LIST 561

July 2025

PART I

5.30pm Tuesday 8th July

  • ANON (Eighteenth-Century)
    ‘Volunteers at Drill’. Pen, ink and watercolour. c.1790. Inscribed. 10.25×14 inches. Framed: 19.5×23.5 inches.
    £1,250
  • ANON (Nineteenth-Century)
    Collecting Kelp. Oil on paper. c.1840. 4×6 inches.
    £375
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  • ANON (Nineteenth-Century)
    PAIR: Henley; ‘The Thames, Henley Bridge and St Mary’s Church’ and ‘The view towards Henley from the Hill Under Malmesbury’s Park / Park Place’. Watercolour. c.1800. Exhibited: Leger Galleries. 10.5×16 inches. Framed: 18.5×23 inches.
    £1,750
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  • Ardizzone R.A., Edward (1900 – 1979)
    ‘Lessons’. Pen, ink and sepia wash. Signed. Provenance: the artist’s family and by descent. 5×7.5 inches. Framed: 12×14.25 inches.
    £1,500
  • Bawden C.B.E. R.A., Edward (1903 – 1989)
    Portugal; ‘Evora’. Pencil, pen and ink. 1959. Signed and dated. Probably related to Bawden’s work for ‘English as She is Spoke’. 8.5×23.5 inches. Framed: 14.5×29.5 inches.
    £2,500
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  • Beaumont, Sir George (1753 – 1827)
    Wales; Conway Castle. Pencil and watercolour. Dated verso, ‘July 18 1793 Wednesday’. Exhibited: Fry Gallery. 7×8.75 inches. Framed: 13.5×15.25 inches.
    £750
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  • Binder (Lady Elwyn-Jones), Pearl (1904 – 1990)
    London; ‘East End Fun Fair’. Lithograph. 1932. Signed, titled, dated and editioned 2/10. 10.5×7 inches. Framed: 17.5×12.5 inches.
    £1,250
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  • Brammer R.E., Leonard Griffith (1906 – 1994)
    PAIR: Staffordshire Potteries an etching and its design. THE PRINT: Etching, signed and dated, 1934. THE DRAWING: Pencil, chalk and monochrome wash. Signed. 7.5×6 inches.
    £1,500
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  • Buchanan, Bertram (1889 – 1920)
    East Sussex; ‘The Seven Sisters’. Etching and aquatint. c.1919. Signed. 4.5×9 inches. Framed: 12×16 inches.
    £175
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  • Cain, Charles William (1893 – 1962)
    A Persian Bazaar. Etching and drypoint. 1929. Signed and numbered ’69/90′. 10×15 inches.
    £975
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  • Chappell, Dick (born 1954)
    Wales; ‘St John’s Eve’. Oil on board. 2001/2. Signed, titled and dated, verso. 12.5×8.5 inches. Framed: 20×16 inches.
    £975
  • Collins, Elisabeth (1904 – 2000)
    'Praying in a Tent'. Pen, brush, ink and watercolour. 1940s. Exhibited: England & Co., 'Elisabeth Collins', 2001/2002, No.42. 10.5"x8.5" inches. Framed: 15.5"x13.5" inches.
    £750
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  • Colquhoun, Robert (1914 – 1962)
    ‘Mysterious Figures’. Lithograph. 1960. Signed and editioned 3/50. 15.5×21 inches. Framed: 28×34 inches.
    £1,500
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  • Creme, Benjamin (1922 – 2016)
    ‘Head of a Girl’. Gouache. 1948. Exhibited: England and Co. 20×16 inches. Framed: 24×21 inches.
    £1,950
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  • Cruikshank, George (1792 – 1878)
    Duke of Wellington; doodles and jottings, including a caricature of the Duke of Wellington, on an envelope addressed to Cruikshank. Pencil. 1845. Signed and inscribed. 5.5×4.5 inches. Framed: 13.5×12 inches.
    £575
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  • Curtis, Anthony (1928 – 2018)
    Abstract Figure. Charcoal and gouache. Signed and dated, 1952. 14.5×21.5 inches. Framed: 20×27 inches.
    £875
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  • Duncan R.W.S., Edward (1803 – 1882)
    Beach and fishing boats. Pencil and watercolour. Signed and dated, 1850. Exhibited: Fry Gallery, 1978. 9×13 inches. Framed: 16×20 inches.
    £475
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  • Durrant, Roy Turner (1925 – 1998)
    ‘Landscape – Evening’. Oil on canvas. 1949. Signed. Inscribed, titled and dated verso. Exhibited: Beaux Arts Gallery, 1950. 15.5×21.5 inches. Framed: 20.5×26.5 inches.
    £875
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  • Foster R.W.S., Miles Birket (1825 – 1899)
    Sketch for ‘The Happy Time of Life’. Pencil. Studio stamped. Literature: The related watercolour illustrated in H. M. Cundall, ‘Birket Foster’, 1906, p.186. 4×6 inches.
    £275
  • Griggs R.A. R.E., Frederick Landseer Maur (1876 – 1938)
    ‘Netherton Chapel’ (C.53). Etching. 1935. Signed. Fifth and final state. 5×4.5 inches.
    £1,250
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  • Grubhofer, Tony (1855 – 1935)
    Paris Exposition 1900; ‘Pavilions de Horticulture et de Agriculture’. Pencil. 1900. Signed, inscribed and dated. Provenance: Phillips, 27th March 1990; A and H; Private Collection. 5.5×11.5 inches. Framed: 13×18.5 inches.
    £195
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  • Gwynne-Jones, Alan (1892 – 1982)
    ‘Barn and Pond, Evening, Froxfield’. Etching. 1926. Signed. 6×7.5 inches.
    £375
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  • Keate, Georgiana (1771 – 1850)
    Kent; ‘DEAL Boats going off to Ships in Distress’. Pencil, pen, ink watercolour and white heightening. Signed, inscribed and dated, ‘Drawn October 8th 1786’. 8×13 inches.
    £1,950
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  • Langdale, Stella (1880 – 1976)
    The Dream Garden (Largo Chopin). Etching and aquatint. Signed. 8×5 inches.
    £175
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  • Lear, Edward (1812 – 1888)
    Italy; ‘Melfi’. Pencil, pen and ink. Inscribed and dated, September 1847. 9.5×13.5 inches.
    £2,800
  • Lee-Hankey R.W.S. R.E., William (1869 – 1952)
    ‘Forgiveness’. Etching. Signed. Provenance: Sir John Stirling Maxwell (1866-1956). 8×7.5 inches. Framed: 16×14.5 inches.
    £250
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  • Legros, Alphonse (1837 – 1911)
    ‘Le Grand Canal’ (B.274). Etching and drypoint. c.1875. Signed. State VI/IX. 15.5×22.5 inches.
    £675
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  • MacPherson, Sophie (1957 – 2014)
    Italy; Venice, ‘St Mark’s Square (study)’. Oil on canvas. Signed. Exhibited: Portland Gallery, 1994. 8×10 inches. Framed: 14×12 inches.
    £675
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  • Nixon, John (1755 – 1818)
    ‘Race Ground, Brighton 1804’. Pen, ink and watercolour. Inscribed and dated, 1804. Provenance: The French Hospital of La Providence. 3.75×5 inches. Framed: 11.75×12.75 inches.
    £475
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  • Peile, Misome (1907 – 1983)
    ‘Actor in Make-Up’. Oil on canvas. 1950s. Signed. 15.5×12.5 inches. Framed: 19.5×16.5 inches.
    £575
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  • Piper C.H., John (1903 – 1992)
    Abstract design for the panels of the Piper Building, Fulham. Watercolour and gouache on paper. c.1961. Provenance: Katherine House, Gallery; Dillon Gallery, 1995. 4×4.5 inches. Framed: 12.75×12.75 inches.
    £1,500
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  • Pissarro, Lucien (1863 – 1944)
    Figure study. Charcoal. Signed with monogram. 16.5×9.5 inches. Framed: 23.5×16.5 inches.
    £1,750
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  • Roberts R.A., David (1796 – 1864)
    A French Fishing Boat, possibly at Calais or Caen. Pencil, watercolour and gouache. c.1830s (Roberts was in Calais in 1832 and this work corresponds stylistically to a drawing of Calais Lighthouse made at that time). Exhibited: Agnews, Exhibition 1979. No.118. 9×5.5 inches. Framed: 15×11.5 inches.
    £675
  • Robertson (Traditionally att. to), George (1748 – 1788)
    Cowherds and Cattle by a Stand of Trees. Pencil and watercolour. c.1780. Exhibited: C&J Goodfriend, ‘The Almost Forgotten Century’, New York. 9.5×11.5 inches.
    £375
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  • Sickert R.A. N.E.A.C., Walter Richard (1860 – 1942)
    ‘Englisches Cafe, München, 1886, or Bierkeller in Munich (Bust of Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia’ (B.82). Etching. 1886. State 3 of 3. Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, ‘Sickert: Pages Torn from the Book of Life’, New York 2002, No.6. Literature: Ruth Bromberg, ‘Walter Sickert – Prints’, Yale 2000, Cat, No.82, p.83. 8×8.5 inches. Framed: 19.5×19.5 inches.
    £3,750
  • Slater, Richard (1927 – 2023)
    ‘Burnt Gorse’. Oil on canvas. 1952. Signed, titled and dated, verso. 15×18.5 inches. Framed: 20×23.5 inches.
    £875
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  • Smirke, Mary (1779 – 1852)
    ‘Dahlia Bed / The Homewood’. Pencil, watercolour and gouache. Signed. Inscribed to the original backing. Exhibited: Agnews. 6.5×9.5 inches.
    £750
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  • Smith, John ‘Warwick’ (1749 – 1831)
    Wales; Rhuddlan Castle on the Clwyd. Watercolour. c.1790. Exhibited: Agnews, 1979. 6.5×8.5 inches. Framed: 13×15 inches.
    £1,750
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  • Stephenson, Cecil (1889 – 1965)
    Abstraction. Pen, ink watercolour and gouache. 1935. Inscribed verso and studio stamped. Exhibited: Fischer Fine Art. 4.5×5.25 inches. Framed: 12.5×12.5 inches.
    £1,250
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  • Strang R.A. R.E., William (1859 – 1921)
    ‘Eve’; a study for ‘When Adam Delved’. Red chalk. Signed with initials. Provenance: Laurence Hodson (1864-1933); Sotheby’s 6th November 1996; A and H; Private Collection. 15×9.5 inches. Framed: 22.5×17 inches.
    £1,750
  • Strutt, Jacob George (1790 – 1864)
    ‘Sir Philip Sidney’s Oak’. Etching. 1822. Signed in the plate. For ‘Sylva Britannica; or, Portraits of Forest Trees, Distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty. Drawn from Nature and Etched by Jacob George Strutt’, Publ. Strutt and Colnaghi, 1822. The publication included 49 etchings of remarkable trees in England and Scotland 11.5×14.5 inches.
    £175
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  • Sutherland O.M., Graham (1903 – 1980)
    ‘Cray Fields’ (T.19 / C.27). Etching. 1925. Signed. Printed on antique paper. 4.5×4.75 inches.
    £3,000
  • Tunnicliffe R.A. R.E., Charles Frederick (1901 – 1978)
    ‘The Forest Of Macclesfield’ (MH.80). Etching. 1929. Signed. This ambitious plate was needled by Tunnicliffe en plein air over 5 days in the Lee Hills. 8×11 inches.
    £975
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  • Turner of Oxford, William (1789 – 1862)
    Oxford; Folly Bridge. Pencil and white heightening. Exhibited: Agnews, ‘107th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings’, 1980, No.128. 6.5×10.25 inches. Framed: 14×17.5 inches.
    £975
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  • Underwood, Leon (1890 – 1975)
    ‘Rebuilding Britain’. Linocut. Signed, titled and dated, 1943. 26×19 inches. Framed: 32.5×25.5 inches.
    £1,500
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  • Watts O.M., George Frederick (1817 – 1904)
    Hands and drapery studies. Black chalk. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 26th September 1990; A and H; Private Collection. 19.5×13.5 inches. Framed: 27.5×21 inches.
    £375
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  • Wilde, Gerald (1905 – 1986)
    Abstaction. Pen, ink and gouache. Signed and dated, 1941. Provenance: Phillips, London; Sheen Gallery, Richmond; Louise Kosman. 8×13 inches. Framed: 18×22.5 inches.
    £675
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  • Yarrow-Jones, Ernest (1872 – 1951)
    ‘In my Garden’. Watercolour. c.1900. Signed. 9.25×10 inches. Framed: 17.25×17.25 inches.
    £375
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  • Yarrow-Jones, Ernest (1872 – 1951)
    France; Brittany, ‘Loquirec’. Watercolour. c.1920. Signed. 9×11 inches. Framed: 17.5×19 inches.
    £375
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  • Yarrow-Jones, Ernest (1872 – 1951)
    Spain; A Moorish Garden, Ronda. Watercolour. c.1925. Signed. 8.5×11 inches. Framed: 16.5×18.5 inches.
    £375
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SIR DAVID YOUNG CAMERON R.A.

A Collection of Etchings

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PART II

5.30pm Tuesday 22nd July

  • ANON (Twentieth-Century)
    A Euston Road Head. Oil on canvas. Circa late 1930s or mid 1940s. 9.5×11.5 inches. Framed: 15.5×18 inches.
    £500
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  • Ardizzone R.A., Edward (1900 – 1979)
    France; ‘On the Beach at Cannes’ (A.27). Lithograph. 1955. Artist’s proof. Signed and titled. Provenance: the artist’s family and by descent. 15×8.25 inches. Framed: 19×23 inches.
    £750
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  • Blake, William (1757 – 1827)
    ‘Is it not Colinet I lonesome see, leaning with folded arms against the tree?’. Wood-engraving. Edition of 150 printed from the original block in 1977. Exhibited: Goldmark Gallery. 2.5×3.25 inches. Framed: 9.5×10.25 inches.
    £275
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  • Colquhoun, Robert (1914 – 1962)
    Head of a boy. Pencil. c.1940. Leaf from a Sketchbook. Provenance: Phillips, 14th January 1992 (the sketchbook); A and H; Private Collection. 7.5×5 inches. Framed: 15×12 inches.
    £875
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  • Cook R.A. F.R.S., Edward William (1811 – 1880)
    Kent; Upnor Castle. Pencil and watercolour. 1873. Signed, titled and dated. Exhibited: Agnews, ‘Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings’, 1973, No.142. 5×8 inches. Framed: 11.5×14 inches.
    £375
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  • Cullimore, Michael (1936 – 2021)
    Spiral Land-Form. Watercolour. Signed and dated, 1986. 7.5×11 inches. Framed: 14.5×17.5 inches.
    £875
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  • Doyle, Charles Altamount (1832 – 1893)
    A bathing party. Pencil and watercolour. Exhibited: Maas Gallery. Ex. Collection: Virginia Surtees. 8.75×13.75 inches. Framed: 17×22 inches.
    £2,250
  • Francia, Francois Louis Thomas (1772 – 1839)
    Northumberland; A view of Holy Island. Pencil and watercolour. Exhibited: Fry Gallery, 1976. 5.5×11.5 inches. Framed: 13.5×19 inches.
    £750
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  • Granger-Taylor, Nicolas (born 1963)
    Studio Interior. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated, 1996, verso. 12×10 inches. Framed: 17.5×15.5 inches.
    £1,750
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  • Griggs R.A. R.E., Frederick Landseer Maur (1876 – 1938)
    ‘Priory Farm’ (C.4). Etching. 1913. Signed. Third, final state. One of 49 impressions. 4.5×6 inches.
    £1,750
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  • Guevara, Alvaro ‘Chile’ (1894 – 1951)
    Chile: ‘The flooded Camp’. Oil on canvas. Circa 1923. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, ‘Paintings of Chile by Alvaro Guevara’, November 1926, No.66; Colnaghi, ‘A Chilean Artist in London and Paris’, 1974/75, No.10. 36×29 inches.
    £500
  • Hall, Clifford (1904 – 1973)
    London; ‘Cheyne Row, Chelsea’. Oil on panel. c.1945. Signed. Signed and titled to the artist’s label verso. 11.5×13 inches. Framed: 15.5×17.5 inches.
    £750
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  • Hoare of Bath R.A., William (1707 – 1792)
    Portrait of a young woman. Charcoal and chalks. c.1770. 9.75×7.25 inches.
    £475
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  • Jamieson, Peter (born 1945)
    ‘Lessingham Beach, Norfolk, Summer 1972’. Oil on board. 1972. Signed. Exhibited: Royal Academy. 6×11.5 inches. Framed: 9.5×15 inches.
    £475
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  • Kent (Contemporary), Jo
    ‘Tiangle’. Mixed media on panel. 1994. Signed and titled, verso. Exhibited: England & Co., ‘Jo Kent: Paintings, Boxes & Works on Paper’, 1995, Cat. No.34′. 8.25×9.5 inches. Framed: 11.5×13 inches.
    £575
  • Knight R.A. R.W.S., Dame Laura (1877 – 1970)
    ‘Some Clowns’ (BW.65). Etching. 1930. Signed. 14×9.5 inches.
    £1,500
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  • Lawrence, Edith (1890 – 1973)
    View over a river estuary. Pencil and watercolour. c.1930s. Signed. 13.5×19.5 inches. Framed: 18.5×24.5 inches.
    £675
  • Linnell, John (1792 – 1882)
    London; Hampstead, ‘Collins’s Farm, North End’. Pencil. July 1824. Signed, inscribed and dated. John Linnell visited Hampstead with William Blake in 1821, taking Hope Cottage in North End in 1822. This drawing shows Collins Farm (now Wyldes Farm) where he lived from 1823 to 1828. 4×6.5 inches. Framed: 12×14 inches.
    £575
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  • McBey, James (1883 – 1959)
    ‘Boys Fishing’ (H.2). Etching. 1902. Signed. Edition of 27. 6.5×5 inches. Framed: 14×12 inches.
    £975
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  • Meninsky L.G. N.E.A.C., Bernard (1891 – 1950)
    Portrait of a Woman. Possibly ‘Mary Kessel’. Oil on canvas. Signed. Inscribed ‘Mary Kessell’ to the stretcher verso. 23.5×19.5 inches. Framed: 29×25 inches.
    £1,250
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  • Mole, John Henry (1814 – 1886)
    Yorkshire; ‘A Study in Darnholme Beck’. Pencil and watercolour. Signed. Provenance: Christie’s, November 1977; A and H; Private Collection. 13×20 inches. Framed: 21.5×28 inches.
    £675
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  • Nicholson, Sir William (1872 – 1949)
    Pavement conversation. Pen, ink and graphite. Exhibited: Tib Lane Gallery. 7.5×6.5 inches. Framed: 17×16 inches.
    £675
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  • Palmer, Samuel (1805 – 1881)
    ‘The Lonely Tower’ (L.12); an illustration to Milton’s ‘Il Penseroso’. Etching. 1879. Posthumous impression pulled in 1972 by Edgar Holloway (1914-2008), the plate having been restored by Henry Macbeth Raeburn R.A. (1860-1947) in the 1920s. Signed ‘Edgar Holloway imp’ and titled. 6.5×9 inches.
    £975
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  • Piper C.H., John (1903 – 1992)
    Brighton; ‘The Chapel of St. George, Kemp Town’. Etching and aquatint, hand coloured by the artist. 1939. From Piper’s ‘Brighton Aquatints’. No.20 of the limited edition of 55 of which 50 were offered for sale. 7.5×11 inches. Framed: 16×18.5 inches.
    £750
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  • Procktor R.A., Patrick (1936 – 2003)
    China; Lion Rocks Garden, Seachow. Aquatint. 1980. Signed and editioned 45/75. From the ‘China Series’. Exhibited: L S Graphics. 18×23 inches. Framed: 30×34.5 inches.
    £875
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  • Pyne, George (1800 – 1884)
    Oxford; The West Gate, Magdalen College. Watercolour. Signed and dated, 1859. Exhibited: Agnews. 6×8 inches. Framed: 12.5×14.5 inches.
    £875
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  • Ravilious, James (1939 – 1999)
    Devon, ‘Farmhouse Window ledge, Langham, Dolton’. Photograph. 1985. Signed. 6.5×9.5 inches. Framed: 12.5×16 inches.
    £575
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  • Rowlandson, Thomas (1756 – 1827)
    ‘The Covent Garden Night Mare’; a parody of Fuseli’s ‘The Nightmare’ with Charles James Fox asleep and his gambling dice on the table next to the bed. Etching with original hand colouring. Published 1784. Exhibited: Isaac and Ede. 9.25×13 inches. Framed: 12×15.5 inches.
    £675
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  • Short P.R.E. R.A., Sir Frank (1857 – 1945)
    Ehrenbreitstein to Coblenz, No. 2. Mezzotint after J M W Turner. 1913. Signed. 9.5×14.5 inches.
    £575
  • Sickert R.A. N.E.A.C., Walter Richard (1860 – 1942)
    London; Islington, ‘The Hanging Gardens’ (RB.215). Etching. c.1925. 2nd state of 3, before the lettering added. The back gardens and houses from Sickert’s studio at 56 Noel Street. Exhibited: Van Gogh Museum, ‘Walter Sickert’, 1993, Cat. No. EO17; The Fine Art Society, ‘Walter Sickert’, 2000. 6.25×4 inches. Framed: 16.75×13 inches.
    £1,750
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  • Stevens R.A., Norman (1937 – 1988)
    ‘Crathes’. Etching and aquatint. 1984. Signed, titled, dated and editioned 14/50. Exhibited: Redfern Gallery. 4×5 inches. Framed: 10×12 inches.
    £175
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  • Tavener R.E., Robert (1920 – 2004)
    Oxford; ‘The Sheldonian (No.3)’ Linocut. 1970. Signed and editioned 8/30. From the ‘Oxford Series’. 16×21 inches.
    £575
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  • Vaughan, Keith (1912 – 1977)
    Cut Melon. Pen and ink. Provenance: the artist to Alan Ross; by whom given to the previous owner. 2.5×4.75 inches. Framed: 9.75×11.5 inches.
    £575
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  • Waldron R.B.S.A., Dylan (born 1953)
    ‘Pestle and Mortar’. Tempera. Signed and dated, 1985. 4.25×4.25 inches. Framed: 7.5×7.5 inches.
    £475
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  • Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834 – 1903)
    ‘The Village Sweet Shop’ (K.251). Etching. 1886. Signed. State 1 of 1. One of 14 known impressions. 3.25×5 inches. Framed: 10×11.5 inches.
    £3,750
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  • Winkler, John W (1894 – 1979)
    ‘Pickle Herring Wharf’. Etching. 1927. Signed. Edition of 48. By the Austrian born artist who settled in San Francisco in 1911 and studied at the California Institute of Arts. Exhibited: Gwen Hughes Fine Art. 7×10 inches. Framed: 14×17 inches.
    £575
  • Woodward, George Moutard (1765 – 1809)
    ‘Facing the Enemy’. Etching with original hand-colouring. 1803. The design by Woodward, etched by Cruikshank. 9×13 inches. Framed: 13.5×16.5 inches.
    £575
  • Zinkeisen, Anna Katrina (1901 – 1976)
    Virgo. Oil on canvas. Signed. 26.5×23.25 inches. Framed: 32×29 inches.
    £3,750
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GEORGE ROMNEY (1734-1802)

Six Drawings from a Sketchbook

Provenance: by descent to the artist’s son, the Rev. John Romney (1757-1832); by descent to his daughter, Elizabeth Romney; her sale, Christie’s, May 1894; […] Sotheby’s November 17th 1975; to Professor Victor Chan (Romney Scholar); from whose estate recently acquired. Exhibited: Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, ‘George Romney in Canada’, 1985, Cat No.46 (sketchbook).

These works are typical of the pencil drawings with which Romney filled his sketchbooks in the early 1790s. Exhausted by his portraiture practice, he stole every opportunity to work on complex figure compositions in the hope of turning them into paintings. Few of the designs, however, ever made it off the page. Instead, they were re-worked ad-infinitum, some compositions becoming an obsession.

Romney’s 1790s sketchbook drawings often illustrate Milton and Shakespeare (Click here see our 2016 exhibition of Romney drawings), but he also invented complex, moralistic subjects. The sheets below relate to a composition for which a number of works are known in public collections, including one inscribed ‘The Effects of Envy and Pride for Want of Faith’. This suggests the composition was intended to form part of what Romney described as a grand ‘… sistem (sic) of original subjects, morel (sic), and my own’. His son, John Romney, believed this ‘system’ was to be a sequence of paintings illustrating the Seven Ages of Man and the Vision of Adam.

CLICK HERE to read more about Romney’s drawings of the 1790s.

  • Romney, George (1734 – 1802)
    Figure Composition. Pencil. c.1792. Provenance: by descent to the artist’s son, the Rev. John Romney (1757-1832); by descent to his daughter Elizabeth Romney; her sale, Christie’s, May 1894; […] Sotheby’s November 17th 1975; to Professor Victor Chan (Romney Scholar); from whose estate recently acquired. Exhibited: Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, ‘George Romney in Canada’, 1985, Cat No.46 (sketchbook). 6.5×9.75 inches.
    £975
  • Romney, George (1734 – 1802)
    Figure Composition. Pencil. c.1792. Provenance: by descent to the artist’s son, the Rev. John Romney (1757-1832); by descent to his daughter Elizabeth Romney; her sale, Christie’s, May 1894; […] Sotheby’s November 17th 1975; to Professor Victor Chan (Romney Scholar); from whose estate recently acquired. Exhibited: Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, ‘George Romney in Canada’, 1985, Cat No.46 (sketchbook). 6.5×9.75 inches.
    £1,250
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  • Romney, George (1734 – 1802)
    Figure Composition. Pencil. c.1792. Provenance: by descent to the artist's son, the Rev. John Romney (1757-1832); by descent to his daughter Elizabeth Romney; her sale, Christie's, May 1894; […] Sotheby's November 17th 1975; to Professor Victor Chan (Romney Scholar); from whose estate recently acquired. Exhibited: Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, 'George Romney in Canada', 1985, Cat No.46 (sketchbook). 6.5"x9.75" inches.
    £975
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  • Romney, George (1734 – 1802)
    Figure Compositions. Pencil. c.1792. Provenance: by descent to the artist’s son, the Rev. John Romney (1757-1832); by descent to his daughter Elizabeth Romney; her sale, Christie’s, May 1894; […] Sotheby’s November 17th 1975; to Professor Victor Chan (Romney Scholar); from whose estate recently acquired. Exhibited: Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, ‘George Romney in Canada’, 1985, Cat No.46 (sketchbook). 6.5×9.75 inches.
    £750
  • Romney, George (1734 – 1802)
    Figure Composition. Pencil. c.1792. Provenance: by descent to the artist’s son, the Rev. John Romney (1757-1832); by descent to his daughter Elizabeth Romney; her sale, Christie’s, May 1894; […] Sotheby’s November 17th 1975; to Professor Victor Chan (Romney Scholar); from whose estate recently acquired. Exhibited: Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, ‘George Romney in Canada’, 1985, Cat No.46 (sketchbook). 6.5×9.75 inches.
    £475
  • Romney, George (1734 – 1802)
    Figure Composition. Pencil. c.1792. Provenance: by descent to the artist’s son, the Rev. John Romney (1757-1832); by descent to his daughter Elizabeth Romney; her sale, Christie’s, May 1894; […] Sotheby’s November 17th 1975; to Professor Victor Chan (Romney Scholar); from whose estate recently acquired. Exhibited: Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, ‘George Romney in Canada’, 1985, Cat No.46 (sketchbook). 6.5×9.75 inches.
    £1,250

Coming Soon …

Tuesday 5th August @ 5.30pm

SUMMER SELECTION 2025!

Tuesday 12th August @ 5.30pm

ELIZABETH CAMPBELL

A Tour in Lazio & Abruzzo, 1826

Tuesday 9th September @ 5.30pm

LIST 562 (Part I)

New Stock for September 2025

PAST MATTERS

The Society of Antiquaries, London

We are thrilled to annouce that this Autumn we will be collaborating with the Society of Antiquaries. Having successfully secured a 999 lease on their premises at Burlington House, the Society is now raising funds to help plan the development of their building so that it can adequately serve them and the public in future.

We will be selling a selection of their historical prints at the gallery and hosting an EXCLUSIVE evening at the Antiquaries to view some of their remarkable and rarely seen treasures!

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HOW ‘THE LIST’ WORKS

Our Lists introduce 100 works to our large stock of oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints each month. They are usually published in two halves, in the first and third weeks of the month.

Most works can be bought online via our ecomm platform, but using this is not mandatory! If you would like to enquire about a work, please email or send a message using the ‘Enquire’ button that appears when you click on an item. We try and treat enquiries about List pictures in strict order of receipt. Given the numerous methods of communications people tend to use nowadays, there will inevitably be times when technological overlaps muddy the system. But we try to be fair!

Please do call if you would prefer to talk to us about anything you see on the website, but we strongly advise sending an email first; we are happy to hold works for a short time while they are being considered, or to give time for you to make a vist.

Images: These are intended as an indication of the work – please telephone or email if you have any questions about the photograph’s relationship to the original. We are always happy to send further photos – frames, versos, inscriptions, something to give scale – so please do ask.

Condition: Please contact us if you would like to know the condition of a work.

Postage: Most works can be packed and posted, inland and abroad. Quotes can be sent.

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