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Click here to subscribeDodsley, Robert, The Perceptor: Containing a General Course of Education, wherein the First Principles of Polite Learning are laid down...., in twelve parts, illustrated with maps and useful cuts, London, for J Dodsley, 1775, 8vo, two volumes, two engraved frontispieces and thirty-two folding plates and maps, including a numbered suite of twelve to illustrate the section on drawing, maps one hand-coloured in outline, a few plates with frayed edges, and the occasional short marginal tear, no lon, contemporary calf, red morocco lettering pieces, joints to volume I splitting, covers scuffed in places, sixth edition
A late Victorian walnut nine-piece drawing room suite comprising: a two-seat settee with buttoned stuff-over back above turned spindles and carved motifs, with buttoned padded arms and seats covered in floral tapestry, raised on dwarf cabriole legs; together with a pair of easy chairs to match; including a set of two standard arm chairs and two pairs of single chairs.
*English School, early 19th century- 'Drawing of a Portico'; pen and black ink and watercolour, signed with initials and dated 1838, inscribed Gray's Inn Road, 23.4x36.8cm: English School c1860- Prospect of a detached villa; pen and ink and watercolour: together with a mixed folio of drawings of architectural related subjects, various sizes, (a lot), (unframed)
Lucien Pissaro- 'The Crowning of Esther', publ. by Venture Pear Tree Press, 1903, 9.8x8.8cm: together with a collection of prints by or after different hands including: Cheriane, John Copley, Lucien Gautier, Marcel Frischmann, and a drawing of a seated woman by an unknown hand, various sizes, (7), (unframed)
Darius Joseph MacEgan (1856-1939) LA TOUR EIFFEL, signed and dated [1925] lower left, oil on board, 27 by 21cm., 10.5 by 8.25in. Also with this lot, an unframed pencil portrait of the publisher Frederick William Ryan (1883-1956), signed and dated [1927] lower left, 14 by 18 inches (for more on Ryan, see Lot 224); plus an unframed watercolour of the fountain in St Stephen's Green, signed and dated [1926] lower left, 9.25 by 11.5 inches; an unframed pen drawing inscribed Elm Sketched in A College Park, signed and dated [29 July 1918], 10.5 by 7.5 inches; and a mounted sepia-tone photo of artist at work on a portrait of the Dublin Lord Mayor Alfred Byrne in 1931. (5) €1500-€2000
Frederick William Ryan KM (1883-1956) An archive of papers, photographs and sketches. Included here are two copies of the prospectus, seven advertising flyers announcing the portraits of Tim Healy and President Cosgrave, photos and a b&w lithograph of Healy (by MacEgan); the same again for Cosgrave but with the printed folder and letterpress; the manuscript dummy copy for the Robert Emmet pamphlet, with ink lettering inside and out and the original pencil drawing of Emmet by MacEgan pasted in; a variety of photographs and manuscript material concerning the Wolfe Tone pamphlet, including MacEgan's pencil portrait of the bust in TCD library, newspaper clippings reporting the 1933 Wolfe Tone celebrations, annotated by Ryan, and a letter from Cahill & Co., who printed the Wolfe Tone Souvenir for Ryan; plus Lord Ashbourne - an Intimate Pen Picture by Charlotte Dease, published by Ryan and with eight related photos laid in. Also Dublin Shrines: Number One - Shrine of St. Anne at the Church of St. Audoen, High Street, with a lithograph by MacEgan, printed by Goodridge's and distributed by F. K. Ryan, with order form enclosed. Also a folder of 19 photographs of Irish interest; better include a scene in Castlecomer Co. Kilkenny, woodland scenes near Blarney Co. Cork, St Stephen's Green and Wine Tavern Street, Dublin. Lastly, manuscript notes relating to a pamphlet titled A French Consul in Ireland, 1789-1792: Two Note Books of the Baron Coqueber de Montbret.. By F. W. Ryan. The 22 page pamphlet (stapled wrappers, pages uncut) reproduces a talk that was read before the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland on 9 December 1930 and is inscribed by the author. Also his manuscript notes and translations of the notebooks (which are held in the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris), and typed manuscript copy of the Baron's Carnets de Voyage.. a travers Ireland. An interesting lot. €1000-€1500
A 19th Century mahogany draughtsman's cabinet by T. Dunn of Edinburgh, having a mahogany case, the brass plaque inscribed James Morrison, having two boxes including rules, a set square, a tray containing watercolours, the upper tray with brass drawing instruments and a ceramic palette, 33cm x 10cm.
An Edwardian mahogany framed three piece drawing room suite of Sheraton design, comprising - three seat settee and pair of tub shaped easy chairs, all with shaped and moulded showwood frames, embroidered in rose leaf pattern brocade, on square tapered front legs carved with bellflower ornament, with spade toes, the settee with four front legs, 72ins wide x 35ins high
William Hyde- Lighthouse viewed from a coastal path; bodycolour, en grisaille, signed and dated '99, 11.5x19.5cm: English School, c1900- Cottages; watercolour, signed with initials 'F.H.R' and dated '01: together with a pen and ink drawing, three botanical studies and three watercolours, various sizes, (9)
A photograph of Charles Darwin inscribed in pencil verso 'Charles Darwin done in Verandah at Devon by his son Leonard', mounted on card, 19 x 13cm A photograph of Emma Darwin inscribed verso 'Emma Darwin wife of C.D.', mounted on card, 24 x 17cm Two photographs of the Ruskin & Morris drawing room at 31 Kensington Square with Henrietta Litchfield (C.D.'s daughter Aunt Etty), seated in a chair, taken by Leonard Darwin, 25 x 29.5cm An etching of Charles Darwin, 9 x 8cm, and an engraving of Erasmus Darwin, 45 x 31cm
English School, 19th century- A castle viewed from a wooded river shore; watercolour, 23x32cm: Ernest Savage- Figure by a chateau; watercolour, signed: together with a pen and ink drawing of a fisherman by a stream by a different hand, and two oils, one of a church and the other of a coastal scene, various sizes, (5), (part unframed)
Frank J. Ball- 'A Wet Day in Derby'; watercolour, signed, and inscribed on the reverse, 36.2x27.8cm: Kathleen Edith Lewis- 'Sussex Farmstead'; black chalk and pastel, signed, and inscribed on label verso: together with a gouache of boats by Hugh Boycott Brown and a pastel drawing of a ballerina by George W. Ball, various sizes, (4)
(+VAT) A GROUP OF TEN PRINTS RELATING TO WORDSWORTH AND OTHER LITERARY FIGURES comprising mainly steel engravings of Rydal Mount (3), The Knoll, Ambleside, (residence of Harriet Martineau), Dora Wordsworth, Byron, Lady Noel Byron, The Dungeon of Chillon, a cabinet photograph by Herbert Bell of Ambleside depicting a print of the Drawing room, Rydal Mount, with William and Mary Wordsworth, and an etching of Dove Cottage (?) (inscribed verso Rydal Mount), mostly taken from books (10)
Edward Horace Thompson, (1879-1949) "ON THE HEATHERY MOORS OF TROUTBECK IN KESWICK", watercolours, signed lower left, entitled, signed and annotated "An Original Watercolour Drawing" on an original label of Charles Nicholls & Son, Manchester, verso, 17.5cm x 25.5cm, (7in x 10in), in gilt card mount and gilt frame under glass