THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 6 APRIL 2025

72 128 Countess Markievicz watercolour drawing of Wolfe Tone’s Grave at Bodenstown, Co. Kildare. Watercolour over pencil, signed initials lower right. Drawn on the blank front of a Reeves’ drawing- paper postcard. Inscribed on rear, probably in the artist’s hand, ‘Rough watercolour wash by Countess Markievicz of Wolfe Tone’s grave at the annual pilgrimage 1911’. 3.50 by 5.50in. (8.9 by 14cm) Condition: Fine, attractively framed and glazed. Provenance: Mealy’s, December 1999 lot 52, when laid into a book signed by the artist from the library at Lissadell, Co. Sligo (home of the Gore-Booth family). Adam’s, 12 April 2006, lot 408; Private collection. Estimate €1,500-€2,000 (approx £1,250-£1,670) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 128 129 1916 Roger Casement glass slides. A box of nine 3¼-inch square glass ‘Imperial Process Plates’ negatives, including a Casement being led from Court, a photograph of Casement seated, dated April 17, 1915, a photograph of a crowd gathered outside a prison gate, etc. Also a scrapbook with news cuttings relating to, among others, Roger Casement, and an In Memoriam 4 page card listing casualties and ‘executed by Englush Law, 1916 Condition: Mainly fine, worth reprinting Historical Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 129