Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
January 1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/485
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    895 896 897 898 899 900 901 902 87 Third Day MISCELLANEOUS. Napoleon, etc. : Napoleon in his Coronation Robes, 1826 ; Witnessing the Conflagration of Moscow, 1826; The Battle of Waterloo, 1825, 3 coloured plates, mounted ; The Manchester Heroes, proof before letters with Note by the Artist, ** Engraved by somebody from a Drawing made w by me Geo. Cruikshank’ [Reid 915]; and another (5) Battle of the Engravers, first proof signed—The British Bee Hive, 1867 [Reid 2563]}—The Ragged School, proof on india paper, 6 plates on the Exhibition of 1851 ; and 7 others (16) Original Sketch of George Cruikshank by himself, signed and mounted—Six original pencil sketches, mounted on one sheet, 2 of which are signed, including *‘ As Broad as it’s long,’ several portraits of the Artist—lLllustrations of Christians passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, 2 copies, one plain and one coloured, both signed by the Artist ; ete. (a parcel) Sketches of the Life of George Cruikshank which have appeared in Books, Magazines (some mounted and inlaid), together with numerous extracts from newspapers, portraits, catalogues, etc. (a cardboard box) : Che Property of the late C. U1. Bolton, Lsq., C.S.1. OCTAVO ET INFRA. A’ Beckett (G. A.) Comic History of England, and of Rome, 3 vol. in 1, coloured plates by J. Leech, half morocco, g. e. n. d Bewick. A General History of Quadrupeds, cuts by T. Bewick, Newcastle, 1791 ; History of British Birds, 2 vol. cuts by T. Bewick, 1b., 1826 ; uniformly bound in new half calf, g. t. (3) Bewick. Fables of A’sop and others, cuts by T. Bewick, FIRST EDITION, half calf gilt 7b. 1818 Bewick. Poetical Works of Robt. Burns, with his Life, vol. I, portrait, and cuts by Bewick from designs by Thurston, original boards, Alnwick, 1808 ; A Garland of New Songs, woodcut on title attributed to Bewick, 8 pages, Newcastle, J. Marshall. n.d.; The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature, cuts by T. Bewick and L. Clennell, uncut, in cloth, Newcastle, 1812 (3)
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