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Ruins of Dryburgh Priory on the banks of the Tweed.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 105 x 150mm (4 x 6"), mounted on album paper at corners with ink mss. title.
A fine sketch of Dryburgh Abbey.
[Ref: 62818] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Friars-Carse Hermitage. Where Burns wrote several of his Poems.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Ink and wash sketch. Sheet 165 x 135mm (6½ x 5¼"), laid on album paper top and bottom with ink mss. verse.
A sketch of the Hermitage, a folly built by Captain Robert Riddell, a friend of Robert Burns. The poet was allowed to use the building to write in seclusion. The lines written underneath are the first two verses of Burns' ''Written In Friars' Carse Hermitage'', which he inscribed on a window pane of the cottage using a diamond point pen. The pane is now in the Ellisland Farm Museum, which is dedicated to Burns and his attempt to be a farmer.
[Ref: 62817] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Inside of the Chapel Royal of Holyroodhouse.
Wyck Delin.t. P. Mazell Sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1760]
Engraving, plate 415 x 485mm (16¼ x 19). Small margins. Small tears going into plate but not into image top and bottom. Central crease
An interior view of Holyrood Palace with its high vaulted ceiling, stone columns and throne at the end of the hall.
[Ref: 62935] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Thomas Osborne] Charles Edward Stuart. Engraved by E. Scriven from an original painting [...] now in the possession of M.r G A WIlliams, Librarian, Cheltenham.
[After Hans Hysing.]
Published Oct.r 1st 1830, by Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple and etching, on chine collé. 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"), with large margins. Backing sheet toned.
A full length portrait of a young man in tartan coat and trousers, with broadsword and horn on his belt, a pistol, targe and dirk on the ground. Although the print identifies him as Charles Edward Stuart (1720-88, the 'Young Pretender'), it is in fact Thomas Osborne (1713-89), Earl of Danby, later 4th Duke of Leeds and 3rd Viscount Dunblane. The painting, the property of the 10th Duke of Leeds, was sold at Christies in 2005.
[Ref: 63183] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
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