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*** Joseph-Victor Roux-Champion (1871-1953) - Two pastel and watercolour wash drawings - “Paysage, Cavaillon” - Landscape with barn, 9.75ins x 13.5ins, signed in inscribed, and river scene with five arched bridge, 8.5ins x 13.25ins, unsigned, both in modern gilt frames, and one other - Artist’s proof coloured lithograph - View of Notre Dame, Paris, 9.5ins x 13.5ins, signed in pencil (No. 18 of edition of 100), in narrow gilt frame and glazed £200-300
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*** Nigel Lambourne (1919-1988) - Two charcoal drawings - Male and female figure embracing, 28ins x 19ins, signed (framed and glazed), and female nude, 33ins x 23.5ins (unframed) £250-350
Note: We understand that the vendor was given these works by a sculptor who worked with the artist
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19th Century School - Collection of twenty-six coloured engravings, various Kings and Queens of England, various sizes, all in maroon mounts but unframed, and a selection of other engravings, various (all mounted but unframed) £100-150
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Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. late 18th/early 19th Century) after J. Farington - Pair of aquatints - “View of London from Lambeth” and “View of London from Greenwich Park”, each 13ins x 21.5ins, in gilt frames and glazed £300-400
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*** Daryl Earnest Lindsay (1919-1976) - Sanguine drawing - “Nina Baronova in Swan Lake”, 14.5ins x 9.75ins, signed, framed and glazed £80-120
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A black reverse painting on glass depicting “H.M.S. Victory” and two other smaller masted vessels, 13ins x 15ins, in maple frame £200-300
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Christopher Wood (1901-1930) - Pencil drawing - “Houses, St. Ives”, 4.125ins x 7ins, bears number in pencil to lower right (partially obscured by mount), in silvered frame and glazed £400-600
Provenance: The Redfern Gallery Ltd, 20 Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, Bond Street, London W1, and Hammett Gallery Ltd, 8 Cork Street, London W1 with sale date 9th August 1973, at which time it was purchased by the current vendor
Note: A pencil drawing of the harbour at St. Ives and of a similar size to this example sold at Bonhams (Knightsbridge) on 10th March 2015, lot 117. That also had a provenance to the Redfern Gallery and bore the No 59 to the lower right
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*** Paul Nash (1889-1946) - Lino cut - “Birds”, No. 10 of 25, 3.5ins x 2ins, signed, numbered, titled and dated 1925 in pencil to margins, framed and glazed £300-500
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Robert Pimlott (20th Century British) - Pencil and ink drawings - Collection of portraits and studies of passengers on S.S. City of Canterbury in 1937, various sizes (approximately 34 - unframed and some stuck down) £150-200
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ARR Avinash Chandra (1931-1991) - Ink sketch - Nude study of Mrs Grey, 20ins x 15ins, signed and dated, in metal frame and glazed £500-700
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Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) - Etching - Two shabbily dressed male figures, one with accordion, 6ins x 5ins, signed in pencil outside plate, in ebonised frame and glazed £100-150
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Timothy Thompson (born 1951) - Limited edition coloured print - “The America’s Cup 1987” - “The “Stars & Stripes” (San Diego Yacht Club” defeats “Kookaburra III” (Royal Perth Yacht Club)”, 19.75ins x 27ins, signed by the artist and both skippers of the yachts, (No. 96 of 850), in gilt frame and glazed, and two others - “Resolute” defeats “Shamrock IV” and “Madelaine” defeats “Countess of Dufferin”, each 16ins x 22ins, signed by the artist, all in gilt moulded frames and glazed, and the book - “The Paintings of the America’s Cup 1851-1887” by Ranulf Rayner, with paintings by Thim Thompson, David & Charles, London 1986, with presentation inscription by the artist to flyleaf £200-300
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***Jean Target (1910-1997) - Pastel - “Tamara Toumanova Dance Giselle”, 11.75ins x 9.25ins, signed, in gilt frame and glazed £80-120
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***Aidron Duckworth (1920-2001) - Pastel - Abstract organic forms, 13ins x 8.625ins, apparently unsigned, framed and glazed £60-80
Note: Duckworth was at one time married to the well-known ceramicist and sculptress, Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009), examples of whose work are represented in this sale
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Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (circa 1536-1588) - Coloured engraving - Birdseye view of the City of Canterbury, Kent, decorated with the royal coat of arms, the arms of the City of Canterbury and the arms of the Archbishop, and with four figures to foreground, 11.5ins x 17ins (published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne 1752 - unmounted and unframed) £300-500
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John Speed (1552-1529) - Coloured engraving - “Kent with Her Cities and Earles Described and Observed” - Map of Kent showing plans of Canterbury and Rochester, with seven armorials and Royal coat of arms with supporters to top edge, 14.75ins x 19.75ins, published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, St. Paul’s Churchyard (London) 1676, in ebonised frame and glazed to both sides £200-300
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Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1714-died 1767) - Coloured engraving - “An Accurate Map of the County of Kent divided into its Lathes....”, 20.5ins x 27.5ins, possibly published for the Large English Atlas 1749-1755 or later, in Hogarth frame and glazed £150-200
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Phillip Lea (fl. 1683-1700) - Coloured engraving - Map of the County of Kent decorated with eight armorials and Plan of the City of Canterbury and ornate cartouche, dedicated to John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, 16ins x 21ins, thought to be published for All Shires of England and Wales, circa 1689 (with some slight damage to margins - unmounted and unframed) £150-200
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Jan Jansson (1596-1664) - Coloured engraving - “Cantium Vernacular, Kent” - Map of the County of Kent, 15.25ins x 19.75ins, thought to be published for Atlas Novus, 1646 or later, and Joan Blaeu (1598-1673) - Coloured engraving - Cantium Vernacular, Kent” - Map of the County of Kent with eight armorials to the top margin, 15ins x 21ins, thought to be published for Atlas Novus 1645 (with strengthening to centre fold and some discolouration - both unmounted and unframed) £150-250
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Christopher Greenwood (1786-1855) and John Greenwood (fl. 1821-1840) - Coloured engraving - “Map of the County of Kent from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1819 and 1820”, with a vignette of Canterbury Cathedral, published July 4th 1829, 22.5ins x 27.5ins, in Hogarth frame and glazed £150-200
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Phillip Symonson (fl. 1592-1598) - Coloured engraving - “A New Description of Kent” - Map of the County of Kent with views of Rye and Dover Castle, 20.5ins x 31ins, printed and sold by John Overton, circa 1665 (mounted on board - somewhat damaged, discoloured and worn), William Mount (died 1769) and Thomas Page (died 1762) - Coloured engraving - Sea chart showing the town of Sandwich and part of Kent, 16.5ins x 21ins, published for the English Pilot 1698-1789 (mounted but unframed), and a small selection of other maps of Kent (all unframed), contained in a folder £100-150
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John Norden (1548-1625) - Coloured engraving - “Cantium Quod Nunc Kent” - Map of the County of Kent with index of sixty-four Hundreds to top right corner, 11.5ins x 15ins, engraved by William Kip and possibly published in Camden’s Britannia 1607, in Hogarth frame and glazed to both sides £100-150
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Robert Morden (fl. 1668-1703) - Coloured engraving - “Kent” - Map of the County of Kent showing Hundreds, 13.5ins x 25ins, published for Camden’s Britannia 1695, in ebonised and gilt frame and glazed £80-120
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Robert Morden (fl. 1668-1703) - Coloured engraving - “Kent” - Map of the County showing Hundreds, 13.5ins x 25ins, published for Camden’s Britannia, 1695, and early 19th Century detailed map of Canterbury by Barlow, published circa 1800 - “Plan of the City and Suburbs of Canterbury, AD 1800”, 11.75ins x 15.25ins, and coloured engraving - “A Map of the Hundreds of Boughton Blean....”, 16.5ins x 14.75ins, taken from Edward Hasted History of Kent, 1798, all framed and glazed £120-160
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Thomas Jenner (fl. 1618-1673) and Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) - Coloured engraving “A Mappe of Kent, Southsex, Surrey, Middlesex, Barke and Southampton Shire and the Isle of Wight” (also known as the Quartermaster’s Map), 12ins x 20ins, printed, coloured and sold by John Garrett at The South Entrance of the Royall Exchange in London, 1677-1680 (trimmed to margins - unmounted and unframed) £150-200
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Captain Greenville Collins (17th Century) - Coloured engraving - Sea chart - “The River of Thames from London to the Buoy of the Nore” - large sea chart dedicated to the Master and Wardens of the Trinity House 1688, 23ins x 36.5ins, in Hogarth frame and glazed £200-300
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Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (1696-1779 and 1695-1775) - Pair of coloured engravings - “The North West View of Walmer Castle in the County of Kent” and “The South View of Sandown-Castle in the County of Kent”, each 5.75ins x 13.75ins, in gilt frames and glazed £80-120
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Late 18th Century English School - Three coloured engravings of “The Hundreds of Tenterden, Blackborne, Oxney and Ham”, “Maidstone”, “Middleton alias Milton and of Tenham”, various sizes, all framed and glazed £100-150
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Verney L. Danvers (19th / 20th Century British) - Coloured lithograph - Southern Railway Poster - “Folkestone - The Gem of the Kentish Coast” - Showing the Leas Cliff Hall and the view out to the pier and harbour arm, 40ins x 50ins, published by McCorquodale & Co, London, 1929, framed and glazed £750-1000
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Charles Shepherd (1892- ?) (Known as “Shep”) - Coloured Lithograph - Southern Railway Poster - “Canterbury by Southern Railway” - Showing view of Bell Harry Tower, Canterbury Cathedral, 40ins x 50ins, printed by The Baynard Press, London SW9 1938, in gilt frame and glazed £750-1000
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Walter Thomas (1894-1971) - Coloured lithograph - British Rail Poster - “Holidays on the Continent all the Year Round”, 40ins x 50ins (No. AD.5830/750/22948), printed by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd, London (No. 50412 - circa 1930), in ebonised frame and glazed £450-600
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British Transport Railways Poster - “The London Underground System”, 40ins x 50ins, designed by Harry Beck and published by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London and Dunstable, framed and glazed £250-350
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N.C.R. - Railway Poster - “Dungeness by the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. The World’s Smallest Public Railway”, 40ins x 25ins, printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons Ltd, London, framed and glazed £250-350
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A Railway Poster - “Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. Across the Romney Marsh by the World’s Smallest Public Railway” - With coloured views of Hythe Church and Dymchurch Sands, 38.75ins x 22.25ins, printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd, London WC2, framed and glazed £250-350
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After N. Cramer Roberts - Reprint of poster - “Dungeness by the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, The World’s Smallest Public Railway”, 39ins x 24ins, printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, London WC2, and a small collection of posters of railway interest (mostly unframed) £80-120
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Reginald G. Praill (19th /20th Century) - Coloured lithograph - Southern Railway Poster - “Paris - Cheap 17 Day Tickets - Every Monday and Saturday”, 40ins x 25ins, published by Southern Railway Advertising and printed by Haycock Press, London (Ad. 3249/1000/1936), mounted on linen £300-400
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Swiss Poster - “Electric Railway. Martigny Chatelard Chamonix” - Showing view of the Alps, 39ins x 25ins, framed and glazed £150-200
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William MacDowell (1888-1950) - Poster for the “Cunard White Star Line” - “Queen Mary” - The “Queen Mary” coming into harbour, 22ins x 34.5ins, in ebonised frame and glazed, and Marim-Marie - Poster - “The French Line” - Depicting “S.S. France” - The Longest Liner in the World”, 16.5ins x 23.5ins (slightly faded and with some marks to the surface), in painted frame and glazed £100-150
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Ben Sands was born in 1920 when modern wood engraving was undergoing a renaissance. He attended Willesden School of Art in the 1930s and cut his first woodblock then. After serving in World War II, he enrolled at the Central School of Art in London. In 1960 he moved to Whitstable and established the Shoespring Press, extending his work into linocuts. Several exhibitions have been held locally of his work - at the Whitstable Museum, 28th January to March 2012 and a Retrospective Exhibition at “The Front Room” at The Beaney Museum in Canterbury, 2nd April to 31st March 2015, at which some of these items were exhibited
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*** Ben Sands (born 1920) - Oil painting - London Street Scene with Mother and Pram to foreground, canvas 24ins x 20ins, signed in black (unframed) £150-200
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*** Ben Sands (born 1920) - Two linocuts - “Whitstable Market Stalls” 13.25ins x 12.5ins (No. 1 of edition of 25) signed in pencil and dated 2000, in gilt moulded frame and glazed and “Whitstable Market” 11.25ins x 8.5ins ( No.1 of edition of 30) signed and dated 1990, in moulded frame and glazed £150-200
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*** Ben Sands (born 1920) - Original linocut block “The Wife of Bath” (from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) mounted on board with additional small linocuts, 26.5ins x 24ins and an impression of same printed in red (un-mounted) and one other linocut “The Knight”, 17.5ins x 11.25ins (No.7 of edition of 50) signed in pencil £150-200
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Ben Sands (born 1920) - Poster - “Eastbourne Operatic & Dramatic Society production of “Oliver”, 30ins x 20ins (un-framed) a framed linocut and poem “The Owl and the Pussy Cat” by Edward Lear, 21.5ins x 7ins, three small linocuts - “Riverside”, 3.75ins x 4.75ins, “Fringe Cafe”, oval 4.75ins x 4ins and “Farmhouse”, 4ins x 4.75ins, all signed and framed and glazed, two black and white publicity photographs of the artist’s wife Donna Dea (a Contortionist), a pair of her shoes and a small selection of related material contained in black painted storage box £100-150
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George, Viscount Valentia - “Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806”, printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer & Co, Cleveland Row, St. James, London 1809 (three full leather bound volumes) £1000-1200
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Edgar Allan Poe - “The Bells and Other Poems” with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1912 (one volume - with gilt decorated green cloth binding) £200-250
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Henry Ernest Milner - “The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening”, first edition, published by Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, London, 1890 (green cloth bound volume) £150-200
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W. H. Ireland - “England’s Topographer or A New and Complete History of the County of Kent”, published by G. Virtue, London, 1828-1830 (four volumes in mottled calf leather bindings) £100-150
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Oliver Goldsmith - “The Vicar of Wakefield”, London, John C. Nimmo, 1886 (one full leather bound volume), “A History of the Earthen Animated Nature”, London, Blackie & Son, 1856 (two half leather bound volumes), Louis Figuier - “The Insect World”, London, Chapman & Hall, 1869 (one full leather bound volume, and “The Life and Explorations of Dr. Livingstone” (one full leather bound volume) £200-300
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