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MISCELLANY - E. R. PENNELL (1855-1936) & J. PENNELL (1857-1926).  The Life of James McNeill Whistler. London: William Heinemann, [November] 1908. 2 volumes, 4to (255 x 195mm). Half titles, 2 etched…

MISCELLANY - [LOCH, Catharine Grace (1854-1904)].  The Foreign Tour of the Misses Brown and Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw & Did at Biarritz & The Pyrenees by Mrs Brown. London…

ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-98).  Illyricum. [Antwerp:] 1572 [or later]. Hand-coloured engraved map of the western Balkans, based on that of Johann Sambucus, including modern-day Slovenia, Croatia,…

PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (c.1748-1817).  A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte…

[PYNE, James Baker (1800-70).  The English Lake District. London: Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1853]. Folio (625 x 445mm). 24 plates lithographed by William Gauci after James Baker Pyne, the plate of…

QUEEN ELIZABETH II (1926-2022) - [Printed label on the upper cover of the order book:] "Hardy Amies Ltd. 14 Savile Row, W1." With the Royal Coat-of-Arms and "By Appointment Her Majesty The Queen…

SANSOVINO, Francesco (1521-83).  Historia Universale dell' Origine, et Imperio de' Turchi ... Et riformata in molte sue parti per ordine della Santa Inquisitione. Nella quale si contengeno le leggi,…

SUFFRAGETTES - Helen BLACKBURN (1842-1903).  Women's Suffrage. A Record of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the British Isles with Biographical Sketches of Miss Becker. London: Williams & Norgate,…

TARTAGLIA, Nicolo (c.1499-1557).  La Nova Scientia ... con una gionta al terzo Libro. Venice: [no publisher], 1558. Full-page woodcut allegorical illustration on the title, woodcut illustrations,…

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66).  Remote People. London: Duckworth, 1931. 8vo (220 x 140mm). Half title, monochrome frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 6 plates. Original burgundy buckram, the spine lettered in…

WILLIAM, Alexander, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Lord Lindsay (1812-80).  The Creed of Japhet, that is of the Race Popularly Surnamed Indo-Germanic or Aryan, as held Before the Period of its…

Provenance: Estate of the Late Michael Leonard (1933-2023), who used these for inspiration with his highly detailed ''Portraits in Time’ series. 

Catalogue NoteArguably, 16 December 1921 is one of the most auspicious dates in British history. On that Friday, the Irish Treaty passed from the Commons to the House of Lords for ratification. …

Condition reportThe card/board has bowed outwards slightly; minor surface dirt/scuffing to paint surface, in the sky, lower left and some further; framed and under glass, unexamined out of frame…

Saleroom NoticePlease note this work is by Fritz Kramer (Austrian, 1905-1969), not by Jacob Kramer, as previously catalogued.

Condition reportAcidic mount.Some discolouration/yellowing, mostly to borders/margins.Otherwise appears generally good and colours appear strong.Under glass and not examined out of frame.

Condition reportAcidic mount.A little discolouration/yellowing to borders/margins.Otherwise appears generally good and colours appear strong.Under glass and not examined out of frame.

Condition reportA very few small spots of foxing and small pale brown marks and spots.A little discolouration/yellowing to extreme edges.A little undulation to paper.Otherwise appears generally good…

Condition reportAbrasion to lower right (on figure's standing leg) on paper but could be original to work.A few mist coloured spots and marks but could be original to work.Otherwise appears generally…

Condition reportSmall water marks in places.Some small spots and marks and a little foxing.Under glass and not examined out of frame.

Condition reportUndulation to paper/card.Various small cracks and associated paint loss.Other areas of paint loss, for example to lower right and left corner.Other small marks, spots and abrasions…

FootnoteJean 'Yanko' Varda was a Turkish born American artist of mixed Greek and French descent. At the age of 19 he moved to Paris where he met Picasso and Braque, before moving to London during the…