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Click here to subscribeJEAN DRYDEN ALEXANDER (1911-1994) EFFIE ALEXANDER AND ARDROSS, 1935 Signed, inscribed and dated Mum and Ardross/January 1935 verso, oil on thin panel, unframed 49 x 38cm.; with a watercolour and pencil sketch of a dog, Buffy, by the same artist, 1940, 14 x 22cm. (2) Provenance: The family of the artist ++ The oil sketchy, with some cracks and a little warped; the watercolour good
GEORGE RICHMOND, RA (1809-1896) PORTRAIT OF MISS SANDHAM, c.1839 Half length seated, signed, watercolour and pencil sketch 21 x 18cm.; with a pencil portrait of Gena Gore-Booth, inscribed and dated Sept 21.1872, 20.5 x 20cm. (2) Provenance: (Richmond) London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd, January 1972 ++ Richmond needs a light clean to remove slight light staining in paper; the latter with slight foxing
WILLIAM PAYNE (c.1760-1830) FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE BENEATH RUINED TOWERS Watercolour 20 x 29cm.; with a woodland study attributed to Thomas Barker of Bath, 21 x 24.5cm.; and a small watercolour sketch of Paris, c.1960, 13 x 16cm. (3) ++ Payne has graze in sky and some fading; `Barker` faded; the other satisfactory
Coach building an important group of late 19th c documents and ephemera relating to Arthur Mulliner the famous Northampton based coachbuilder who made the transition from building horse drawn coaches into the design and build of luxury motor cars in the early 20th c – mainly for Daimler and Rolls Royce. The group comprises original letters of Mulliner an original pencil sketch of a coach design printed coach designs with ms annotations a letter from Mulliner ordering crest designs (for incorporation on the side of one of his coaches) a further letter in which he explains he is building an omnibus a further sketch for a crest on the back of a letter from Read & Co carriage builders and harness makers of Bedford Street near the Tennis court Royal Leamington Spa a letter from Joseph Bettridge coach builder of Wellesbourne further letters of Mulliner and a printed advertisement featuring a Mulliner coach. A most interesting and informative lot concerning coach building just at the time when horse drawn vehicles were coming to an end.
WWI – Bruce Bairnsfather (attrib.) original cartoon entitled ‘The Flanders Sealion’ showing ‘Old Bill’ as a sealion with used mess cans and a flagon around him. See above for discussion on this cartoon as to its attribution. Drawn on a single leaf of sketch paper somewhat browned and creased approx 11x 7ins.
WWI – Bruce Bairnsfather (attrib) original cartoon entitled ‘Poor old Fritz’ showing a dishevelled and wounded German soldier smoking and looking wistfully at a German army cap in his hand. Presumably that of one of his dead colleagues according to the title which this cartoon was subsequently given (see below) See above for discussion on this cartoon as to its attribution. This cartoon was published with the title ‘Alas ! Poor Herr von Yorick – Fricourt July 1916.’ The attribution and title places this sketch firmly within the first few days of the Battle of the Somme – and suggests the popular belief that the ‘Great Push’ of the allied forces against the German positions would be an overwhelming success. Events were to prove a different outcome. Drawn on a single leaf of sketch paper somewhat browned and creased approx 11x 7ins.
WWI – Bruce Bairnsfather (attrib) original cartoon untitled showing a trench scene with an older soldier talking to a young lad and with the caption: ‘Up last Draft : ‘I suppose you ‘as to be careful ‘ow you looks over the parapet about ‘ere. Out since Mons ‘You needn’t worry me lad the rats are going to be your only trouble’. This cartoon was published in ‘Fragments from France’ with the additional title ‘The Long and the Short of it’. Drawn on a single leaf of sketch paper somewhat browned and creased approx 11x 7ins.
WWII sketch book containing a fine series of approx 12 coloured cartoons by an Italian prisoner of war in England during WWI dated 1943. The cartoons show prison life in a humorous way and are finely executed with an autograph inscription by the artist. Approx 10x8ins good condition. Together with a copy of ‘On with the Motley’ – a privately published series of cartoons by W Turner Lord featuring members of Headquarters No 2 Group in the British Army in WWII.
India – watercolour sketch Book of a Voyage to India Original painting book belonging to R Southey nephew of the poet Southey of various scenes on his journey to India around 1910 views include Alexandria 1910; Dead Sea Nov 1910; Narkanda; Shrine at Narkunda 1909; unfinished sketch of Aden and Aden Harbour; and a further 11 unidentified watercolour of hill scenes probably in India some loose binding splitting. Sold as seen. 29cm x 23cm.
* After Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, British 1723-1792, 18th/19th century- "The Holy Family with the Infant St John", 1788-9; oil on canvas, 75.5x63cm Notes: In David Manning`s article in the Burlington magazine 1991 on Reynold`s oil sketches he notes that little is known about the working practises of the artist. Occasionally Reynold`s did make preliminary sketches in oil, one such is in the Tate collection; the sketch for `The 4th Duke of Marlborough and his Family` circa 1777. He rarely made preliminary sketches and they were always executed in oils `in a slight manner to determine the general effect`. In Giuseppe Marchi`s (Reynold`s studio assistant) sale at Squibbs on 30th June 1808 over seventy of Reynolds sketches were itemised and sold in lots of four or five.
Meall (Louis A.). Great Yarmouth Illustrated in a Series of Twenty-Four Engravings, Including the Principal Objects of Interest in its Neighbourhood: With Letter-Press Descriptions Illustrative of Their History, Topography, & Antiquities, pub. Great Yarmouth, 1848, twenty-four eng. plts., occ. spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, some wear to extrems., large 8vo, together with A Calendar of the Freemen of Great Yarmouth, 1429-1800, pub. Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society, 1910, bound with orig. wrappers, contemp. half calf gilt with morocco label to spine, some fading, 8vo, together with Turner (Dawson), Sketch of the History of Caister Castle, 1842, num. eng. plts., occ. spotting, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus In and About Ancient Yarmouth. A Portfolio of Reproductions of Old and Unique Pictures of Byegone Yarmouth, pub. Alfred Yallop, 1905, ninety-six b & w plts. (correct as list), orig. wrapper pasted to front pastedown, 20th-c. cloth gilt, faded in places, large 4to (limited edition 20/250 copies), and five other Yarmouth related. (9)
North America. Cowperthwait (Thomas), Map of the State of New York, Compiled from the Latest Authorities, pub. Philadelphia, n.d., c.1854, hand coloured engraved map, inset maps of Niagara, Rochester, Albany and New York, slight fraying and staining largely confined to margins, central fold strengthened on verso, 415 x 670 mm, together with Wyld (James), Sketch of the Recent Discoveries on the Northern Coast of America by Messrs. Dease & Simpson, 1840, engraved map with outline colouring, inset map of North America and Canada, 305 x 475 mm, mounted, with Melish (John), United States of America Compiled from the Latest and Best Authorities, pub. Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co., Philadelphia, 1818, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, old folds, repaired closed tear, 415 x 500 mm, plus one other similar. (4)
* Walpole (Hugh, 1884-1941). Small head and shoulders pencil sketch of Hugh Seymour Walpole (HSW), in profile, light grey wash background, on paper, inscribed in ink beneath ‘Drawing of me by Mr. Darwin of Dryburn, Durham, made when I was twenty-one years of age. Hugh Walpole - 1939’, a few minor marks, 18 x 12.5 cm, desk frame, glazed. Hugh Walpole spent four years as a day boy at Durham School. He would have been twenty-one in 1905, some four years before the publication of his first novel. Dryburn House is a mile or two outside Durham which was for some centuries in the possession of the Wharton family, until a daughter married Charles Waring Darwin (cousin to Charles Darwin, the naturalist). This sketch was probably executed by the son, Charles John Wharton Darwin, born 1894, and so eleven at the time of this drawing. (1)
Tajima (Shiichi). Masterpieces by Motonobu: With Critical Descriptions, and a Biographical Sketch of the Artist, vol. 2 only, pub. Tokyo, 1904, b&w plts. throughout, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth gilt with purple ties to spine, some rubbing, folio, (ltd. ed. 5/2000, signed by the publisher), together with Binyon (Laurence), Chinese Paintings in English Paintings, pub. Paris & Brussels, 1927, num. b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, large 4to, plus Strehlneek (E.A.), Chinese Pictorial Art, pub. Shanghai, 1914, num. col. and b&w plts., occ. spotting, orig. gilt dec. cloth with ties to spine, rubbed and some spotting, 4to, plus forty-four other Chinese art related. (47)
AFTER GAY O’NEILL Tina, a limited edition print; another similar Gay O’Neill print; Lee Gallagher, a pen and ink sketch depicting an abstract figure; a limited edition lithograph by Martin Ryan entitled St. Mary’s; a lithograph depicting Noonan’s pub front; a watercolour by Jeremy Williams entitled The Market, Limerick; an oval portrait of a young girl; and three other miscellaneous pictures. (10)
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