Category: Paintings & Original Artwork

1. ILLUSTRATED NOTES ON CERTAIN RHOPALOCERA….IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, ILLUSTRATED NOTES ON CERTAIN RHOPALOCERA….IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, Part one. A volume with typed 7 page introduction and 26 original water colour paintings of butterflies dated between 1931 and 1938 all with notes of capture date and location etc, bound in quarter buckram with marbled boards. Part two. A loose in folder, with 14 paintings and notes, together with a further collection of unbound sheets each with several figures of water colour paintings butterflies and some with botanical specimens, and 9 paintings of flowers dated 1944. Measurements vary but approximately 16 x 22 cm, all the studies are executed in a competent hand accurately portraying life-size images, many species are shown including Papilionidae, Pieridae and Nymphalidae commonly found in the south of France; the Swallowtail and Scarce Swallowtails are specially pleasing.
Stock No. 456
£550

2. TWENTY EIGHT ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS
I HOLLOWAY, TWENTY EIGHT ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS, c1802, a collection of finely executed water colour paintings of butterflies and moths, varying sizes but mostly 10x15cm plus margins, each shows an adult insect with the pupa and larva often on the leaf of its foodplant, the monograph “I H” appears on the majority of the numbered leaves and one is dated 1802, there is also a contemporary manuscript sheet which refers to some of the paintings giving the names of the species and page numbers of “Insecta Lepidoptera” and “Systema naturae”, unbound, all in good bright condition. The paintings are similar in style and layout to the prints found in Donovan’s British Insects or Curtis. Clearly the artist has an accomplished hand as the detail and colour have been skilfully applied. Amongst the butterflies and moths depicted are the Large and Small Tortoiseshells, the Peacock, Large White, several Hawkmoths and a number of other smaller moths,
Stock No. 455
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