19th Mar, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1000
 

1000

Samuel Palmer (1805–1881)
The Ecologues of Virgil, An English Version
Eleven etchings, to include " "O fortunate old Man !...", "O Fortunate, who now at last among"..., "Tis gentle Phyllis...", "The very cradle quickens...", "Untimely lost, and by a cruel death...", "...till Vesper bade the swain...", " _ the pastured bulls to stall...", "_while the troubled moon shrunk in and set...", "The cream-bowl set and in our cave recline...", "Pan came, Arcadian tetrach ever good...", "Pan came, Arcadian tetrach ever good..." unframed and loose from remainder of the publication, 33cm by 23cm (11)

Not Sold

 

The prints have deckled edge, very slight time staining to paper, the odd sporadic minor foxing spot, mostly in evidence to margins with the exception of The Pastured Bulls... which has a tear to the centre of upper margin.

The binding on the book has come away from the pages, considerable time staining and foxing to outer pages. Slight time staining and the odd sporadic foxing spot to the rest. The outer edges of the paper are stained and well handled.

 


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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 19th Mar, 2022

The Traditional Picture Sales offer a wide range of oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. The sale includes paintings from The Laithes, Penrith from the Estate of Ian Stephenson, from a Private House to be sold on behalf of the 7th Earl of Durham, and a Private House, St Judes, Isle of Man. Further lots from these estates will be included in the Spring Fine Sale and the Fine Jewellery, Watches and Silver Sale on 19th March.

The Selected Contents of a Private House to be sold on
behalf of the 7th Earl of Durham denoted by ~
The Selected Contents of a Private House, St Judes,
Isle of Man denoted by ^
The Contents of The Laithes, Penrith from the Estate
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