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Cricket, Railways, and Agriculture,
£250Cricket, Railways, and Agriculture,
A framed chromolithograph by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward) picturing Charles George Lyttleton, 8th Viscount Cobham, Liberal MP for East Worcestershire. A first class cricketer who played 35 first class matches in his life, he was elected President of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1888. Cobham was also a member of the Tennis Committee of the MCC and was responsible for framing standardised rules for the new sport of lawn tennis. These unified Laws of Lawn Tennis were published on 29 May 1875.£250 -
Four in hand,
£170Four in hand,
A framed chromolithograph by SPY (Sir Leslie Ward) picturing Adolph Wilhelm Reichmann, Baron of Prussia, Knight of the Iron Cross, German businessman and naturalised British subject he oversaw the banking house of Horstmann and Company. A keen carriage driver he was a member of many driving clubs including the Four In Hand and Carriage Clubs. His posterity became a subject of Parliamentary controversy as his sons left England to fight for the Kaiser in 1914 while his widow, the Baroness von Deichman, remained to steward his company which managed loans for prominent members of the German military and aristocracy.£170 -
Tracks and Triggers,
£150Tracks and Triggers,
A Framed chromolithograph by WHO picturing Mr Walter Winans, American marksman, hunter and artist. Author The Art of Revolver Shooting, Winans owned hunting and shooting rights to 250,000 acres in the Scottish Highlands across Glen Strathfarrar, Glen Cannich and Glen Affric. In 1884 he attempted to prosecute a Scotsman, Muirdoch Macrae, for grazing a lamb on the ancestral lands of Clan McCrae but owned in law by Winans. The failure of Winans’ prosecution established the right to roam which was a key element in opening British parklands to the public.£150 -
He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword,
£200He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword,
Framed chromolithograph by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward) picturing Mr Egerton Castle MA FRSA, author, antiquarian and swordsman. He was an early practitioner of reconstrucred historical fencing he went on to be apponted British fencing and sabre captain in two Olympic Games. A keen collector of bookplates, he also published several novels, often in partnership with his wife Agnes Sweetman Castle, a number of which were turned into early motion pictures.£200 -
The Record Revolver Shot,
£190The Record Revolver Shot,
A framed chromolithograph by SPY (Sir Leslie Ward) picturing Mr Walter Winans, American marksman, hunter, horsebreeder, sculptor and painter. A twice Olympic shooting gold medalist, he also won the gold medal for sculpture at the Stockholm Arts Competition in 1912 for his equestrian bronze ‘An American Trotter’.£190 -
Bill,
£180Bill,
A framed chromolithograph by ELF picturing Robert Henry Foster, lawyer, author, poet, oarsmen and pioneering Romano-British archaeologist. His excavations at Roman Corbridge on Hadrian’s Wall were seminal in the fledgling field of British archaeology. He wrote widely about Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman presence in his native Northumberland. A keen oarsman, he rowed in the first boat of his college’s Lady Margaret Boat Club and in the crew sent to Henley in 1888, winning both the Thames cup and Ladies plate. He later became joint secretary of the Thames Rowing Club in 1892. Starting out with a legal career in mind, he was called to the Bar in 1892, having been McMahon Law Student the year before. However, his writing soon took precedence, to be joined by his archaeological interests.£180 -
Stay, Please,
£190Stay, Please,
A framed chromolithograph picturing Mr Justice William Ventris Field, Baron Field of Wakenham. Queen’s Council, later Queen’s Bench, he oversaw the reorganisation of the court system following the Judicature Act of 1881 which established Judges Chambers in England and served (especially in the court of Chancery) to make trial without a jury the normal mode of trial, except in certain instances. In 1890, he retired from the bench and was raised to the peerage as Baron Field, of Wakenham in the County of Surrey, on 10 April 1890. He had been sworn of the Privy Council earlier the same year.£190 -
Force No Remedy
£150Force No Remedy
A framed chromolithograph by Harry Furniss picturing a prison warder, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Dillon pictured on remand in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. Parnell and Dillon were united in opposition to the Irish Land Act of 1881 which aimed to resolve landlord tenant relations in late 19th Century Ireland and neutralise the militancy of the Irish Land League. Accused of “sabotaging the Land Act”, the pair were arrested on the 12th of October 1881 for their role in the declaration and propagation of the No Rent Manifesto, a radical proposal by the Land League calling for a campaign of passive resistance by the small tenant farmers of Ireland and the withholding of rent to landlords.£150 -
Pridham
£125Pridham
A framed chromolithograph by ELF showing Henry Pridham Wippell, a prominent Edwardian barrister.£125 -
The New Judge
£150The New Judge
A framed chromolithograph by SPY (Sir Leslie Ward) picturing the Hon. Sir Arthur Charles who presided over the first trial of Oscar Wilde for sodomy and gross indecency in which the Jury failed to agree a verdict.£150 -
The Posters of Picasso,
£195 eachThe Posters of Picasso,
Original lithographs showing the output of Picasso for his exhibition posters. Mounted and framed black.£195 each -
The Posters of Picasso,
£195 eachThe Posters of Picasso,
Original lithographs showing the output of Picasso for his exhibition posters. Mounted and framed black.£195 each