Artwork of, and collected by, Gordon Bottomley. Includes works by James Hamilton Hay, Chalres Ricketts, and James Guthrie, works relating to Pear Tree Press and Iona Press, and work relating to Bottomley's theatrical productions.
Contains Bottomley’s own sketches and watercolours (where identified). Also contains a sketch by Alfred Bottomley, dated 1860, and Emily Burton’s sketchbook. Bottomley's work includes charcoal copies of work by Samuel Palmer and John Sell Cotman, and a pencil copy of Edward Burne Jones's 'The Eve...
Artwork and proofs for publications of the Iona Press, printed and published by William Muir and John McCormick, and illustrated by J. C. Nicol, W. C. Ward, Charles McEwen and B. A. Waldram.
Contains four small watercolours (1894; 3 mounted together: 1893, n.d.); a pencil sketch (1894); two pen-and-ink sketches (1893, nd); eleven signed prints – mostly etchings (1894-1910, n.d.); and two silverpoint portraits. Together with a photograph of Hay and another of Hay with his family. Toge...
Original artwork for Gordon Bottomley’s theatrical productions
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Original artwork for Bottomley’s theatrical productions by Charles Ricketts and others. Includes Mary Kelly’s designs for The White Widow, photographs of Paul Nash’s stage designs, handcoloured prints of illustrations of actors and actresses by Pamela Colman Smith, and notes on costume design by...
Assorted original artworks and portrait prints. Includes a silverpoint portrait of James Hamilton Hay by Clinton Balmer, and a caricature of Bottomley [by Paul Nash?], together with etchings including one of Bottomley by A. Hugh Fisher, and others of Emily Bottomley and Alfred Bottomley, as well...
Original artwork, engravings, woodcuts, etc, by Bottomley’s other artist friends: Clinton Balmer (including silverpoint portraits of Bottomley, and with a silverpoint portrait of Balmer by W. Alison Martin); Edwin Balmer; Constance G. Copeman; M. W. Dodd; A. Hugh Fisher; B. J. Fletcher; Reginald ...