THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 6 APRIL 2025

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTlON 6 APRIL 2025 183 316 1816. A watercolour of the death mask of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A rare portrait of the famous Irish born playwright and theatre owner. 9.50 by 7.50in. (24.1 by 19.1cm) Condition: Fine, attractively framed and glazed. Estimate €400-€600 (approx £330-£500) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 316 317 1825. ‘A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice. ToWhich is Annexed, a Polar Pastoral... By a Lady’ 1825, H.R. Thomas, London, Westley & Tyrell, Dublin. Second Edition. octavo, 40 hand-coloured woodcut illustrations (20 full-page), 4pp. of advertisements at end. Rare. 7 by 4.50in. (17.8 by 11.4cm) Condition: Quarter calf gilt, marbled boards, rubbed, bumped , stained, some pencil annotations and slight stains to some pages, otherwise very good. Thought to be the work of Lady Louisa FitzGerald Lyon (1798-1826), daughter of Lord Edward FitzGerald, Irish revolutionary killed in 1798. She was the wife of Captain George Lyon who travelled with Sir William Edward Parry on his Polar expeditions, or written by Mary Love, a Canadian; both attributions are without firm evidence. The ilustrations are derived from the illustrations by George Lyon published in Parry’s Journal Of A Second Voyage For The Dis Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 317