Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
29-31 July 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/653
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    250 Monaco, at the Gaming Table, March, 1877, signed in full, named and dated, crayon, framed and glazed 951 ‘Tufts of Heather, the frontispieces to vol. LV and V of Edwin Waugh’s collected Works, pen and ink, in two frames 2952 <A Scrap-book containing over 60 Original Drawings by Randolph Caldecott, beginning with his early career in the M. and S. Bank, and up to the success of “ Old Christmas,” and first oil at the R.A., mostly pen and wk ** These sketches include named portraits, Ellesmere (fishing), hunting subjects, Sir John Falstaff, Saturday half-holiday ! (a billiard saloon), the last drawing done in the bank (an inebriated man holding on to a lamp-post), headings to letters from London picturing himself, ete. Many of the early ones are done on scraps of bank paper. OBJECTS OF ART. 253 Horse-Fair, Le Folquet, Brittany. A frieze in terra-cotta, 5$ an. by 13 in., framed 254 Boar Hunt. A metal frieze, 74 im. by 184 in. (see Caldecott’s letter of Aug. 29, 1878) BOOKS, Etc. 255 Caldecott (R.) Complete Collection of his Contributions to the “ Graphic,” no. 29 of 1250 copies, ilustrations, some coloured, cloth, g. t. 1888 256 The Will o the Wisp, various nos. Manchester, 1868—The Sphinx, vol. II, ib. 1869—Now and Then, no. 1 (all published), 1b. 1882, with illustrations by R. Caldecott, sold as periodicals not subject to return; and others (6) 257 Portrait of R. Caldecott, by Ulrich, proof; A Drawing of his Memorial in St. Paul’s, by W. Erskine Jones; Various Engravings of his Works, some proofs, etc. (a parcel) AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. 258 A.L.s. 4 pp. 8vo, “ Hinton’s Royal Spa Hotel!!!’ Shanklin, Oct. 5, 1875, with a sketch of a child’s head blowing a horn, to “ My dear Lang,” mentions “ the gentle Clough,” and describes his holiday tour in Italy : ...I have a drawing of a mermaid to do & a bas-relief of some gulls to model and a frieze of gulls, etc.... 259 A.L.s. 3pp. 8vo, Fallowfield, Oct. 6, 1876, when stopping with Armstrong’s father, mentions the Bank
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