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Lot 41
41. Photographs.- Co l l e C t i o n o f p h o t o g r a p h s, including: George
Henry Strutt (cotton manufacturer and philanthropist, 1826-95) &
his son, George Herbert Strutt (cotton mill owner and philanthropist,
1854-1928) and family, of Belper, Derbyshire; the Bridson family
(Greta Bridson), Lily Severn (relation of John Ruskin), Beyers
Wood House, Windermere, North West Frontier, New Zealand
(North Island), Scotland (Culloden Ballater etc.), the Isle of Wight
(the Needles etc.), England (Bodmin Moor, Chichester, Glastonbury
etc), Wales (Conwy Castle and Bridge), the Normandy invasion,
family portraits etc. numerous photographs, some in albums, many
loose, v.s., v.d., 1861-1944 (lge qty). £300 - £400
Lot 43
Lot 42
42. Swinburne (Algernon Charles, poet and literary critic, 1837-
1909) au t o g r a p h le t t e r s i g n e d to to h i s s i s t e r al i C e, “my d e a r e s t
al ly ”, 4pp., 8vo, Tintagel, 26th October [1864], where he has just
finished writing Atlanta, containing a lyrical description of his
surroundings, “... the two or three days that I have got out this week
I have come upon the most delicious clefts & coves... between the
capes & headlands the small narrowing bays heaved without room
for a wave to break, our broad back of green with wide shifting
spaces esplashed of level foam thrown all about it & clear sunlight
overhead & violent wind running up chines & gullies of rock, &
the grass waving & blowing over the edge of the cliff... you stand
out on a headland with deep sea in front & to right & to left &
nothing before you but as it were the hidden end of a green field”,
explaining that he is “still quite disabled & closely confined & very
worse still more dull”, having sustained an injury to his foot, but had
the winter not set in he would stay and enjoy the sea air rather than
return to London, “as I am doubtless a wrecked pig in appearance &
reality”, and regretting having imposed upon and delayed his host
and companion, the painter J.W. Inchbold, folds, browned.
£1,000 - £1,200
*** “... in August [1864], Swinburne joined his friend John William
Inchbold, the Leeds-born painter, in Tintagel, north Cornwall,
until November. While in Cornwall Swinburne finished Atlanta in
Calydon and wrote an elegy for Landor when news reached him of
Landor’s death that September.” - Oxford DNB.
Only one letter from Swinburne’s stay in Tintagel in 1864 is printed by
Cecil Y. Lang, The Swinburne Letters, vol. I, 1959 (to Mary Gordon).
43. Palmer (Samuel, landscape painter and writer, 1805-81)
au t o g r a p h le t t e r s i g n e d to le o n a r d ro w e va l p y, 4pp., 8vo,
Furze Hill House, Red Hill, 11th December 1866, expressing great
pleasure that Valpy has perceived what he is striving for in a picture,
“it always makes a painter purr to find that a critic whose judgment
he esteems has detected in his picture the latent motive, and if you
felt that those weather beaten stones looked ‘legendary’ then I
feel rewarded for much study spent in aiming at it”, responding to
Valpy’s enquiry about a drawing of his of Tintagel, “I fancied when
it went away that it was one of my best drawings but they say people
are no judge of their own drawings”, discussing Milton’s supposed
preference for Paradise Regained to Paradise Lost, mentioning the
death of Toynbee and giving news of his wife’s health, remains of
former hinge attached, folds. £800 - £1,200
*** Leonard Valpy (1825-84), Ruskin’s solicitor and art collector.
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