STEER
(Philip Wilson, 1860-1942, English Impressionist Painter and founding member of the New English Art Club, Teacher at the Slade, 1893-1930)
Typed Letter Signed to Harwood C. Lawrence
saying that it is “most kind of you to offer me your congratulations on an honour which is indeed rather overwhelming. My post-bag is large and ponderous with kind messages from all my friends so please excuse this scrappy reply...”, 1 side A4, 109 Cheyne Walk, S.W.10, 3rd January
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
42532
£125
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STEVENS
(Albert George, 1863-1927, Artist, Founding Member of the Staithes Group)
Original Pencil Sketch Signed in capitals with the place and date
the image shows a pine forest with a mountain background, 10” x 7½”, Cannes, 2nd April
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
42913
£375
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STIRLING-MAXWELL
(Sir John Maxwell, 1866-1956, 10th Bart. of Pollok, Chairman of Royal Fine Art Commission, Chairman of Ancient Monuments Board)
Typed Letter Signed to Major Edward E.C. Ellice,
saying "Here is my subscription to the Mackintosh Picture", 1 side 8vo., Pollok House, Pollokshaws, 19th March
two spike holes in blank portion
Item Date:
1925
Stock No:
17936
£15
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STONE DISCUSSES THE COAT OF ARMS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
STONE
(Reynolds, 1909-1979, Designer & Engraver)
ALS to Professor MYNORS
(Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville, 1903-1989, Classicist and Medievalist who held senior chairs of Latin at Oxford and Cambridge) saying that he would “be most grateful for your ruling on a point that has given me a lot of trouble over the Oxford Press shield. I cut the design in wood, as enclosed proof, and the Clarendon Press were delighted with it for a month when my division of the word ILLUMINATIO was noticed, and condemned as unthinkable in the 1st century. If it is possible to conceive a letter cutter in the classical era being faced with the problem of dividing a word into 3 parts in this way can one say that he would have found it unthinkable to cut it as I have? The point is that if I have to revert to MINA-TIO all my letters will have to be much smaller and there will be ugly gaps. As I have cut it one avoids the awkward tendency to read across the word domina or dominina. Ideally also, from my point of view DOMINUS would be happier DOM-INUS. If you say my divisions are impossible and a hopeless solecism I shall re-cut the shield without feeling that I am a victim of of pedantry or plain conservatism. The Latinists among my friends are not outragesd but then they are not palaeographers...”, with an autograph postscript on the verso about their last meeting, 2 sides 4to., with original autograph envelope, The Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorchester,headed paper, 22nd February 1956, together with a signed proof copy of his design for the Coat of Arms for the University of Oxford with the motto in Latin “Dominus Illumination Mea” - “The Lord is my Light”, with three crowns around it in a shield, 3½” x 3”, no place,
Item Date:
1956
Stock No:
43465
£325
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STONE
(Reynolds, 1909-1979, Designer & Engraver)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Professor MYNORS
(Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville, 1903-1989, Classicist and Medievalist who held senior chairs of Latin at Oxford and Cambridge) saying that he would “be most grateful for your ruling on a point that has given me a lot of trouble over the Oxford Press shield. I cut the design in wood, as enclosed proof, and the Clarendon Press were delighted with it for a month when my division of the word ILLUMINATIO was noticed, and condemned as unthinkable in the 1st century. If it is possible to conceive a letter cutter in the classical era being faced with the problem of dividing a word into 3 parts in this way can one say that he would have found it unthinkable to cut it as I have? The point is that if I have to revert to MINA-TIO all my letters will have to be much smaller and there will be ugly gaps. As I have cut it one avoids the awkward tendency to read across the word domina or dominina. Ideally also, from my point of view DOMINUS would be happier DOM-INUS. If you say my divisions are impossible and a hopeless solecism I shall re-cut the shield without feeling that I am a victim of of pedantry or plain conservatism. The Latinists among my friends are not outragesd but then they are not palaeographers...”, with an autograph postscript on the verso about their last meeting, The Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorchester,headed paper, 22nd February
Item Date:
1956
Stock No:
42521
£276
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