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Lot Details
Lot 131
[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] COWPER, WILLIAM. Poems.
London: W. H. Reid, 1820. Two volumes, period blue straight-grain morocco gilt, adorned with two very well-painted concealed hunting fore-edges. 8 1/8 x 13 cm (21 x 13 cm); various paginations. Old staining to boards, some moderate wear, the fore-edges in good shape.
From an old description laid in, we have been able to trace these fore-edges to the collection of Fitz Eugene Dixon, dispersed by Anderson Galleries in January 1937, (this lot 152) and described by them as follows: "...two superb fore-edge paintings, each portraying an animated scene of hunters riding to hounds. In two very attractive contemporary bindings.These are among the finest fore-edge paintings ever sold at these Galleries. Both paintings depict a sparsely wooded autumnal landscape, the one on Vol. I showing two hunters in red coats riding at full gallop, one on a bay and the other on a white horse, with the hounds in full cry, while a third hunter follows in the distance. Vol. II shows the two hunters walking their horses back and forth around the hounds who are excitedly trying to pick up a lost scent at the foot of two massive pollard oaks. From the library of Joan Ann Day, with her signature dated 1827 on the end-leaves, and with her small bookplate bearing her name in engraved gothic script in each volume." These were illustrated in the catalogue, this and the dated auction listing provides a confirmatory terminus ante quem for the pair.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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