Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Jewellery

Live Auction, 15 March 2010

Part I - Paintings, Sculpture and Prints
  • William Timlin; Etchings 1912


Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000

About this Item

South African 1892-1943
Etchings 1912

A large cloth-bound album containing 18 etchings of landscapes and other subjects, 1912-1934, an incomplete title page design, a full-page dedication "To Bill, Christmas, 1934, from Dad", hand-written index page numbered 1-50, consisting of 33 titles, all etchings signed, numbered, inscribed with the title and dated, all with full margins, various sizes, some pages missing or cut, some with slight foxing.   Titles include:  Cottage Groot [sic] Schuur; Waiting; Valley of Desolation; Bechuanaland Mission Bell; At Hermanus; At Humewood; Fisherman, Knysna; The Lighthouse, Mossel Bay; Hout Bay; Table Mountain from Robben Island; At Jonkershoek; At Stellenbosch; The Old Fort, Grahamstown; Prince Alfred's Pass; In the Durban Docks; Grotesque; Black Walls, Old Fort Mombasa; and The Owl

size of album: 54,5 by 41cm

Provenance

Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, Works from The Studio of William Timlin, 7 December 1994, lot 456

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