[PRE-RAPHAELITES]. Catalogue of artistic & literary property connected with Rossetti, Swinburne, Ford Madox Brown, etc., removed from "The Pines", 11 Putney Hill (the home of A.C. Swinburne and Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton)
Published by Sotheby's, London, 1939
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used





Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC, Lockhart, TX, U.S.A.Michael Laird Rare Books LLC
AbeBooks seller since May 4, 2006
Condition: Used - Very good
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Large 8vo. 21 pp., 82 lots. Illustrated issue, complete with 5 plates not found in ordinary issues. Original printed wrapper (to the upper cover is affixed Maggs Bros. label soliciting bids). Loosely inserted is a reproduction of the price-list and buyers' names. IMPORTANT BUT LITTLE-KNOWN SALE CATALOGUE OF PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING TO SWINBURNE AND TO ROSSETTI'S FRIEND AND FORMER ASSISTANT, WATTS-DUNTON. The full title of the catalogue shows that the sale contained "important drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a self- portrait by Ford Madox Ford, drawings of Rossetti and his house in Cheyne Walk by Henry Treffrey Dunn; an extensive and interesting autograph correspondence from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to his studio assistant, H. Treffry Dunn; H. Treffry Dunn's autograph ms. "Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle"; an unrecorded proof of a Byron engraving presented to Watts-Dunton by Swinburne; old master paintings and Whistler etchings; Swinburne's cherished bronze of Victor Hugo; furniture and works of art, including mirrors and a cabinet painted by Dunn with copies from Rossetti's works, some now lost; signed and presentation books, photographs and relics." Jorge L. Contreras explains: "Rossetti met Theodore Watts-Dunton, a solicitor, poet and critic, in the autumn of 1872, when the artist returned to London following a brief convalescence in Scotland. [.] By 1876-77, Watts-Dunton was among Rossetti's closest friends and companions." Watts-Dunton was also Rossetti's studio assistant. -- SOURCE: "Re-identification of Picture for a Story by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) and Henry Treffry Dunn (1838-99)" in: British Art Journal (Autumn 2012), Vol. 13, Issue 2. Our copy belongs to the greatly superior "Illustrated issue," with 5 plates not found in ordinary issues. We have seen various digitized versions, and in all of them the scans of the illustrations are ABYSMAL.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- [PRE-RAPHAELITES]. Catalogue of artistic & literary property connected with Rossetti, Swinburne, Ford Madox Brown, etc., removed from "The Pines", 11 Putney Hill (the home of A.C. Swinburne and Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton)
- Author
- Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore (former owner)
- Publisher
- Sotheby's, London
- Publication year
- 1939
- Condition
- Very good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Art and Design
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