Lots 331 - 340

Lot 331

Lot #331: ATTRIBUTED TO FEDERICO ZUCCARO: HEAD OF A MAN
Red and black chalk on irregularly shaped paper, 3 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.

PROVENANCE: Richard Day, Ltd., London (as Federico Zuccaro);
Acquired from the above, 1978.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 800.00 Sold at $1200

Lot 332

Lot #332: ATTRIBUTED TO ANNIBALE CARRACCI (BOLOGNA (1560-1609 ROME): RECTO: EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPE WITH A CLUMP OF TREES; VERSO: STUDIES OF A SEATED MALE NUDE AND OF A SHOULDER AND UPPER ARM
Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink, black chalk on paper (verso); 5 1/2 x 13 in.

PROVENANCE: Sir Peter Lely (L.2092);
Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (L.2184);
Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364);
William Esdaile (L.2617);
Hamilton Easter Field (L.872a);
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet;
By whom sold, Sotheby's, New York, January 18, 1984, lot 183 (as Attributed to Agostino Carracci);
Pietro Scarpa, Venice;
Acquired from the above, 1988.

EXHIBITED: Morgan 2001, no. 6 (as Attributed to Agostino).

The landscape drawing of the Carracci have continued to present problems of attribution to scholars and connoisseurs. This lovely expansive view has been attributed to Agostino, but the description of the distant mountains and the open and free composition and handling are quite close to works generally given to Annibale, such as the extraordinary Landscape with a Smiling Sunrise in the Louvre.

The studies on the verso can be connected with the frescoes in the principal salone of Palazzo Magnani, Bologna, a commission planned and executed by the three Carracci together and completed around 1592. The seated male nude with his arms above his head and his legs crossed is most closely related to a Telamon generally attributed to Lodovico. The drawing has affinities with Lodovico's early style in the delicacy of the penwork, but there are also similarities with Annibale's slightly later study for Hercules in the Camerino Farnese.
Estimate: $ 5000.00 - $ 7000.00 Sold at $11,000

Lot 333

Lot #333: PETER FENDI (1796-1842): SALZBURGH CASTLE
Watercolor over pencil on wove paper, 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 in., signed Fendi lower left.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Vienna;
Sold, im Kinsky, Vienna, June 27, 1995, lot 116;
Arturo Cuèllar, Zurich.
Acquired from the above, 2007.

EXHIBITED: Yale 2010, no. 105.
Estimate: $ 1500.00 - $ 3000.00

Lot 334

Lot #334: PETER FENDI (1796-1842): MAN'S HEAD IN PROFILE
Watercolor over pencil on wove paper, 3 x 2 5/8 in., signed Fendi on the mount.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich.

EXHIBITED: Yale 2010, no. 157.
Estimate: $ 1500.00 - $ 3000.00 Sold at $1300

Lot 335

Lot #335: JOST AMMAN (1539-1591): HUNTER WITH DOG
Black ink over black chalk on paper with a slight sketch of a head in black chalk on the left, 4 x 3 1/8 in., numbered 3 over figures head.

PROVENANCE: H. Shickman Gallery, New York;
Acquired from the above, 1966.

EXHIBITED: New York, H. Shickman Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1965, cat. no. 36, reproduced, plate 36.
Estimate: $ 1500.00 - $ 3000.00 Sold at $800

Lot 336

Lot #336: THOMAS STOTHARD R.A. (1755-1834): DESIGN FOR A MONUMENT TO MARIAMNE JOHNES
Gray wash with pen and brown ink, inscribed, Drawn by my Dear Friend Thomas Stothard RA/Idea for a Statue to the memory of Miss Johnes/Daughter of Col. Johnes of Hafod Southwales; 5 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.

PROVENANCE: William Drummond, London;
Acquired from the above, 1993.

EXHIBITED: Yale 2010, no. 174.
Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00 Sold at $1200

Lot 337

Lot #337: THOMAS STOTHARD R.A. (1755-1834): CHRISTIAN MAKING HIS ESCAPE FROM THE DUNGEON OF DOUBTING CASTLE AND GIANT DESPAIR
Brown wash and pen and brown ink over pencil, 3 1/2 x 3 7/8 in., signed T. Stothard lower right.

PROVENANCE: Basket and Day, London;
Acquired from the above, 1980.

EXHIBITED: London, Baskett and Day, An Exhibition of Drawings and Book Illustrations by Thomas Stothard R.A. (1755-1834), October-November, 1980, no. 25.
Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00 Sold at $2300

Lot 338

Lot #338: JOHN FLAXMAN, R.A. (1755-1826): PORTRAIT OF DELVALLE ELIZABETH REBECCA LOWRY (1800-1860)
Pencil on wove paper, 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. Inscribed on the original mount Flaxman lower right, inscribed Delvalle Lowry lower left and further later inscribed Delvalle Elizabeth Rebecca Varley (1800-1860)/(Daughter of the Engraver Wilson Lowry/ & 2nd wife of John Varley) on the reverse of the mount.

PROVENANCE: Wilson Lowry (1760-1824), the sitter's father; Spink, London;
W.M. Brady & Co., New York;
Acquired from the above, 1993.

EXHIBITED: Morgan 2001, no. 47; Yale 2010, no. 191.

The sitter was the daughter of Wilson Lowry, an engraver and founding member of the Geological Society, and Rebecca Delvalle (1761-1848). The sitter (like both her father and mother) became an authority on geology and in 1822 published Conversations on Mineralogy. In 1825 Delvalle married the artist John Varley (1772-1842), as his second wife, who had been a friend of her father since 1802. She went onto publish Rudimentary Treatise on Mineralogy. This charming drawing is thought to date from when the sitter was between ten and fifteen years old and originally formed part of a sketch-book of drawings of other family members by Flaxman.
Estimate: $ 4000.00 - $ 8000.00 Sold at $2750

Lot 339

Lot #339: ROBERT HILLS (1769-1844): AN OAK TREE
Pencil on wove paper, inscribed with artist's notes center right; 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. Together with Samuel Jackson, A Woodland Pool, brown wash, heightened with scratching out on wove paper; 8 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.

PROVENANCE: The first, Sir John and Lady Witt; Lowell Libson, London;
Acquired from the above, 2004.

EXHIBITED: The first, London, Lowell Libson, Watercolors and Drawings, November-December, 2004, no. 30; Yale 2010, no. 85.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 2000.00 Sold at $1000

Lot 340

Lot #340: ROBERT BALLAMANNO AND RICHARD WESTALL: ILLUSTRATION TO COWPER'S POEM "THE DOG AND THE WATER LILY"
Watercolor over pencil on brown wash prepared paper, extensively inscribed: R Westall RA/From the collection of the late/J Leigh Sotheby Esq/Illustration to Cowper's Poem/The Dog with the/Water lily on reverse; 5 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.

PROVENANCE: J.L. Sotheby; Alice Dodge, London;
Acquired from the above, 1972.
Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00 Sold at $1200