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7th October at 10:30am
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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| 49 |
JOAN BLAEU (1596-1673) 'Orcadum et Schetlandiae'
from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' 1659, hand-coloured engraving, 40cm x 53cm
Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54) |
£200 - £400 | - | View |
| 50 |
JOAN BLAEU (1596-1673) A MAP OF STJERNEBORG 'THE CASTLE OF THE STARS'
the astronomical observatory built by Tycho Brahe, coloured engraving, 45cm x 55cm; together with a map of Uraniborg, Brahe's previous observatory, 46cm x 56cm (2)
Provenance: A Private Collection… |
£500 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 51 |
JOAN BLAEU (1596-1673) 'Insula Hvaena'
a map of the Island of Hven, the site of Tycho Brahe's observatories, coloured engraving, 42.5cm x 53cm
Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54) |
£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 52 |
JOHN SENEX (1678-1740) 'A MAP OF GREECE WITH PART OF ANATOLIA'
from Senex's New General Atlas, published in London by Daniel Browne, Thomas Taylor, et al in 1721, coloured engraving, 50.5cm x 59cm
Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54) |
£200 - £400 | £200 | View |
| 53 |
JOHN SENEX (1678-1740) A MAP OF FRANCE
dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery, hand-coloured engraving, 66cm x 93cm
Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54) |
£300 - £500 | - | View |
| 54 |
A FOLIO OF MAPS
including maps of Denmark, Greece, The Mediterranean Sea, Venice, English Counties and other assorted examples (a lot)
Provenance: A Private Collection of Cartography (lots 47-54) |
£500 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 55 |
ALBRECHT ALTDORFER ( c.1480—1538) The Virgin and child in a landscape
circa 1515, engraving, 16.5cm x 12cm (B17); LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER (c. 1472-1553) ‘The Penance of St. Chrysostom’ circa 1509, engraving, 26cm x 20.5cm (BI); and two etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar …
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£800 - £1,500 | - | View |
| 56 |
AFTER CHARLES BIRD KING (1785-1862) AND OTHERS 'Wa-Na-Ta, Grand Chief of the Sioux'
and three other portraits from Thomas McKenny and James Hall's 'History of the Indian Tribes of North America' publ. Rice, Rutter & Co., hand-coloured lithographs, each 24cm x 16.5cm; framed…
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£300 - £500 | £340 | View |
| 57 |
EDMUND ASHFIELD (fl. 1669-1673) A PORTRAIT OF CHARLES II
wearing armour and a lace jabot, bust-length in a feigned oval, pastels, 26cm x 22cm, apparently retaining the original carved giltwood and gesso frame,
and the companion portrait of a lady,… |
£3,000 - £5,000 | £4,800 | View |
| 58 |
HENRY EDRIDGE (1768-1821) A study of three children
according to a label on the reverse the Sloane Stanley children, Henry, Caroline and Frederica, at Paultons, near Lyndhurst, Hampshire, pencil and watercolour, 32.5cm x 24.5cm
Provenance: Kerrison… |
£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 59 |
ASCRIBED TO COUNT ALFRED D'ORSAY (1801-1852) A portrait of a young gentleman in an interior
inscribed verso "Charles Dickens by Count D'Orsay", the sitter depicted three-quarter length, seated beside a desk, his left hand holding an open book that rests atop a small stack of other books,…
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£400 - £800 | - | View |
| 60 |
WILLIAM SIMPSON (1823-1899) A portrait of Mrs James Wilson
the sitter depicted full-length seated in an interior, an open book on her lap, inscribed lower right "Mrs James Wilson, done between 1845 and 1850, by Wm. Simpson, 4 Oct 1881", watercolour, 46cm x…
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£100 - £200 | £80 | View |
| 61 |
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY 'Porzione Del Quartiere A Pompei'
figures amongst ruins, titled and inscribed to the margin, gouache, 32cm x 47cm
Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre |
£100 - £200 | £280 | View |
| 62 |
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY Two views of the Bay of Naples,
each with figures to the foreground, one showing smartly dressed figures strolling along the promenade, gouache, 29cm x 42cm, the other with a goatherd at the coast, gouache, 27cm x 41cm (2)
… |
£100 - £200 | £280 | View |
| 63 |
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A view of Vesuvius erupting
gouache, 14.5cm x 21.5cm; and another view of figures inside a sea cave, gouache, 15cm x 22.5cm (2)
Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre |
£100 - £200 | £300 | View |
| 64 |
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY 'Isola di Procita'
looking towards Procida with figures to the foreground, titled to the margin, gouache, 26cm x 41.5cm; another similar view 'Veduta dei Vesuvio' gouache, 26cm x 41.5cm; and a third 'Capodimonte' a…
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£150 - £250 | £280 | View |
| 65 |
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY Figures in a fishing boat in the bay under a moonlit sky
gouache, 13cm x 18cm (oval); together with a similar views of figures in a boat inside a sea cave, gouache (2)
Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre |
£100 - £200 | £100 | View |
| 66 |
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY 'Eruzione del 1835 del Ermitaggio''
figures standing outside a building as Vesuvius begins to erupt behind them, gouache, 16.5cm x 21.75cm; together with a similar view of an island with a hilltop building (2)
Provenance: The Estate… |
£100 - £200 | £160 | View |
| 67 |
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY Vesuvius erupting at night
signed 'Meuris' lower right, gouache, 21cm x 26.5cm
Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre |
£100 - £200 | £220 | View |
| 68 |
WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK (1848-1922) A pair of still life studies of dead birds beside nests and flowers
each signed, watercolours, 18.5cm x 22.5cm (oval) (2)
Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre |
£150 - £250 | - | View |
| 69 |
MANNER OF ARCHIBALD THORBURN (1860-1935) A study of toadstools
indistinctly monogrammed lower right, watercolour, 27.5cm x 38cm
Provenance: The Estate of the late Rufus Eyre |
£100 - £200 | £190 | View |
| 70 |
C.E. FULLER (19th/20th Century) A Lepidoptera study
monogrammed lower left, watercolour over pencil, 23.5cm x 18.5cm; together with a portrait of a small dog, indistinctly signed and dated (18)97 lower right, watercolour, 29cm x 24cm (2)
Provenance:… |
£100 - £200 | £120 | View |
| 71 |
ENGLISH SCHOOL, circa 1620 A portrait of Margaret Gibson,
“daughter to Sir Alex Gibson of Durrie, Lord President of Ye Session, My Lady Pourie Fothringhame”, standing half-length holding a fan, oil on canvas, probably re-shaped in the latter part of the…
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£1,000 - £2,000 | £2,400 | View |
| 72 |
ENGLISH SCHOOL, circa 1627 A portrait of a gentleman
wearing a ruff and holding a tassel with his right hand, bust-length, dated "1627" in the upper left hand corner, oil on canvas laid on panel,
64cm x 52cm, in a later carved giltwood frame with… |
£500 - £1,000 | £1,600 | View |
