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[Christie, Manson & Woods auction catalogue.] Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of Modern Pictures, from the Aston Rowant Gallery, Nearly all of which were obtained direct from the Painters'.

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[The Aston Rowant Gallery, Oxfordshire; Thomas Taylor (1808-1892), cotton manufacturer and Mayor of Wigan; Christie, Manson & Woods, London auctioneers]
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Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8 King Street, St. James's Square, On Saturday, April 28, 1883. [London: Printed by Wm. Clowes & Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross.]
£100.00

20pp., 8vo. In lilac wraps, printed in black. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets, and with library stitching on spine. Aged and worn, with stamp of the Free Public Library, Wigan, to damaged front cover. (The collection had been amassed by the cotton manufacturer Thomas Taylor, Mayor of Wigan, 1854-55, and was housed in his country house at Aston Rowant.) Around half the 94 lots priced in guineas and pounds in red ink. Includes work by John Linnell, J. W. Waterhouse, Luke Fildes, Marcus Stone, W. P. Frith and G. F. Watts.

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[Sir Luke Fildes, artist.] Autograph Signature ('Luke Fildes') cut from letter.

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Sir Luke Fildes [Sir Samuel Luke Fildes] (1843-1927), English artist
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Without date or place.
£23.00

On a piece of 8 x 8.5 cm paper. In good condition, lightly-aged, with fold line. The side of the letter with the signature reads '<...> at once signed | believe me - | Very faithfully Yours | Luke Fildes'. The reverse reads: '<...> two other Sums of £150 & £200 which I have had. The forms I have mislaid & cannot find them. <...>'

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Autograph Letter Signed ('Luke Fildes') from the English artist Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, to unnamed 'Gentlemen' [including Lawrence Alma Tadema?], declining an invitation to a lecture by the 'Punch' cartoonist and novelist George du Maurier.

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Luke Fildes [Sir Samuel Luke Fildes] (1843-1927), English artist [George du Maurier (1834-1896), 'Punch' cartoonist and author of 'Trilby]
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On letterhead of 11 Melbury Road, Kensington, W. 24 May 1892.
£65.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged grey paper. Fildes explains that he has just returned from Paris to find his correspondents' letter of 19 May, inviting him 'to hear Mr Du Maurier's discourse to-morrow night'. He cannot avail himself of the 'great pleasure', and of their' 'courtesy', as he has 'an engagement which cannot possibly be put off'. He ends by apologising for not answering sooner. On 25 May 1892 The Times reports a lecture that day at 'Prince's Hall: Mr. Du Maurier on "Social Pictorial Satire," Mr. Alma-Tadema, R.A., in the chair, 9.'

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