17th Sep, 2024 10:00

The September Auctions 2024

 
Lot 115
 

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[Z] Grand Tour Interest

Grand Tour Interest, a bound volume containing seven pen and ink cameo drawings including Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion, drawings initialled RPI and dated 1774-1775, 8vo, gilt tooled red calf, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Michael Lord Sandys

Provenance:

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Footnote:

The drawings bear a striking resemblance to examples in: Worlidge (Thomas) [(1700-1766)] A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, London: by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768

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Grand Tour Interest, a bound volume containing seven pen and ink cameo drawings including Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion, drawings initialled RPI and dated 1774-1775, 8vo, gilt tooled red calf, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Michael Lord Sandys

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

The drawings bear a striking resemblance to examples in: Worlidge (Thomas) [(1700-1766)] A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, London: by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768


Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts

15 September 2026

The Private World of John Singer Sargent

The Jemima Pitman Collection

Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024

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