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Lot# 30017 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 30017 New South Wales

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    1849: Alfred Clayton 'Sydney View' Essays, composite photo-lithographic facsimile of the original Essay which is housed in the Tapling Collection in the British Library, comprising reproductions of the 1d. and 3d. Essays which are mounted on paper and endorsed "The form and colour are approved, but the execution is very far from satisfactory and must be greatly improved before the contract can be sanctioned". This facsimile was produced by Alfred van Dyck, some time before the originals were sold by him to Tapling and prior to Thomas Tapling's death in 1891. The blank space in between contained the Essay for the 2d. value which was purchased for, and remains in, the Collection of His Majesty King Charles III. We record just one other example of this reproduction (copy with the lot), ex Sir Gawaine Baillie, sold at Sotheby's, Melbourne in July 2005, lot 812, which was not as fine as the example offered here.rnrnProvenance: Collection W.W. Mann (1921); Collection George Ginger, RL, London, 5-6 Dec 1945, ex lot 7; Collection G. Carleton Jones, Sotheby's, London, 14 Dec 1995, lot 318; Collection "Besançon", Corinphila sale 223, 31 May 2018, lot 3002.
    Starting bid : 1,750 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,750 CHF