ABBOTT and HOLDER Ltd
Established 1936
Director: PHILIP ATHILL
Tom Edwards, James McAuslan, Natalie Duff (Accounts). Conservator: Elias Kelson
30 MUSEUM STREET — opposite the British Museum — LONDON WC1A 1LH
Tel: 020 7637 3981 Fax: 020 7631 0575 e.mail: gallery@abbottandholder.co.uk
LIST 403: AUGUST 2010
This ‘List’ of Stock appears on our website on FRIDAY 6th August. Nothing is sold from it before 9.30 a.m. Those of you who are on the doorstep get first go at the new stock and while we try to keep telephone calls, faxes and e-mails in strict order of receipt there will be times when technological overlaps muddy the system.
APPROVAL SERVICE - AUGUST OFFER: Email images have to a degree lessened the need for this however we are very aware of how important it is to see the real thing before making a decision. With this in mind postage both ways free if you buy the picture and only payable on its return postage if you return it.
IMAGES: can be e-mailed, faxed or sent as colour copies. Requests for e-mail images must please be e-mailed. We will advise which is most suitable and will reserve pictures of which images are sent for one working day from despatch unless otherwise agreed. Illustrations are only intended as an indication of the work – please telephone if you have any questions about the quality of the photograph and its relationship to the original.
ATTRIBUTIONS: are fully guaranteed; don’t hesitate to question us about them. Money back AND a box of Black Magic should you buy something and discover we are wrong.
SIZES: Are to nearest inch; upright measurements first.
CONSERVATION: Our in-house Conservator offers free advice and quotes for the conservation of works on paper, and a Fellow of The British Association of Paintings Conservators/Restorers for that of works in oils.
FRAMING: Should you buy an unframed work from us it can be framed at cost.
HOURS: We are open Monday through Saturday 9.30 – 6.00 and on Thursdays 9.30 – 7.00.
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THIRTEEN DRAWINGS BY GWEN JOHN (1876-1939) These black chalk drawings are typical of the studies, mostly side and back views We are grateful to Cecily Langdale, the acknowledged authority on the artist, |
PAINTINGS IN OILS
Works are in oil on canvas unless stated otherwise.
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BLUNT Wilfrid (1901-1987)
1. Self-portrait at his easel, presumably in the Eton art room where he was Art Master at this time. 1941. (cf. no’s 179 and 180). Oil on card. 15x7 inches. Signed. £675.
CAMP Jeffery R.A. (b.1923)
2. ‘Hand gliding in Sussex’, above lovers and the sea. 1982-3. Exhibited: Browse and Darby. Oil on shaped board. 12x15 inches. Signed. £1100.
CASTLE Philip (Contemporary)
3. A fantastical city, part Escher, part Quattrocento by an artist better known for his air brush work (Poster for The Clockwork Orange etc). Beautifully coloured. 1972. 23x35 inches. Signed verso. £675.
DARBISHIRE Stephen (b.1940)
4. ‘Sunday Morning’; sunlight silhouetting a girl on a cottage bed. Oil on card. Exhibited: R.I. 1982. 5x4 inches. £225.
GIBB Phelan (1870-1948)
5. The formalized trees and shrubs of a Mediterranean garden from this artist’s best period. Circa 1910. 29x20 inches. £1500.
GUTHRIE Robin (1902-1971)
6. A beautiful dark girl casting a melancholy glance by an artist who personified Slade tenets as taught by Tonks and Steer. 28x23 inches. Signed. £1500.
HITCHENS John (b.1940)
7. ‘Evening. Hill Range’; probably the Downs at Graffham. 1964. 15x36 inches. Signed. £875.
KESSELL James (b.1915)
8. ‘Snow Scene at Rugby’; a very Newlyn image. 1965. Oil on card. Exhibited: 6th Coventry Artists Open Exhibition. 20x16 inches. Signed. £475.
LINNELL William (1826-1910)
9. An elegantly stepping Nude – William and his brother James attended the Royal Academy Schools at a time when Etty was a constant presence. Circa 1845. Oil on paper. Provenance: Joan Linnell-Burton. 29x19 inches. £500.
10. Another, langouressly reclining. 17x30 inches. Provenance: Linnell-Burton. £500.
NORDEN Gerald (1912-2000)
11. ‘Shell, Vase and Apple’; trompe de l’oeil on board. 1986. 9x12 inches. Signed. £795.
12. ‘Mon Reve; still-life of mandolin and flute. 1990. 22x20 inches. Signed. £850.
PROCKTOR Patrick (1936-2003)
13. ‘Huntress – after Lely’. A good example of both his charms and his weaknesses. Oil on canvas. Exhibited: Redfern Gallery, sold to Roy Boulting, 1972. 36x24 inches. £3500.
WALCOT William R.B.A. (1874-1943)
14. ‘Taormina’; view down and along the coast through cypresses. Palette knife and oil on panel. 14x10 inches. Signed. £2250.
WYETH Paul R.B.A. (1920-1983)
15. A caprice of Palladian ruins and statuary amidst cypresses and umbrella pines. 1961. 12x10 inches. Signed. £350.
WATERCOLOURS and DRAWINGS – General and Illustrators
Works are in watercolour unless stated otherwise.
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ANGUS Peggy (1904-1993)
16. Sturdy, thoughtful young woman against chinoiserie wallpaper. Drawn in pastel on tan paper. 1935. 19x24 inches. Framed. Signed. £600.
ARTIST’S STUDIO (Subject) Anon. Circa 1820.
17. A comic, panoramic caricature of a hack artist and his products. Ink and watercolour. 5x19 inches. £675.
BASKIN Leonard (1922-2000)
18. ‘Etienne Delaune’ (1519-1583), the ‘Fontainebleau’ designer and printmaker – an appropriately tiny image. Pen and Indian ink. 1986. Literature: ‘Iconologia’, p.92. Exhibited: Leinster Fine Art. 4x4 inches. Framed. Signed on mount. £275.
BEATON Sir Cecil C.B.E. (1904-1980)
19. An elegant woman, friend rather than model, in evening dress. Charcoal. Provenance: William Henderson and Dr Frank Tait, friends of Beaton. 21x12 inches. Framed. £975.
BELCHER George R.A. (1875-1947)
Charcoal drawings for ‘Punch’ in the 1930s:
20. 1st Cockney Lady: Fancy your meeting Mrs Green, I ain’t seen’er for years’.
2nd Lady: ’You wouldn’t ‘ardly know’er she’s got so stout, quite bellicose in fact…’. 16x13 inches. Framed. Signed. £300.
21. Miss Smith to Visitor who has recently come to the district: ‘Have you any religious views?’Mrs Green: ‘No, but I have some very nice ones of Southend my sister sent me’.16x13 inches. Framed. Signed. £300.
BOWYER William R.W.S. (b.1926)
22. A broad sandy beach and sun dazzling from the sea. Watercolour and gouache. 1966. Just the thing if you are too frightened to go to Greece this summer. 13x20 inches. £395.
BRATBY John R.A. (1928-1992)
23. ‘David Bratby’; the artist’s toddler son clutching his football. Dark pencil drawing. ‘Summer 1957’. 14x6 inches. Framed. Signed. £375.
24. ‘Carnival Boy’; a Venetian reveler. February, 1992. Pencil and crayon. 11x14 inches. Framed. Signed. £650.
BUNBURY Henry (1750-1811)
25. ‘A Recollet’ or gardening monk or the sort that might be kept by Walpole in a garden house. Pen, brush and ink. Framed. 11x8 inches. £225.
26. ‘A Cordelier’; a jovial Friar. Pen, brush and ink pair to No. 25. 11x8 inches. Framed. £225.
BURRA Edward (1905-1976)
27. Life model resting her weight on a stool. Pen and ink. Circa 1928. Provenance: Artist’s Estate Sale at Sothebys. 9x16 inches. Framed. £150.
COTMAN John Sell (1782-1842)
28. A tumbledown, half-timbered cottage. Pencil. Circa 1800. 5x8 inches. Signed. £1500.
COX David O.W.S. (1783-1859)
29. Becalmed sailing boasts at dawn. Pencil and watercolour. Characteristic pencilings verso. 5x7 inches. £1500.
CRUIKSHANK George (1792-1878)
30. ‘The X E Qtive – or a cast iron King signs Death Warrents by steam – Dedicated to the admirers of new inventions and old Kings by their (word missing)/ For Mr John Gardner / Mansfield Place / Kentish Town’. Inscribed thus and dated ‘July 13th 1823’. Splendid image in pen and ink. 7x9 inches. Signed, £475.
DANCE George R.A. (1741-1825)
31. ‘Knitting up the ravelled sleeve of care’; five young men asleep at a table. Ink and grey wash. Inscribed. Exhibited: Anthony Reed. 6x8 inches. Framed. £575.
DEROY Isidore Laurent (1797-1886)
32. Shepherd family safe beside a mountain lake. 1823. Original frame available. 14x11 inches. Signed. £675.
DISMORR Jessica (1885-1939)
33. The poet George Barker, one of several heads of him she drew after attending a poetry reading at Archer’s Bookshop in 1935. Pen and ink. 13x10 inches. Framed. £975.
DOWNMAN John A.R.A. (1750-1824)
34. An elaborately coiffed Beauty. Chalk and stump, delicately heightened with watercolour. Original frame. Oval 7x6 inches. £1250.
DU MAURIER George R.W.S. (1834-1896)
35. ‘The Triumph of Art’; a maid preparing her young mistresses elaborate coiffeur before a ball. Pen and ink for ‘Punch’, 3/2/1878. 5x4 inches. Signed. £275.
EPSTEIN Sir Jacob (1880-1959)
36. One of King David’s men, ‘Benaiah’, with the pelt of the lion he has just slain by hand in a deep pit. From the series of Old Testament images he painted in the early 1930s. 23x18 inches. Framed. Signed. £2750.
FLEETWOOD- WALKER Bernard R.A. N.E.A.C. (1893-1965)
37. ‘The Maidens’; glowing pastel study of one of them for the oil painting. 1932. Pastel on blue paper. Provenance: Dr Peggy Fleetwood-Walker. 17x12 inches. Framed. £650.
‘FOUGASSE’ Kenneth Bird (1887-1965)
38. Top hatted Knight on a heavily caparisoned charger. Strange image, for an Austin Reed advertising campaign, beautifully drawn in pen and ink. 3x7 inches. £110.
GARLAND Nicholas (b.1935)
39. Her Cabinet playing Musical Chairs as Mrs Thatcher plays the piano. Pen and ink. 18th July 1989. 9x15 inches. Signed. £225.
40. Senior Labour politicians characterized as cars; Healey, Benn, Silkin, Foot and Shore. Pen and ink. 10x14 inches. Signed. £225.
GAUNT William (1900-1980)
41. ‘Fashionable English People’ viewing D.H. Lawrence’s controversial exhibition of Nudes at the Warren Gallery in 1929. ‘…gross, coarse, hideous, unlovely and obscene…’ (The Magistrate). Ink and watercolour. 13x10 inches. Framed. Signed. £325.
GEORGE III (Subject) Anon. Circa 1760.
42. ‘Georg III / Konig von Gross Brittanien / und (?) von Hanover’. Head of the young King presented as a medallion in profile. Grey washes. 8x5 inches. £125.
GILPIN Rev. William (1724-1804)
43. River ravine spanned by an arched bridge. Pencil, brush and wash. 5x7 inches. £275.
GRANT Duncan L.G. (1885-1978)
44. A sturdy, standing Nude; the paper tatty but the drawing strong. Very decoratively mounted as a fragment and dedicated ‘To William De Belleroche from Duncan Grant, November 14th / 1965/ Charleston‘, (verso). 40x19 inches. Framed. Signed. £875.
HARRISON John Theodore (1914-2002)These come from the Estate of the Artist:
45. Moroccan Nude in a richly tiled, Matisse inspired interior. Circa 1941. 12x14 inches. £400
46. ‘Odalisque’; a Moroccan boy. Circa 1941. Watercolour and gouache.19x25 inches. £350.
47. Moroccans in the Casbah. Pen and ink. Circa 1941. £300.
‘HEATH’ Michael Heath (b.1935)These are 1970s pen and ink drawings for ‘Private Eye’:
48. ‘Mick Jagger Switched On Here 1962-64’; Tourist reading a Blue Plaque.9x6 inches. Signed. £225.
49. Liberal parents considering their infant’s smoking habits. 7x7 inches. Signed. £225.
50. ‘Muriel got sucked into the Piccadilly Underground escalator’; fashionable girls gripped by the dangers of the Maxi skirt. 8x5 inches. Signed. £225.
HEATON, BUTLER and BAYNE (Firm of) Circa 1890.
51. The Adoration of the Shepherds. Ink and watercolour stain glass design over two lancets. 10x4 inches. Stamped address. £325.
HOWARD-JONES Ray (1903-1996)
52. ‘Balloon Site / June 1941 / RAF’; airmen shaving and relaxing outside their nissen hut. Watercolour and gouache. 15x22 inches. Signed. £675.
HUBBOCK Rodney (Twentieth Century)
53. ‘Blighted Earth’; a cemetery of scrapped cars surrounding a blighted tree. The quality of the drawing redeems the grim image. Pencil. 1965-67. 17x14 inches. Framed. Signed. £375.
KEMENY Kalman (1896-1944)The youngest ever Official Austrian War artist, Kemeny made these sketches in Viennese cafes while on leave. All bear the Studio Stamp:
54. Girl in a large hat / Man with a large nose. 9x11. £225.
55. Borgeois Viennese at a café table. 9x12 inches. £225.56. Old soldiers smoking. 9x11 inches. £225.
57. Studies of elderly heads. Red, black and white chalks. 6x8 inches. £225.
58. Two men in heated debate, ‘Wien, 1915’. 8x10 inches. £225.
59. Girl in evening dress, smoking. 10x8 inches. £225.
60. Dignified Hungarian in a special hat. 8x6 inches. £225.
61. An exhausted, sleeping boy soldier. 9x11 inches. £325.
62. Officer drawn in profile. 1915. £225.
63. An elderly, sleeping Jew. Red chalk. 6x3 inches. £175.
‘KYD’ Joseph Clayton Clarke (fl.1882-1899)Dickensian characters from ‘David Copperfield’:
64. ‘Barkis’. ‘Betsy Trotwood’. ‘Peggoty’. ‘Tommy Traddles’. ‘Lattimer’. Each 5x3 inches. Each signed. Each £35.
LAMPLOUGH Augustus R.W.S. (1877-1930)
65. ‘Evening in the Desert’; pink gold light with blue mountains in the distance. 7x17 inches. Signed. £575.
LEGROS Alphonse (1837-1911)
66. A curly headed and bearded man. Silverpoint drawing on prepared paper. 13x9 inches. Signed. £650.
LINES Vincent (1909-1968)
67. Character study of an ancient ?Breton fisherman. Ink, charcoal and watercolour. Exhibited: ‘Drawn from Nature – works by Hartrick, Hennell and Lines’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 1981. Provenance: Sheila Clarke. 12x11 inches. Framed. £375.
MAY Phil R.I. (1864-1903)
68. ‘The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form’; a world weary stage-door Hamlet. Pen and ink for ‘Punch’, 6.5.1903, p.107. Exhibited: Ashmolean Museum, 2002. 10x7 inches. Framed. Signed. £400.
MAYO Dame Eileen (1906-1994)
69. Zulu mother and child. Coloured chalks and watercolour. Circa 1947. Provenance: the artist’s family. 16x13 inches. Signed. £10,000.
MICHEL Georges (1763-1843)
70. Distant village across a pre-Barbizon landscape by an artist who became famous long after his death. Chalk with vestiges of watercolour. 5x7 inches. Signed. Exhibited: National Loan Exhibition, Grafton Galleries, 1909-1910, No. 100. Ex Collection: J. P. Heseltine. £475.
MIDDLEDITCH Edward R.A. (1923-1987)
71. Abstracted, vigorous landscape drawing in charcoal. Exhibited: New Art Centre. 20x25 inches. Framed. £2000.
MORDAUNT Lady (c.1778-1842)
72. A decrepit thatched and plank barn by Girtin’s admirer. Pencil and watercolour. 10x8 inches. £225.
NIXON John (c.1750-1818)
73. ‘Wines’; young folk dallying at the shop door. Pen and ink. 4x7 inches. Framed. £125.
PICKERSGILL Frederick R.A. (1816-1900)
These early drawings were amongst the drawings left to his sister-in-law:
74. ‘Temple Terrace / July 29th 1849’. Pencil heightened with white on tan paper. 9x7 inches. £225.
75. The trunks and branches of pine trees. Pencil heightened with white on tan paper. 11x7 inches. £225.
76. View through the tree trunks of a little wood. Pencil on blue/grey paper. 5x7 inches. £225.
77. Trees reflected in a little stream. Pencil and scraffito on grey treated paper. 7x10 inches. £225.
POZNANSKI Victor (fl.1920s)
78. A harlequin. Pencil drawing dedicated to Elise (Lady) Watts. Circa 1920. 7x5 inches. £75.
PROUT Samuel O.W.S. (1783-1852)
79. A stone-yard filled with the fragments of the adjacent Gothic cathedral. Ink, watercolour and gouache.Exhibited: Agnews. 16x10 inches. £2750.
80. The interior of a French Gothic chapel, dramatically lit. Ink and watercolour. 16x0 inches. Signed. £2250.
81. Three arcades of a crumbling Gothic building. Ink and watercolour. 4x8 inches. £475.
REEVES Denzil (1926-2008)
Exquisite ink, watercolour and gold paint combinations of calligraphy, poetry and botanical painting:
82. ‘Spring – Shelley’. 1963. 20x16 inches. Signed. Framed. £250.
83. ‘Summer – John Clare’. 1962. 20x16 inches. Signed. Framed. £250.
84. ‘Autumn – Edward Thomas’. 1963. 20x16 inches. Signed. Framed. £250.
85. ‘Winter – William Cowper’. 1964. 20x16 inches. Signed. Framed. £250.
SPENCER Sir Stanley R.A. (1891-1959)
86. Henry (later knighted) Slesser (1887-1973) barrister and Labour politician smoking a pipe. Slesser was a generous friend to Spencer in the 1920s. Pencil. Circa 1920/21. 14x10 inches. Framed. Signed. £2250.
STAFFORD-BAKER Julius (1904-1988)
87. Breton fisherman passing the time of day on a quayside. Ink and watercolour by the war artist we featured in August 2007. 19x24 inches. Framed. £375.
STEVENS Alfred George (1817-1875)
88. Figure studied from below, possibly for a tomb of huge fireplace. Pencil. Exhibited: Peter Nahum. 12x10 inches. Framed. £675.
TENNANT Lady Emma (b.1943)
89. ‘Quince’, ink and watercolour on japon paper. 8x6 inches. Signed. Framed. £395.
90. ‘Lapageria Rosea’. Ink and watercolour on japon paper. Exhibited: Mallets, ‘Emma Tennant’, no.59. 12x8 inches. £425.
‘TROGG’ Walter Ernest Fawkes (b.1924)
91. A policeman misunderstood in his approach to a black man. Pen, brush and ink for the ‘Daily Mail’ 17th August 1970. 14x12 inches. Signed. £225.
VERNEY Sir John (1928-1993)
92. Wintery Northern Italian Piazza across which hurry two Nuns. Gouache. 1963. 14x21 inches. Framed. Signed. £675.
WATTS James Thomas (fl.1873-1930)
93. A Lakeland Farm under snow. 14x10 inches. Signed. £675.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944)
94. Fin de Siecle gents choosing their cigars. Pen and ink for a Rothman’s advert. Circa 1940. 9x6 inches. Framed. Signed. £425.
WILSON Richard R.A. (1714-1782)
95. Ruins amidst Cypress trees. Black chalk heightened with a little white. Provenance: Paul Sandby, whose stamp (L2112) it bears. Wilson is recorded as giving the better connected Sandby his drawings to sell. We are grateful to Dr Paul Spencer-Longhurst for confirming this drawing. 5x8 inches. Framed. £1500.
YARROW-JONES Ernest (1872-1951)
96. Flowering broom and fruit trees near Hyeres where he lived in the 1920s. 8x11 inches. Framed. Signed. £375.
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WATERCOLOURS and DRAWINGS of PARTICULAR PLACES
Works are in watercolour unless stated otherwise.
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ALDRIDGE John R.A. (1905-1983)
Drawings in blue ball point pen made on a trip to Urbino in 1958:
97. ‘Urbino / 3 Sept.58’, a harvest landscape. 8x10 inches. Signed. £125.
98. ‘Il Palazzaccio Mecantello sul Metauro / 13 Sept.58’. 8x10 inches. £125.
99. ‘Near the River Metauro, west of Urbania’. 8x10 inches. £75.
From the 1930s to the 1970s many of Aldridge’s summers were spent staying on Majorca with his friend Robert Graves at Deya:
100.Massive ilex. Pencil. 8x13 inches. £125.
101.An ancient olive tree, 30 Aug.72’. Pencil. 9x11 inches. £125.
102.‘Singla del Viso / El Pin de Sapradisa’. Pencil. 8x10 inches. £125.
103.‘Saturday p.m. 1970. Steep path to the Cala’. 8x9 inches. Pencil. £125.
104.Rocks and olive trees. Pencil. 9x14 inches. £125.
BARKER Benjamin (1776-1838)
105.Kent. Tunbridge Wells, ‘Mount Ephraim’; little houses across a common. Inscribed verso. 11x14 inches. £350.
BARLOW J
106.Liverpool (Cf. No’s 133 and 143); ‘Kirkdale Industrial Ragged School / 1861’, Major Street, Stanley Road. The new built School for the original ‘Scousers’. 11x17 inches. Signed. £475.
BRATBY John R.A. (1928-1992)
107.Venice. ‘The forest of mooring posts Venice / and Rialto Bridge’. A late but decorative evocation of the City. Pastels. 1992. 12x16 inches. Framed. £1100.
CHESHIRE (Subject) Anon. Circa 1830.
108.‘Combermere Abbey’ from across the lake. 7x11 inches. £225.
CHESHIRE. (Subject). Anon. Circa 1830.
109.‘Crew Hall (1615-1636)…one of the most complete specimens of that stile (sic) of Building…’.Ink and watercolour. 8x11 inches. £225.
DEWHURST Wynford R.B.A. (1864-1941)
110.‘Chamonix’. Dewhurst trained in France and was an early champion of and writer on Monet. Pastel. 13x10 inches. Framed. Signed. £650.
DE WINT Peter O.W.S. (1784-1849)
111.Berkshire. Harvest landscape with the distant shape of Windsor Castle. Exhibited: Agnews. Martyn Gregory. 12x18 inches. Framed. £2250.
DEXTER Walter R.B.A. (1876-1958)
112.Paris. The Porte St Denis’ in about 1915. 8x7 inches. Signed. £475.
ELGOOD George R.I. (1851-1943)
113.France. ‘Mentone’; an arbor of vines overlooking the bay and Cap St Martin. 1902. 5x9 inches. £975.
FEIBUSCH Hans (1898-1998)
114.Rome. The Arch of Constantine. Gouache. 1948. 14x20 inches. Framed. Signed. £675.
FINCH Francis Oliver O.W.S. (1802-1862)
115.Hampstead. ‘North End’. Looking down from the sandpits over a farmyard and roof tops towards London. Provenance: Mrs Finch to Rev. T K Richmond in memory of her husband in 1866. 8x15 inches. £1250.
FITCHEW Ernest Hubert (1851-1934)
116.Israel. ‘Hebron, with the Mosque over the Cave of ***’. Circa 1900. Probably to illustrate a book. 10x7 inches. Signed. £295.
117.‘Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre’. 10x7 inches. Signed. 10x7 inches. Signed. £295.
FLETCHER Hanslip (1874-1955)
118.‘London. ‘Trafalgar House’; a panelled 18th century drawing room with Nelson over the fireplace. Pen and ink record. 1947. 15x21 inches. Signed. £225.
FLINT Francis Russell R.W.S. (1915-1980)
119.‘Malaysia’; palm tree above a limpid sea. Circa 1940. 7x10 inches. Signed. £125.
FONTHILL ABBEY (subject)These are after – or possibly for – John Rutter’s ‘Delineations of Fonthill and it’s Abbey’ (Publ.1823):
120.The North West Front. Grey wash. 6x8 inches. £150.
121.The South and East Front 6x8 inches. £150.
122.The interior of King Edward’s Gallery. The illustration in the book is etched by John Gleghorn after a watercolour by C F Pordon 6x8 inches. £225.
123.‘The South End of St Michael’s Gallery’. 6x8 inches. £225.
FRASER Captain Thomas (1776-1823)
124.India. ‘A Fall on the Southern branch of the Cauvery (Kaveririva) at Shevensamudra (Shivanasamudra)’, near Mysore. Painted while he was serving in the Madras Engineers (1796-1819). Inscribed verso. Original washmount. 17x25 inches. Signed. £1500.
GOODALL Edward Angelo R.W.S. (1819-1908)
125.Venice. A corner of the lovely Gothic Palazzo Priuli, very much painted ‘from the spot’. 13x10 inches. Studio stamp. £1250.
GORDON-CUMMING Constance Frederica (1837-1924)
126.India; ‘Khyles (19866 ft) and Raal Dung (21250ft) from between Rogi and (?Chinai), July 1869’, on the Tibet road (sic). Painted on her first trip. Inscribed. 25x15 inches. Framed. Signed. £1200.
127.‘Simla Bazaar’; with the English Church tower on the right. Watercolour and gouache sketch. Probably 1869. Inscribed. 16x25 inches. Framed. £975.
GREEN William (1761-1821)
128.Westmoreland. ‘The Head of Low Wood, Grasmere’; a grand but rather faded example. 14x19 inches. Framed. £800
HARDING James Duffield O.W.S. (1797-1863)
129.An Italian lake, its shore marked with a very distinctive church. Strong pencil. Circa 1840. 14x19 inches. £275.
HARRIOTT William (c.1811-d.1839)
130.Avon. The unfinished Clifton Suspension Bridge painted from below. 9x11 inches. £225.
HELSBY Alfredo (1862-1933)
131.Chile. ‘La Serena’; a distant range of blue mountains above lush forest. 1897. 9x14 inches. Signed. £475.
HENNELL Thomas R.W.S. (1903-1945)
132.Kent. Planting cabbages, probably at Ridley. 17x18 inches. Framed. £1250.
HERDMAN William Gawin (1805-1882)
133.?Liverpool (Cf. No’s 106 and 143); Windmills and distant factories lining the Mersey. An interesting record and early work by the painter. 9x15 inches. Signed. £225
HEYWOOD Sally (b.1964)
134.Austria. ‘Saalbach’; an expressive study in oils on paper. Ex. Coll: Michael Culme-Seymour. 5x8 inches. Framed. £125.
HILDER Rowland P.R.I. (1905-1993)
135.Kent. Oast house and barns near Tonbridge. Ink and watercolour. 6x14 inches. Signed. £675.
HOLLAND James O.W.S. (1800-1870)
136.Holland. ‘Rotterdam’; sailing ships moored along the planted quay – how hugely altered it is – ‘Oct.1st 1845’. Pencil with a little colour. 5x9 inches. £450
ITALY (subject) Anon. Circa 1770.
137.‘Cypress on Monte Mario’. A charming pen and ink study once sold as Alexander Cozens (Agnew No.25991). 7x4 inches. Framed. £225.
LAMONT Edie (Twentieth Century)
138.Spain. ‘Almunecar Castle and Cliffs’ painted by John Minton’s fellow pupil and patron. Ink and watercolour. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, ‘Artists of Fame and Promise’, July, 1958. 11x9 inches. Signed. Framed. £500
LAWSON Cecil Gordon (1851-1882)
139.A boldly painted, rich, green little landscape. 6x7 inches. Signed. £675.
LEITCH William Leighton R.I. (1804-1883)
140.Scotland. ‘Braemar looking down the valley of the Dee’. 1853. 4x7 inches. £450.
LINFIELD John N.E.A.C. (b.1930)
141.Barcelona. Palms and Gothic windows in the courtyard of the Cathedral. Ink and watercolour. 1962. 22x15 inches. Signed. Framed. £400.
LITHIBY Beatrice (1889-c.1950)
142.Cornwall. Mevagissey harbour and the departure of a clipper called ‘Flying Foam’. Gouache inspired by the approach and touch of Joseph Southall and the Birmingham School. Circa 1920. 14x22 inches. Framed. Signed on the original label. £975.
LIVERPOOL (Subject) Anon. 1840. (Cf. No’s 106 and 133)
143.‘Walton Church near Liverpool / 1840’. A bright, detailed record of place as well as the building. 8x10 inches. £350.
MACDONALD William Alister (1861-1948)
144.Hampshire. ‘School’, Winchester College. ‘October, 1912’. 11x14 inches. Signed. £575.
145.‘Winchester’; the playing fields with boys at rugger. 1912. 7x15 inches. Signed. £475.
MILNE Malcolm N.E.A.C. (1887-1954)
146.France. ‘Aix les Bains / Juillet (19)20’. A finely drawn pen and ink bird’s eye record. 9x7 inches. Signed. £110.
NASH Joseph ‘Mansions’ O.W.S. (1809-1878)
147.A panelled chapel interior which should be identifiable by it’s elaborate gallery. Watercolour and gouache. 16x13 inches. Signed. £500.
148.A baronial hall with distinctive Oriel. Watercolour and gouache. 13x14 inches. £475
NIXON John (c.1750-1818)
149.Hampshire. ’Point at Portsmouth / 1794’. Ink and watercolour. 4x7 inches. £475.
PERCY Lady Elizabeth Susan (d.1847)
150.Italy. ‘Grotta Rossa, 13th Nov.1833’. Grey washes on blue/grey paper. Exhibited: Agnews (No.1402). 7x10 inches. Framed. £225.
PARIS (Subject) Anon. Circa 1780.
151.The East (Sully) Wing of the Louvre. Ink and watercolour. 14x19 inches. £475.
PROUT Samuel O.W.S. (1783-1852)
152.‘Strasbourg’; small girl in blue beneath the ancient and much patched arch of a doorway. Painted in watercolor and gouache and much bolder than one usually associated with Prout. Provenance: Richard Garnett. 14x11 inches. Signed. £775.
READ Samuel R.W.S. (1815-1883)
153.‘Near Barmouth’; a stone farmhouse. Bright, cox-like watercolour. 1861. 10x13 inches. Signed. £225
ROBINS Thomas Sewell (1814-1880)
154.Holland. Dutch fishing smacks running for the mouth of Flushing harbour. 185(?4). 8x13 inches. Signed. £975.
ROOKE Thomas Matthews (1842-1942)
155.France. ‘Asquins’; the main street of the village painted by a Ruskin pupil. 1904. 21x16 inches. Signed. £675.
ROQUEBRUNE (Subject) 1918.
156.Palm trees against a charming tower. Ink and bright watercolour. 1918. Provenance: Elise (Lady) Watts. 6x5 inches. Indistinctly signed. £175.
RUSSELL Sir Walter Westley R.A. (1867-1949)
157.Sussex. Shoreham; the tumbledown quayside and launching hard. Ink and watercolour. Ex. Collection: Arthur Grogan. 10x14 inches. £225.
SANDBY Paul R.A. (1725-1809)
158.Worcestershire. ‘Bewdley’; lively figures gathered beneath the bridge. Ink and watercolour within an elegant cartouche. Either for, or a version of, the view engraved by F Chesham, publ. 1779. 6x8 inches. £2250.
SEVERN Estuary (Subject) Anon. Late 18th century.
159.The beshipped Estuary glimpsed from the Park of a rich Bristol Merchant’s mansion. 17x26 inches. £575.
SHEPHERD Thomas Hosmer (1793-1864)
160.Leeds. ‘S George’s Church’; a thin, Commissioner’s Gothic building. Sepia washes. 4x7 inches. Framed. Signed. £225.
SHEPHERD George N.W.S. (1784-1862)
161.London. ‘Cross Street / Queen Elizabeth’s or Fowler’s Lodge’. Pen and ink record of a soon to be demolished building. 5x5 inches. Signed. Framed. £150.
162.Devon. ‘Ottery St Mary’; sepia washes. 1825. 4x5 inches. Framed. Signed. £225.
STOCKS Walter Fryer (1842-1915)
163.Kent. Knole. Deer grazing beneath the venerable oaks. Watercolour and gouache. 1864. 9x17 inches. Signed. £575.
STRUTT Jacob George (1790-1864)
164.Garden near Rome; careful pencil drawing of a shrub line gravel walk beneath umbrella pines. 8x11 inches. £175.
THORNEWAITE Robert (1842-1935)
165.Wiltshire. ‘Old Sarum / New Sarum’; a panoramic watercolour catching the lie of the land. Ex. Collection: Arthur Grogan. 13x33 inches. £675.
TYNDALE Walter R.I. (1856-1943)
166.Italy. ‘Rapallo / at St Michele’; the sea lapping at the steps of the church. 14x9 inches. Signed. £675.
VARLEY John O.W.S. (1778-1842)
167.Hertfordshire; Priory Mill on the river Lea at Ware. Exhibited: Martyn Gregory. 12x20 inches. Framed. £1,750
168.Portugal. ‘Figueria de Foz’; domed and fortified buildings on the atlantic shore. Exhibited: Colnaghi. 1813. 16x26 inches. Framed. Signed. £4500.
WALES (Subject) Anon. Circa 1800.
169.‘Vale of the Conway two miles above Llanwrst’, Watercolour painted by an artist we have long tried to identify who also went on to the Lakes (pencil of Derwent Water verso of original mount). 14x20 inches. £875
WATERFORD Louisa Marchioness of (1818-1891)
170.Scotland. Pencil sketchbook pages recording visits to Mull 1869/1870 (Torloisk House) and Inch Kenneth, 1870. Each 5x8 inches. Each £75.
WILLIAMS Alfred (1832-1905)
171.Switzerland; ‘Dents de Veisivi’. 1896. A mountaineer’s watercolour. 14x19 inches. Signed. £475.
WILLIAMS Pownoll Toker (fl.1880-1920)
172.Guernsey. ‘Fisherman’s Harbour, Le Gouffre’. Evening light catching the masts. 12x9 inches. Original frame available. Signed. £675.
173.Fishing fleet off Guernsey. 5x7 inches. Original frame available. Signed. £175.
YORKSHIRE (subject) Anon. Circa 1830.
174.‘Kirkham Priory’, the gateway. 8x6 inches. £150.
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ANDERSON Stanley R.E. (1884-1966)
175.‘The Old Tinker’. Line engraving. 50 proofs. 7x6 inches. Signed. £475.
176.‘Between the tides, Dieppe’. Engraving printed in an edition of 85. 7x9 inches. Signed. £450.
BAWDEN Edward R.A. (1903-1989)
177.‘Hatfield House’. Linocut. 13/25. 9x6 inches. Signed. Framed. £250.
BLACKADDER Elizabeth R.A. (b.1931)
178.‘Salpiglossis’; delicate red and purple flowers. Etching and aquatint. 9/50. Exhibited: Mercury Gallery, 1994. 7x9 inches. Signed. Framed. £675.
BLUNT Wilfred (1901-1987)
179.A self-portrait of the young artist. 21/25. 1923. 8x6 inches. Signed. Framed. £60.
180.Self-portrait; this a lithograph. 1923. 12x10 inches. Signed. Framed. £60.
BURRA Edward (1905-1976)These are the only three etchings he made, in 1971.
181.Surreal Café. 39/75. 10x10 inches. Signed. £475.
182.Figure with Friends.. 39/75. 12x10 inches. Signed. £475.
183.‘Wednesday Night’. 39/75. 12x10 inches. Signed. £475.
CAIN Charles (1893-1962)
184.Arab dhows seen through palms. 7x11 inches. Signed. £75.
CEZANNE Paul (1839-1906) (After)
185.‘Entrée de ferme’. 1873. A later but nice impression. 5x4 inches. Framed. £400.
COLQUHOUN Robert (1914-1962)
186.A strange horse. Etching, possibly monotype, one of a series made after a visit to Elizabeth Smart at Titly Mill in Essex. 6x8 inches. Signed. £600.
CRAXTON John (1922-2009)
187.Greek landscape. A rare etching and aquatint. 3/20. Signed. £2,250.
188.‘Moon, bird and water’. Woodcut. 56/75. Signed. 10x6 inches. Signed. £775.
DERAIN Andre (After) (1880-1954)
189.‘Original woodcut print cut by Andre Derain and printed by Lacouriere for Rabelais ‘Pantagruel’. Skira Press, 1945. 3x5 inches. Framed. £250.
FRINK Dame Elizabeth R.A. (1930-1993)
190.Etchings with aquatint for the ‘Canterbury Tales’ from the unbound edition of 175 published by Waddington in 1972:
1. The Shipman’s Tale. 2. The Physician’s Tale. 3. The Summoner’s Prologue. 4. The Pardoner’s Tale. 5. The Nun Priest’s Tale. 6. Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Topaz. 7. The Prioress’s Tale. 8. The Miller’s Tale I. 9. The Miller’s Tale II. 10. The Reeve’s Tale. Each 26x18 inches. Each £125
GWYNNE-JONES Allan (1892-1982)
191.‘The Fairground at Southwold’. 1927. 8x12 inches. Framed. Signed. £350.
HOLMES Kenneth (1902-
192.‘Skating on Groby Pool’. Final proof. 1938. 12x18 inches. Signed. £300.These are all etchings of Malta, where he spent many years:
193.Fishing boats pulled up on a hard. 7x10 inches. Signed. £160.
194.St Paul’s Bay. 6x11 inches. Signed. £160.
195.St Paul’s Bay from the Gillieri Hotel. 9x14 inches. Signed. £225.
196.‘Intahlets’. 12x4 inches. Signed. £125.
JOHN Augustus O.M. (1878-1961)
197.‘Anne in a lace shawl’ (Ida Nettleship) (CD46) 2nd state. One of 25 impressions. 1906. 5x3 inches. Signed.£1750.
MARX Enid (1902-1998)
198.Two Siamese Cats. Linocut. A/P. One of 35 proofs. Printed in black and tan on white paper. 19x23 inches. Signed £400.
199.Egyptian Cat’. Linocut. 2/50. 1980/82.24x12 inches. Signed. £400.
200.‘Budgerigars’. Lithograph. A.P. 21x30 inches. Signed. £400.
RAVILIOUS Eric (1903-1942)
201.A page of three vignettes from ‘Thrice Welcome’. Printed in an edition of 500 by Ian Mortimer Imprints. 8x4 inches. Framed. £125.
RICHARDS Ceri (1903-1971)
202.‘Sunlight in Trafalgar Square’. Lithograph in four colours. Proof outside edition of 50. Printed by Curwen Press and published by the Redfern. Exhibited: William Weston Gallery. 12x22 inches. £450.
ROBERTS David R.A. (1796-1864)
203.‘The Red Sea looking towards Moab, April 4th, 1839’. Lithograph from the subscription edition of about 500. Half-page. Trimmed. Hand coloured. 13x9 inches. Framed. £300.
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