Watercolor Portrait on Paper
Gentleman
Circa 1820
(View area: 3.625 by 2.75-inches; overall 5.625 by 6.75-inches.)
Price: $1,750
501-12
Beautiful Large Folio Lithograph
Mid-19th Century
Philadelphia
Empire Hook & Ladder Company, No. 1
This full color lithograph is signed in the margin “On Stone by J. Queen” and “P. S. Duval & Co’s Steam lith Press Philad’a.” P. S. Duval was in business c. 1835 to 1879 and J. Queen was a regular contributor. The view area is approximately 18-inches x 24-inches. The print is in a bird’s eye maple frame with an overall size of approximately 25-inches x 31-inches. The colors are vibrant; the print is generally fine with a couple minor margin spots and professionally closed margin tears.
Price: $2,400
RS486
Rare Hannaford Family 18th Century Record
From Newburyport, Massachusetts
This 18th century family record is a partial listing of the Hannaford family of New Hampshire. It is curious because the record denotes the births of three male members of the Hannaford family only. Our research has confirmed the birth of John Hannaford, October 20th, 1787; Merrimack, NH. We are still researching David and Jabez. The record is signed by Benjamin Newman of Newburyport, Ma. and we are currently looking for additional works by Newman. As new information is discovered we will post it with the family record. The colors and motifs of this well preserved gem are most desirable particularly the hearts withi hearts symbolism. The record measures 6.75-inches by 9-inches sight size and is in it's original, never opened painted frame.
Price: $6,850
175-2
Jacob G. Bauman (Active circa 1870)
Firehouse Memorial Picture-Tribute to Firefighters
Signed on lower right: J.G. Baumann, Artist
Detroit, Michigan, Circa 1870
Features an eagle perched atop the stars and stripes shield with a banner reading “Liberty and Prosperity” above the heat and fiery light of a conflagration...and a firefighter rescuing a child
Oil on canvas
Little is known of the life and work of Jacob Baumann, Arthur Hopkin Gibson, in Artists of Early Michigan, A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Native to or Active In Michigan 1701-1900 (Detroit, Michigan, 1975) page 47, offers only scant information: Jacob Baumann was an amateur artist working in Detroit, who studied at the German-American Seminary in Detroit during the year 1875. His only other known work, depicting the old Tollgate at Gratoit and Mack Streets in Detroit is known from a photocopy in the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library, mentioned in the Detroit News, July 26, 1925, The Metropolitan Section, Page 5.
This unusual painting commemorates the life of a heroic firefighter...The central design-composed of a flag, helmet, floral wreath and accouterments-appears to be painted from life. Other vignettes include a steam engine, a firefighter rescuing a child, and a stack of firefighter’s equipment including a coiled hose, hook, trumpet, leather belt labeled Red Jacket”; helmet with badge also labeled “Red Jacket” along with “4” and “J.P.”, the American flag, and a bouquet of flowers. The two vignettes of firefighting activity were probably inspired by the popular series of lithographs by Currier and Ives from the 1850s and early 1860s entitles “The Life Of A Fireman.”
Literature: American Expressions of Liberty (Mingei International Museum, 1996) and will appear in American Visions of Freedom and Liberty (Virginia Historical Society.) Also, The Billy Pearson Collection of American Folk Art, by David A. Schorsch.
The picture, mounted in a custom frame has been relined and there is minor in-painting. (29-inch x 35-inch view area; overall: 35-inch x 41-inches.)
Price: $39,500
RS483
Watercolor Family Register...after Peter Maverick
Hope and Abundance Guard The Double Column Arcade
Leonard Smith Married Nancy Pierce In 1807
Waltham, Massachusetts
This remarkable watercolor family register with pen and ink entries was inspired by an early American engraving by Peter Maverick (1780-1831) done sometime between 1810 and 1820. This sophisticated engraving is considered to be the source of six known stitched, paper or reverse-glass family registers.
The carefully executed watercolor depicts four classical columns supporting an arch labeled “Family Register”.
At the base of the right column with HOPE lettered within capital, standing on the plinth marked deaths is the allegorical figure Hope surmounting a globe and a book and holding an anchor ...she points to a birds nest, representing the beginning of life.
On the left is the allegory of abundance, Charity with child...a cornucopia at her feet. She stands on a plinth listing births; in front of double columns lettered within the capital “Promises”.
Of the seven children of Leonard Smith (b.1783 at Waltham) and Nancy Smith (nee Pierce,(b.1784-d.1825), of Middlesex County, six are listed in the death column. The background has a number of iconic symbols of mourning including a weeping willow, a cedar with missing limbs, a tree stump, headstones, church and a cenotaph. Further in the background are hills, houses and a river. In spite of its somber subject matter the painting is quite beautiful and moving. The colors are vibrant with very little, if any fading; some use of gold on book binding and church steeples. The paper does have even toning and there are several light, but noticeable stains. Stamped in the upper left corner of is an oval with words “Superfine London Board”. The view area is approximately 21.5-inches by 17-inches; overall 23.25-inches by 18.75-inches.
Peter Maverick was a printmaker, born in New York City in 1780. He learned his trade in his father's shop. Maverick established his own business in 1802, and in 1809 moved to Newark, New Jersey, where he remained until 1820, returning to New York City.
Two watercolors derived from the source are in the collection of Old Sturbridge Village.
Price: $9,000
SCH222
Pencil And Ink Wash Interior
Cobbler’s Shop
Nineteenth Century
A carefully rendered drawing with sepia wash depicting the interior of a cobbler shop...the cobbler sits on his bench raised on platform-working by the best available light at the window. Beneath the bench are boots and shoes awaiting his attention; a small cast iron stove sits in the center of the room, it’s stovepipe hung from the ceiling beams with wire. The stark room also contains barrels, forms, a boarded fireplace and wood to be chopped for the stove and a cat on the windowsill.
This early American interior depicting a cobbler at work documents his utilitarian space...the transition of fireplace to stove as a primary source of heat and allows us to view some of his circa 1840-50 realities.
The work is on paper that has been mounted to a piece of acid free paper. The size is approximately 12.5 by 19 inches with some as expected minor soiling and fading; overall the piece is in excellent condition and is ready to hang.
Price: $1,800
121-129
Steam Locomotive "Dunmore"
Vermont-New York State Milk Train
Watercolor and Pencil on Paper
Circa 1860
The Rutland and Burlington Railroad was chartered in 1843 but by 1867 it was known simply as the Rutland Railroad. The Rutland Road operated its "milk train" primarily in Vermont but some branches ran into New York.
This rendering in pencil and gouache is a profile of the locomotive "Dunmore" (Lake Dunmore was one of the stops along the Rutland Railroad). The engine and tender are decorated in blue, yellow, and red. "DUNMORE" is printed in pencil on the cab and painted in green on a panel beneath the engine. "Rutland Railroad" is printed on the tender and "Freight-Engine" is written below the panel while "Dunmore" is inscribed in the lower left corner. The number "2" is written beneath the track. The painting is on an 11.25-inch by 9-inch sheet of paper that appears to have been a page in a bound book. There are a number of test brush strokes on the top of the page and some smudging and toning along the edges of the paper. The painting is mounted in a painted 12.75-inch by 15-inch frame and is not signed or dated.
Price: $1,850
487-5
Mr. & Mrs. T. Carmicheal Cut By Auguste Edouart
A fine pair of full length silhouettes by Auguste Edouart. There is a handwritten label on the front of the pair that reads "Mr & Mrs. T J. Carmicheal of Sing Sing, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, Saratoga Springs 5th Augt 1841". There is also a partial printed label on the back of the frame. The Carmicheal's are listed on p.515 of the appendix in "Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844" by Andrew Oliver. The silhouettes are framed in a period gold leaf frame...not necessarily the original.
Dimensions: Sight-size- 12 inches high by 7.5 inches wide; add 3 inches for frame.
*We also have another pair of Edouart's silhouettes...please inquire.
Price: $2,450
250-52
Painting of a Locomotive
By Levi Prentice (1851 - 1936)
The subject mater is unique for Prentice - SOLD
This painting of a passenger train hurtling toward the viewer is done in the realistic style that marks the works of Levi Prentice. Apparently self-taught Prentice began painting in the 1870's. Although he did portraits, he is best known for his landscapes and particularly for his still life pictures of overripe fruits. He was also a talented craftsman who designed frames and was employed by the Newman Galleries as a frame maker.
The painting is in a 25.25-inch by 21-inch frame with a view area approximately 21-inches by 17-inches. There is in painting in areas of the sky as well as two small spots near the cowcatcher and one on the track and the canvas has been relined. The painting is signed "L. W. Prentice" in the lower right corner.
921-2 - SOLD
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