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Blanche Lindsay [facsimile signature].
[after Kate Perugini] Swan Electro Engraving C.º.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Photogravure on chine collé. 145 x 90mm )5¾ x 3½"). Some spotting.
Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy (1844-1912), wife of Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Baronet, with whom she founded the Grosvenor Gallery, at alternative to the conservative Royal Academy), in 1877. The artist was Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini (1839-1929), daughter of Charles Dickens.
[Ref: 62401] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
William Siemens [facsimile signature].
Rudoph Lehmann pinx. Swan Electric Engraving Co.
[n.d., c.1883.]
Photogravure. 220 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"), very large margins with a sheet of letterpress biography. Slight foxing.
Half-length portrait of Sir Charles William Siemens (originally Karl Wilhelm, 1823-83), electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Godalming in Surrey had the world's first street lighting, powered by a Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill. Rudolf Lehmann's oil, painted in 1882, in in the National Portrait Gallery. NPG 2632.
[Ref: 43389] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
The Old 'Strad'.
Lionel J. Cowen pinx. Swan Electric Engraving Co.
Published by G.L Jefferys & Co 78 Newman Street, Oxford Street, 1894.
Photogravure, very large margins. 570 x 420mm (22½ x 16½").
An old man in his workshop closely examining a Stradivarius violin. The 'Morning Advertiser' announced: ''The Old 'Strad.' An important print from the celebrated picture of a connoisseur inspecting a genuine Stradivarius, by Lionel J. Cowen, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886. The picture has been reproduced in a most admirable manner, in photogravure, by the Swan Electric Engraving Company, of London, and cannot fail to have a ready sale amongst violinists, musical instrument makers, and all who take an interest in thoroughly genuine works of art'.
[Ref: 31229] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
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