13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 772/10022

SOLD Hammer price €600

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858-1949Knockdrum, Rocks & Furze, Landscape with cattle grazing, rocky hills beyond, O.O.Board, 32cms x 40.5cms (12 1/2″ x 16″), signed, and inscribed on reverse, & dated 1934, in gilt frame. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family, by descent to the present owner.

Lot 773/10022

SOLD Hammer price €950

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949Religious Procession, Delightful Colourful Street Scene, O.O.Panel, 23cms x 14cms (9″ x 5 1/2″), with labels, in modern wooden frame. (1)* Exhibited National Gallery of Ireland, 1st Oct. – 30th Nov., 1984, Cat. No. 46C.Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 774/10022

SOLD Hammer price €400

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949″Attractive West of Ireland Scene, with haystack, mountains beyond,” O.O.Board, 15cms x 23.5cms (6″ x 9 1/4″) signed, in black wooden frame. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 775/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Edith Oenone Somerville, (1858 – 1949)Pencil drawing: The Cavalier, full size, 43cms x 24cms (17″ x 9 1/2″) signed with initials, on board, damaged. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 777/10022

SOLD Hammer price €480

Edith Oenone Somerville, (1858 – 1949)Wash & Pencil on Paper: Le Pere Coquin, Etaples (July 1898), 25cms x 16cms (10″ x 6 1/2″), signed with initials and inscribed; also a similar companion, A French Peasant Drinking (1895), approx. 34cms x 12cms (13 1/2″ x 4 3/4″), both mounted. Both exhibited. (2)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 778/10022

SOLD Hammer price €320

Edith Oenone Sommerville (1858 – 1949)Wash & Pencil: A fine pair of full size Parisian Studies, “Gentleman holding a Shovel,” and its companion “A Lady with bonnet holding a Parasol,” each signed with initials, and approx. 31cms x 19cms (12″ x 7 1/2″), one dated ‘Paris Feb. 13, ’95,’ both mounted. (2)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 779/10022

SOLD Hammer price €360

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949Coloured chalks: The last day of Shraft,… The Sergeant’s manner was distressingly apologetic, … from Further Experiences of an Irish ‘R.M.’ Story, No. VII, page 192. Signed with initials & signed and inscribed on reverse, 27cms x 13cms (10 1/2″ x 5″); also pencil drawing, a study for same, approx. 34cms x 18cms (13 1/2″ x 7″), unframed. (2)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 780/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

Edith Oenone SommervilleWash and Pencil: A Southern Harbour (from the Point Strand,) the original frontispiece for the book, The Smile and the Tear, L. 1933, approx. 18cms x 14cms (7″ x 5 1/2″), signed with initials, & inscribed and signed on reverse, paper on board; also another, In a forest Glade, approx. 18cms x 14cms (5″ x 7″), signed with initials, mounted. (2)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 781/10022

SOLD Hammer price €260

Edith Oenome Somerville, 1858 – 1949Wash & Pencil Drawings: Female Portraits, Old Nelly, book illustration from Mount Music, Chapter 1, approx. 135cms (5 1/4″) square, signed with initials, and inscribed on reverse, mounted; also Bridget Durken, p. 56,, Chapter 7 in The Irish Scene, approx. 13.5cms (5 1/4″) square, signed with initials, and inscribed on reverse; and another Study of a Hand, Paris 1900, approx. 13cms x 10cms (5″ x 4″) mounted. (3)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 782/10022

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949Watercolour: A very colourful original design for the dust jacket for the travel book Time in the East, by Evan John, 20cms x 32cms (7 3/4″ x 12 1/2″). Signed and inscribed with comments, and with each of the figures in the design identified in pencil. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 783/10022

SOLD Hammer price €550

Edith Oenone Somerville, (1858 – 1949)Wash & Pencil Drawing: In the State of Denmark, Chapter III, Reflections on the Aarhus Canal, 1893, 25cms x 33.5cms (10″ x 12 3/4″), signed., also signed and inscribed on reverse, in cardboard mount. Exhibited.* The female figure leaning on the bridge is that of Violet Martin, the artists co-author.Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 784/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Edith Oenone Sommerville, (1858 – 1949)Wash Drawings: A group of five, mostly unfinished studies, various sizes, mostly signed with initials, one dated Dec. 5th, ’94, one of “A Horse,” mounted on board. (5)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 785/10022

SOLD Hammer price €240

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949Pen & Ink: An’ now what’ll I say to me Swaydes, in original illustrations from The Smile and the Tear, p. 30 Chapter 4. Signed with initials, approx. 11.5cms x 9.5cms (4 1/2″ x 3 3/4″), mounted. (1)Provenance: The Edith Somverville & Hildegarde Coghill Archive.

Lot 786/10022

SOLD Hammer price €520

Edith Oenome Sommerville, 1858-1949Pen & Ink Sketch: an illustration from “Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.” L. 1908, page 256, approx. 28.5cms x 25cms (11 1/4″ x 9 3/4″), signed with initials, mounted; Paddy, His first Landscape, approx. 18cms x 23cms (7″ x 9″), signed with initials and dated August 1899, unmounted. (2)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 787/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Edith Oenone Sommerville, 1858 – 1949Wash Drawings: A large sheet with three studies, Cleric & two children, exhibited; another similar signed with initials, with two studies, both dated Dec. ’94; also a large Study of a Bishop, signed with initials and dated Jan. 5th, ’95; also a Study of Nun looking heavenward, signed with initials & dated 1899, each approx. 36cms x 28cms (14″ x 11″), loose. (4)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 788/10022

SOLD Hammer price €320

Edith Oenone Somerville, (1858 – 1949)Wash and Pencil on Paper: Two similar drawings of Females, Blanc et Noir, and its companion, each approx. 30cms x 15cms (12″ x 6″), both signed with initials, signed and inscribed on reverse, both in mounts. (2)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 789/10022

SOLD Hammer price €580

Edith Oenone Sommerville, 1858 – 1949Wash and Pencil: An attractive pair, Elderly man with large mustache and spectacles, and his female companion An elderly Lady with bonnet, both signed with initials, one dated Jan. 10, ’95, & signed also on reverse, each approx. 23.5cms x 20cms (9 1/4″ x 8″), mounted. (2)Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 790/10022

SOLD Hammer price €440

Edith Oenome Sommerville, 1858 – 1949Pen, Ink & Watercolour: “Hulla, Hulla, Hulla,….. All the dogs ran to the Roar,” approx. 22cms x 165cms (8 3/4″ x 6 1/2″), illustration, signed with initials, and signed and inscribed on reverse, mounted.* This drawing is an illustration from ‘A Patrick’s Day Hunt,’ & appears on page 19.Provenance: The Coghill Family by descent to the present owner.

Lot 791/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1000

Somerville (Edith Oenone) [1858-1949] The Elephant and the Swordfish, pastel on grey paper, 10″ x 14″, signed monogram l.r.; an original illustration for her celebrated children’s book ‘The Story of the Discontented Little Elephant,’ [1912], showing the elephant in full flight after part of his trunk was bitten off, the swordfish watching from the river. (1)

Lot 792/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1000

Edith Oenone Somerville, (1858 – 1949)Pastel Drawing: A Naughty Little Elephant, 28cms x 37cms (11″ x 14 1/2″), signed with initials, & framed. This original pastel appears as illustration No. 1, in Somerville’s classic children’s book “The Discontented Little Elephant,” sm. oblong folio L. 1912. (1)Provenance: Purchased by The Neptune Gallery in 1964 at the sale in London of Edith Somerville’s papers & artwork. It was subsequently purchased by the present owner at an exhibition of her work at The Neptune Gallery in Dublin in 1965.