Lot 165
  • 165

Winterhalter, Book of Drawings

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • twenty two sheets from a sketchbook, with forty-one studies, ten full watercolour, twenty one coloured wash, the rest pencil, some inscribed and dated (18)55 or (18)56., some numbered, with a letter written by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1784-1848), all bound in green leather boards, inscribed:  WINTERHALTER/CROQUIS ANGLAIS/1855-1856
An album of sketchbook drawings, including a boatman at Dunkirk; cattle at Worlingham, Surrey; a mariner at the wheel; studies of gentlemen in Pall Mall; at Christie's; judges at Westminster Hall; studies of gentlemen; studies of Mr Manson and others; studies of gentlemen viewing; studies of horses; studies of a Lady reading, a gentleman and part of a street map; Pèpè, a child asleep on the sofa; study of religious folk; a boy drummer in London; figures in historical costume; studies of a blue coat boy and others; a fire on a Thames bridge; studies of gentlemen outside a porch; the same; a study at Tattersalls; face studies, including Albert Edward Prince of Wales inscribed:  Prince de/Galles; a profile study; watercolour study of a Box, inscribed:  May.55./Her Majesty's/La Traviata; watercolour study of the Infant School, Sevenoaks of Kent...56; a farm cottage in Worlingham; Dock leaves on Godalming Common, Kent, June 56; watercolour view of Penshurst, Kent, June 56; figure studies; watercolour study at St Thomas Charterhouse School; further pencil study; watercolour study of Worlingham; study in Richmond Park; study of an Inn; figure studies, including Lord Divine; study of a sail barge at Westminster bridge.