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Lot 752
An oil painting on board by Peter Bosanquet of an abstract subject, signed with initials to backing board PB, inscribed Entering, with label verso Quest, Oil Painting by Peter Bosanquet 1919-2005, 41 x 31 cm approx in wooden frame, a pastel study of a female seated nude, signed bottom right Barbara Fyrth, an Italian watercolour of a still life with bottles and cherries, signed bottom right Bertuzzi for Christine Bertuzzi, 17 x 25 cm approx in decorative frame, a pair of 19th century sepia photographic portraits of William Augustus Baldwin and Mrs Baldwin (from Toronto and with a connection to the Canadian Prime Minister's family), 32 x 27 cm approx overall in carved wooden frames, also together with an unframed signed limited edition coloured print after Sarah Aspinall - The Three Winter Kings showing race horses
Lot 725
A 19th century oil painting on canvas, still life with basket of flowers including honeysuckle, roses, harebells, etc, signed bottom right H Gill, with incomplete inscription verso reading No 10 Wild Flowers £5, with various address details, 30 x 40 cm approx in moulded gilt frame with gilt slip
Lot 100
JOPLIN JANIS: (1943-1970) American Singer. An extremely rare A.L.S., love you XXXXX Janis, nine pages on eight separate leaves, 4to, n.p. (Port Arthur, Texas), 10th October n.y. (1965) to her fiancé, Peter de Blanc. Joplin writes a long, social, and at times revealing letter, starting to state, “I´ve been busy. In fact, right now, I´m completely exhausted, really damn tired. I had a bitch of an afternoon…I´ve been up there about 9 fucking hours doing the damn thing & we only got 3 songs! And what a drag! Neil didn´t really know how to record on his recorder & it was really a hassle. Singing & singing & being nervous. Jesus Christ. I got all weak & shaky for a while, but we finally stopped to eat….Well anyway, the tape = two blues, Come Back, Baby & Once I lived the life of a Millionaire and one really pretty ballad, Once I Had a Sweetheart. I hope it´s alright & I hope I don´t scare people…´ further stating `So we decided to go to a bar & have a few beers. (I don´t know whether you´ve ever done that kind of socializing. Sitting in a real bar…It´s really kind of nice)… So we went to the Top Hat, sat down, had a round of Lone Star beer & watched the pool table….So what happened? I beat everybody in the house! Too much! I beat all of the local champions & two dykes. I really couldn´t believe it. I just played great! And people kept buying me beer & I kept drinking it. Wow, now I hope you aren´t mad at me. I didn´t do anything wrong, except get a little smashed and I didn´t stop thinking about you. I guess someone who is engaged doesn´t want to think that his fiancée is going out & playing pool in Texas pubs....´ and concludes on a postscript to the verso of the last leaf `In one of your letters, you asked about the flowers. Well, I told you about them in the letter (Don´t you read my damn letters?) They´re purple straw flowers…I´ll send a few more, keep them & you can have a small bouquet soon…´. Accompanied by the original envelope, addressed in Joplin´s hand, and postmarked in Port Arthur, Texas, 12th October 1965. The envelope still contains the remains of Joplin´s purple straw flowers. EX £2000-3000 Peter de Blanc was hospitalized for a drug problem at Beth Israel Hospital in New York at the time of the present letter. Only few weeks later he broke off his engagement.
Lot 392
BROWNING ROBERT: (1812-1889) English Poet. A.L.S., Robert Browning, two pages, 8vo, De Vere Gardens, London, 9th April 1889, to Mrs [Edith] Bronson. Browning announces ‘This will be presented to you by Mr. Alberto Ball, the gentleman whom I ventured to introduce to you…’ and continues to add that Ball has provided an ‘account of the very interesting occasion which now takes him, and the company over which he presides, to our beloved Venice’. Browning further writes ‘My recommendation is unnecessary enough - for you know Mr. Ball, his father = but too much cannot be said when so pleasant a truth is to tell as that the gentleman you will show kindness to is the son of one of the most agreeable men I was ever privileged to call my friend’. With integral address leaf in Browning’s hand to Bronson at her family home, Ca’ Alvisi, in Venice. Some slight traces of former mounting to the blank side of the integral leaf and with some extremely minor foxing, about VG £800-1200 Edith Bronson (b.1861) Countess Rucellai. A Friend of Robert Browning, Bronson and her family held a central position within Ventian Society. Ten years before the present letter was written Browning, in 1879-80, along with James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent and Henry James, had enjoyed the hospitality of the Bronson family at their home in Venice. In another letter, published in The Brownings: Their Life and Art, Robert Browning wrote to Bronson ‘There is arranged to be a sort of expedition [to Venice] of young Toynbee Hall men, headed by Alberto Ball, the son of our common friend, for the purpose of studying, not merely amusing, themselves with, the beloved city. Well as the Balls are entitled to say that they know you, still, the young and clever Ball chooses to wish me to beg your kind notice…’
Lot 396
WOOLSON CONSTANCE FENIMORE: (1840-1894) American Novelist & Poet, friend of Henry James. A.L.S., C. F. Woolson, four pages, 8vo, Vienna, 26th April n.y., to Madame Stefani. Woolson writes a social letter to her friend, reporting that she has seen Mrs. Rose, who had been ill, and also writes ‘It made me homesick to see the name of your street at the head of your letter, it recalled so vividly beautiful Florence, so especially beautiful at this season, and the lovely light on the hills all about. I don’t quite see how I have existed all this time away from Italy! And now I hope I shall come back there in the autumn. I spent a year in England, since I last saw you, and have become very fond of the life there; but Italy still holds the first place in my heart’, and further reminiscing ‘I have often thought of your delightful house, and the delightful life you and Mr. Stefani lead there; many people have pleasant houses, but how few, how very few arrange their lives as charmingly as you have done. I remember so well that beautiful musical party I attended there, as well as the little rehearsal I interrupted another time.’ Woolson also responds to her correspondent’s enquiry about her cousins in Cooperstown, stating that her cousin Charlotte has passed away, ‘I received a letter from Cousin Charlotte, of sixteen pages, a number of days after I saw the telegraphic notice of her death; - the last letter she wrote’. A thin strip of heavy staining to the right edge of the first page, only very slightly affecting a few letters of text, and a few other minor stains to other parts of the letter, otherwise VG £600-900
![Fournder of "The Nation"
Gavan Duffy (Charles) [1816-1903] A fine A.L.s to his old friend and collaborator Rev. Charles Meeh](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0a2353a1-4706-4340-b8b0-a5de00fcff57/8d0b7b53-5866-4f1d-d0d9-54bf43369dd8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 210
Fournder of "The Nation" Gavan Duffy (Charles) [1816-1903] A fine A.L.s to his old friend and collaborator Rev. Charles Meehan, from Melbourne, March 1878, 4 pp (single folded sheet). 'After a whole generation you remain constant to the work we took up in 1846, and are in fact the only man left who has not flinched from his task. I dipped into the new edition of the Franciscans like one who was renewing his youth. That is the sort of labour to which I vowed my life long ago, if the 'higher powers' had not thought to offer me up as a victim on the shrine of Sadleir & Keogh. And though there are many thousand Irishmen happy and prosperous owners of the soil in their country, who to use the language of one of them 'would be still carrying their swag' if I had not come here, I lament the years diverted from the desk to the tribune and the platform ..' As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) *Charles Gavan Duffy, from Monaghan, was a friend of Davis and one of the founders of 'The Nation'. Duffy became MP for New Ross in 1852, but his efforts at reform were blocked in the House of Lords, and in 1855 he emigrated to Australia, where he became Prime Minister of Victoria. He retired to the South of France in 1880, and published works including a history of the Young Ireland movement. Rev. Charles P. Meehan published verse in 'The Nation' as a young man, and later wrote a series of historical works, including the 'Rise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan Monasteries'.
Lot 347
JANE LAMPARD "Still life study of tulips, fruit and jug", pastel, signed lower right, together with "Anemones in a vase", pastel, by the same hand (ARR) CONDITION REPORTS Jug and flower and fruit - condition generally good but some small light scratches and marks, frame generally good but with some small chips and impressed marks, scratches and general wear and tear. Other picture - generally good, some dark marks to the mount, frame with some impressed marks, scratches, chips etc throughout. Both with general wear and tear.
Lot 406
A 19th Century long stitch needlework depicting a religious scene, A gilt decorated rectangular wall mirror with floral motif, two Chinese silk works, ENGLISH SCHOOL "Landscape study with children fishing", oil on board, two further still life studies of flowers, oils on board, unsigned, etc
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