ANON (Nineteenth-Century)Barrels, pots and pans; possibly the corner of Hobson’s Stables, Cambridge.Oil on board. c.1850. Inscribed verso in a later hand; ‘Hobson’s Stables, Prince Street, Cambridge’.7×8.5 inches.Framed: 10×11 inches.Sold
ANON (Eighteenth-Century)Lord Byron’s Garden at Newstead Abbey.Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour. c.1800. Inscribed verso.5×8.75 inches.Sold
Banner, Delmar Harmood (1896 – 1983)Sir Charles Wheeler K.C.V.O. C.B.E. P.R.A. (1892-1974) [Cf. No.47 on this List].Pencil and chalks. Signed and dated, 1954. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1955, Cat No. 1021. Cf. No.47.10.5×8 inches.Sold
Chevska, Maria (born 1948)Untitled (MC-SO-25)Oil on board. Signed and dated, 1987 verso. Exhibited: Bernard Jacobson Gallery.12×75 inches.Sold
Clarke Hall, Edna (1879 – 1979)Cathy at the hearth, a Study for Wuthering Heights.Pen, brush and ink. c.1925.6×9 inches.Framed: 14×16.5 inches.Sold
Cox Jnr, David (1809 – 1885)Wales; Angelsey, ‘Penmanniore (sic. Penmaenmawr) from Beaumaris’ with a paddle steamer taking passengers to the mainland.Pencil and watercolour. Signed. Inscribed verso. Ex. Collection: Sir John Witt. (1907-1982)6.25×9 inches.Sold
Cooper Jnr, Richard (1740 – 1822)Italy; The Falls at Tivoli.Pen, ink and monochrome wash. c.1775. Provenance: Guy Peppiatt.11.5×9.5 inches.Framed: 17.5×14 inches.
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Davis, Edward Thomson (1833 – 1867)Wales; ‘Near Conway’.Watercolour. Inscribed and dated, ‘September 28th 1854’. Exhibited: Manning Galleries. Ex. Collection: Sir John Witt (1907-1982) (his stamp to label).7.75×12 inches.Sold
De Wint O.W.S., Peter (1784 – 1849)Figure studies.Watercolour. Inscribed verso: ‘To John Witt / in memory of New Year’s Day 1922’. Ex. Collection: Sir John Witt (1907-1982) (his stamp verso).2.75×3 inches.Sold
Doyle, Richard (1824 – 1883)Two Swells.Pen and ink. Exhibited: Xanthus Gallery, 2004. Ex. Collection: Hugh Belsey.7×4.5 inches.Framed: 16.75×14.25 inches.Sold
Denning, Stephen Poyntz (1795 – 1864)Study after … (Guercino?).Pencil, buy the portrait painter and Curator of Dulwich Picture Gallery from 1821 until his death.4×5.75 inches.Sold
Finney, Hubert Arthur (1905 – 1991)Still life.Oil on canvas. Exhibited: Duncan Cambell, Hubert Arthur Finney Studio Sale, 2007.19×15 inches.Framed: 27×23 inches.Sold
Fry, Roger (1866 – 1934)Gardeners, South of France.Oil on canvas. Signed and dated, 1920. Provenance: Lord and Lady David Cecil.17.5×21 inches.Framed: 20.25×24 inches.Sold
Gwynne-Jones, Alan (1892 – 1982)Suffolk; ‘Southwold Fair’.Engraving. Signed, inscribed and dated, 1927. One of 75 proofs. Based on a watercolour he made in 1912.8.75×11.75 inches.Sold
Keene, Charles (1823 – 1891)’13 things to remember & if you forget one of ’em, sure to make a miss!’.Pen and ink. Inscribed by the artist. Provenance: The Newall Collection, Christies, 13, 14 December 1979, Album, lot 249.4.5×3.5 inches.Sold
Malet, Guy Seymour (1900 – 1973)PAIR – France; Dieppe, ‘La Plage’ and ‘Inner Harbour’.Wood-engravings. Both signed titled and editioned ’11/50′.7.75×10.25 inches.Sold
Milow, Keith (born 1945)Rusted Form.Gouache and collage. Signed and dated, 1977.30.5"x22.25" inches.Framed: 34.25"x26" inches.
Nixon, John (1755 – 1818)East Sussex; ‘Race Ground, Brighton’.Pencil, pen and ink. Provenance: The French Hospital of La Providence. Exhibited: Spink.4×6.75 inches.Framed: 11.75×14 inches.Sold
Poole R.A., Paul Falconer (1807 – 1879)Head study, probably for ‘Succouring the Wounded’, 1861 (Royal Academy of Arts).Oil on card. c.1861. The remains of a old exhibition or auction catalogue entry verso.12.25×12.5 inches.Sold
Potter (Early Twentieth Century), TennantPAIR – ‘England’, a pair of watercolours, one inscribed with an extract from John of Gaunt’s speech in Shakespeare’s ‘Richard II’ (Act 2, Scene I).Watercolour and gold paint. c.1914-18? Signed and inscribed.10×8 inches.Sold
Potter, Mary (1900 – 1981)‘The Mere’.Pencil watercolour and gouache. Exhibited: New Art Centre.4.5×6.5 inches.Framed: 9.75×11.5 inches.Sold
Robinson F.R.I.B.A., Alfred Douglas (1886 – 1965)Plan, section and elevation for The Soane Medallion.Pencil, pen ink and watercolour. Inscribed and dated, 1911. Provenance: the Artist’s Estate.47×34 inches.Framed: 51.5×39.25 inches.Sold
Romney, George (1734 – 1802)Studies, possibly related to the ‘Ages of Man’ (lower half) and either ‘The Indian Woman’ or ‘Shakespeare with Comedy and Tragedy’ (Upper left).Pencil. c.1790.8×7.5 inches.Framed: 16×14.5 inches.Sold
Rowlandson, Thomas (1756 – 1827)Fisher-women.Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour. c.1810. Exhibited: Spink.5.5×8 inches.Framed: 13.5×15.75 inches.Sold
Shephard R.S.P.P., Rupert (1909 – 1992)‘Policeman’.Linocut printed in colours. From ‘London – The Passing Scene’, Patrick Seale Prints, 1975. Signed and editioned 22/60.12×8.75 inches.Sold
Sickert R.A. N.E.A.C., Walter Richard (1860 – 1942)‘The Iron Bedstead’ (B163).Etching. 2nd (final) state. Signed. The first state of this print dates to c.1915 but this, the second state, is probably later; Sickert consigned impressions to Colnaghi’s in 1923. There is a preparatory drawing for the print in Wakefield, titled ‘Afternoon Nap’. Literature: Ruth Bromberg, ‘Walter Sickert Prints, p.201.7×10.5 inches.Sold
Taylor R.E., Eric (1909 – 1999)WWII; Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Gliders at Pegasus bridge.Watercolour. Signed and dated, ‘France 44’. Inscribed under the mount ‘at Pegasus Bridge / Nr Ranville. July 44’.12×15 inches.Framed: 22.5×25.5 inches.Sold
Thornton, Valerie (1931 – 1991)Oxford; The History of Science Museum.Etching and aquatint. 1971. Artist’s proof. Signed.15.75×20.5 inches.Sold
Urishibara, Yoshijiro (1888 – 1953)Italy; ‘Dawn (Two o’clock a.m.) outside Venice’.Woodcut. Edition of 100. Signed and numbered ‘no.86’.10×14.25 inches.Sold
Washington A.R.E., William (1885 – 1956)Croydon; the View from the Washingtons’ home.Oil on canvas. Provenance: the artist’s son Robert Johnson Washington.39.5×29.5 inches.Framed: 47×37 inches.Sold
Wheeler, Lady Muriel (1888 – 1979)‘Group for Paris Exhibition’; Sir Charles Wheeler K.C.V.O. C.B.E. P.R.A. (1892-1974) [Cf. No.5 on this List].The artist at work on monumental sculptures, presumably for the British Pavilion at ‘The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne’, Paris 1937. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated, 1937. Titled verso. Exhibited: New English Arts Club.24×17.75 inches.Framed: 28×22 inches.Sold
Wood (Twentieth Century), Frank?West Yorkshire; Bingley, ‘The Barn at Milner Field’.Wood-engraving. Made four years before the Estate was abandonded. Signed, titled and editioned ‘1/16’.7.5×5.5 inches.Sold
Worsdell, Guy (1908 – 1978)Lake District; ‘Cottage at Buttermere’.Etching and aquatint. Signed titled and inscribed ‘working proof’.6×8 inches.Sold
LIST 525
APRIL 2022
PART II
Issued 5pm 19th April
Anderson C.B.E. R.A. R.E., Stanley (1884 – 1966)The Country Pedlar (H239); ‘My heart has echoes for all things / The wind, the rain, the bird and bee …’. (W. H. Davis).Engraving. 1943. Signed. Edition of 50.8×5.75 inches.Framed: 15.75×13 inches.Sold
ANON (Nineteenth-Century)A pipe and a chat.Pencil and watercolour. c.1800. Ex. Collection: Cyril Fry.2.5×2.5 inches.Sold
ANON (Nineteenth-Century)Kent; The Tunbridge Wells Theatre, the Pantiles.Built by Sarah Baker in 1801, the theatre continued for about fifty years before it was reconstructed as the Corn Exchange. Pencil and watercolour. c.1810. Closely related to – possibly a working drawing for – an engraved plate of the building.6.75×9.5 inches.Sold
ANON (Nineteenth-Century)Portrait of a young man, possibly John Fraser (1789-1821)Oil on canvas, by a follower of Raeburn. c.1820.26.75×21.25 inches.Framed: 34×29 inches.Sold
ANON (Nineteenth-Century)Trompe-l’oeil still life, by or for Jules Auguste Georges, proud member of the ‘Societe Protectrice des Animaux’.French pen, ink watercolour and gouache. 1869.18×24 inches.Sold
Burleigh, Veronica (1909 – 1998)Dry Landscape, possibly Rhodesia where the artist travelled for many years.Oil on canvas. c.1950. Signed.21.5×29.5 inches.Framed: 27×34.5 inches.Sold
Calman, Mel (1931 – 1994)Hear / See / Speak no Starvation.Pencil cartoon presumably dating to the ’80s Ethiopian famines. Signed.2.5×4.75 inches.Sold
Carrick, James Mulcaster (1833 – 1896)France; Côte d’Azur, ‘Esa [sic. Èze] _ Villafranca [sic. Villefranche] & Bay of Nice. Antibes, Bay of Cannes & Estrelle [sic. Esterel] Mountains in the Distance – St Tropez in Extreme Distance’.Oil on canvas. Signed. Signed, titled and dated, 1883 verso.7.5×11.5 inches.Framed: 16×20 inches.Sold
Clarke (Nineteenth Century), GScotland; ‘Melrose’ Abbey.Pen, brush, ink and watercolour. c.1790. Provenance: A and H.5.75×8 inches.Sold
Chinnery, George (1774 – 1852)A Chinese figure.Pencil. Provenance: Bill Thomson (Albany Gallery); Christopher Powney.3.75×3.25 inches.Framed: 11.25×10.5 inches.Sold
Clouting, Josephine‘Design for a Photo Frame’ / ‘Design for Mirror Back’.Pencil and gouache. Circa 1900 whilst a student at the South Kensington Schools of Design.11.5×19.25 inches.Sold
Danby (c.1818-1886), ThomasWales; ‘Dolbadarn Tower’.Watercolour. Signed and dated. Signed and titled to the artist’s label verso. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1882, No.696.21.5×39 inches.Framed: 31.5×49 inches.Sold
Dodd R.A., Francis (1874 – 1949)London; ‘Pall Mall from the West’ (S89).Etching and drypoint. 1912. Edition of 118. Literature: Randolph Schwabe, ‘Francis Dodd’, Print Collector’s Quarterly, Vol. 13, 1926, cat. no. 89.9×13 inches.Sold
Dubsky, Mario (1939 – 1985)Still Life.Charcoal. Signed and dated, 1951. Dedicated ‘to Dorothy Phillips’. Provenance: Boundary Gallery.28×21 inches.Sold
Eldridge R.W.S., Mildred (1909 – 1991)The Harvest.Oil on canvas. c.1935-37. Exhibited: Abbott and Holder, 2017. Provenance: the artist’s son Gwydion Thomas (1945-2016); his son Rhodri Thomas (b.1980).13.5×11.5 inches.Framed: 20×17 inches.Sold
Gentleman, David (born 1930)‘Inclined Plane’, from the Stoke Potteries Series.Lithograph. 1971. Signed and editioned ‘208/240’,20.5×16 inches.Sold
Hanley, Liam (1933 – 2019)Hertfordshire; Near Royston, ‘The Blue Plough’.Oil on canvas. Signed and dated, 1979. Exhibited: Thackeray Gallery.18×23.75 inches.Framed: 23.25×29.25 inches.Sold
Hayward, John Samuel (1778 – 1822)Kent; Dover, the Castle and Harbour.Watercolour. Inscribed verso ‘Dover’. Exhibited: Martyn Gregory.11×28 inches.Framed: 18×26 inches.Sold
Hitchens, John (born 1940)‘Misty Valleys’.Oil on canvas. Signed. Signed, titled and dated, 1967 verso.14×44 inches.Framed: 18×47.5 inches.
Howard (9th Earl of Carlisle), George (1843 – 1911)The banks of a river.Oil on panel. Inscribed verso, ‘by Father to Cecilia’. Provenance: A group of works by Howard believed to have belonged to his daughter Lady Cecilia Howard (1869-1947) (m. Charles Henry Roberts 1891).5×8.5 inches.Sold
Nash R.A., John (1893 – 1977)Hampshire; Selbourne Hanger.Pencil and watercolour. Squared for transfer and inscribed.11.5"x8.75" inches.Framed: 19.5"x16" inches.Sold
Lear, Edward (1812 – 1888)The Wheelchair.Pencil. c.1835. For a similar drawing see the sheet made on Lear’s 1836 Lake District tour (inscribed “Umbrellafera”) in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.3.25×4.75 inches.Framed: 7×8.5 inches.Sold
Morgan, William Evan Charles (1903 – 1978)‘Vivandiere – The Suffolk Filly’ (CM37), the thoroughbred, chestnut ‘Suffolk Punch’ that was Champion Mare at the Royal Agricultural Society Show, Manchester 1930.Etching and drypoint. Signed, titled and dated, 1931. A gift from the artist to the previous owner in 1973.9.5×13.5 inches.Framed: 18×21 inches.Sold
Robertson, Charles (1844 – 1891)Italy; Lake Como from above San Giovanni.Pencil, pen, brush and ink. Provenance: a group of drawings by Robertson with A and H in 2007.Sold
Salter P.R.A., Rebecca (born 1955)‘J49’.Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated 1996 verso. Exhibited: Jill George Gallery.12×12 inches.Sold
Smith, John ‘Warwick’ (1749 – 1831)Italy; ‘Port at Terracina’.Watercolour. c.1795. The original wash-line mount inscribed verso.7×10 inches.Sold
Sells, Rev. Alfred (1822 – 1898)Sussex, ‘Seaford’.Watercolour. 1878. Inscribed verso. Provenance: a large group of watercolours by Sells with A and H in 2004.9×6.75 inches.Sold
Scott, Gordon (1914 – 2016)‘South Coast’ a ‘Southern Railway’ poster design.Pencil and watercolour. c.1935.13×10 inches.
Taylor (Mid-Nineteenth Century), JA British Navy Flotilla; probably the arrival of King Louis Philippe of France aboard the ‘Gomer’ (centre) at Portsmouth in October 1844.Pencil, watercolour and gouache. Probably 1844. Signed.9.5×20 inches.Sold
Tunnicliffe R.A. R.E., Charles Frederick (1901 – 1978)‘Christmas Chickens’ (MH41), the artist’s mother and youngest sister in the yard of the Tunnicliffe’s farmhouse.Etching. 1927. Editioned ’32/75′. Signed.9×7 inches.Sold
Washington A.R.E., William (1885 – 1956)‘The Dancing Faun’; an RCA / South Kensington Schools Prize Work.Charcoal. c.1906-10. With the ESK blind stamp. Washington’s name inscribed to a label, the old mount stamped ‘Work Accepted for Certificate’ and a further label marked ‘Prize Work’. Provenance: The artist’s Estate.27×15.25 inches.Framed: 33.5×21.5 inches.Sold
Varley O.W.S., John (1778 – 1842)Village church and riverside house.Pencil and watercolour. Ex. Collection: Cyril Fry.3×4.5 inches.Sold
White, Franklin (1892 – 1975)Kent; the Garden at the artist’s home in Shoreham.Oil on canvas. Studio Sale stamps verso. On his retirement from his teaching position at the Slade in 1957, White established the Samuel Palmer School of Art at his home in Shoreham.16×20 inches.Sold
Wilson (Follower of), Richard (1713 – 1782)Nocturne.Pencil and charcoal with white heightening. Provenance: Bill Thomson, Albany Gallery.14.25×19.5 inches.Framed: 23×28 inches.Sold
Yarrow-Jones, Ernest (1872 – 1951)France; Provence.Watercolour. Circa 1910. Signed. Provenance: Yarrow Jones Studio Sale, Bonhams, 3.3.1993.7×10 inches.Framed: 7×10 inches.Sold
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