pencil drawings; "Blois", "Blois du cote de l'orient.", "du cote de l'orient.", "Chateau de Choiseul a Chantilloup.", "Amboise.", "Tarara.", "Lyons.", "Les aquaducts pretre Lyons.", La Cathedrale a Lyons.", "proche Madana.", "Cascade proche Lanebourg." orig 1/2 calf, 7 1/2 x 11 1/2ins, large ob 8vo, vg. (See illustration)
SKETCH-BOOK. Derbyshire and North Wales. 25 large mostly pencil and wash sketches, five Dovedale, seven nr Matlock, four Castleton Rhaidr Criglaeth, two Pistil Rhaidr, Pont y pair, Castle Doluidellan, Conway Castle, Llyn Badern Snowdon, Llyn Berris, plus one unnamed, orig 1/2 calf. 10 x 14ins, oblong folio. (See illustration)
Riis, Jacob (1849-1914) Autograph Manuscript Draft, Ten Pages. A sketch of The Making of an American, in Riis`s hand, c. 1900, in this draft, Riis has composed the basic reach of chapters one through seven, the end of chapter twelve, chapters thirteen through fourteen, and the title for chapter fifteen, pages toned, with corrections, shorthand annotations, and deletions, 9 1/2 x 6 in.
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Noanoa: Voyage de Tahiti. Munich: by R. Piper & Co., for the Marees Gesellschaft, 1926. Limited edition, copy number twenty-six of eighty, hand-bound in full yellow morocco, boards gilt-ruled, author and title gilt-tooled on the spine, with the original paper wrappers (spine perished) and the original folding cardboard cover, both blocked in black with the same design, spine of book and cover slightly sunned, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. This facsimile of Gauguin`s original manuscript notebook includes reproductions of drawings and notes printed in color throughout. In cases where the artist tipped a sketch that was originally drawn on a separate piece of paper into his book, the publishers have done the same, printing on a thinner separate sheet and tipping it onto the page. Gauguin`s original notebook is held at the Louvre.
World Map. Giambattista Albrizzi (1698-1777) Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale Del Globo Terrestre ed Acquatico. Venice, 1750. Small folio double-page map, with central seam, engraved, hand-colored, the globe represented in two circular hemispheres, with female representations of the four continents, one in each corner, and an armillary sphere in the center top, some old folds, slight discoloration on the verso, not affecting the recto surface, mainly confined to the tab joining the two sheets, 17 1/4 x 15 in. The unexplored regions of the world are map in a fragmentary manner, the northwest coast of North America is a tenuous sketch, Australia is still connected to New Guinea, Asia blends into Alaska; a scarce map.
PART ONE AMERICAIN NÉ EN 1959 BLACK BOOK, 2011 - 2012 Marqueur sur blackbook, 76 Pages/Marker op blackbook Black book commencé en 2011 jusqu`en 2012 Pièce Unique/Uniek stuk 30 x 23 cm Le blackbook est en quelque sorte le cahier d`écolier des graffiti artists, il leur sert à travailler leur style, et esquisser leurs prochains graffiti. Il reste très précieux pour ces artistes et c`est souvent lui que les autorités cherchent afin de prouver qu`ils sont les auteurs des graffitis. Les sketch book sont souvent découpés afin d`être vendu par dessin, ici vous avez la chance de pouvoir l`acquérir en intégralité. Provenance/herkomst : - Atelier de l`artiste - Collection particulière `Olivier Dahan`, France
James Manning-A Sketch Of The Life And Writings Of The Rev. Micaiah Towgood, printed by E. Grigg of Exeter 1792, fully inscribed by the author to the daughter of the Reverend Towgood and dated Exeter May 24th 1792, contemporary full leather binding Please see images. Telephone department for further information
Autographs-Musical Interest-A group of five comprising: John Phillip Sousa (1854-1932)-American composer and conductor, signed letter on Westgate Hotel, Newport headed paper, Tito Mattei (1841-1941)-Italian musician and composer, Hans Wessely (1862-1926)-Austrian violinist, cabinet photograph signed and dated ‘95 to the back and signature and musical sketch dated ‘95, and W.H. Suchet Champion, composer, signed letter dated ‘94 Please see images. Telephone department for further information
An important archive on the geology of the Lake District – Lake District – Jonathan Otley^ Clockmaker and Geologist important group of ms documents including letters^ sketch maps etc relating to Otley (1766-1856) one of the most important of the early geologists of the Lake District. The collection includes letters to Otley from correspondents discussing geological matters^ letters by Otley^ including a paper on the phenomena of floating islands^ a draft will of a local resident leaving property to Otley^ notes of a visit to Scarfell Pike ‘with Mr Dalton’ (doubtless John Dalton^ discoverer of atomic theory^ who was a friend of Otley from childhood) and approx five ms maps drawn by Otley^ one being a fine plan of Wasdale Head^ and another of ‘The Scroggs’^ Otley’s birthplace. Approx 25 separate documents in all. Otley lived his entire long life in the Lake District and was a self taught horologist^ guide^ surveyor^ map maker^ meteorologist^ natural historian and geologist.
Military – Important papers from the Woolwich laboratory – Woolwich Arsenal important group of copy letters from the Woolwich laboratory 1790^ written out in a neat script on 14pp large folio^ providing an important insight into the workings of the laboratory. Included are letters and references relating to Major William Congreve (later Sir William Congreve) who ten years after these papers won universal fame for the development of rocket technology. The letters also make reference to men who are needed^ various types of powder for making cartridges. There are also important accounts documents with calculations on powder required for war expenditure^ and a sketch of a building required for the storage of sulphur. We understand that these papers were rescued from a bonfire when the storage building at Woolwich Arsenal was demolished in the 1970s- as such these might be the only papers still extant to provide information on the day to day workings of the most important military research establishment in the 18th and 19th c.
Upton (Bertha & Florence K.) The Golliwogg in Holland, nd. [c1904], Longmans Green, some tape stains, original cloth-backed boards; idem, The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side, nd. [c1898], Longmans Green, gutter parting with evidence of later glue, original cloth-backed boards; idem, The Golliwogg`s Bicycle Club, 1903, Longmans Green, several pages torn, original boards (spine taped); idem, The Vege-Men`s Revenge, nd. [c1897], Longmans Green, original cloth-backed boards; Attwell (Mabel Lucie), The Boo-Boos at the Sea-Side, nd., Valentine, colour plates, original boards (tape stains and loss to backstrip); Aldin (Cecil), Just Among Friends, Pages from my Sketch Book, 1934, colour plates, original cloth; Phillpotts (Eden), A Dish of Apples, nd. 3 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham (crayon to blank), original cloth; with a quantity of others (qty)
Photographs An album of 19th century albumen prints, original artwork and prints, with association to the family of Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, including watercolours of Simons Bay, South Africa and a ?Russian port, a sketch of the approach to St Petersburg, etc., albumen prints of Admirals, Gibraltar, Lord Raglan and others, various properties incl. Marbury Hall, various ships, three 1859 albumen prints of Simons Bay by J.B. Meredith, Mitchel Troy Rectory, Raglan Castle, etc., approx 49 photographic images, various sizes, 5 original works of art and 32 prints, predominantly Rome, 4to. morocco album (worn), name to pastedown - Mary Deline Radcliffe; Wilman (M.), The Rock Engravings of Griqualand West & Bechuanaland, South Africa, 1933, 4to., proof copy with numerous alterations, loose sheets with some duplicates, cloth folio and slipcase (2)
(C.F. TUNNICLIFFE illustrated), NIALL Ian, Portrait of a Country Artist, C.F. Tunnicliffe, R.A., (1901-1979), 1980 Tunnicliffe`s Countryside, 1983, and A Sketch Book of Birds, 1979, Robert GILLMOR Sketches of Bird Life, 1981, Noel CUSA Tunnicliffe`s Birdlife, 1985 and C.F. TUNNICLIFFE, The Peregrine Sketchbook, 1996, all with d.w. (6).

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