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ALISTER MATHEWS, "Fremington," 58, West Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth (Hampshire) BH4 8AB.      7

   134. Drummond (Samuel, A. R. A., 1765-1844) Red & black crayon head of a handsome young man (on verso, a similar head but of an overblown lady in a large hat). The sheet is 11 x 9 1/2 inches, the man's head about 5 1/2 inches high. £10
   135. Lord Duncan, circa 1860. A pair of watercolour & ink drawings. A foxhunter rides a horse called Champagne whose body is shaped like a champagne bottle: & other animated riders & hounds. In the other drawing two foxes, up in the branches of a tree, drink to the health of "Col. North M.P. for Oxfordshire with all the honours"' while the huntsman draws off his unsuccessful hounds. Each about 4 1/2 x 7 inches. The 2 for £15
   136. Duncan (Waller) Watercolour: signed, dated April 1879. "Sea Symphony", a young girl in red, fair-haired, at a polished table, holds to her ear one of the sea-shells in the foreground. 14 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches, 370 x 525 mm. £90
   137. Elmore (Alfred, 1815-1881) Pen & ink & gray wash touched with white on pale-brown paper. A young knight in armour, with two companions. 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, horizontal fold above knee:lower blank corner missing but replaced. £8
   138. London Life between the wars & during the last war: watercolours by William Gaunt. Each is signed, dated & inscribed,
   (1) "Savage Club"; 15 x 12 3/4 inches, 1932. (Some fraying at edges). Members with memories 40 years long will perhaps recognise themselves or friends among the well-fed smokers & drinkers in front of assegais & buffalo-head above the fireplace. £30
   (2) "Tour Eiffel" (Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road) with guests of whom one looks like a broody eagle. 12 x 14 1/4 inches. 1928. £25
   (3) (Lyons) "Corner House" 1928, 12 x 13 inches. Full tables. £15
   (5) "Café Royal" 1929: 7 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches: several heads look like portraits. £30
   (6) "Leicester Square" 1928 (with the Leicester Galleries in the centre), an interesting street-scene. 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. £30
   (7) "West End", 1928, pedestrians in front of London shops, perhaps in Regent Street: a dress-shop called Jane Grey is next to a chemists, 8 1/2 x 12 inches. £12
   (8) "Down Wapping Way", 1937, 9 x 10 1/4 inches, a sturdy riverscene with barges & a red-funnel white ship against the background of houses & warehouses. £25
   (9) "House of Charles Dickens, Marylebone High Street", 1957. 10 x 14 inches. £15
   (10) "Cocktails" 1930 (at an art exhibition). 10 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches (almost Batemanesque). £12
   (11) "Post War Reunion" 1929. 12 x 12 1/2 inches. Be-medalled officers (white tie & tails) remember the battles of 1918. £12
   (12) "Cocktail Party" 1928. 13 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (apparently at Portman Square). £20
   (13) "The Gay Twenties, a 'tropical' party." 1927. 12 x 14 inches. Pitch-helmeted, bournoused & grass-skirted very English-looking drinkers. £15
   (14) "Mars & Venus" 1940, soldiers talking to girls outside a shop. 10 x 13 1.2 inches. £10
   (15) "Early Days of the war", 1940. Soldier in battle-dress standing with a girl by a Belisha beacon at a London corner. 11 x 18 3/4 inches. £10
   (16) London-transport passengers wearily seated in a bus in the first black-out winter of the war: 1939. 11 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. £10
   139. Girtin (Thomas, 1775-1802: attributed to). Watercolour, extensive landscape with trees on right, cattle & a man in central foreground: in middle distance are cottages half-buried behind hedges: smoke from a chimney is indicated by absence of colour, the paper left completely blank: a few birds fly in the sky, 8 x 14 inches, 203 x 353 mm. £125
   140. An Architectural Project said to be by Henry Haley, c. 1900, front & side of a vast building (not identified), with a design of a griffin on a shield. Pencil & blue wash. 12 x 14 1/2 inches. £10
   141. Halsewell (Keeley, 1832-1891, Scottish). Watercolour, signed with initials, dated 1876. Storm approaching a lake whose reeds bend over, a distant bright sky: in foreground a bittern flies off. 13 1/8 x 20 inches. Probably the same as the one mentioned by Bénézit (sale of Feb. 1923) "bord du lac audessus duquel passe un orage". £40
   142. Harding (James Duffield, 1797-1863). Watercolour with his mark (see Lugt, "Less Marques de Collections", Number 1448). Interior of an old English room with carved panelled walls, vaulted ceiling. 10 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches, 270 x 366 mm. £20
   144. Hardy (Thomas Bush, 1842-1897) Watercolour, signed, fishing boats off Dover with squally clouds behind the cliffs. 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches, 265 x 365 mm. See illustration. £60
   145. Hardy (Thomas Bush, 1842-1897) Watercolour, signed, fishing boats leaving a harbour behind a very small paddle-steamer. 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches, 265 x 365 mm. (I offer these drawings separately but as they are the same size, they would make a nice pair). £45
   146. Hayman (Francis, 1708-1776) Black chalk, a young man presents a bouquet to a lady seated in a landscape. 7 1/2 x 12 inches, the edges are a bit frayed. £12
   143. Hardy (Dudley, 1865-1922) Black chalk sketches from sketchbooks:-
   (1) English tourist abroad, holding umbrella: deerstalker hat & specs, 8 x 5 1/4 inches, brown paper. £9
   (2) Young French peasant mother holding baby, in a house. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. £9
   (3) French peasant, seated, profile, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. £9
   (4) French peasant seated, peeling (?potatoes), 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. £9.
   (5) English tourist feeling first queasiness on a channel crossing, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, gray paper. £9
   (6) Young women sitting on the grass at a village fête, 6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches. £6
   (7) Bearded top-hatted gent, sitting, 6 x 3 7/8 inches. £10
   147. Hayman (1708-1776) A country courtship, with sheep & cattle in the background, 7 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches, the edges a bit frayed. Pro Patria watermark. £10
   148. Hayman (see above) A sheet of pretty decorative designs (? for a wall) in ink, about 10 x 7 inches. £6
   149. Hayter (Sir George, 1792-1871) Pen & ink, two heads of girls (& on the same sheet, a study of hand & sleeve & a small head.) Signed with initials. 9 x 7 1/2 inches. £12
   150. Hayter (Sir George, 1792-1871) Black chalk portrait of Eliot Thomas Yorke, who was a pupil of De Wint, 1805-1885. Yorke leans indolently against a piece of furniture, one hand to brow: he wears an almost ankle-length open coat. The drawing was made when Hayter was living in Wimpole Street. 13 x 9 inches. £7
   151. Hayter (Sir George, 1792-1871) Pen & brown ink, a lady holding a fan, stands beside a tree on a terrace. 7 x 4 3/4 inches. £8
   152. Hayward (Alfred Robert, 1875-1971) Watercolour: signed, inscribed "Eastbourne". Figures by a groyne on the beach. 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. £15
   153. Hayward (Alfred Robert, 1875-1971) Watercolour. Gondolas at Venice, with San Giorgio Maggiore in the background. 10 x 14 inches, 225 x 355 mm. £18
   154. Hills (Robert, 1769-1844) Watercolour, highland cattle on a wide path along a hillside, they are in sunshine against the dark background of hills, with sunlit hills in the distance. 18 3/8 x 15 3/4 inches, 466 x 400 mm. £80
   155. (Attrib. to William Morris Hunt of Brattleboro, Vermont, 1824-1879). Black chalk study of head of a young man & some smaller studies on the same sheet, 13 x 8 5/8 inches, 331 x 219 mm. £25
   156. (City of London) Black chalk & coloured wash, signed by AMY JOSEPH, c. 1930. Narrow streets between Ludgate Hill & Ireland Yard, near St. Paul's, with the entrance of Burgon Street. 14 1/2 x 10 inches. £20
   157. (City of London) Black chalk & watercoloured, signed by AMY JOSEPH (c. 1930) Exterior of Grocers Hall. 14 1/2 x 10 inches. £20
   158. Jalland (H.G., a "Punch" artist c. 1900): Leaves from his sketchbook: pencil 4 x 5 1/4 inches:-
   (1) Men leaning against a cart at "Kenmare market" (Co. Kerry). £5
   (2) Man with a donkey-cart in which are baskets at Kenmare market. £5
   (3) Donkey-cart on which is a crate with a goat inside (Kenmare). £5
   (4) Lady in a low-slung open phaeton (on verso, a lady). £5
   (5) Lady with small boater, puffed sleeves, seated in a boat on beach at low tide, bathing-huts in distance (on verso, old horse & bathing-huts). £4
   (6) Ladies seated on the beach, with a child paddling. £4
   (7) A dog-cart at a curve of a road with bathing-huts in distance, & lady with children in foreground (on verso, a lady walking by sea). £4
   (8) Lady sitting on groyne beside sea (on verso, horse & bathing-hut). £4
   (9) Ladies and gentlemen in boaters & bowlers & sunshade, seated on grass. £4
   159. Sir T. Lawrence's circle, black chalk touched with white, on brown paper. Half-length study of a seated lady. 10 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (on verso, parts of a balustrade & landscape in coloured chalk). £18
   160. Leech (John, 1817-1864). Pen & ink & watercolour. Signed. On a beach, an elegant young woman (her 2 children making sand-castles) meets her old aunt who claims that the niece's hat is similar to her own very large monstrosity of a hat. Inscribed by the artist. 4 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches, 118 x 163 mm. £25
   161. Livens (Horace Mann, 1862-1936) Watercolour & black chalk. Signed. Dated 1925. Entrance of Bush House, London page 98 of H.P. Clunn's "Face of London" (1934). On verso, a note in the artist's hand "Don't send this to printer as I want to work on it. HML". £50