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Auction archive: Lot number 253

Writers & Artists. A collection of approximately 50 autographs of British writers, artists & related

Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$327 - US$458
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 253

Writers & Artists. A collection of approximately 50 autographs of British writers, artists & related

Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$327 - US$458
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Writers & Artists. A collection of approximately 50 autographs of British writers, artists and related, late 19th & early 20th century, including: Millais (John Everett 1829-1896). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘J.E. Millais’, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, 27 July 1880, to Principal [John] Caird [at the University of Glasgow], concerning his portrait [now in the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow], ’In a day or two I will send you your robe, and I want you to send me the name of a good photographer to whom I will send a very rough photo of your portrait, which please don't look at, which will enable him to take a photograph of you in the town just as I have painted you that I may be sure of one or two little points in the picture. I will send the photograph for instructions if you will kindly supply me with his name and address’, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, 8vo, Barrie (James Matthew, 1860-1937), Autograph Letter Signed, ‘J.M. Barrie’, Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, Wednesday, no date, to Miss Jean Cadell, saying he will see her at his home tomorrow, but ‘I am sorry to have to say however, that I have no parts’, 1 page, 8vo, Collins (William Wilkie, 1824-1889), Autograph sentiment signed, ‘Wilkie Collins’ no date, torn from the end of a letter giving his address in Boston in his hand, 50 x 125 mm, [Dickens, Charles], Autograph envelope addressed to Dickens’s sister-in-law and housekeeper at his house, postmarked at Stevenage, 25 July 1865, ‘Miss [Georgina] Hogarth (1827-1917), Gads Hill, Higham, Rochester’, probably in the hand of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), plus autograph letters signed from Andrew Lang (1844-1912); Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838-1901), x 2 including one in pencil; George Grossmith (1847-1912); Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), autograph notecard signed; George Gilbert Aimé Murray (1866-1957); Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920); Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897); (?)Minnie Singleton (1843-1905); Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903), autograph notecard signed and cut signature; Sydney Smith (1771–1845); Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922); Harry Furniss (1854-1925); Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934); John Lavery (1856-1941); Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890); Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912); Alfred East (1844-1913), autograph notecard signed; Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), autograph notecard signed; Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901), autograph notecard signed; Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924); Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937), in the third person; Frederick W. Wyndham (1853–1930); Richard Corney Grain (1844-1895); plus signatures cut or torn from letters of Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), autograph envelope signed, addressed to D. Benson, 15 November 1870; Thomas Hughes (1822-1896); James Anthony Froude (1818-1894); William Smith (editor of the Quarterly Review); William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919); Marie Corelli (1855-1924); Ada Ellen Bayly (1857-1903); Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901); Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898); Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892); Philip Richard Morris (1836-1902); Herbert Schmalz (1856-1935); Charles Santley (1834-1922); Charles S. Keene, J. L. Toole, Marion Terry, Maud Beerbohm-Tree and a few others Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949), wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). Emily was the daughter of William Lee Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886, and granddaughter of John Lee (1779-1859), Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859.

Auction archive: Lot number 253
Auction:
Datum:
6 Apr 2022 - 7 Apr 2022
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Writers & Artists. A collection of approximately 50 autographs of British writers, artists and related, late 19th & early 20th century, including: Millais (John Everett 1829-1896). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘J.E. Millais’, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, 27 July 1880, to Principal [John] Caird [at the University of Glasgow], concerning his portrait [now in the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow], ’In a day or two I will send you your robe, and I want you to send me the name of a good photographer to whom I will send a very rough photo of your portrait, which please don't look at, which will enable him to take a photograph of you in the town just as I have painted you that I may be sure of one or two little points in the picture. I will send the photograph for instructions if you will kindly supply me with his name and address’, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, 8vo, Barrie (James Matthew, 1860-1937), Autograph Letter Signed, ‘J.M. Barrie’, Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, Wednesday, no date, to Miss Jean Cadell, saying he will see her at his home tomorrow, but ‘I am sorry to have to say however, that I have no parts’, 1 page, 8vo, Collins (William Wilkie, 1824-1889), Autograph sentiment signed, ‘Wilkie Collins’ no date, torn from the end of a letter giving his address in Boston in his hand, 50 x 125 mm, [Dickens, Charles], Autograph envelope addressed to Dickens’s sister-in-law and housekeeper at his house, postmarked at Stevenage, 25 July 1865, ‘Miss [Georgina] Hogarth (1827-1917), Gads Hill, Higham, Rochester’, probably in the hand of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), plus autograph letters signed from Andrew Lang (1844-1912); Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838-1901), x 2 including one in pencil; George Grossmith (1847-1912); Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), autograph notecard signed; George Gilbert Aimé Murray (1866-1957); Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920); Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897); (?)Minnie Singleton (1843-1905); Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903), autograph notecard signed and cut signature; Sydney Smith (1771–1845); Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922); Harry Furniss (1854-1925); Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934); John Lavery (1856-1941); Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890); Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912); Alfred East (1844-1913), autograph notecard signed; Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), autograph notecard signed; Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901), autograph notecard signed; Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924); Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937), in the third person; Frederick W. Wyndham (1853–1930); Richard Corney Grain (1844-1895); plus signatures cut or torn from letters of Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), autograph envelope signed, addressed to D. Benson, 15 November 1870; Thomas Hughes (1822-1896); James Anthony Froude (1818-1894); William Smith (editor of the Quarterly Review); William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919); Marie Corelli (1855-1924); Ada Ellen Bayly (1857-1903); Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901); Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898); Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892); Philip Richard Morris (1836-1902); Herbert Schmalz (1856-1935); Charles Santley (1834-1922); Charles S. Keene, J. L. Toole, Marion Terry, Maud Beerbohm-Tree and a few others Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949), wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). Emily was the daughter of William Lee Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886, and granddaughter of John Lee (1779-1859), Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859.

Auction archive: Lot number 253
Auction:
Datum:
6 Apr 2022 - 7 Apr 2022
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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