Allan Price GRAHAM (1934 – 2003) “Teeing Off At Dunbar”

Watercolour. Signed lower left. Titled verso behind frame.

Frame size: 14 inches x 12¼ inches  (35.5 cms x 31 cms)

Stock no: g/3337

Price: £110.00

Landscape painter in watercolour, draughtsman .He was born at South Shields, and after some encouragement to pursue a career in art while at school attended St. Michaels Art School in the town. While there, he won Sunday Pictorial art competition, and completed his studies with many accolades for his work, and again encouragement to pursue a career in art. However, following his two years’ national service in Egypt, he felt obliged to help his family and instead applied to join an advertising agency in Newcastle as a graphic artist. During this time he also attended evening classes at King’s College (now Newcastle University), and was much influenced by tutors Victor Pasmore and Roger de Grey, but had little opportunity to indulge his early love of painting and drawing. He later worked in many other graphics studios and eventually opened his own such establishment. This was later expanded to encompass the Dean Gallery, Newcastle, and to eventually absorb his time as gallery director. For many years only an occasional painter, following the closure of the gallery in 2002, became a full-time professional artist. He died at Newcastle. His work is represented in numerous private collections around the world.

“The Mad Thatcher’s “T” Party”

 Watercolour/ gouache . Signed.   

Frame size: 17½ inches x 19 inches (44.5 cms x 48 cms)

Stock no:g/4378

Price: 485.00

Paul Cemmick started drawing cartoons as a child by copying Popeye, Tom and Jerry and The Flintstones from his gran’s TV. Since then he has contributed cartoon illustrations and comic strips to numerous magazines and newspapers as well as working on three award winning TV shows-

Spitting Image, Tony Robinson’s Maid Marian and her Merry Men and, more recently, he was one of the three main artists on the animated satire show- 2DTV. He is currently producing comic strips for the BBC

He lives in Hove with a stuffed piranha and a life mask of Vincent Price.

 For more information visit:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cemmick

A signed watercolour depicting the west view of the east end of Tynemouth Priory.

Washmounted.Frame size: 18½ inches x 25 inches (47 cms x 63.5 cms)

Stock no:g/3791

Price: £195.00

Amateur topographical artist, lithographer and politician, was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He assisted his father as a scenic artist at Covent Garden before coming to Australia and settling in Victoria. From March to June 1884 cartoons signed ‘W. E. Johnson’ appeared in the Democrat (Sydney), according to Gibbney no.114. An original pro-suffrage cartoon signed W.E. Johnson is in the Mitchell Library.

Johnson also made lithographic views, e.g. Collins Place [Melbourne] (LT), Cottage, Smith’s Hill, South Yarra (NLA) and Rocks area, Sydney (LT). He did the first drawings of the Government Camp and other features of early Canberra. He was a Federal MP and Speaker of the House of Reps in 1913-14 and 1917-23.

“Wallknoll (sic) Tower Shipwrights Hall 1832, Town Wall Newcastle on Tyne”

and

“Herber Tower   Curriers Hall    Town Wall    Newcastle”

The Herber or Heber tower, stands at the end of Stowell Street. It was granted to the Company of Paviors, Colliers and Carriers in the 19th century. The Wall Knoll Tower is currently known as the Sallyport Tower.

Both mounted in their original gesso frames, these having overpaint in gold. Original, inscribed mounts. Both watercolours have not been removed from their frames.

Some discolouration on the mounts, and slight damage to bottom right hand corner to the frame containing Herber Tower.

Both watercolours have a wonderful, naive quality, both in original condition.

The largest measuring approx 11 inches x 10 inches (28 cms x  26 cms);

smallest 9 inches x 9¾ inches (23.5 cms x 24.2 cms)

Stock mo: IOM/X01

£120.00 pr.

Some remains of town wall, dating from before 1246, for which first murage was granted in 1265 and grants were nearly continuous until 1384. From 1403 onwards money came from other sources such as fines. The remains include five bastions (the best preserved is Heber Tower), a postern gate tower (Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower) and two corbelled turrets. The medieval bridge over the Tyne was fortified with a tower on the bridge and a gate at the end of the bridge. The best preserved section contains ‘Ever, Morden and Heber towers, two towers and two sections of town ditch. The monument is situated between St Andrews Street and Bath Lane and runs parrallel to Stowell Street. This section of the town defences represents part of the western side of the circuit and includes a 214 metres upstanding section of the curtain wall, three towers and remains of two turrents and two posterns. Outside the wall there is a berm and ditch. The latter is partially visible as an earthwork since a limited excavation and display in the late 1980s. (PastScape)’
They are several Calendar of Patent Rolls entries regarding the collectors of murage in 1280 which suggest some corruption and which, also, put some murage towards repair of the castle. Another CPR entry in 1280 calls the walls ‘new’. The 1327 murage grant (The first calendared in detail) mentions seacoal in a long list of other goods – it is not listed in other towns grants but in 1372 a specific toll just on coal is calendared suggesting that by the late C14 coal was Newcastle’s prime export

Small chip to the border. Plate unmarked, probably Staffordshire, c.1860

8¼ inches diameter (21 cms)

Stock no:g/2678

Price: £29.00

Smal chip to the border. Pltae unmarked, probably Stafordshire, c.1860

8¼ inches diameter (21 cms)

Stock no:g/2677

Price: £29.00

Perfect condition. The glass has not been washed, and still holds some orginal dirt on and under the foot.

5⅛ inches tall (13 cms)

Stock no: g/4663

Price: £SOLD

Publisher unknown. Provenance: Castell Antiquarian Prints.

Mounted in a Hogart type frame.

Dimensions: 12¾ inches x 9¼ inches (32.3 cms x 23.5 cms)

Stock no: IOM/X

Price: £SOLD

(1784 – 1848)

“Cullercoats Bay and the Coal  Staithes, Low Lights,North Shields”

Both framed as a pair. Frame sizes 15 inches x 19 inches (38 cms x 48.3 cms) 

Coloured aquatints. Circa 1810. 

Stock no: APL/X0 

Price: £260.00 pair.

Newcastle landscape painter and watercolourist. He and Thomas Bewick,organised the first Fine Art Exhibition in the North of England and helped to found the Northern Academy of Arts. He exhibited at the Royal Academy 1814-45; the Society of British Artists (Suffolk Street); The Royal Watercolour Society, and the New Watercolour Society.

A major exhibition of his was held at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle in 1906.

Represented: British Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum; National Gallery of Ireland; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Derby City A.G.; Grosvenor Museum, Chester; Laing A.G.,Newcastle; Leeds City A.g., Manchester city A.G.; Portsmouth City Museum; Reading A.G.; Shipley A.G., Gateshead Sunderland A.G; Walker A.G., Liverpool

East View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the

River Wear, at Sunderland

To Rowland Burdon Esq M.P. by Whom this Excellent piece of Mechanism was invented & under whose Patronage it has been carried into Execution This East view of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland in the County of Durham, previous to the Centre being taken down, Is respectfully dedicated by His hunble Servant Robert Clarke.

 Robert. Clarke Del.  J. Raffield sculpt.

Published Oct. 1st, 1796. by J. &. J. Taylor at the Architectural Library High Holborn.

 A very scarce aquatint .

Frame size 25 inches x 35 inches (63.5 cms x 89 cms)

 Stock no: g/4641

Price: £SOLD