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POLLARD, James (1792–1867)

Lot 52
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 992936
Lot 52 | POLLARD, James (1792–1867)
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POLLARD, James (1792–1867)

Scenes on the Road; or, A Trip to Epsom and Back. London: R. Ackermann, 1838.

A meticulously drawn and magnificently coloured coaching series with original wrappers preserved. ‘Pollard grew up on the main northern coaching route which ran through Islington and Holloway, and became enamoured with the day's most glamorous form of transport. His intimate understanding of the subject later translated onto his canvases with a near faultless exactitude, and are an invaluable record of a tradition abruptly curtailed by the advent of the railways’ (ODNB). Here the chosen scenes are Hyde Park Corner; the Lord Nelson Inn, Cheam where ‘Some push along with four in hand, while others drive at random,/In whisky, buggy, gig or dog-cart, curricle or tandem’; another popular wayside inn, the Cock at Sutton; and finally Kennington Gate where the ‘high life and low life’ of London again intermix: ‘A peer and a ‘prentice now dress so much the same,/You cannot tell the difference excepting by the name’. Plate 2 is watermarked 1838. Bobins IV, 1405; Siltzer p.222.



Oblong folio (491 x 669mm). 4 contemporary hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Harris after Pollard tipped into an album, interleaved (plates I and IV with some long, closed marginal tears, plate I with bottom corner tip torn away). Mid 20th-century black quarter morocco and green buckram, front cover with black morocco gilt label, spine gilt lettered; original grey wrappers bound in, front wrapper with title, price of £2 2s for the set, individual print titles, imprint and date surrounded by an Etruscan border, the back printed with ‘Ackermann’s Catalogue of Standard Sporting Prints’ (wrappers laid down and extended at sides, with repaired tear through the page affecting title); green buckram slipcase. Provenance: purchased in Boston, 1953 by; — Joel Spitz (bookplate; sold in these rooms 27 May 2015, lot 97).





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Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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