Early British Drawings, Watercolours and Portrait Miniatures

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Lot 139
  • 139

Charles G. Danford

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Charles G. Danford
  • An album of drawings and watercolours

  • most signed and dated between 1860 and 1890

  • approximately four hundred and thirty-seven, most watercolour over pencil, twelve pen and black ink, eleven pencil, and seven etchings

  • various sizes


including views in: Hungary; England; France; Germany; the Czech Republic; Scotland; Styria (modern day Austria); Wales; Transylvania and elsewhere

Catalogue Note

Charles G. Danford (fl. 1870s-1890s) was born in Scotland. He was an accomplished artist, sportsman and ornithologist. Elected as a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1874, during his lifetime he travelled extensively in the Near East and Europe. A second album of watercolours and prints by Danford, mainly depicting views of Turkey, Greece and the Balkans, was sold in these Rooms on the 13th November 2008, lot 77 for £38,000.