Harriet Cheney
An album of thirty-two portrait studies of figures from the circle of the Cheney family in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters comprising of: Miss Ditmus; Mrs Wallbanke Childers1; Miss Harriet Kinloch2, afterwards Lady Thomas Hay; Mrs Waller; Mrs Seymou
Found at
Christies,
London
WATERCOLOURS OF THE GRAND TOUR FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, Lot 44
12. Oct - 12. Oct 2005
WATERCOLOURS OF THE GRAND TOUR FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, Lot 44
12. Oct - 12. Oct 2005
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Description
Harriet Cheney (1771-1848)
An album of thirty-two portrait studies of figures from the circle of the Cheney family in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters comprising of: Miss Ditmus; Mrs Wallbanke Childers 1 ; Miss Harriet Kinloch 2 , afterwards Lady Thomas Hay; Mrs Waller; Mrs Seymour and her daughters, Mrs Ward and Mrs Denison 3 ; Mrs Christie; Lady Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Iremonger Chatterton 4 ; Miss Stirling (illustrated, a); The Misses Talbot; Mrs Light; Miss Clephane, Mme Wilmina Maclean Clephane de Norman 5 (illustrated, b); Mlle Bischi; Mrs Bryan (2); Mme Moricci; Miss Daniel; Arthur Johnstone Blackwood 6 ; Principessa Marischkira (illustrated, c); Mlle Delphine Gay 7 , Mme Girardin; Vittoria of Albano; Harriet Margaret Cheney 8 , afterwards Mrs Pigot (illustrated, d, see introduction, fig. 8); Marchesa Clelia Durazzo 9 ; Henry Edward Fox 1 0 , Lord Holland in Genoa (see introduction, fig. 10);
the majority inscribed (on the pages of the album)
pencil and watercolour, some heightened with gum arabic
13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm.); and smaller; the album 23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.8 cm.) overall (32)
An album of thirty-two portrait studies of figures from the circle of the Cheney family in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters comprising of: Miss Ditmus; Mrs Wallbanke Childers 1 ; Miss Harriet Kinloch 2 , afterwards Lady Thomas Hay; Mrs Waller; Mrs Seymour and her daughters, Mrs Ward and Mrs Denison 3 ; Mrs Christie; Lady Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Iremonger Chatterton 4 ; Miss Stirling (illustrated, a); The Misses Talbot; Mrs Light; Miss Clephane, Mme Wilmina Maclean Clephane de Norman 5 (illustrated, b); Mlle Bischi; Mrs Bryan (2); Mme Moricci; Miss Daniel; Arthur Johnstone Blackwood 6 ; Principessa Marischkira (illustrated, c); Mlle Delphine Gay 7 , Mme Girardin; Vittoria of Albano; Harriet Margaret Cheney 8 , afterwards Mrs Pigot (illustrated, d, see introduction, fig. 8); Marchesa Clelia Durazzo 9 ; Henry Edward Fox 1 0 , Lord Holland in Genoa (see introduction, fig. 10);
the majority inscribed (on the pages of the album)
pencil and watercolour, some heightened with gum arabic
13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm.); and smaller; the album 23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.8 cm.) overall (32)
Auction result well in line with expectations
In October 2005 Christies in London held the auction WATERCOLOURS OF THE GRAND TOUR FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, which included the work An album of thirty-two portrait studies of figures from the circle of the Cheney family in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters comprising of: Miss Ditmus; Mrs Wallbanke Childers1; Miss Harriet Kinloch2, afterwards Lady Thomas Hay; Mrs Waller; Mrs Seymou by Harriet Cheney. The price achieved of GBP 6,600.00 (€ 9,733.01) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as GBP 5,000.00 – 8,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Harriet Cheney - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work [An album of forty-three portrait studies from the circle of the Cheney family (vol. I) in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters including: Marquis and Marchioness of Morando; Teresa, Marchese Morando1; Mme Morando; Lady Elizabeth Foster2, afterwards Eliz|AI
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Im Oktober 2005 führte Christies in London die Auktion WATERCOLOURS OF THE GRAND TOUR FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION durch, in der auch die Arbeit An album of thirty-two portrait studies of figures from the circle of the Cheney family in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters comprising of: Miss Ditmus; Mrs Wallbanke Childers1; Miss Harriet Kinloch2, afterwards Lady Thomas Hay; Mrs Waller; Mrs Seymou von Harriet Cheney zur Versteigerung kam. Der dabei erzielte Preis von GBP 6.600,00 (€ 9.733,01) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit GBP 5.000,00 – 8.000,00 angegeben worden. Für andere Arbeiten von Harriet Cheney mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit [An album of forty-three portrait studies from the circle of the Cheney family (vol. I) in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters including: Marquis and Marchioness of Morando; Teresa
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