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Lot 116
Signed and numbered A.P. in pencil in the margin, etching and six figurative and still life studies, pencil sketches.etching plate size 24cm x 18cm (9.5in x 7.25in), sketches various sizes 28 x 19cm (11in x 7.5in)Qty: 7Condition report: The prints and sketches are all in good, original condition with strong colours and no obvious faults to report. The prints and sketches are all unframed although the sketches are mounted on card.
Lot 568
Heather Bray (20th/21st century) - sunlit balcony with figures at a table, signed artist's proof, limited edition print, 2/6; together with a further edition of the same print also numbered 1/6, both unframed, each 14.5" x 10.25"; together with seven further works by the artist including an oil painting, still life of flowers in a blue vase, a watercolour depicting a boat on a sunlit beach, a further coloured print of a fishing boat in harbour with houses nearby, studies of flowers in watercolour, also a study of a tree, a room interior with a chair, table and plant beside an open window and balcony, pencil and watercolour, and a further study of flowers around a hat, oil painting, various sizes, (9)
Lot 573
*Cozelle (20th/21st century) - portrait of a young Italian boy, signed, oil on canvas, unframed, 12" x 9.5"; together with a further oil painting initialled MNR, portrait of an Oriental girl, oil on canvas board, 14" x 11" and four further unframed oil paintings, one signed F. Goldsmith and dated 1955, landscape with cottages and trees, another unframed painting of fishing boats in a harbour, still life of sliced lemons and other objects upon a table signed M Harmsworth, and finally an abstract oil painting of shapes in red orange and white, various sizes (6) *The unframed oil painting of the fishing boats in the harbour bears the initials H. A. P., verso
Lot 578
Margaret Harmsworth (20th/21st century) - a room interior with a plant and other objects upon a table, a white cat on a green chair nearby, signed, also inscribed on the stretcher verso with her Paris address, oil on canvas, unframed, 24" x 28.5"; together with five further pictures including a pair of still life subjects depicting peaches and grapes with a wine glass, plums, grapes peaches and a goblet, (a pair), study of poppies signed Teax dated 2019, another still life of assorted flowers in a blue vase, indistinctly signed possibly A Tugelmenn and dated 1919 and finally a study of butterflies amongst branches signed K* Jones, black and white study, unframed, various sizes (6)
Lot 482
After William Henry Hunt - still life of primroses in a basket with bird's eggs within a feathered nest on a mossy bank, bold coloured lithographic print, 12.5" x 16.5" with shaped top corners and set within an old Victorian gilt plaster and wooden frame, the corners decorated with foliate scrolls and flowers,
Lot 547
John Tookey (20th/21st century) - 'Letter Home', an interior scene with a lady writing a letter and another seated nearby, with a still life of flowers in the foreground, signed also inscribed on a gallery label verso with the original price of £90, pastel drawing, 11.5" x 8.75" *Provenance with The Newport Gallery, High Street, Newport, Essex CB11 3QZ
Lot 228
A group of seven 20th century Russian pictures, to include a still life with a jug, oil on canvas, 59.5 x 49.5cm, three unframed oil on card paintings by L R Solona of Lenin, a wagon, and a landscape, an unsigned oil on canvas showing a cottage on the edge of a forest, 49.5 x 69.5cm, a nude study, oil and pencil on canvas, 60 x 45.5cm, and another Russian scene, oil on canvas, 40 x 59.5cm (7)
Lot 81
RIGBY (CHRISTOPHER PALMER) - ANGLO-PERSIAN WAR & ZANZIBARSeries of twenty six autograph letters signed from Christopher Palmer Rigby ('C.P. Rigby') to his friend Joseph Miles, Quartermaster of Marines at Bombay ('My dear Miles'), comprising: (i) seventeen letters written from Bushire during the Anglo-Persian war of 1856-7, in his position as Superintendent of Police and Assistant Civil Commissioner, reporting on life in the town ('...supplies coming in from all parts, fruit, vegetables, fish etc in abundance, and the meat as good as English...'), troop movements ('...The Persians are still encamped 2 marches off and are trying to cut off our supplies... the Russians have occupied Asterabad and have a large army on the Persian frontier...'), reporting '...you will hear of the defeat of the Persian Army... Outram arrived looking remarkably well... [The Highlanders] caused an immense sensation marching through the town in their kilts. The Persians think they are our great warriors... their force amounted to eight regiments of infantry, 18 guns and four or five thousand irregular horse... They [the Persians] evacuated their camp before our arrival... finding we did not follow them came back to make a night attack on us in their entrenched camp... our Artillery blazed at them with grape and cannister... the Persians fled in confusion... we might march through their country with moderate force...'), General Jacob ('...detested by nearly everyone in camp... he is doing everything he can to embroil us with the Persians and the tribes around... a wretched stick, pig headed as a mule... it is a wretched patched up peace, we gain nothing...'), visit from a Persian Colonel ('...looks as if he had just been figged out in Paris... The Persians seem really anxious to cultivate friendship with us...'), news of mutual friends ('...what a 1000 pities all our fellows are marrying, it hampers a Regiment in every way...'), complaints of the Bombay postal system ('...a disgrace to any Christian country, a foul blot upon the 19th century...'), reports of mutinies in India ('...most exaggerated...'), and withdrawal (...'I suppose I shall be the last to embark from here...'); (ii) one letter from aboard the Falkland giving a description of the Seychelle Islands ('...every species of tropical fruit...The roads are lined with roses, myrtles & oleander... the whole island almost is in a state of nature... the root of the manioc which grows like a weed makes excellent white bread... people are too lazy... no money is ever spent on improvements... the style of living is very different... I don't think they even have tiffin or dinner, breakfast seems to be the meal... turkey, ham, curries, fish, salads, ducks stewed in olives... with claret... fancy eating all this at 10 in the morning...'); (iii) eight letters from Zanzibar as British Consul, describing being greeted by the Sultan on arrival ('...he gave a capital dinner in the European style but only sherbet to drink... the English Consul is the only person here the Sultan calls on...'), hospitality ('...the French Consul... has a French cook... would have done credit to the Café de Paris... The American Consul... can't speak a word of French... only language in which he can make himself understood is the Sowahili or negro language... I laughed when I heard them salute each other with 'Jambo Monsieur'...'), scenery and abundant produce ('...like a fine park... huge mango trees, groves of oranges etc...'), arrival of slaves ('...they all wear a wooden ticket round the neck...') and slave ships ('...they come to try to bully the Sultan into consenting to a slave trade, but they find it no go... they pretend it is not a slave trade that the negroes are only 'engaged' to serve for a term of years and go willingly...'), cholera ('...raging here... carried off thousands of people...'), threat of attack from Muscat ('...there will most likely be a good deal of fighting... There are 25000 wild Africans here & a firing & yelling is kept up all day... & kill 2 or 3 people daily by accident...'), the arrival of Burton and Speke ('...Speke has done much more than Burton, he left Burton after surveying the Tanganika Lake which is about 400 miles long and went alone 25 days journey North where he discovered Lake Nianza... unknown to any...'), his low opinion of Burton ('...Speke is a right good jolly resolute follow, Burton is not fit to hold a candle to him... Speke works, Burton lies on his back all day & picks other people's brains...'), arrival of explorer Albrecht Roscher from the interior ('...Burton is very jealous of him...') and his discovery of Lake Nyassa ('...the first white man who has ever done so... There is a report he has been murdered... we are very anxious about him... Speke is going with 50 armed men...'), French designs on the colony ('...all very savage altho' outwardly polite... they want to get rid of the Sultan...'), the quashing of the rebellion of the El Harth Arabs ('...the Sultan's brother who was backed up by the French... The rebel tribe has suffered severely... the English are in high favour here now...'), his own legacy ('...I have lately emancipated 3700 slaves here... I was occupied from daylight to dark for 6 weeks having the slaves brought up and writing a certificate of freedom for each...'), and much else, c.96 pages, creased with some small tears along folds, one small portion excised to remove postmark, rust staining from old paperclips, some integral address panels with red wax seals, 8vo, Bushire, Karrack, Seychelle Islands, British Consulate Zanzibar, 28 December 1856 to 22 June 1860Footnotes:'ENGLISH INFLUENCE IS SUPREME HERE': LETTERS FROM THE BRITISH CONSUL IN ZANZIBAR & HIS FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE ANGLO-PERSIAN WARA wide-ranging, closely written and detailed correspondence beginning with Rigby's first-hand experience of the Anglo-Persian war of November 1856-April 1857. As Bushire's only Magistrate and Superintendent of Police, on the arrival of Sir James Outram, commander of the British forces, Rigby was elevated to Assistant Civil Commissioner and Military Commandant. His services were indispensable as the only officer who could speak Persian. Rigby's account covers the battle of Bushire, the British attack on Brazjun, and the battle of Khushab, the largest battle of the war. During his next posting as British Consul in Zanzibar, against a vividly portrayed background of life on the island, he speaks of his great successes in fighting the slave trade, the quashing of the Burghash rebellion, describes assisting several explorers and reveals his personal thoughts on the rivalry between Burton and Speke (see Lot 89).These letters were retained in the papers of Christopher Palmer Rigby, extracts from which were published in his daughter's memoir, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, published in 1935.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 89
SPEKE (JOHN HANNING)Correspondence and papers retained by Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul on Zanzibar relating to the Speke/Burton feud, comprising: i) Group of five autograph letters and a note signed ('J.H. Speke') to Christopher Palmer Rigby, the first announcing that he has '...in conjunction with Mr Petherick undertaken to go to Nyanza again and to connect it with the Nile - I going up the west side of the Lake from Unyamyembe whilst he goes down southwards from Gondokoro... This would be a glorious tour!...' and praising Rigby for his success in quashing the Burghash rebellion ('...you are the father of Zanzibar and the Sultan your eldest son...'), the rest taken up with his feud with fellow-explorer Richard Burton, writing gleefully that '...Burton has got the dumps and is cutting himself at every turn...', speaking of his reluctance to accompany Burton ('...I had seen enough of his blackguardism at that time to for ever despise him...'), calling him a 'cunning ingrate, and double blackguard' and complaining of his conduct ('...I gave him [Burton] every collection, observations and my original diary... and printed my diaries to swell his own book with, and this too without ever asking my consent... It is true Burton touched up some of my diaries on return from the Nyanza as they stood in the original... but by practice in writing I improved my style...'), his resentment at Burton receiving a Gold Medal ('...I alone had brought back all the geographical results of that expedition, and Burton had not shown himself capable of doing anything but making ethnological remarks...'), explaining in detail the confusion with regards to the payment of the porters, returning specimens and '...the last of the tots... send them off as contented as their discontented dispositions will permit...', announcing the publication of his account of the first two expeditions in one volume ('...The Hindu map published by Wilford has turned out a forgery, so in the Second Edition it will be left out...'), asking Rigby to speak with the Sultan about 'the unjustifiable interference of the Arabs' in the African interior ('...only perpetrated as a pretext to loot...'), including a list of specimens returned ('...Gun case of Bird & Snake skins... female head of Eland... skins of head are separate from the skulls...'), and much else; with two envelopes, one bearing the remark that the porters have run away, 24 pages, creased with spotting and some small tears along folds, 8vo and 4to, Illminster, Kinanga Ranga, Kazeh, Grand Hotel, Paris, 19 January 1860 to 20 April [postmarked 1864]ii) Autograph letter signed ('M. Grant') to Rigby's widow ('My dear Mrs Rigby'), asking if she has copies of Rigby's letters 'reporting the conduct of the late Sir Richard Burton' so that she can 'contradict what Lady Burton has written about Speke in the Daily Graphic... her husband could not have told her that he had attempted the life of Captn Speke by asking one of their followers to put poison into his medicine. This is well too well-known to the family of Captn Speke...', 6 pages, on mourning paper, 8vo (177 x 114mm.), Househill, Nairn, 15 January 1891iii) Draft document signed ('C.P. Rigby') to 'H. L. Anderson Esquire/ Chief Secretary to Government/ Bombay', 'Reporting the libels and calumnies contained in a Book entitled 'The Lake Regions of Central Africa' recently published by Brevet Captain Burton... & his treatment of his followers during the late Expedition in Central Africa', with various additions and amendments, 25 pages, docketed 'no. 73 of 1860', joined at head by green silk thread, folio (335 x 210mm.), British Consulate, Zanzibar, 16 November 1860; with two duplicate letters from H.L. Anderson confirming that it will be forwarded to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, assuring him that '...you have fully vindicated yourself... your reputation has... been in no degree affected by Captain Burton's untrustworthy statements...', one with the subscription 'Transmitted to Colonel Rigby/ Lewis Pelly/ Zanzibar/ 30th October 1861', 4 pages, folio (225 x 210mm.), Bombay Castle, 18 March 1861; and another uncompleted draft letter from Rigby regarding the perceived damage to the reputation of Mr Apothecary Frost, the Medical Officer, through claims made by Burton in his book.Footnotes:'I HAD SEEN ENOUGH OF HIS BLACKGUARDISM AT THAT TIME TO FOR EVER DESPISE HIM'The unresolved feud between explorers Speke and Burton is well documented. After their expedition to the lake regions of Central Africa, Burton published their joint achievements as his own and was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Geographical Society which Speke felt should belong to him. Speke also accused Burton of refusing to pay the porters and reneging on promises to reward other members of the expedition ('...now I have repaid him for that as well as all of the half expenses of the Expedition; and had the Govt. not paid the men at Zanzibar, I should have paid my share to them likewise... you know only too well how things have been done...').These letters not only illustrate the bitterness of the feud but also reveal the considerable extent to which Rigby was involved in fanning the flames of the acrimony between the two explorers. Rigby had known Burton in India and his friendship with Speke was strengthened by their mutual dislike. Rigby's journal, included in this sale (see Lot 82), mentions long, almost daily walks with Speke and he helped him with supplies and the organisation of the expedition. In return, Speke talks with admiration of Rigby and his work ('...you are the father of Zanzibar and the Sultan your eldest son...'), giving him permission to publish a letter which, he writes, 'may have the effect for reforming Burton: at any rate it will check his scribbling mania, and save his soul the burthen of many lies'. Rigby's influence in encouraging the feud is clear and it has been said that it was his report to the Secretary of State for India, a copy of which is included here, that 'made the breach between the two explorers... unbridgeable' (Tim Jeal, Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph & Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure, 2011). What is also revealing that, thirty years after Speke's death, the feud was still not laid to rest, with the widows of the protagonists continuing to air their accusations in public and with the wife of James Grant here accusing Burton of contriving to poison Speke whilst on their expedition. Speke's letters are published, in part, in a memoir written by Rigby's daughter (Mrs Charles E.B. Russell, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, 1935). However, whether to spare the sensibilities of her readers or of Speke's family, she omits the stronger accusations revealed here.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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