CHANTREY ON HIS EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WELLINGTON
CHANTREY
(Sir Francis Legatt, 1781-1841, Sculptor)
Pair of Autograph Letters Signed to Thomas SPRING RICE
(1790-1866, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1835-1839, from 1839 1st Baron Monteagle), saying he "shall be happy to wait upon you" with "a statement of the Gun Metal" and to ask how he may reply "to the City of London Wellington Committee" (28th November 1838, endorsed "C of E saw party 29/11/38"), in the second he explains that he "refrained from acknowledging the donation of fifteen hundred & twenty pounds worth of Gun Metal for the City of London Wellington Statue" till he had met and told "the acting committee ... not only the amount of the gift, but the very ready and handsome manner in which it had been made", at "the Mansion House yesterday ... all were at a loss in what manner it would be most agreeable to you they should reply to the generosity of the Government", so Chantrey is asking whether a letter of thanks to Spring Rice as Chancellor of the Exchequer "would be a fitting manner of acknowledging ... the substantial way in which their efforts have been assisted by Her Majesty's Ministers", 1 side 8vo and 1 side 4to, Belgrave Place & Eccleston Street, London, 28th November - 26th January
Item Date:
1839
Stock No:
56564
£375
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[CHARDIN
(Jean-Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1799, French Painter)]
Fine Engraving of 'La Gouvernante' ('the Governess')
reversed from his original oil painting of 1738, (now at the National Gallery, Ottawa, there is also an apparently autograph replica at Tatton Park), showing her seated full length in profile, her work basket by her side, breaking off from brushing the tricorne of the young son of the house and apparently gently remonstrating with him, he holds a parcel of books under his right arm but lying on the floor are his shuttlecock, racquet and playing cards, 12½" x 9¾" in margins 20¾" x 15½" on fine paper, this engraving no place, no date, 18th - 19th century
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
56269
£225
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COCKERELL
(Sir Sydney Carlyle, 1867-1962, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1908-1937 and Bibliophile)
Fine pair of Autograph Letters Signed in full to Lady Steward of Hammer Hill, Abinger Hammer
regretting that he “cannot tell you anything about your grandfather’s pictures. If I live another month I shall enter my 90th year and I cannot recall a single picture on the walls of Warren Wood or Connaught Place - but before I went (in 1908) to the Fitzwilliam it had acquired from him (through Charly Fairfax Murray) most if not all of his primitive Italian pictures. You would be able to obtain a list of these from the Assistant Director, J. W. Goodison. I remember you coming to Warren Wood as a charming girl about to be married - by that time your grandfather had become an old curmudgeon both mean and generous. In 1908 I was expected to accompany him to Aix-les-Bains, as a member of his family would do this. I slept at Connaught Place on the night before we started and I remember his asking me whether I was taking a hat - It was then explained to me that ‘hat’ for him meant ‘tall hat’ and I had to climb down. At Aix his grumbling disturbed me a good deal and I was glad to come home - he was greatly upset by the Death Duties, then recently imposed. One of his sayings (perhaps not his own) was that there were only five things that a man could give to a friend without injury to his self respect - flowers, fruit, game, a box at the opera, and his blessing. Nevertheless he supplemented the stipends of curates and other underpaid people of his own class, including myself - the stipend of the Director of the Firzwilliam was only £300 a year when I went there. I think that my friend Freya Stark is now staying with your son at Arkara...”, the second letter says that “since writing to you I have remembered that your grandfather’s words were misquoted by me. The correct text is ‘that one gentleman can give to another’. If you can get hold of a copy of Viola Meynell’s ‘The Best of Friends’... you will find in it a quantity of very good letters from Freya Stark, chosen from more than 300 that I have received from her. She had been engaged in some very arduous travels in Turkey and she must have been pretty well tired out when she reached Ankara. I heard that very amusing French limerick many years ago, but I had forgotten it, along with many another good one. Thank you for reminding me. I had a great respect for your cricketing grandfather...”, each 1 side 8vo., with one original autograph envelope, 21 Kew Gardens Road, Kew, Richmond, Surrey,18th and 21st June
Item Date:
1949
Stock No:
41816
£275
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COCKERELL WRITES TO A FELLOW COLLECTOR
COCKERELL
(Sir Sidney Carlyle, 1867-1962, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1908-1937 and Bibliophile)
Autograph Note Signed in full to Robin Fry
sending him "a few scraps. I have not got Wilde or Fisher. Since Paul Osborne wrote to me I have been given a very fine letter of Captain Scott's ..." 21 Kew Gardens Road, Richmond, 1st January
Item Date:
1949
Stock No:
40428
£125
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COCTEAU INSCRIBED FOR WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
COCTEAU
(Jean, 1889-1963, French Poet, Playwright and Film Director)
Superb photo by Manuel Freres, Paris, signed
and inscribed "Jean Cocteau Salue à l'Université de Washington" with a five pointed star, 11" x 8" in mount 14½" x 10½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1925
Stock No:
28534
£2500
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