Captain Robert Melville Grindlay
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India
Found at
Christies,
London
Exploration and Travel, Lot 417
26. Sep - 27. Sep 2007
Exploration and Travel, Lot 417
26. Sep - 27. Sep 2007
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Description
CAPTAIN ROBERT MELVILLE GRINDLAY (1786-1877)
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1826]-1830. 6 parts in 1 vol., 2° (400 x 305mm). Coloured engraved title, and 36 coloured aquatints on thick paper, with plate 36 bound as frontispiece, 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. (All leaves loose, dampstain in bottom margin affecting most leaves, small wormhole in bottom margin, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary green half-morocco by J. Wright, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt edges (hinges split and stitching perished, joints starting at head, paper sides worn, some scuffing, extremities rubbed).
'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-20 and during this period made a large number of sketches and drawings recording the life and landscape of India. This copy is the third issue of the work (the first being bound from parts, the second bound as two volumes without part titles, and finally this, the third, bound with one title), in a binding by John Wright (d.1854)-- 'a binder of the highest order' (Ramsden, London Book Binders, p.154). Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley (1954) 239.
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1826]-1830. 6 parts in 1 vol., 2° (400 x 305mm). Coloured engraved title, and 36 coloured aquatints on thick paper, with plate 36 bound as frontispiece, 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. (All leaves loose, dampstain in bottom margin affecting most leaves, small wormhole in bottom margin, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary green half-morocco by J. Wright, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt edges (hinges split and stitching perished, joints starting at head, paper sides worn, some scuffing, extremities rubbed).
'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-20 and during this period made a large number of sketches and drawings recording the life and landscape of India. This copy is the third issue of the work (the first being bound from parts, the second bound as two volumes without part titles, and finally this, the third, bound with one title), in a binding by John Wright (d.1854)-- 'a binder of the highest order' (Ramsden, London Book Binders, p.154). Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley (1954) 239.
A top price for Robert Melville Grindlay
This artwork by Robert Melville Grindlay achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in September 2007. In the Exploration and Travel auction, the work Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India sold for GBP 11,250.00 (€ 16,131.67) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 6,000.00. This high result makes Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India the most expensive artwork by Robert Melville Grindlay that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Robert Melville Grindlay
Dieses Kunstwerk von Robert Melville Grindlay erzielte im September 2007 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Exploration and Travel wurde die Arbeit Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India für GBP 11.250,00 (€ 16.131,67) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 6.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Robert Melville Grindlay, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Robert Melville Grindlay - Auction history
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