Lot 27
  • 27

William Strutt

Estimate
18,000 - 28,000 AUD
bidding is closed

Description

  • William Strutt
  • FOLIO OF DRAWINGS
  • Various mediums of watercolour, ink and pencil on paper

Condition

The drawings have paper mounts and are all included in a brown faux leather album. All works appear in good stable condition.
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Catalogue Note

LIMITED LIABILITY
Signed William Strutt (lower left); inscribed with title (upper right)
13.7 by 14.3cm

PROVENANCE
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

NEWSPAPER BOY
Signed William Strutt (lower left); inscribed with title (lower centre)
11.9 by 15.4cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

RENAISSANCE RIDER AND HIS SQUIRES
Signed William Strutt. (lower left)
15.6 by 25.3cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY
Inscribed with title
20.9 by 18.6cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

OLD OAK
Signed William Strutt (lower left)
15.2 by 10.3cm

PROVENANCE
The artist
By descent to his grand-daughter, Margaret Strutt-Davies (bears authentication on label on reverse)

HOSANNA
Signed Wm Strutt invt. (lower left); inscribed with title (lower centre)
29 by 33cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

LITTLE SAMUEL AND HIS KID (STUDY FOR 'THE BOY SAMUEL AMID THE OFFERINGS AT THE TABERNACLE', 1872)
Inscribed with title (lower centre)
27 by 17.5cm

PROVENANCE
Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
Purchased from the above in 1991

SUFFER THE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME
13.5 by 11.3cm

PROVENANCE
Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
Purchased from the above in 1991

APPLE BLOSSOM
Inscribed with title and dated May 21st 1887 (lower right)
17.5 by 26.8cm

PROVENANCE
Private collection, New South Wales
Sotheby's Chester, March 1991 (part of collection of works by William Strutt and Alfred William Strutt)
Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
Purchased from the above in 1991

STUDY: BLACKBERRIES AND AUTUMN LEAVES
Inscribed indistinctly (upper left centre)
15.3 by 24.8cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1991

ANTELOPE
Inscribed Oryx Bieca (lower left)
12.5 by 17.8cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

EQUINE ANTLOPE
Inscribed with title (lower centre)
19 by 15.8cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

STUDY: GNU
Dated Oct 22nd/97 (lower left
12.8 by 18.3cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

STUDY FOR 'SENTINELS OF EMPIRE'
SIgned and dated William Strutt / April 12 1901 / & 17th (lower right
17.3 by 19.4cm

PROVENANCE
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

STUDY: DEER
Inscribed T / 73 (lower left)
16.3 by 26.5cm

PROVENANCE
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

TIGER AND CROCODILE
Inscribed with title (lower left)
20 by 28cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

STUDY OF A RIDER (STUDY FOR 'A PILGRIMAGE TO CANTERBURY IN THE 14TH CENTURY')
19.3 by 12cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1985

STUDIES OF DIAMOND AND RATTLE SNAKES
Inscribed Diamond Snak, N. S. Wales and Rattle Snake, N. America (lower left)
12 by 19.3cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1985

ARCTIC FOX
Inscribed with title and dated Nov 1877 (lower centre)
18.6 by 15.5cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1985

JESTER AND A MAN OF LETTERS (STUDY FOR 'A PILGRIMAGE TO CANTERBURY IN THE 14TH CENTURY')
13.1 by 19.5cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1985

STUDY: SHEEP
Signed W Strutt (lower left)
17.4 by 25cm

PROVENANCE
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

ANTELOPE AND BUFFALO
17.5 by 27cm

PROVENANCE
The artist
By descent to Miss Clark
Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
Purchased from the above in 1985

GAZELLE. EGYPT
Inscribed with title (lower left)
9.8 by 17.9cm

CALF FEEDING
11 by 20cm

GAZELLE
Inscribed with title (lower right)
17 by 16.4cm

GAZELLE
Inscribed with title (lower right)
17 by 16.4cm

GAZELLE
Inscribed with title (lower right)
15.8 by 12.5cm

ANTELOPES
Inscribed with title (lower left); dated 1889 (lower right
17.3 by 26.5cm

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1985

NUBIANS ON DROMEDARIES
Inscribed with title (lower centre); dated July. 1878 (lower right)
27.9 by 21cm

PROVENANCE
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 8 November 1978, lot 1094
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

HORSE IN LANDSCAPE
Bears authentication signed by Margaret Strutt-Davies on reverse
7.7 by 15.3cm

CALF IN ESSEX
Signed and dated Wm Strutt 1843 (lower right); inscribed with title (lower left)

PROVENANCE
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 24 May 1978, lot 346
Toorak Auction's, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1985

ANTELOPE
7.2 by 17.1cm

TOMSONS ANTELOPE
Bears title lower centre
9 by 14.6cm

LEWES STOCKS
Inscribed for relative proportions and dated August 1889 (lower left)
16.8 by 26.5cm

PROVENANCE
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

THE FIGHT FOR THE STANDARD
Signed W. Strutt( lower right)

PROVENANCE
Crawford Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

COPPER BUSH
Inscribed with title (lower left); dated Sept. 22 / 77 (lower right)
19.6 by 20cm

STUDY OF LEAVES
16.4 by 22.6cm

Executed circa 1874

PROVENANCE
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1984

EXHIBITED
William Strutt, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 February - 12 July 1981, cat. 50

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