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SOUTH AFRICA Collection of approximately 20 views of South Africa, some ascribed to Sir Edward Stanton, and bundle of other watercolours and pencil or ink sketches (including ?Crimea) from a nineteenth century album, [c.1840s-1850s] (small quantity) image 1
SOUTH AFRICA Collection of approximately 20 views of South Africa, some ascribed to Sir Edward Stanton, and bundle of other watercolours and pencil or ink sketches (including ?Crimea) from a nineteenth century album, [c.1840s-1850s] (small quantity) image 2
SOUTH AFRICA Collection of approximately 20 views of South Africa, some ascribed to Sir Edward Stanton, and bundle of other watercolours and pencil or ink sketches (including ?Crimea) from a nineteenth century album, [c.1840s-1850s] (small quantity) image 3
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SOUTH AFRICA
Collection of approximately 20 views of South Africa, some ascribed to Sir Edward Stanton, and bundle of other watercolours and pencil or ink sketches (including ?Crimea) from a nineteenth century album, [c.1840s-1850s] (small quantity)

7 February 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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SOUTH AFRICA

Collection of approximately 20 views of South Africa, some ascribed to Sir Edward Stanton, and bundle of other watercolours and pencil or ink sketches (including ?Crimea) from a nineteenth century album, together approximately 37 images, mostly tipped onto old album leaves one or 2 per page, including 13 large watercolour or coloured pencil views (c.230 x 265mm.), 15 pencil views (some with wash, most c.90 x 180mm.), [c.1840s-1850s] (small quantity)

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South Africa scenes include good watercolour views of Karloof falls, falls on the ?Umgeni river, three Zulu men in a landscape; coloured pencil views of Umlass, Natal including the river and river mouth, titled and dated "Umlass July 29, [18]51"; pencil views (some heightened in white) include "at Ebb and Flow Drift, Great Dei River, Feb. 7th, 1848", the old barracks at in Natal, houses at "Chatsworth, Natal", and "Stanton Park, South Africa", and studies of a soldier of the Cape Mounted Rifles, and "Charge of a wounded buffalo". Others watercolour scenes include "Gulf of Nicoya" and an encampment and battle scene (perhaps Crimea), and other landscapes (an old pencil annotation suggesting one is Abyssinia).

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