17th Mar, 2020 14:00

British & European Fine Art

 
  Lot 121
 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER (BRITISH 1767-1816)

WILLIAM ALEXANDER (BRITISH 1767-1816)
A folio of twenty-four drawings of English topographical subjects: fourteen by William Alexander, three by Edward Hughes and seven by various English 19th century hands. Subjects include: Leeds Caste; Conway Castle; Dover Castle; Eltham Church, Kent; Dent-de-Lion Gatehouse, Margate; Chapel of Joseph of Arimathea, Glastonbury; Canterbury Castle
variously signed, inscribed and dated
various sizes, all unframed
(24)

Provenance:
Edward Hughes (1823-1913), thence by descent

Literature:
Susan Legouix, Image of China: William Alexander, London, 1980

Edward Hughes' son Charles Hughes was married to Cordelia Alexander the daughter of Thomas Alexander and 1st cousin of William Alexander. In her monograph, Image of China: William Alexander, London, 1980, Susan Legouix writes, 'When Alexander died in 1816 he was staying with his uncle, Thomas Alexander, and it was Thomas's grandson Edward Hughes who was responsible for keeping together a number of drawings and papers connected with the artist and who safely deposited in the British Museum his manuscript account of the embassy to China and his self portrait. In more recent times Gerald Hughes of York, a nephew of Edward, actively collected drawings by Alexander which he bequeathed to Maidstone Muesum.' A number of the English drawings are reproduced in Legouix's book including the Dent-de-Lion Gatehouse near Margate in the present lot.


 

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