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[TRIP FROM DOVER TO PARIS]

Lot 231
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 2 016
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 993096
Lot 231 | [TRIP FROM DOVER TO PARIS]
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
[TRIP FROM DOVER TO PARIS]

Panorama of a 'Journey from Dover to Paris.' No artist, title or imprint, but early nineteenth century.

Extremely rare: no other copies are known of this wonderful panorama of scenes of a satirical voyage from Dover to Paris all finely hand-coloured. Neatly backed with linen, it is an unusually miniature panorama, only 5 centimetres tall. It relates in an amusing fashion the story of a family's journey, filled with adventures and minor dramas, as tourists from Dover to the Champs Élysées in Paris. No artist, title or imprint is given to the charming and accomplished aquatints. With most appropriate provenance: Sir David Lionel Salamon's collection of over 5000 items relating to the history of transport and locomotion, which included ballooning, was presented to the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1936 by his daughter Mrs Vera Bryce Salomons. He was a pioneer and innovator with the use of electricity, but is best remembered for his role as a pioneer of automobiles in England. In October 1895 he imported the second gasoline-driven car to appear in Britain, and he was responsible for removing many of the legal restrictions on the use of the motor car in England. He was also one of the founders of the Royal Automobile Club, the oldest British motoring body.



Panoramic sheet (51 x c.2030mm). No artist, title or imprint. Continuous paper strip mounted on linen with 21 scenes printed in aquatint and coloured by a contemporary hand (minor stains in places). Mounted on a wooden roller and enclosed in a 16mo size red crushed levant morocco book-shaped case, signed Riviere and Son, and Bumpus Ltd. Oxford. Provenance: Sir David Lionel Salomons (engraved bookplate, slightly trimmed in lower margin at end of panorama) – Lewis A. Bird (bookplate in case).





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