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Click here to subscribeOpera.- A Collection of over 50 Opera and other Posters, many photographic portraits, including signed posters by Joan Sutherland, Janet Baker, Heather Harper and others, also portrait posters of Maria Callas, Jessye Norman, Sir Michael Tippett, Colin Davis, Carlos Kleiber and others, some for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Phillips and HMV, many for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, others for La Scala, The Paris Opera and elsewhere, various sizes, occasional creasing and other minor handling defects, otherwise generally in good condition, including several duplicates, 1970s and 80s (c.50).
-. The Pay Train, Florence Bindley's Great Realistic Comedy Drama, the red steam train rounds the corner between green grass banks, as it approaches a blue and red clothed crowd of men just outside the brown rock walls of a tunnel, the author's portrait inset on a green ground, beside the yellow and red letters, 680 x 505mm., linen-backed, a very small loss to the top right corner, otherwise in good condition, Buffalo N.Y., The Courier Lith. Co., c.1900.
A George 1V Coronation plate decorated to the centre with a transfer portrait and inscription "His Most Gracious Majesty George 1V Crowned July 13th 1821 in the Fifty-Ninth Year of His Age", this central panel on a white ground, the raised rim moulded with flowers painted in rust red, yellow and green, 17cms.
Beattie (William) The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and the Ban de la Roche, additional engraved vignette title, portrait, folding map, 70 engraved plates by Bartlett & Brockedon, 1 plate loose, supplied from another copy, occasional foxing and browning, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked in modern calf, g.e., 4to, 1838.
Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob) Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive Itinera Alpina tria..., 3 parts in 1, first edition, engraved portrait, 3 frontispieces and 41 plates, one partially hand-coloured, a few folding, slightly foxed and browned, new endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, slightly rubbed, rebacked, gilt panelled spine, 4to, Impensis Henrici Clements, 4to, 1708. *** Imprimatur on title signed by Isaac Newton.
Shairp (John Campbell) and others. Life and Letters of James David Forbes, first edition, engraved portrait-vignette on title, 3 engraved portraits, 4 mounted photographic plates, folding map, lacks half-title and advertisement leaf at end, occasional light foxing, modern bookplate on front pastedown, prize binding of contemporary calf, gilt, (Neate S46), 8vo, 1873.
A Staffordshire brown-glazed stoneware commemorative jug, printed in ochre with a chinoiserie landscape and an oval medallion with bust-length portrait of Horatio Nelson, within an inscribed border, NELSON ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO DUTY, suspending a ribband inscribed TRAFALGAR VICTORY NILE, 15.5cm high, first quarter 19th century (chipped near spout, interior stained); and a Robinson & Leadbeater bust of the Admiral, 19cm high
A small collection of jewellery, comprising; a micro-mosaic oval brooch depicting classical ruins on an opaline-glass ground, a pair of round buttons depicting the Forum, Rome, and an oval portrait miniature multi-strand necklace clasp, painted with a lady, head and shoulders wearing a white bonnet and purple dress
An early 19th century gold broad bracelet with a portrait miniature clasp, the broad mesh strap with floral chased gothic trefoil concave-triangular terminals and a square clasp with a hinged cover chased with a quatrefoil and enclosing a portrait miniature of The Duke of Manchester by Henry Collen (b.1798, died after 1872), the miniature 2.75 x 2.5cm.
English School (19th century), Portrait silhouette of James Braucker; Portrait silhouette of Jane Moss, the wife of James Braucker, d.1840; Portrait silhouette of May Anne Moss, b.1820 d.1868; Portrait silhouette of Sir Thomas Braucker, each pencil and watercolour heightened with white, each oval 8 x 6.5 cm each with paper label verso, indistinctly inscribed with sitters, each in a ebonised and gilt metal mounted frame, and two other silhouettes of gentlemen
English School (circa 1820), Portrait of a lady, seated half-length, wearing a black dress, believed to be Miss Bessie Ireland, watercolour on ivory, oval 6.5 x 5 cm, inscribed in pencil verso Bessie Ireland, and with a paper note enclosed believed to be a sister of George and aunt of Edwin Ireland, in an ebonised and gilt metal mounted frame
Attributed to Henry de Janvry (fl. 1793-1800), circa 1795, Portrait of a gentleman, bust length in profile, watercolour on ivory, circular 7cm diameter, in an ebonised frame and American School (early 19th century), Portrait of a gentleman, seated half length, wearing a black coat and a patterned waistcoat, watercolour on card laid onto board, 15.5 x 11.5 cm unframed
James Ferguson (1710-1776) , Portrait of Susan Rebecca Haggard, nee Barnham, half length Portrait of William Henry Haggard, half length, wearing a wig, each pencil and monochromatic washes, each oval 7 x 6 cm the first with inscription verso This likeness of Susan Rebecca, wife of W.H. Hagg, died 1804, belonged for may years to her grandaughter Lucinda Mapletoft who died 1881 aged 92, the second with inscription verso William Henry Haggard born 1729, died 30th March 1812 aged 84. He married Susan Rebecca Barnham and a late 19th century photograph mounted within a border of pastes within a gilt metal frame
English School (19th century), Portrait of a lady, half length, wearing a white bonnet and a black coat, thought to be Clara Humphrys, watercolour on ivory, circular 4 cm diameter, in a gold frame with pearl border and suspension loop, with lock of hair verso, inscribed Clara Humphrys and Letitia Humphrys obit 26 Novr, 1839, in a tooled leather case
Jean Lament, circa 1810, Portrait of an officer, bust length, watercolour on ivory, signed with monogram J L lower right, oval 5.5 x 4.5 cm, in a gold mount with a lock of hair verso in the form of a sheath of corn and inscribed 'Getrouw tot in de dood', loosly translated as 'Faithful to the dead' or perhaps 'True to the End'
English School (19th century), Portrait of a young woman, bust length, in deshabille, watercolour on ivory, oval 5 x 3.5 cm, in a gold navette-shaped mount with plaited hair verso and English School circa 1770, Portrait of a young woman, bust length, dressed in white, believed to be Ann Cassin, watercolour on ivory, oval 3.5 x 3 cm, in a gilt metal mount inscribed verso Ann Cassin, Ob. 17 Octr. 1821 aged 43,
English School circa 1790, Portrait of a gentleman, bust length, wearing a black coat and a white cravat, thought to be Reverend Edward Dy. Jackson, watercolour on ivory, oval 8 x 6.5 cm, in a gold mount with inscription Mary Cayme Jackson, died 13 April 1803, aged 13 months, Rev'd Ed. Dy. Jackson died 3 October 1803 aged 34 years
English School circa 1815, Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, half length, watercolour on ivory, inscribed Wellington along left edge, inscribed Wellington and signed with monogram C B verso, oval 8 x 6.5 cm in a gilt metal mount, and French School, 19th century Portrait of a young lady, bust length, in 18th century dress circa 1760, watercolour on ivory, bears indistinct inscription verso Collection de ** Satarini, 1723, oval 5 x 4 cm, in a gilt metal frame
R** Teigr(?), Portrait of a lady, half length, wearing a low cut white dress, watercolour on ivorine, signed indistinctly lower right, oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm, After Romney, Portrait of a lady, half length, wearing a burnt umber dress and holding a dog, watercolour on ivorine, bears incorrect signature Romney lower right, oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm, After Gerard, Portrait of Josephine, half length, wearing a white dress; Portrait of Napoleon, half length, wearing uniform, each watercolour on ivorine, each bears incorrect signature Gerard, the first lower right, the second lower left, each oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm, After Thiroius, Portrait of Nelson, half length, wearing uniform, watercolour on ivorine, bears signature centre right, oval 8 x 6.5 cm Klrin, Portrait of a lady, bust length, wearing a low cut dress, watercolour on ivorine, signed lower right, oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm each in an ivory 'piano key' frame, two inlaid with faux tortoishell
J** Gunter, Portrait of a lady, bust length, wearing a lace-trimmed dress and a Royal Garter, believed to be Empress Elizabeth of Russia, watercolour on ivory, signed mid-right, oval 7 x 6 cm, bears inscription on back board verso, Curfurstin Maria Antonia, in a pressed gilt metal frame, and After Gainsborough, Portrait of a lady, half length, wearing a pink dress, thought to be the Countess of Galsberg, watercolour on ivory, 5.5 x 4.5 cm, unframed, bears pencil inscription with sitter's name verso
Attributed to Hinton Gibbs, A framed group of portrait silhouette miniatures depicting the Deck Family, a Cambridge family of Pharmacists; Mrs John Deck of Bury; Mrs Francis; Mrs Thomas Hopkins; Capt. William Norris Snr.; Mrs Norris, 2nd wife; Capt. William Norris Jnr.; Mrs Isaiah Deck; each back painted on glass, each oval 8.5 x 7 cm and 7.5 x 6 cm the eight portraits mounted in an ebonised and canted rectangular frame Included with the lot are a quantity of letters pertaining to the possible donation of the frame and its contents to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, a leaflet on the Deck family, a Cambridge family of pharmacists, and various photographs. The Fitzwilliam Museum have declined the offer of the miniatures.