VARIOUS ARTISTS

Lot 250
05.07.2022 12:00UTC +00:00
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Prix de départ
£ 10 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 793469
Lot 250 | VARIOUS ARTISTS
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£ 10 000 – 15 000
VARIOUS ARTISTS

A 19th Century Album of Early British Lithography

an amateur album, including twelve early pen lithographs from Specimens of Polyautography, fine to very good impressions (nine presumably from the First or Second Issue, published by Philip André, London, 1803, and three from the Second Issue, published by Georg Jacob Vollweiler, London, 1806), five of which mounted on the original wove paper support sheets, as published, watermarks J. Whatman 1794, J. Russell & Co. 1799 and H&P 1804, and with the original dark grey and chocolate brown aquatint border of the First Issue; and 42 other lithographs of the period, by Benjamin West, Charles Heath, Richard Corbould, George Orleans Delamotte, and others; and a quantity of various prints and ephemera; most sheets adhered at the corners to the album pages, in half-calf and brown linen-covered boards

Sheets 311 x 225 mm. (Specimens, with aquatint border)

Mount Sheets 440 x 345 mm. (and similar)

Album 640 x 480 x 50 mm. (overall)





Provenance

Presumably Buxton Kenrick (1770-1832), Fishtoft Manor, Boston, Lincolnshire & London.

Dr George Cranmer Kenrick (1806-1869), Grove, Melksham, Wiltshire; presumably by descent from the above.

Wanda Jill Ferguson, née Forsyth-Forrest (1934-2021); by family descent from the above.

Acquired locally in England by the present owner in 2021.



Literature

F. H. Man, 'Lithography in England (1801-1810)', in: Carl Zigrosser (ed.), Prints – Studies in graphic styles and techniques from Dürer to Kokoschka, London, 1963, p. 99-130.

P. Gilmour, Lasting Impressions - Lithography as Art, London, 1988, p. 11.

H. von Erffa, A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven & London, 1986.
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