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MARIO CAMMERARI
An Allegory of Gardening and Botanical Studies
194 x 300 mm
Engraving, c1767.
Engraved as the frontispiece to Filippo Arena’s La Natura e Coltura dei Fiori Fisicamente Esposta.
Central vertical fold. An uninked hairline printing defect with a few related ink touches.
£350
Flora, classical goddess of Flowers and the Spring, holding a garland and a bunch of blooms stands beside the seated Botany, holding an alemnic jar for distillation (and distillation is in progress on the ground in front of her). To the right Physics examines a flower through a magnifying glass and Pomona, goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards, rests after her efforts with a spade. She holds a basket of fruit, and an orchard can be seen behind her.
Filippo Arena (1708-89) was a Jesuit professor of mathematics and philosophy at Palermo.
He had a particular interest in the insect pollination of plants. His book, illustrated by Cammerari, also a Jesuit priest, was first published in Palermo in 1767 under the name of his nephew Abbot Ignazio Arena. The first volume deals with the botany, anatomy and fertilisation of flowers, the other two volumes with horticulture and the creation of a flower garden.
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RUTH GERVIS
1894 - 1968 St Luke’s Nursing Home, Oxford
An art teacher and illustrator of children’s books, painter and graphic artist, the daughter of the Revd William Champion Streatfeild, Ruth was the eldest sister of Noel Streatfeild, for whom she illustrated the children’s novel Ballet Shoes in 1936. Ruth had settled in Sherborne, Dorset after her marriage to Shorland Gervis, also a teacher, in 1928. In 1931 she was a founder member of the Sherborne Art Club, and later its Chairman and President. After her husband’s death in 1968 she became a founder member of Sherborne Museum.
Mediterranean Peasant Couple
350 x 283 mm
Original three-colour lithograph, printed in black, blue and ochre, on cream wove paper.
Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of only 12.
Faintly time-stained and other small defects in the margins.
£175
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GEORGE MARPLES A.R.E.
Derby 1869 – 1939 Sway, Hampshire
Marples was an ornithological painter, etcher, and writer, who also made a few etchings of fish.
He was trained at Derby School of Art, at the Royal College of Art in London, in Paris and Geneva.
He probably took up etching after his appointment as Principal of Liverpool School of Art during the First World War.
Cocky Bundy
203 x 301 mm
Original etching, 1927.
Signed in pencil and numbered. Edition of 80.
On japan.
One unobtrusive pin-prick hole, and two small filled wormholes.
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The cocky bundy is an artificial ‘fly’.
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JOSEPH OPPENHEIMER
Wurzburg 1876 – 1966
Canada
Oppenheimer studied in Munich, Rome, Naples, London and New York.
A cosmopolitan, he had a studio in London from 1896. He was very fond of the Thames and when he married in 1908 honeymooned near Henley. He and his wife settled in Berlin, but continued to visit England each year.
In the 1930’s after the rise to power of Hitler, the Oppenheimers would move to England and become British citizens and later, after his daughter emigrated to Canada, in 1949, Oppenheimer would divide his year between London and Canada & New York.
Jetty at Heringsdorf
130 x 177 mm
Original etching, 1913.
The plate with an etched signature.
Signed in pencil, entitled and dated.
Printed on japan.
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Heringsdorf, on the Baltic island of Usedom, was a popular north German spa and seaside resort before the First World War.
Its continuous sandy beach, right round the island, was the longest in Europe.
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STANLEY REGINALD WILSON
Camberwell 1890 – 1973 London
Wilson studied at Goldsmith’s College in London.
He made drypoints through the 1920’s and into the 1930’s.
He always printed his own plates.
Gulls at Sunset in the Scottish Islands
304 x 402 mm
Original colour drypoint and aquatint, c1930.
The plate signed in drypoint.
The impression signed in pencil and stamped with the monogram stamp. Numbered 4 from a proposed edition of 100.
Printed by Wilson from two plates, à la poupée, in powder blue, pink, green, crimson, orange, yellow, brown, ochre, purple, Prussian blue, grey and black, on thin japan. The colours vivid.
£950
Wilson’s complex colour etchings are very rare.
His studio in Peckham was bombed in 1940 and all his etching plates and much of his work lost.
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