Charles Golding Constable (1821–1878)

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£ 200 000
Auction dateClassic
05.11.2020 07:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 433034
Lot 48 | Charles Golding Constable (1821–1878)
Charles Golding Constable (1821–1878)
Sketches in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf
two signed, eight signed with initials, eight dated 1841-1853, the majority titled
pencil and watercolour on paper
5 x 27¼in. (12.7 x 69.2cm.) and smaller
together with Charles Golding Constable's commonplace book with manuscript transcripts of passages from various printed accounts of Persia and the east, an original account of the pearl fishery at Bahrain and the salt caves on Qeshm Island, sketches of a ship at sea, the English Factory at Bandar Abbas and Laft on Qeshm Island, ownership inscription 'C. Constable / Lieut. I Navy' on the upper cover; and a 1903 Admiralty reprint of Constable and Stiffe's chart 'Asia Persian Gulf' (1860), originally published 1862, this edition with corrections to April 1903, engraving, mounted on linen, 39⅜ x 50¾in. (100 x 129.4cm.)
thirty-one
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