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Lot 143
  • 143

John Glover and others

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 AUD
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Description

  • John Glover and others
  • (COMMONPLACE BOOK)

  • Unless otherwise specified, texts (poems) are inscribed directly on bound sheets; pictorial material is (cut and) pasted down

    Loose sheets
    fashion plate lithograph by L. Mansion
    etching c. 1600: Dance of death
    poem: 'Cock Robin'
    Inside cover 
    engraving: putti with view of London behind
    f1r 
    wash drawing attrib. John Glover: studies of birds, inc. peacock and turkey
    ink drawing of crested bird
    watercolour sketch: shepherd
    five engravings
    f1v
    chromolithograph: landscape
    f2r
    poem: 'Night'
    f2v
    watercolour: posy of flowers
    f3r
    poem: 'The glowworm'
    f3v
    (blank)
    f4r
    poem: 'To the clouds'
    f4v
    two engravings
    f5r
    poem: 'The stag'
    f5v
    poem: 'The stag' (cont.)
    f6r
    poem: 'The stag' (cont.)
    f6v
    (blank)
    f7r
    poem: 'The stag' (cont.)
    f7v
    poem: 'To a friend about to marry a second time'
    inserted sheet - f8r
    (blank)
    inserted sheet - f8v
    two engravings
    f9r
    poem: 'Spring'
    f9v
    (blank)
    f10r
    ink drawing attrib. John Glover: Cormorant
    f10v
    ink and wash drawing by John Richardson Glover: landscape
    f11r
    poem: 'Spring' (cont.)
    f11v
    poem: 'Spring' (cont.)
    watercolour attrib. John Glover: woman on a rocky shore
    f12r
    poem: 'At a convent'
    f12v
    watercolour: flowers
    f13r
    poem: 'Woman's love'
    f13v
    five engravings
    f14r
    poem: 'The Giaour'
    f14v
    (attachment removed. Page inscribed 'Miss Mary Parker')
    f15r
    text: 'The old maid's thermometer'
    f15v
    text: 'The old maid's thermometer' (cont.)
    f16r
    etching signed CL (Charles Robert Leslie?) and titled ,in plate: Glover (portrait of John Glover)
    f16v
    ink and wash drawing by John Glover: country cottage
    engraving
    f17r
    ink and wash drawing by John Glover: woman and children in interior
    f17v
    poem pasted in: 'He who hath bent him o'er the dead...'
    f18r
    watercolour: rose
    f18v
    etching: wooded landscape with bridge
    etching by John Glover (signed in plate): garden with house and pavilion
    f19r
    poem: 'The withered leaf'
    f19v
    poem: 'The withered leaf' (cont.)
    f20r
    poem: 'The withered leaf' (cont.)
    poem: 'To Mary'
    f20v
    poem: 'To Mary' (cont.)
    Wash drawing by John Glover: mountain landscape with cottage
    f21r
    etching: figures in a mountain stream
    etching: coastal landscape with ruined tower
    f21v
    poem: 'The change'
    f22r
    poem: 'The change' (cont.)
    f22v
    wash drawing, circle of John Glover: Fountains Abbey
    f23r
    poem: 'The female convict'
    f23v
    poem: 'The female convict' (cont.)
    f24r
    poem: 'The female convict' (cont.)
    poem: A peri's parting strain'
    f24v
    poem: 'To Miss – '
    f25r
    ink and wash drawing attrib. John Glover: old barge
    ink and wash drawing by John Glover: cattle and figures in landscape
    f25v
    watercolour: buttercups
    f26r
    poem: 'For Miss – '
    f26v
    etching: landscape with riverbank and classical ruins
    f27r
    poem' 'Lines on the death of a friend'
    f27v
    poem' 'Lines on the death of a friend' (cont.)
    f28r
    poem: 'Addressed to some young ladies on the death of their mother'
    f28v
    poem: 'The (?) of the slighted'
    f29r
    pencil drawing: bull's head
    f29v
    poem: 'The transformation'

  • Executed circa 1820s and later

Provenance

The artist
His daughter, Mary Bowles; thence by descent
Private collection, United Kingdom

Condition

Condition fair overall. Covers worn/scuffed. Binding fully intact. Extensive but minor stains, creases, tears and rubbing throughout.
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Catalogue Note

Believed by the family to have been the scrapbook of Mary Bowles (née Glover), this leather-bound volume of 29 leaves and three loose sheets contains:
- 17 drawings and watercolours, including at least seven by Mary's father John Glover and one by her half-brother John Richardson Glover
- seven original etchings, including at least one by John Glover1 and a portrait of Glover by 'O.L.'
- eleven engravings and lithographs
- transcriptions of 21 poems.

1. This print is signed in the plate; a copy is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia