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Welsh Costumes No 5. [Coming from Church.]
Welsh Costumes No 5. [Coming from Church.]
[after Richard Dadd?]
Lithographed and Published by Newman & Co, 48 Watling St., London.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 12") with large margins.
A Welsh congregation leaving church, apparently after a wedding, both men and women wearing the 'stove-pipe' Welsh hat popular in north-west Wales. A watercolour of this scene in the National Library of Wales has been attributed to Richard Dadd (1817-86), famed for his paintings of fairy scenes and for killing his father, an act that resulted in him being sent to Broadmoor mental hospital.
See NLW PB07218 for the watercolour.
[Ref: 46335]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Frontispiece. Genius of the Fairies, Invoking the aid of Imagination.
Frontispiece. Genius of the Fairies, Invoking the aid of Imagination.
Dadd del.t. Angus sculp.
[London: William Lane, 1788 or 1794.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on left, binding notches on right.
A winged female figure sits with a book. The frontispiece to the rare 'Fairy Tales, Selected from the Best Authors'.
[Ref: 62516]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Ladies' Hockey.]
[Ladies' Hockey.]
[after Stephen T. Dadd.]
[n.d., 1902.]
Photolithograph. Sheet 205 x 300mm (8 x 12"), mounted on original green backing paper, with sheet of descriptive text.
From B.F. Robinson's 'Sporting Pictures', 1902. The text insists that the ladies 'must see to it that their skirts are of sufficient shortness'. A rare early hockey match image. Stephen T Dadd (1879-1914).
[Ref: 40253]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Hockey at Surbiton [titled in pencil on reverse].
Hockey at Surbiton [titled in pencil on reverse].
[n.d., c.1910.]
Four rare pen and ink sketches of hockey; two on main sheet, two stock on. Sheet 235 x 315mm (9¼ x 12¼").
A varsity hockey match between Oxford and Cambridge. The scenes are titled in ink: 'At the Start Cambridge Come Away with a Rush'; 'McCorkell Stops an Oxford Rush'; 'Bomford Saves Finely'; & 'Sorry' (in which a Cambridge player trips an opponant with his stick). Stephen T Dadd (1879-1914) often worked for the 'Illustrated London News' published 25/2/1904.
[Ref: 58845]   £320.00  
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