There is art by Mark O’Neill, Maurice Wilks, Brian Ballard, James Cahill, Annie Robinson, Orla Egan, John Morris and many others at Dolan’s art and antiques sale at Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on January 17. Books include An Irish Florilegium; Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland (both volumes) with illustrations of watercolour paintings by the artist Wendy Walsh who died in 2014 aged 98. The originals are in the permanent collection of the library of the Botanic Gardens in Dublin. There is a first edition of Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce, Cuala Press broadsides from 1909 and Parliamentary Bills of Cork maritime and railway interest.
There is Victorian and Edwardian furniture, Victorian brass fenders and candlesticks, a pair of pewter canisters from Lissadell House, a silver Christening mug and hip flask. Plated items include a box and prayer book which was a wedding present inscribed and dated the morning of the Easter Rising, April 24, 1916. The sale will feature porcelain, glass and a selection of American comic books. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
William Tatton Winter RBA
1855 – 1928
A STREET CAUDEBEC-EN-CAUX, NORMANDY
Watercolour (600-800).
Frank Egginton RCA FIAL
1908 – 1990
A SUNNY EVENING, CO. MAYO, watercolour (800-1,200).
An Irish Florilegium, Wild and Garden
Plants of Ireland, Volumes I & II,
Illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with
sucscribers list to volume II, Signed
by Wendy Walsh and Charles Nelson (950-1,250).
The Circus comes to town by Orla Egan (300-500).