Exploration, Travel & Topographical Pictures
Catalog Information: 221 lots with images
Date: 2007
Auction House:
Bonhams
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: Follower of Spoilum (Chinese, active circa 1765-1805)
Benjamin Boyd's yacht The Wanderer in full sail oil on canvas 33 x 48.3 cm. (13 x 19 in.)
Lot 2: Conrad Martens (Australian, 1801-1878)
Mountainous Landscape with figures signed with initials, l.l.; bears inscription on label verso 'I guarantee this to be the work of my father Conrad Martens. Rebecca Martens' watercolour and pencil 12 x 19 cm. (4¾ x 7½ in.)
Lot 3: Josef Wolf (German, 1820-1899)
Satin Bowerbirds signed 'J. Wolf' l.r. watercolour heightened with white 15.5 x 23 cm. (6 x 9 in.)
Lot 4: Augusta Innes Withers (British, 1793-1870)
A study of an Australian Red Capped Robin, Petroica goodenovii signed 'Mrs Withers' l.r.; inscribed 'New Holland Robin' l.l. watercolour 15.2 x 17.8 cm. (6 x 7 in.)
Lot 5: Neville Henry Peniston Cayley (Australian, 1853-1903)
A female Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae , with a male Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus signed 'Neville Cayley' and dated '1899' l.r. watercolour 45.7 x 34.3 cm. (18 x 13½ in.)
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