BRAZIL, CAPE VERDE, TENERIFE and elsewhere. - A. W. GESTLING (artist)
An album containing original sketches (pencil, pen and wash), about half topographical and apparently sketched from life.
[Various locations]: Waterlow & Sons, Stationers, [circa 1900 -1915].
Small oblong folio. 31 leaves (62 pages) , with sketches on 16 pages. (Signs that two leaves have been removed, occasional offsetting of sketches onto the facing page, but otherwise in excellent condition internally.)
Original leather-backed cloth-covered boards (extremities worn, ties lacking).
Provenance: A.W. Gestling (ownership inscription dated 1900, most sketches initialed ''A.W.G.'); 'Gertrude' (inscription noting gift of album to 'Gertrude').
An interesting selection by a gifted amateur who visited some of the more remote south Atlantic locations, probably in the period just before and at the very start of the First World War.The artist started at one end of the album, shut the book turned it over and started again from the 'back' of the album.
The sketches are as follows:
1. Martín García Island (aka Isla Martín García) is an island in the Río de la Plata, now part of Argentina, purple crayon
2. Cape Verde (aka Cabo Verde), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, pencil, initialed
3. "Greek Marine [?] War[ship] / S. Vincent" - possibly Greek Naval Cruiser "Miaoulis II" - the first Greek warship to visit the United States, pencil, initialed
4. Tenerife, pencil, initialed
5. 'Hole in the Wall Fdo Naronha' , Ponta da Sapata, Fernando de Noronha - Pernambuco - Brazil, purple crayon
6. 'Peak Fdo Naronha', Morro do Pico, Fernando de Noronha - Pernambuco - Brazil, purple crayon
7.'Fernandez Naronha', Fernando de Noronha - Pernambuco - Brazil, purple crayon
8. 'Fernandez Naronha Peak', Morro do Pico, Fernando de Noronha - Pernambuco - Brazil, purple crayon
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9. 'Santos 1915' poss. Santos Brazil, pencil
10. [English scene: bridge, watering horses], pencil and wash
11. [English scene: horse], pen and ink
12. [rowing boats on a seashore], pen and ink, initialed
13. "After Y. King / Water Mill", pen and ink, ?after Henry John Yeend KING (1855-1924), initialed
14. [English scene: lobsterman at work], pen, ink and wash, initialed
15. [resting tiger], pen, ink and wash, initialed
16. "War Horse", dated 1901, initialed
- Binding Condition: acceptable
- Overall Condition: excellent internally
- Size: 9 x 11 1/2in; 229 x 292mm
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