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Lot 158
Vickers (V.C.) Drawings for "The Google Book" one in ink, signed with initials and dated 1913, one coloured crayon, the remainder in pencil on tinted paper, slightly frayed at corners, average size 270mm. by 325mm. ***The book, written and illustrated by V.C. Vickers, was first pubished in an edition of 100 copies in 1913. Subjects of this set of drawings are The Great Skull-Headed Stone Trot, (the ink drawing probably a preminary design preceding the pencil drawing), The Little Horn Back, The Little Horn Back, The Ha! Ha!, The Great McDoo or Dewar Bird, The Mirabelle, The Lemon Squeezer, and The Sun Bird (in crayon).
Lot 420
A group of six, including a drawing of a horse at cart at a castle gate, a sketch of the Brighton Hog boat, attributed to E.W. Cooke, a sepia watercolour of Holland Park, an etching of fisherfolk on the shore, a pencil drawing of a head study attributed to Johanna Baptiste Lampi, and a grey wash drawing of a Thames scene attributed to Thomas Creswick. (6)
Lot 1127
* Attributed to Lady Clementina Hawarden. An albumen print titled `Florence Elizabeth Maude` pictured seated in an armchair reading in the drawing room at 5 Princes Gardens, South Kensington c.1860/70. Stuck to paper and inscribed on the reverse in pencil, Taken by Lady Hawarden. 19.5x14cm.
Lot 185
CORNELIUS VARLEY (1781-1873) - Study of two girls seated reading a book, pencil drawing, 10" x 7 1/4". Ex. P & D Colnaghi and Co. "Cornelius Varley Exhibition, March 1973, no. 9"; and two further works to include Coastal Scene with beached rowing boat, grey wash drawing; and River landscape with smoking chimney (3).
Lot 378
Houghton, M. “Views of the China Seas & Macao taken during Capt. D. Ross’ Surveys by M. Houghton. ” A disbound small folio album containing 40 drawings of various sizes, in pencil and pen and ink,many of the latter with sepia or grey/black washes. The drawings vary in size between approximately 3in x 4in to 8in x 14in and they are dated between 1816 and 1819. With the exception of the title page, the drawings are laid down on to the pages of the album and supplied with simple wash line mounts. Many have been cut out (presumably from sketch books) and have contemporary titles; those without titles are captioned beneath in what would appear to be a later hand. * Captain Daniel Ross was sent by the East India Company to Cochin China to survey the Paracel Islands in 1807, he completed charts of the south coast of China in that year and his work continued throughout the next decade or so and his charts were finally published in 1821. The arrangement of the drawings in the album is not chronological and they are most probably a personal selection from a larger body of work. That they were drawn “on the spot” is evidenced by one of the additional notes beneath the drawing of Hysansue Harbour in the Yellow Sea where the name of H. M S. Alceste is noted. The Alceste was the vessel that took Lord Amherst, in 1814, on his Embassy to China in his efforts to help the East India Company’s trading with the Chinese and which was later, whilst on an exploratory voyage in the region, wrecked on a rock in the Java Sea, the crew rescued and the vessel burnt by Malay Dyaks. It is therefore quite possible that both men were on this vessel at some point (this particular drawing is dated 1816). Two of the highlights of the collection are the view of “Singapore from the Rocky Point. 1819” this was the year that Stamford Raffles established a settlement here; and the fine drawing of the “Franciscan Monastery at Macao. ”
Lot 193
Political highly important group of letters and reports from Sir Worden Chilcott to Sir Martin Conway dated October and December 1924 detailing the political intrigue between the Conservative and Liberal parties in manoeuvring the Labour Government of Ramsey MacDonald into accepting the fatal vote of censure on the ‘Campbell Question’. A total of 7 1/2 pp 4to marked ‘Secret’. The group comprises two carbon copies of reports, dated September 20th and October 1st 1924, the first with pencil alteration of date to December 12th, and a typewritten letter from Chilcott to Conway dated December 12th 1924 This is without question the most important group of documents concerning this case to have emerged in recently years, and could add considerable new information on what was one of the most important political issues of the 20th c The background to the ‘Campbell Case’ involved the election in January 1924 of the first Labour Government under Ramsay MacDonald – something which was abhorrent to both Conservatives and the Liberal Party. The Government was short lived. By October 8th the Government was defeated on a Liberal amendment to a Conservative Vote of Censure resulting from the abortive prosecution for sedition on a British Communist called John Campbell. On the following day the Foreign Office was sent a letter dated September 15th apparently written by Grigori Zinoviev, Head of the Russian Propaganda Committee to the British Communist Party urging an armed uprising. This put the final lid on the Labour Government’s coffin. However, the Russians have always insisted that the Zinoviev letter was a fake and the affair has led to bitterness and recrimination ever since. Even as late as 1999 the then Foreign Secretary Robin Cook commissioned a Memorandum on the whole affair drawing on Secret Intelligence Service sources. Many papers relating to the affair are still thought to be in secret files which even in the late 1990s Cook refused to release. The two copy reports are most revealing. Chilcott was special advisor and friend of F E Smith (referred to in the reports as ‘FE’). The two reports in the present lot indicate that Smith coordinated the Conservative and Liberal parties in the manoeuvring which led to the downfall of the Government The second report implicates the activities of Austen Chamberlain, Jack Seely, Lloyd George, F E Smith and the Air Minister Sam Hoare. It also suggests that it was Conway set the whole matter into motion.
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