17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Grand Tour Interest
Grand Tour Interest, a bound volume containing seven pen and ink cameo drawings including Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion, drawings initialled RPI and dated 1774-1775, 8vo, gilt tooled red calf, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Michael Lord Sandys
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Footnote:The drawings bear a striking resemblance to examples in: Worlidge (Thomas) [(1700-1766)] A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, London: by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £2,800
Grand Tour Interest, a bound volume containing seven pen and ink cameo drawings including Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion, drawings initialled RPI and dated 1774-1775, 8vo, gilt tooled red calf, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Michael Lord Sandys
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
The drawings bear a striking resemblance to examples in: Worlidge (Thomas) [(1700-1766)] A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, London: by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024
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