Strauss & co - 15 March 2010, Cape Town

67 175 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 Etchings 1912 A large cloth-bound album containing 18 etchings of landscapes and other subjects, 1912-1934, an incomplete title page design, a full-page dedication “To Bill, Christmas, 1934, from Dad”, hand-written index page numbered 1-50, consisting of 33 titles, all etchings signed, numbered, inscribed with the title and dated, all with full margins, various sizes, some pages missing or cut, some with slight foxing. Titles include: Cottage Groot [sic] Schuur; Waiting; Valley of Desolation; Bechuanaland Mission Bell; At Hermanus; At Humewood; Fisherman, Knysna; The Lighthouse, Mossel Bay; Hout Bay; Table Mountain from Robben Island; At Jonkershoek; At Stellenbosch; The Old Fort, Grahamstown; Prince Alfred’s Pass; In the Durban Docks; Grotesque; Black Walls, Old Fort Mombasa; and The Owl size of album: 54,5 by 41cm R70 000 – 90 000 PROVENANCE Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, Works from The Studio of William Timlin, 7 December 1994, lot 456 170 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Castle Gateway, Cape Town signed and inscribed with the title and no 24 in pencil in the margin, signed with the artist’s owl device mark in the plate hand coloured etching 30 by 19,5cm R2 000 – 3 000 171 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Castle, Cape Town signed, inscribed with the title and no 5 in pencil in the margin and with the artist’s owl device mark in the plate hand coloured etching 20 by 24cm R2 000 – 3 000 172 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 Old Drostdy, Swellendam signed and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin and with the artist’s owl device mark in the plate etching 21 by 26cm R2 000 – 3 000 173 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Old Fort, Grahamstown signed and inscribed with the title and no 4 in pencil in the margin, signed with the owl device mark in the plate etching 20 by 14,5cm R1 500 – 2 000 174 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 A Bechuanaland Mission Bell signed in pencil in the margin, signed with the artist’s owl device mark etching 22,5 by 14,5cm R1 500 – 2 000 PROVENANCE Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, Johannesburg, 6 November 2000, lot 94 175