FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED LETTERS BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BEST KNOWN FOR 'THE DEAD HEART' WHICH DICKENS PLAGIARISED
PHILLIPS
(Watts, 1825-1874, Illustrator, Playwright and Novelist, best known for his play 'The Dead Heart' which served as a model for Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.)
Enchanting series of Illustrated Letters to William Miller ORD, M.D.,
(1834-1902, Medical Scientist and Physician, for fifty years at St Thomas's Hospital, London), to Ord's second wife Jane, (née Youl), the Ords's daughter Christine and dog Tartar, with one or two by Caroline (Huskisson), known as Mrs Phillips, also humorous drawings and a title leaf for "Jane Ord's Album", the letters are full of energy, puns and literary allusions, nearly all with one or more extremely skilful and witty pen-drawings. Besides Phillips's own troubles, for Ord's care of which he is extremely grateful, Phillips refers to invitations to the Ords's home in Streatham, imagines their holidays in Northumberland and Swanage, adding his reminiscences of both districts, and talks of the pressure of keeping up his writing (see No. 38, showing him chained to an inkpot like Prometheus to his rock), with much more. With a Checklist. Together 58 items on 99 sides (including 4½ sides by Mrs Caroline Phillips), mostly 8vo, 45 Redcliffe Road (off the Fulham Road), West Brompton, London, 16th January - 31st December 1873 and circa February - April
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
56645
£17500
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ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS DONE FOR HIS CHILDREN
'PHIZ'
(Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-1882, Artist & Illustrator of Dickens's Novels)
Delightful Set of 12 Watercolours on the finest cotton Gauze, Unsigned, made for his Children,
to illustrate 'A Frog he would a-wooing go', his meeting a Rat on the way and their welcome by Mrs Mouse at Mousey Hall, who offers to sing, the dispersal of the party by a Cat and two Kittens, and Mr Frog's sad end on the way home, each approximately 3¼" x 4½" with a line of verse above and below, in margins 5¾" x 5¾" plus a fringe of ¾ of an inch all round, loose between early numbered sheets of paper with a modern card noting that they are from among his family items, no place, no date, circa
a few occasional brown spots nearly all in blank margin, two touching a line of verse which is still perfectly legible, the third drawing is very slightly smudged
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
56421
£5750
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PICKERSGILL
(Henry William, 1782-1875, R.A., Portrait Painter)
Autograph letter signed to Miss Loaden,
saying he has "no learning of my own to enlighten the World with, so please to accept a few sentences from one of the most learned Writers on our divine Art", quoting from H. Fuseli "Love for what is called deception ... marks either the infamy or decrepitude of a Nation's taste ... Tone is the moral part of Color. Harmony of Color" is "the due balance of all, equally remote from Monotony and spots", 1 side 7" x 4½", 14 Stratford Place, London, 16th October
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
53522
£145
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PICKERSGILL
(Henry William, 1782-1875, R.A., Portrait Painter)
Signature and subscription from an Autograph Letter
3" x 1", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
38793
£20
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PIPER
(John, 1903-1992, Painter & Writer)
Autograph Note Signed to Mr Evans
saing that he had forgotten "to acknowledge your cheque for the Romney Marsh C.P.T., which I have sent on to the Treasurer. Thank you so much! ...", on a coloured postcard of the Benjamin Britten Memorial Window in Aldeburgh, 6" x 4", no place, 10th May
Item Date:
1985
Stock No:
41490
£175
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