China, the Mediterranean and elsewhere--Stoddart, Captain James and others.

Oblong folio (335 x 460mm.), 34 watercolours on paper (20 individually mounted, each approximately 260 x 360mm.; 14 mounted in pairs, each approximately 180 x 255mm., or the reverse), by J. Stoddart, F.W. Turton, W. Markham, and Beresford, mounted on 24 sheets, recto only, and one 4-part folding panorama of Naples on paper backed on linen mounted on the lower pastedown, 2 nineteenth-century lists (one in pencil, one in ink) of the watercolours loosely inserted, nineteenth-century green morocco, spine with raised bands gilt, gilt ruled border to sides, gilt edges, a little scattered spotting, binding rather rubbed

Admiral Sir William Parker, first baronet (1781-1866), see also lots 101 and 102; thence by descent to the present owner

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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A fine collection of topographical watercolours, from the library of Admiral Sir William Parker, comprising 26 views by Captain James Stoddart R.N. in China (7), Greece (5), Cyprus (3), Egypt (3), North Africa (3), Gibraltar, Albania, Sicily, Ascension Island, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope; one view of Navarino by F.W. Turton, 6 views in Turkey and Greece by W. Markham and a view of Corfu by Mr Beresford. At the end of the album is a 4-part folding panorama showing the fortifications of Naples from the Bay dated 15th October 1848. Stoddart was an accomplished amateur artist and many of his drawings of Hong Kong and China were engraved for publication in Thomas Allom's China Illustrated (London, 1845)

The watercolours are listed in ink and pencil on two sheets of paper loosely inserted in the album as follows:

The following by Captain Stoddart:
1. Gibraltar
2. View in China
3. Hydra from Spezzia
4. Carthage
5. Algiers
6. Fort Aboukir, Nelson's Island
7. Fleet at Salamis
8. Bay of Salamis
9. Cathedral, Famagousti, Cyrpus
10. Town of Famagousti, Cyprus
11. Tower at Polessi, Cyprus
12. Church at Patras
13. Palermo from Iova
14. Cairo from the Great Pyramid
15. Tangiers from Ambercenze
16. Babunto, Albania
17. Athens, sketch from Sipso
18. Isle of Ascension
19. Port Louis, Mauritius
20. Admiral's House, Symonds Bay, Cape of Good Hope
21. Silver Island, Yean-Tze Kean, China
22. Dog Island
23. Woosung, attack on Batteries
24. Porcelain Tower
25. Valley of Chusan, Silver Isle in distance
26. Golden Island
The following by W. Markham
27. Navarino
The following by F.W. Turton:
28. Castle of Europa, Dardenelles
29. Bosphorus, Mount Ida
30. Athens
31. Marathon, from Mt. Pentelicus
32. Scutari frmo Turkish burial ground
33. Temple of Sunium
The following by Mr Beresford:
34. Benizzi, Corfu
The following by Mr Alexander:
35. Naples, with the Fortifications, in four parts, sketched from the Bay, 1848