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C.H.Cameron [facsimile signature].
C.H.Cameron [facsimile signature]. Atheneum Portraits N.o. 35.
W.D. Lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs.
London, Pub.d. May 1836, by T. M.c.Lean 26 Haymarket.
Lithograph. On India. Plate: 200 x 280mm, (8 x 11"). Large margins. Some paper toning to edges. Some small fox marks.
Half portrait of Charles Hay Cameron (1795-1880) a jurist who was married to the celebrated photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. A man of cultivated intellect Cameron was friends with many prominent men of the time, inlcuding Sir Henry Taylor and Alfred Tennyson who his wife photographed.
[Ref: 35347]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Céline Céleste-Elliott] Celeste. as the Arab Boy.
[Céline Céleste-Elliott] Celeste. as the Arab Boy. A Sketch by William Drummond.
WDrummond.
[London, Published Jan.y 12.th 1838. by Tho.s Mc.Lean, Haymarket.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Framed, visible area 425 x 300mm (16¾ x 11¾"). Spotting, repair in sky. Window mounted around title. Unexamined out of frame.
A full length portrait of Madame Céleste-Elliott as Hamet, playing an oud. Behind is a tent and the Spanish city of Constantina on a rocky outcrop. This is the opening scene of 'Victoire; or, The Fall of Constantina', a military drama performed at the Adelphi theatre in 1837, in which Céleste played three parts: Hamet, a dumb Arab boy, Victoire and Henri St. Almo, a French spy.. Céline Céleste-Elliott (1815-1882) was a Parisian dancer and actress who had success in London and toured America four times. About the time this portrait was published she retired from performing, becoming a theatre manager (including of London's Adelpi, Lyceum and Olympic), although she made several 'comebacks'.
[Ref: 57295]   £550.00  
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Vauxhall Gardens. A Hint to the Ladies. [Collection of Heads by W.D.]
Vauxhall Gardens. A Hint to the Ladies. [Collection of Heads by W.D.]
WD [William Drummond].
London: Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, August 15, 1833. Maguire & Co, lith, 9 Brydges Street, Covent Garden.
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring. Sheet 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾" Some cockling of paper at corners.
Two young women sitting on a park bench, one looking over her shoulder at the viewer. The 'hint' is that their skirts were raised by the bench so that they were showing their calves. One of a series of characters, Collection of Heads by W.D., some real and some fictional, by William Drummond (1800-1849, fl.).
See Ref: 60556
[Ref: 60585]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Moon Serenely Shines.
The Moon Serenely Shines.
W. Drummond. G.T. Payne.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 370 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A woman in Eastern dress, holding a lyre, reclines by a window through which the moon shines.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64906]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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One, Two and Three.
One, Two and Three.
Designed & drawn on Stone by W.S. Drummond.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, sheet 225 x 165mm. 8¾ x 6½". Sheet trimmed slightly.
A young schoolboy sitting outside a building in a landscape training his collie dog; books resting open on the ground below, hat to right. By painter, illustrator and lithographer William Drummond (British, 1826 - 1849; fl.c.).
[Ref: 19471]   £35.00   (£42.00 incl.VAT)
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William Tell.
William Tell. Collection of Heads by W.D. No 21
London: Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, Printed by Maguire, Lemercier, & Co. [n.d., c.1830]
Lithograph with hand-colouring, printed area 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Very fine colour.
The legendary Swiss patriot William Tell. Tell famously shot an apple from his son's head when, according to legend, the tyrant Albrecht Gessler gave him the choice between doing so and being executed. Tell subsequently employed his marksmanship to assassinate Gessler. The rebellion against ruling power that this represented was the impetus for the nascent Swiss Confederation. One of a a series of characters, some real and some fictional, by William Drummond (1800-1849, fl.).
[Ref: 37660]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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