James (1803) Johnson Sold at Auction Prices

ANTIQUE OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING OF A BOY WITH TATTERED CLOTHING. SIGNED *JAMES JOHNSON* LOWER RIGHT. 7 1/2 X 11 1/2 INCHES. FRAME HAS LOSSES.

ANTIQUE OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING OF A BOY WITH TATTERED CLOTHING. SIGNED *JAMES JOHNSON* LOWER RIGHT. 7 1/2 X 11 1/2 INCHES. FRAME HAS LOSSES.

James Johnson, Monkey Girl, Epoxy Resin Sculpture

Artist: James Johnson || Title: Monkey Girl || Year: 2002 || Medium: Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature inscribed || Size: 18 in. x 30 in. x 4 in. (45.72 cm x 76.2 cm x 10.16 cm)

James Johnson BUST OF BOY WITH CIGARETTE oil on canvas signed lower left James Johnson 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"

James Johnson BUST OF BOY WITH CIGARETTE oil on canvas signed lower left James Johnson 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"

James Johnson, Monkey Girl, Epoxy Resin Sculpture

Artist: James Johnson - Title: Monkey Girl - Year: 2002 - Medium: Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature inscribed - Size: 18 in. x 30 in. x 4 in. (45.72 cm x 76.2 cm x 10.16 cm)

RITSON,

Joseph (editor, 1752-1803). Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, London: T. Egerton and J. Johnson, 1795. 2 volumes, 8o (192 x 120mm). Half titles, wood-engraved vignettes. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary polished speckled calf, spines elaborately gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, yellow edges (extremities very lightly rubbed, a few scuff marks). Provenance : Lord W. Kerr (book label). FIRST EDITION. With 20 other works by, or edited by, Joseph Ritson in 29 volumes including A Select Collection of English Songs (London, 1783, 3 vols.) and Ancient English Metrical Romances (London, 1802, 3 vols.), in uniform or near-uniform contemporary calf bindings. (31).

Petrus Nefors (Belgian, 1790-1876) H.M.S."Castor" running down the Cameleon (sic) cutter off Dover

Signed with initials P.N., inscribed and dated Aut 27 1834, reverse painting on glass. 48.2 x 61 cms (19 x 24 ins) At 6.15am. on 27th August 1834, the large 80-ton revenue cutter "Chameleon" was lying-to off the Shakespeare Cliff at Dover when she was run down by the 36-gun frigate H.M.S. "Castor" in perfect visibility. Witnesses who had just observed "Castor" passing Dover harbour stated her speed to be about 10 knots and such was the force of the impact when she hit "Chameleon" that the cutter sank almost immediately. Two men and two boys jumped overboard and were picked up by the "Castor" but thirteen men, including her captain Lieutenant John Pratbent, R.N., were trapped below decks and drowned. The commander of the "Castor", Captain Lord John Hay, was asleep at the time of the accident and it was his officer of the watch, Lieutenant James Johnson McCleverty, who was subsequently court-martialled, found guilty of negligence and dismissed the service. Newspaper coverage of the incident was extensive and unanimous in its condemnation of "Castor", one particularly critical report stating: "Perhaps a more extraordinary accident never occurred. It was broad daylight. The frigate must have had the cutter in full sight for 7 miles, and she bore straight upon her, under her top-gallant sails, going with a spanking northerly breeze, from 12 to 14 knots an hour, took the cutter full amidships, and drove her to the bottom in an instant, with scarcely a shock to herself." Photocopied extracts from several contemporary newspapers are included in the lot.

James Johnson, (British 1803-1834) Montacute House, Somerset 9 3/8 x 16 1/2 in. (22.7 x 42 cm.)