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10      ALISTER MATHEWS, 12, Eaton Road, Branksome Park, Poole (Dorset). 

ENGLISH DRAWINGS-continued.

285. (India) Water colour (similar to the preceding)c. 1800, inscribed on verso (part of the citadel of Bhurpore & wet ditch-an understatement for it is a formidably-wide moat). 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches, the edges are frayed. £10 

286. (India) J.H. Bland, oil-painting on millboard, circa 1860. Bougainvillea creeper outside the Cuban Hotel, Madras. Many native & one European. 9 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches, 235 x 309 mm. Towers of a temple in distance. £10

287. Farington (Joseph, R.A., 1747-1821) Black chalk on tracing paper, a clearing in a wood, a cottage in distance. 6 x 8 3/4 inches, a nice sketchy one, almost Gainsborough. £10 

288. Gilbert (Sir John, 1817-1897) Pen & ink. At a fancy-dress ball, a young man (or woman disguised) faints & is supported by other revellers. In the background a heraldic shield is surmounted by a crown. 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, 145 x 167 mm.  £10
 
289. Gilpin (Sawrey, R.A., 1733-1807) Pencil, a stallion, in profile, in a meadow. 6 x 7 1/2 inches, 153 x 192 mm. £5

290. Gilpin (Sawrey, R.A., 1733-1807) Watercolour, a white bull with dark-gray patches, on the right is a gate by a tree. 9 x 11 3/4 inches, 230 x 300 mm £8

291. Gilpin (Rev. W., of Boldre in the New Forest, 1724-1804) Thick pen & dark washes, the sky blue & copper, two men between foreground trees, a castle in the background 6 x 9 7/8 inches, 153 x 251 mm Stamped with the artist's initials (Lugt, Supplement 2622a). This drawing is a variant of the one reproduced on plate 10 (part E) of C.P. Barbier's "William Gilpin," (Oxford 1963), described on page 95.  £10 

292. Green (W., 1760-1823) Watercolours with pen-&-ink: 
(1) Estatuary at low tide, men in a boat on the mud. 6 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches, 166 x 243 mm. £6
(2) Estuary, with a small stone hut in foreground (& a few colour-notes), 6 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches, 160 x 244 mm. £6
(3)Sharp breeze on an estuary, on the far shore a village is visible, 4 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches, 117 x 188 mm. £6

293. Hayter (Sir George, 1792-1871) Study of a small boy's head, in black chalk heightened with white, on pale buff paper: signed with monogram, dated 18 June, 1869. 7 X 6 1/4 inches, 180 X 160 mm. £7

294. Hamilton (William, R.A., 1751-1801) An unusually splendid watercolour with classical ruins, incl. corner of a sarcophagus, urn, lion's head, partly overgrown, with 3 kneeling female figures. 18 3/4 X 11 1/2 inches, 478 X 293 mm. £38

295. Hedges (W.S.) Oil on canvas, signed, circa 1840. A harbour-warehouse perhaps in Barbados or Trinidad: a British vessel, the "Laura" & other vessels on the right: the warehouse & jetty apparently belong to Mr. J. (or J.J.)whose initials appear on various barrels: a European rides along the broad road on which are copper-red natives with parrots & macaw, a black woman with a tray of fruit on her head: a native is selling fish: two goats butt each other: a mule draws a 2-wheeled cart: lamp-posts support lamps & white posts mark the edge of a bridge over a stream in foreground. This is a charmingly naive honest old painting: I hope that someone will recognise the scene from my photograph. 12 7/8 X 19 7/8 inches. £60

296. Von Holst (Theodor, 1810-1844) Pen & ink & watercolour. A skit, based on Byron's poem, inscribed, by the artist, JUAN AND HAIDEE. (In moonlight, an owl puts his wing amorously round a white farmyard duck as they walk along.) 6 7/8 X 5 7/8 inches, 175 X 149 mm., the corners cut, not affecting the drawing. From the L. G. Duke collection. Von Holst, a Livonian by descent, was born & lived in London: was a pupil of Fuseli & exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1827 till 1843. £18

297. Italian Sketches by an English The lot for artist, circa 1825: about 175 in all, up to a maximum of 8 X 9 3/4 inches, 200 X 250 mm. Nearly all were made near the bay of Naples, they are in pencil &/or watercolour, mostly inscribed, some with colour-notes: single figures, & groups. Peasants, friars, market-women, fishermen etc. £50

298. Jackson (John, R.A., 1778-1831) Signed pencil portrait of James Ward the artist (Jackson's 2nd wife was Ward's daughter). 8 3/4 inches sqare, on a larger sheet. From the collection of Richard Almack of Melford, Suffolk, with long MS notes by him on verso. An engraving was made from this pencil portrait & a copy of the rare print is in the British Museum. £20

299. Keene (Charles, 1823-1891) Black & coloured chalk, an illustration to Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage... lover sighing like a furnace..." A man in Elizabethan costume leans against an urn, holding his ballad to his mistress' eyebrow in one hand. Probably an early drawing. 8 1/4 X 5 inches, 209 X 127 mm. Signed with initials. this drawing was reproduced as a full-page colourplate | opposite page 18 of D. Hudson's "Charles Keene" (London, Pleiades, 1947). £14

300. Kilburne (G.G., 1839-1924) Watercolour, signed, Surrey pines & heather & tree-tops. 10 3/4 X 15 inches. £6

301. King (W. H., circa 1806) Watercolour, cottage by a lakeside with trees, two women in pink on the left.  3 3/4 X 5 3/4 inches, 95 X 147 mm. A quiet & very distinguished little watercolour. £5

302. (Kent) The church at Speldhurst, Bisborough, Kent (near Tunbridge Wells). Watercolour, signed & dated, by Jas. Lambert 1783. 7 X 10 inches, 175 X 253 mm. £15

303. La Cave (Peter, worked in England 1789-1816) Pen & ink & gray wash: cattle & figures in a field beyond which are 2 buildings, on e a mill, with trees. 8 X 11 1/2 inches, 200 X 290 mm. £8

304. La Cave (Peter, active 1789-1816) Pen & ink & watercolour: cattle & men (one is on a horse), by a bridge over stream, a cottage at foot of a wooded bluff on right. 8 1/3 X 10 3/4 inches, 210 X 275 mm. £10

305. Lancaster (Percy: born in Manchester 1878) Watercolour, signed with initials; "The Old Fruit Shop," 9 3/8 X 11 1/8 inches, 238 X 283 mm. £20

306. Landseer (Sir Edwin, R.A., 1802-1873) Oilsketch on paper, three Highland cattle, lying down, the paper a bit dustsoiled but a splendid study. 10 1/8 X 13 1/4 inches, 258 X 334 mm. The date May 1868 is probably by another hand. £25

307. Landseer (Sir Edwin, R.A., 1802-1873) Pen & Indian ink, leaf from a sketchbook. Studies of an eagle & a dead fox (on verso a small study for a landscape etc). 6 1/4 X 7 1/8 inches, 159 X 181 mm., 2 top corners cut. £5

308. Landseer (Sir Edwin, R.A., 1802-1873) Pen & ink, on one sheet are two studies of horses in a stable. 4 3/8 X 7 inches, 110 X 178 mm. £12

309. 18th century gouache (? by John Laporte, 1761-1839), in a hot summer landscape a gentleman in a brown coat on a gray horse talks to a farmer, labourers are at work in the wheatfield, a large church with spire in background. 8 1/2 x 12 inches, 218 x 310 mm., though the edges are frayed, the main point of this decorative drawing is in the fine state.  £8

310. Leitch (R.P., chiefly active between 1844&1862) Watercolour landscape with figures, trees & farm-houses: in the distance hills rise above a bay. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. £5

311. Lound (T., 1802-1861) Black chalk, street-scene in CONWAY (the masts of a boat visible above an ancient gateway). 13 x 9 3/4 inches.  £4

312. Lound (T., 1802-1861) Black chalk, old thatched house, 11 x 15 inches, from the collection of J.D. Harding.  £4

313. Martin (John, 1789-1854) Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 1/4 inches, 410 x 656 mm. Signed J. Martin, dated 1829. In a stormy-grey sky, large lightning-flashes illumine the clouds & a distant hill-city which continues on the right leading to the foreground: here, a group of white-robbed figures advances on an open terrace: in front of them are figures in white, yellow, green, and dark-blue. Steeply below these foreground-figures are vast crowds: in the front a woman faints in the arms of companions. Buildings are pinkish-gray: much painting is lavender-gray: the surface is in a very good state.  £200

314. Duchess of Marlborough, 18th cent. pencil profile head, said to be of her: 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches, 90 x 70 mm. From the H. S. Reitlinger collection (mark on verso).  £4

315. May (Phil, 1864-1903) Indian ink, two men in evening dress, facing, no background. Signed. On cars 7 3/4 inches square.  £5

316. Military watercolours  The ten (not separated) for £35 by Francis A. GRANT of the 79th Highlanders: born 1829, he died of wounds, received at the Battle of the Alma, on the 1st of Oct., 1854: he had previously been ADC to the 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863) when the latter was Governor-General in Canada: the drawings comprise:-
(1) Guards & Highlanders received by Omar Pasha & Marshall Saint-Arnaud (1798-1854), commanded by the Duke of Cambridge (also in the picture are Lord Raglan & Col. McDonald ADC to the Duke of Cambridge & 3 Spahis: they are all on rising ground overlooking the plain in which one sees the columns of British troops: this was at Aladyn 6 July, 1854). 7 x 10 inches, 176 x 252 mm. 
(2) Bright watercolour & gouache, 3 officers of the 79th Highlanders at Varna (Black Sea) sitting smoking outside their tent, a sentry stands behind them (summer 1854). 6 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches. 
(3) Mosque of Achmet, Sramboul, with masts of a vessel, a Turk on horseback & 2 Highlanders, inscribed, "from my tent 7 June, 1854." 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. 
(4) Camp-scene with Highlanders outside tents, inscribed "from my tent door, Scutari, 6 June, 1854," 4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches.
(5) Camp-scene with Highlanders & tents & camp-waggon: in foreground a Turk smoking a long pipe: inscribed " Varna, 30 June, 1854." 4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. 
(6 to 10) FIVE watercolours of Bulgarians & Turks on foot & horse, including Bashi Bazouks at Guricklor, Aug., 1854: seated Turk smoking, inscribed Mahomet 8 July, 1854, at Aladyn: Bulgarian camp-workers with horses carrying large baskets at Varna: warlike Bulgarians in landscape: other mounted & on foot. 

317. (Minorca) A pair of drawings by Bernard Lens III, 1681-1740. Very fine gray brush-work, lightly touched with pink & white. 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 inches, 130 x 92 mm., each:
(a) "A Minorquine washerwoman". 
(b) "Minorquine lady of Quality dress'd with a laced Mantel" (in the background is a fort on which flies the Union Jack: Minorca was under British rule from 1713 to 1756: Lens was there about 1730).  The pair for £22

318. Mortimer (J. H., 1741-1779) A sheet of figure-sketches, pen & ink & gray & brown wash, with a little pink was on one figure (draped woman, knight in armour, as seated male nude, a profile of long-haired man, a nude male recumbent). 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches, 235 x 181 mm. Initial M in ink in one corner, (in another, un unidentified collector's mark H. A. in oblong border).  £45

319. Munn (P. S., 1773-1845) Monochrome wash, a barn & trees. Signed. 5 x 8 3/8 inches, 125 x 212 mm.  £8

320. Portrait of John Randall, 1715-1799: in 1732 he sang Esther in Handel's Oratorio: he was organist of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. In 1755 professor of music at Cambridge: he set to music Gray's Ode for the installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of the University. He is best known, says Grove, by his two double-chants. Original pencil sketch, grasping a roll of music in his left hand: his right hand points to a sheet of paper on the table: a lively face, mouth a bit twisted, eye-brows raising: hid name inscribed at base: 5 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches, 146 x 82 mm.  £10 

321. Portrait (similar to above) inscribed "C. SHARP CAMBRIDGE" (probably also a musician): he is in profile, head & shoulders, wearing a cocked hat. Pencil, 7 x 5 inches, 178 x 127 mm.  £10

322. Edinburgh views by Alexnder NASMYTH (1758-1840): - 
(1) Pencil, panorama, signed with his monogram on 2 sheets joined in centre, inscribed "from a window in Shakespeare Square, before the Regent bridge was begun." 8 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches, 211 x 436 mm. The Methodist chapel is in the lower left fore-ground.  £6
(2) Pencil, on oatmeal-colored paper, signed dated 1818, inscribed 'House at Old Broughton, near York place, Edinburgh." 4 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches. 105 x 158 mm.  £5

323. Nattes (John Claude, c. 1765-1822) Pen & brown ink & gray wash, dated 2 June, 1805 & inscribed "TWICKENHAM BRIDGE." (The edge of a garden, seen through the arch.) 10 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches, 267 x 422 mm. £6