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Captain Robert Melville Grindlay
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1826]-1830.
Estimate: 7.000 - 9.000 GBP
Price realised: 10.800 GBP
Price realised: 10.800 GBP
Description
CAPTAIN ROBERT MELVILLE GRINDLAY (1786-1877)
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1826]-1830.
2 volumes in one, 2° (415 x 320mm). Plate 38 bound at front, coloured engraved title, 36 coloured aquatints by Reeve, Fielding, Hunt, Bentley, Pyall, Hughes, and Edge, after Grindlay, Westall, Stanfeld, Roberts, Purser, Witherington, Fielding and Daniell, and coloured by J.B. Hogarth. (Lacking lithographic title to volume II.) Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, gilt edges (corners bumped, some light rubbing to spine and joints, a few small areas of loss).
A FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COLOUR PLATE BOOKS ON INDIA. The subjects include scenes and views of Bombay, Golconda, Ellora and Guzerat. Grindlay, founder of the ANZ Grindlays Bank, came to India in 1803, worked with the East India Company and served with the Seventh Bombay Native Infantry from 1804-1820. It is rare in such works for the name of the colourist, in this case J.B. Hogarth, to be given. Scenery was issued in six parts between 1826 and 1830, at a cost of £2. 2s. each. Abbey Travel 442; Tooley 239; Colas 1333.
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1826]-1830.
2 volumes in one, 2° (415 x 320mm). Plate 38 bound at front, coloured engraved title, 36 coloured aquatints by Reeve, Fielding, Hunt, Bentley, Pyall, Hughes, and Edge, after Grindlay, Westall, Stanfeld, Roberts, Purser, Witherington, Fielding and Daniell, and coloured by J.B. Hogarth. (Lacking lithographic title to volume II.) Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, gilt edges (corners bumped, some light rubbing to spine and joints, a few small areas of loss).
A FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COLOUR PLATE BOOKS ON INDIA. The subjects include scenes and views of Bombay, Golconda, Ellora and Guzerat. Grindlay, founder of the ANZ Grindlays Bank, came to India in 1803, worked with the East India Company and served with the Seventh Bombay Native Infantry from 1804-1820. It is rare in such works for the name of the colourist, in this case J.B. Hogarth, to be given. Scenery was issued in six parts between 1826 and 1830, at a cost of £2. 2s. each. Abbey Travel 442; Tooley 239; Colas 1333.
Upper estimated price slightly exceeded
The work Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1826-1830. by Robert Melville Grindlay was auctioned at Christies in London in September 2005. It achieved a price of GBP 10,800.00 (€ 15,849.79), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 20%. Other works by Robert Melville Grindlay have achieved even higher prices, we observed the highest auction result so far of GBP 11,250.00 (€ 16,131.67) in September 2007 for the work Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India.
Oberer Schätzpreis leicht übertroffen
Die Arbeit Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1826-1830. von Robert Melville Grindlay kam im September 2005 bei Christies in London zur Auktion. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von GBP 10.800,00 (€ 15.849,79) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 20%. Andere Arbeiten von Robert Melville Grindlay haben noch höhere Preise erzielt - wir haben das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis von GBP 11.250,00 (€ 16.131,67) im September 2007 für die Arbeit Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India beobachtet.
Robert Melville Grindlay - Auction history
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