British Art on Paper
Catalog Information: 194 lots | 193 with images
Lot 1: Bernard Lens III (1682-1740)
An album of ten drawings of Wookey Hole, Mendip Hills, Somersetinscribed 'Several Views/Taken by the Life/by Bernard Lens.' (on the frontispiece within a sculpted cartouche) each page inscribed and numbered variously, 'A Prospect of Wokey[sic] Hole', [...more]
Lot 2: John Varley, O.W.S. (1778-1842)
Study of a young man, bust-lengthwith inscription 'J Varley pinxt' (lower right)pencil8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (21.5 x 17.2 cm.); and studies of a bearded man by George Romney on Whatman paper (2)
Lot 3: George Romney (1734-1802)
Satan, Sin and Death: An illustration to Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Book II (recto); and Studies of figures for an unidentified composition (verso)pencil, fragmentary watermark Britannia, unframed6 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (16 x 19 cm.)
Lot 5: William Blake (1757-1827)
Satan going to and fro in the Earth, and another figurepencil11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (28.3 x 21 cm.)
Lot 6: Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
A wooded landscape with a horse and cart on a country path, a cottage beyondwith artist's stamp 'T. Gainsborough' (lower left, on the mount and lower right)pencil, black chalk, stump and brown wash, in a gold, embossed arabesque border8 7/8 x 12 1/8 [...more]
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