ARTIST UNKNOWN

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 AUD

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Description

Artist Unknown
ALBUM OF SKETCHES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND CHARTS RECORDING THE VOYAGES OF H.M.S. DRUID TO THE WEST INDIES, BOOK OF SKETCHES INCLUDING VIEWS TAKEN ON THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. CALYPSO IN THE PACIFIC AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND A HAND COLOURED LITHOGRAPH (3)
LIEUT. EDWARD H. ARDEN (ENGLISH, ACTIVE 1874-8)
An album of Sketches recording the Voyages of H.M.S. Druid to the West Indies, 1874-5, and of H.M.S Boxer to the Ivory Coast, 1877-8, including Views of St. Kitts, Barbados, Martinique, Spain, Madeira, Sierra Leone, Lagos, Fernando Po, St, Helena and Ascension
Green leatherbound album
Bears the bookplate of Edward H. Arden on the endpapers
39 leaves; 37 pages ilustrated in pen and ink, along with photographs and maps
32 by 28 cm

ENGLISH SCHOOL, MID 19TH CENTURY
A book of sketches recording the cruise of H.M.S. Calypso in the Pacific and South America including landscapes, interior and exterior scenes of villages and sketches of fauna.
Brown marbled leatherbound book
19 leaves; 19 pages of various ink, pastel, watercolour and pencil drawings and 3 loose watercolours
Inscribed indistinctly 'William L. Shaw from P.K. Lorke...Oxford street, London' in the endpapers
26.8 by 14.7 cm

LARGUES (ACTIVE 1790)
Vue Perspective de La Place Montarcher de la Ville du Cap. Prife du coin de la Rue St francois-Xavier.
Title printed below the image
Hand-coloured lithograph
32.5 by 45.5 cm

Provenance

The Estate of the late Caroline Simpson from the Clyde Bank Collection (label on the reverse)

Condition

The album: Consistently foxed, signs of residue glue where drawings have been unglued or are missing. Cover severley rubbed and in places torn. The sketchbook: Scuffing to the cover consistent with age. The second leaf has been cut from the book leaving a 22mm butt. The lithograph: areas of scuffing and small tears across the lower edge, creases to the upper and lower right. Fading across much of the surface.
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