Lot 230
Theatre--Wyndham, Sir Charles (1837-1919), actor
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
An autograph album compiled by Mrs Wyndham with the signatures, many with quotations by fellow actors and actresses including Henry Irving, Charles and Ellen Kean, Fanny Stirling, Daniel Bandmann, Mary Frances Scott-Siddons, Kate J. Bateman Crowe, Ada Cavendish, J.B. Blackstone, John Lawrence Toole, Charles Neaves, William Charles Macready, Andrew Halliday, musicians and composers including Sir Charles Halle (with 5 bars of music), W.S. Gilbert (with self portrait caricature as Bab), and artists, Henrietta and Edward Ward, Sam Bough (with watercolour study for a picture of Cazow Forest 1851), William Leighton Leitch (with study of a Swiss backdrop for the operetto Maid of Switzerland), Sir Edwin Landseer (with ink sketch, cropped, of Edward Parratt Esq.), William Powell Frith (with ink sketch of a head), Walter Williams (with 2 small ink sketches, one of Mumbles Castle, S. Wales), W. Holman Hunt, George Cruikshank, Keeley Hallswelle (with watercolour sketch of a dead figure), Kenneth Macleay (with sketch of Glen Cloy, Arran, 1864), William McTaggart, Charles Lees, John Hutchison & many others, contemporary red morocco, upper hinge broken, c.1870-1880