Watercolours, sketches and photographs
19th century portfolio, including West Indies and North America interest
£1,260
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
contents include:
'Sketch of the Soufriere Mountain, Island of St Vincent, By Lieut Rob[er]t Hor[ati]o Minty, 1st W.I.R.', watercolour, 46 x 60cm, a few tears around edge, with an accompanying manuscript note in pencil on a single bifolium, including an additional diagram;
Panorama probably of Niagara Falls, watercolour, on 2 sheets, backed on linen, 21 x 105cm, some chipping to extremities;
7 further watercolour views of various landscapes;
'Falls of Nagara and country around from the grand bank, June 1815', pencil and grey wash, on 2 sheets, 21 x 147cm, chipped, a few spots, adhesive staining where sheets conjoined;
12 additional pencil sketches including 'Vale of Festiniog', 'Pont Aberglaslyn, North Wales, August 1806', 'Loch Ness, August 1803', 'Carnarvon Castle, August 1806', 'Loch Lomond, August 1804';
9 albumen print photographs including views in Caithness and of steam engines;
together with an oblong folio photograph album containing 28 albumen print photographs, c.1880, 20 x 27cm, mainly studio photographs of Algiers and environs, and ethnographic 'types', also naval interest (HMS Victory, Golden Jubilee review at Spithead, 1887), 2 group portraits of a Scottish army regiment, etc.
Footnote
Note: Robert Horatio Minty of the 1st West India Regiment of Foot (gazetted captain 6th December 1844) was the father of Robert Horatio George Minty (1831-1906), who was commissioned into the regiment in 1848 and subsequently emigrated to the United States, serving with distinction as a cavalry officer in the Union army in the American Civil War, and later achieving pre-eminence as a railroad executive.