Lots 341 - 350

Lot #341: SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (1785-1841): STUDIES FOR DUKE OF WELLINGTON, REPRESENTING HIS GRACE WRITING TO THE KING OF FRANCE ON THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
Watercolor over pencil heightened with black chalk and touches of white on wove paper, black chalk and pencil on the reverse, a double sided sheet; 9 1/8 x 10 3/4 in.

PROVENANCE: William Drummond, London;
Acquired from the above, 1999.

EXHIBITED: Morgan 2001, no. 66.

This double-sided sheet is a preparatory study for Wilkie's oil painting The Duke of Wellington, Representing His Grace Writing to the King of France on the Night Before the Battle of Waterloo (Aberdeen Art Gallery). Commissioned by Sir Willoughby Gordon (1772-1851), the painting was begun in 1830 but not completed until 1835 and later exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836.

The painting shows Wellington seated at a table, writing a letter by lamplight, with a uniformed attendant standing behind. The present drawing depicts Wilkie's ideas for the details of the composition. The recto includes two studies of the table, a study of the duke's legs and a study for his hat. On the verso is a study of the duke's hand holding a quill, a study of the table top, the lamp and possibly the duke's hat or satchel. The verso also includes a design for a piece of furniture that does not appear in the finished oil painting (see Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Estimate: $ 3000.00 - $ 5000.00

Lot #342: SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (1785-1841): STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF PRINCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, DUKE OF SUSSEX (1773-1843)
Pen and brown ink and brown wash heightened with gum Arabic on prepared wove paper; 1 3/4 x 1/14 in.

PROVENANCE: Richard L. Feigen, NY;
Acquired from the above, 2007.

EXHIBITED: Yale 2010, no. 173.

The present sheet is a preparatory study for Wilkie's portrait of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (Royal Collection) and can be dated to circa 1833. The pen and ink drawing shows the Prince in full Highland dress accompanied by a hound. He was the sixth son and ninth child of George III and Queen Charlotte. Wilkie employed the technique of drawing on a very small scale as a way of planning compositions on other occasions. For example, a group of four pen and brown ink drawings, of a similar size and date, were included in a sale at Sotheby's on November 22, 2007, lot 122.
Estimate: $ 4000.00 - $ 6000.00 Sold at $2500

Lot #343: AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (1769-1830): PORTRAIT OF JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795)
Blue wax crayon and red chalk with pencil on laid Athenaeum Club writing paper; 9 x 6 3/4 in.

PROVENANCE: L.G. Duke, C.B.E.,
his sale, Sotheby's, London, March 11, 1971, lot 51;
Sanders of Oxford, Oxford;
Aquired from the above, 1972.

EXHIBITED: Yale 2010, no. 146.

LITERATURE: Kenneth Garlick, 'A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', The Walpole Society, 1962-64, vol. XXXIX, p. 217; John Ingamells, Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, pp. 62-63.

James Boswell, the flamboyant author of Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) and biographer of James Samuel Johnson (1791), is portrayed by an artist copying Sir Thomas Lawrence's drawing James Boswell Esq. from Memory (Tate Gallery, London). Rapidly executed on Athenaeum Club paper the work must date from after 1824 as the club was not founded until that year. The drawing indicates Boswell's continued popularity even 30 years after his death.
Estimate: $ 3000.00 - $ 6000.00

Lot #344: THÉODORE GÉRICAULT (1791-1824): A WOMAN ON HORSEBACK (UNE AMAZONE) AND A STUDY OF A HORSE'S HEAD: A DOUBLE-SIDED DRAWING
Pencil on wove paper, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.

This drawing likely dates to Gericault's British period, circa 1821. The Amazone drawing relates to a full scale watercolor of the same subject in the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and a painting of A Woman on Horseback, formerly in the Jean Stern collection.

PROVENANCE: Richard L. Feigen, NY.
Acquired from above, 2007.

EXHIBITED: Yale 2010, no. 97.
Estimate: $ 1500.00 - $ 3000.00 Sold at $3000

Lot #345: SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881): "THE SIMPLEST RUSTIC CAP"
Black chalk and pencil on wove paper, 7 1/8 x 4 3/8 in., inscribed carrying wood in pencil in the center and back view in black chalk center right; further inscribed the simplest rustic cap in pencil on the reserve.

PROVENANCE: Mrs. Peter Pardoe,
Her sale, Sotheby's, London, July 12, 1967, lot 206 (part of lot);
Paul Grinkle, London;
Acquired from the above.

EXHIBITED: Yale 2010, no. 137.

LITERATURE: Raymond Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, 1988, p. 159, no. 445.

This rare study has been dated by Raymond Lister to 1848. The distinctive bell-shaped cap on the young child can also be seen in other finished works, such as The Piping Shepherd (Ulster Museum, Belfast).
Estimate: $ 3000.00 - $ 5000.00 Sold at $1500

Lot #346: FILIPPO INDONI (1842-1908): AT THE MASKED BALL
Pencil on paper heightened with white, 12 1/2 x 8 5/8 in., signed lower left.
Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Sold at $2400

Lot #347: PURPORTED FRAGMENT OF JAMES BOSWELL'S SASH WORN AT SHAKESPEARE JUBILEE
2 x 2 in.
Estimate: $ 10.00 - $ 20.00 Sold at $250

Lot #348: JULIE BOZZI (b. 1943): MUNICIPAL GREEN BELT
Watercolor on paper, 11 x 14 in., signed, titled and dated Costa Mesa, CA 1983 below the image. Together with American School, 20th C., The House by the Sea, signed GERTA lower right, oil on masonite; 5 x 7 1/4 in.

PROVENANCE: The first, Texas Gallery, Houston;
Acquired from the above, 1984.
Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Sold at $100

Lot #349: GREEK ICON OF THE HODIGITRIA MOTHER OF GOD
Inscribed in Greek with dedicatory inscription, tempera on wood, contained in glass-fronted shadow box; 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.
Estimate: $ 800.00 - $ 1200.00 Sold at $250

Lot #350: AN ILLUSTRATED AND ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF FIRDAUSI'S SHAHNAMA: THE BATTLE BETWEEN MANUCHEHR AND SALM AND TUR'S ARMY
Ink and gouache on paper, 8 x 4 in.
Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Sold at $550

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