Captain Robert Melville Grindlay
Unknown
Estimate: 7.000 - 9.000 GBP
Price realised: 10.000 GBP
Price realised: 10.000 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. 6 parts in one vol., 2° (407 x 313mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, and 36 hand-coloured aquatints on thick paper with plate 36 bound as frontispiece as issued, by Reeve, Fielding and others after Grindlay, Daniell and others. (Occasional light spotting, mainly confined to plate guards.) Contemporary red half morocco by J. Wright, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed).
'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). A bright example with little of the spotting common in many copies. Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-1820 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). Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley 239.
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1826]-1830. 6 parts in one vol., 2° (407 x 313mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, and 36 hand-coloured aquatints on thick paper with plate 36 bound as frontispiece as issued, by Reeve, Fielding and others after Grindlay, Daniell and others. (Occasional light spotting, mainly confined to plate guards.) Contemporary red half morocco by J. Wright, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed).
'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). A bright example with little of the spotting common in many copies. Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-1820 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). Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley 239.
Upper estimated price slightly exceeded
The work Unknown by Robert Melville Grindlay was auctioned at Christies in London in October 2012. Here, the upper estimate of GBP 9,000.00 was slightly exceeded - the artwork found a new owner for GBP 10,000.00 (€ 12,433.25). 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 Unknown von Robert Melville Grindlay kam im Oktober 2012 bei Christies in London zur Auktion. Dabei wurde der obere Schätzpreis von GBP 9.000,00 leicht übertroffen – das Kunstwerk fand für GBP 10.000,00 (€ 12.433,25) einen neuen Besitzer. 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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