Turkeys by Ken Scott

 

Bookplates

Bookplate (Bücherzeichen) for Anna Stauffer Creators: Decorator: Christian Alsdorff (c. 1760-1838) Scrivener: Christian Alsdorff (c. 1760-1838) Creation Place: County: Lancaster State/Province: Pennsylvania Note: Based on artist's location Creation Date: 3/24/1793

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The text in Fraktur and German script is in the lower half of the document. In the upper center is a tree like flower with two birds. The entire item is framed by a decorative border. This bookplate is in the hymnal Ausbund, Das ist Etliche schöne Christliche Lieder (Germantaun, Leibert und Billmeyer, 1785).   (PA GER Germantown 1785 Au72)

Christian Alsdorff was formerly known as the Earl Township Artist.

Die Zeit geht jeden Tag Vorbey. Wer weiß wie nah das Ende sey.
Dieses schöne Lieder Buch gehöret Anna Staufferin \ Und ihr ist gekauft worden von ihrem \ Vatter Gott zur Ehr und ihr zur lehr! \ Am 24.ten Mertz 1793. Leite du mich \ Lieber Heyland mein, und für mich in dein \ Reich hin ein Haleluja

Translation:

Time goes by every day. Who knows how near the end may be.
This beautiful hymnal belongs to Anna Staufferin, and was bought for her by her father. For God’s glory and her instruction! on the 24th of March 1793. Guide me, dear savior mine, and lead me in your kingdom. Hallelujah.

Free Library of Philadelphia

Bucks County, Pennsylvania watercolor and ink on paper bookplate in a New Testament, dated1794, for Elisabetha Funcfin, Bedminster Township, attributed to Samuel Meyer, with an elaborate floral branch, 6 1/2" x 3 1/2". Exhibition: Mennonite Historical Society, 2004-2005. Provenance: Christie's, January 2003, lot 838.

Estimated: $1000 - $1500
Realized Price: $1541

Pook and Pook

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania watercolor bookplate in a New Testament, dated 1818, inscribedPhilip Mumbauer, School Master of Upper Milford Township, with script, bird, and tulip decoration, 6 3/4" x 3 3/4".

Estimated: $400 - $800
Realized Price: $395

Pook and Pook

Pennsylvania School Bookplate, c. 1817, watercolor and pen and ink on paper, with stylized flower over a heart, indistinct German inscriptions, and dated 1817, (small losses, toning), 6 x 3 1/4 in., in a carved wood frame. 

Estimated: $400 - $600
Realized Price: $353

Skinner

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801), 1782

Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792)

Oil on canvas

93 3/4 x 57 1/4 in. (238.1 x 145.4 cm)

Reynolds gave close attention to his portrait of George Kein Hayward Coussmaker, a lieutenant and captain in the first regiment of Foot Guards. No fewer than seventeen appointments—and at least two more for the sitter's horse—are recorded between February 9 and April 10, 1782. The composition is complex and the whole vigorously painted.

Copy and images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

David Wright Paintings

"A Moment Away"

"Coming in Under a Full Moon"

David Wright Paintings at Lord Nelson's Gallery during 2013 History Meets the Arts

Paddling Downtream

8" x 10" original oil

Nature's Refuge

11" x 13" original oil

A Man of the Mountains

10" x 8" original oil

Images and copy supplied by Lord Nelson's Gallery.

Works on Paper by Thomas Davies in the Winterthur Collection

A South View of the New Fortress at Crown Point, with the Camp, Commaned by Major General Amherst in the Year 1759

New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

1759

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Drawn, Hand colored

A View of the Attack against Fort Washington and Rebel redouts near New York on 16 of November 1776 by the British and Hessian Brigades

New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

1776

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Drawn, Hand colored

A View near Flushing on Long Island in the Province of New York North America. Taken on the Spot by Thos Davies Capt Lt Royal Artillery 1765

Flushing, New York, Long Island, United States, North America

1765

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Drawn, Hand colored

Copy and Images from Winterthur.

Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck Drawings

A military camp along the coast of Georgia

"In 1736, Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck, then only twentyfive years old, sailed with other colonists from Germany to Georgia. One of his intentions, expressed in a letter before he left Europe, was to bring back from America "ocular proof" of what he called "this strange new world." Idealistic nad enthusiastic, welleducated and blessed with an amazing artistic gift, von Reck kept a travel diary, wrote separate descriptions of the plants, animals and Indians he discovered in Georgia and drew some fifty watercolor and pencil sketches of what he saw.

The Mico of the Yuchi named Senkaitschi

An Indian woman weaving a basket of reed

An Indian who lived with us for a time

Indians going a-hunting

An Indian Camp

The Indian King and Queen of the Yuchis

A war dance

Huts of the Indians

Sassafras

These drawings, accompanied by von Reck's writings, are important as history, science and art. As history, they give us a new and absolutely unique glimpse of Georgia as it looked when the first Europeans settled there. As science, von Reck's natural history drawings represent the earliest records of several plants and animals. Von Reck's drawings and writings are especially important for the light they shed on Indian life. The drawings show in detail their costumes and equipment, houses and activities. As art, von Reck's drawings are as fresh, intimate and alive on the paper as the day they were drawn."

Great blue heron

squash

(Extract from 'Introduction' to VON RECK'S VOYAGE. Drawings and Journal of Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck. Edited by Kristian Hvidt. With the Assistance of Joseph Ewan, George F. Jones and William C. Sturtevant. The Beehive Press, Savannah 1980.)

Copy and images from here.

“The Other Fur Trade” Prints by T.C. Albert

Established by the American Fur Company, Fort Lewis was named after Meriwether Lewis and established trade with the Blackfoot Indians. To lure trade away from the nearby Hudson’s Bay Company, the traders at Fort Lewis relied on whiskey. It was an effective and highly profitable trade strategy, but in the end, only the intervention of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton prevented the post from losing their license over such controversial tactics.

During the winter of 1846 and 1847, Father Point tried to teach the Indians at the fort with drawings and pictures. One of his students was so taken with them that he asked for and was given his own paint and brushes from the good priest.

The drawings he drew for the Father depicted his own observations, particularly how the white traders grew rich, and the Indians grew poor trading everything they had of value for liquor.

This set of contemporary prints by TC Albert, titled “The Other Fur Trade”, is based on those old drawings, and offers a rare and unflattering glimpse of life at a frontier trading post seen through Indian eyes.

Copy and images supplied by T.C. Albert.

18th Century Sportsmen and Their Dogs

John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett

by John Closterman c. 1680

 

Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, of Hales Place, Hackington, Kent

by Phillippe Mercier c. 1744

Windham Quin of Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland

by Stephen Slaughter 1745

A Sportsman

by Edward Haytley 1752

Major John Dade, of Tannington, Suffolk

by Thomas Gainsborough 1755

Sir Humphrey Morice

by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni c. 1761-1762

William Hulton with Gun-Dog and Shotgun

by Henry Pickering 1769

Thomas Nuthall

by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735-1811)

A Sportsman and His Son

by Francis Wheatley c. 1779

John Walker, of Clifton House

by John Russell 1784

A Sportsman

by 

Edward Haytley 1752

"Dogs on the Leash"

by Francisco Goya 1775

Shot Bags

18th Century

Hunting Bags

Possible 18th Century

Copy and images from 18th Century Material Culture: Sportsmen and Their Dogs.