Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 14, 2023
Three Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Bird Prints
Est: $300 - $500
(English, 1807-1804) Some foxing and mat burn. Sight size: 18-1/4"h x 12-1/2"w Overall: 27"h x 21-1/2"w
Nye & Company
Dec. 07, 2022
"Tawny Eagle" Litho by Waterhouse Hawkins
Est: $200 - $400
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (English, 1807-1894). A colored lithograph on paper, depicting the "Tawny Eagle" from his series of 6 impressions for John Edward Gray's "Illustrations of Indian Zoology". Housed in a veneered frame. 18" x 12.5" (sight), 29" x 23" (framed). From the estate and lifelong collection of William Garrett Hodges (1946-2014). Hodges was a Virginia-based dealer of fine arts, with specialization in prints and rare books, having collected for decades. He supplied and consulted various groups on antiquities throughout his career, including the White House, the Vice President's residence, the FBI, and multiple film and television series.
Caza Sikes
Nov. 16, 2020
A quantity of late 19thC monochrome lithographic and lithotint plates depicting animals. Some after
Est: £80 - £120
A quantity of late 19thC monochrome lithographic and lithotint plates depicting animals. Some after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), Drawn from Nature series, to include, Australian Sea Bear, False Sea Leopard, Hooker's Sea Bear, together with bats, rodents, etc. Others depicting ornithological subjects printed by Hullmandel to include birds such as Bernicla Inornata, Nesonetta Auclandica, Podiceps Rufopectus, Halcyon Vagans. Together with others. (Approx. 30)
Claydon Auctioneers
Jul. 31, 2020
Hawkins (Benjamin Waterhouse)
Est: £200 - £300
Hawkins (Benjamin Waterhouse) The Shielded Leged Horned Owl , and 10 other plates for J.E. Gray’s ‘Illustrations of Indian Zoology, chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke’, including Plain Fishing Eagle and Small Paradise Bird, others of partridges, herons, woodpeckers, pheasant and bustard, also a duplicate of the first named, original hand-coloured lithographs on Whatman wove paper, each c.430 x 325 mm, one trimmed with loss of title, the duplicate damp-stained, two or three others affected with surface dust and other occasional minor defects, [1830-34] (11) *** Thomas Hardwicke (1756-1835) served for many years in the British East India Company army, and was a noted naturalist who gathered numerous specimens, often new to science, which he had recorded by Indian artists. Following his return to England he collaborated with J.E. Gray to produce the publication from which this plate is taken. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), was a keen naturalist and palaeontologist, artist and sculptor, perhaps most famous for creating the dinosaurs that populated the park in Sydenham that housed the relocated Crystal Palace in the 1850s, and going on to produce similar creations in the 1860s and ’70s in America.
Chiswick Auctions
Jul. 28, 2019
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) British Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae, The Emu John Gould's Birds of Australia 1840-1848 Pl Hand..
Est: $1,400 - $1,600
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) British Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae, The Emu John Gould's Birds of Australia 1840-1848 Handcoloured lithograph, pub. Hullmandel & Walton 35 x 54 cm
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Feb. 27, 2019
Hawkins (Benjamin Waterhouse, drawn & lith.) Lined Fishing Eagle (Haliætus lineatus), lithograph with hand-colouring, from Illustrations of Indian Zoology by John Edward Gray, minor browning, 480 x 330 mm, printed by Engelmann & Co., 1830-34; Keulemans (John Gerrard) Turnstone. Strepsilas Interpres, coloured lithograph, mounted, 200 x 220 mm, c.1875; and a quantity of similar natural history lithographs by Jerdon, Lodge, Lydon (small quantity)
Est: £200 - £300
Hawkins (Benjamin Waterhouse, drawn & lith.) Lined Fishing Eagle (Haliætus lineatus), lithograph with hand-colouring, from Illustrations of Indian Zoology by John Edward Gray, minor browning, 480 x 330 mm, printed by Engelmann & Co., 1830-34; Keulemans (John Gerrard) Turnstone. Strepsilas Interpres, coloured lithograph, mounted, 200 x 220 mm, c.1875; and a quantity of similar natural history lithographs by Jerdon, Lodge, Lydon (small quantity)
Chiswick Auctions
Oct. 28, 2017
Gray's Menagerie at Knowsley Hall - Hoofed Quads
Est: $10,000 - $12,000
Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall - Hoofed Quadrupeds. GRAY, John Edward (1800-1875)- HAWKINS, Benjamin Waterhouse (1807-1894). Knowsley: Privately Printed, 1850. Folio (21 6/8 x 15 inches). 40 FINE hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after Waterhouse Hawkins, 7 printed in colors and hand-finished, 6 tinted lithographs and 8 uncoloured, printed by M'Lean & Co., or Hullmandel & Walton (without one plate, one or two plates close cropped affecting the caption). Original green cloth, gilt (rebacked in FINE green morocco gilt by Trevor Lloyd with the Knowsley crest in gilt at the head of the spine). Provenance: Blind library stamp of Wigan Free Public Library on the title-page and each plate. First edition, limited issue, probably one of only 100 copies printed. Lord Derby's menagerie was one of the largest private zoological gardens in England, occupying 100 acres of land, and 70 of water. Derby is know to have spent much of his own time caring for the menagerie and writing extensively about it. At his death the living collections included 345 mammals of 94 species (principally antelopes, many of which are illustrated in this book), the majority of them bread at Knowsley. His aviaries contained 1272 birds of 318 species (excluding poultry). After Derby's death some of the living animals were given to the Zoological Society in Regent's Park; the queen selected two black-necked swans and five rare Impeyan pheasants for her own gardens. The remainder were sold at auction in October 1851 but realized only £7000. Derby was regarded as one of the "figureheads of the science of zoological classification, particularly the taxonomy of birds. He was president of the Linnean Society of London from 1828 to 1834, and president of the Zoological Society of London for twenty years from 1831 until his death...He actively encouraged collectors in the field, such as Thomas Bridges in South America, Joseph Burke in South Africa and North America, John MacGillivray in Australia and Indonesia, and Thomas Whitfield in west Africa. With contributions from such individuals, and from other zoological contacts, he formed at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool, a private and very extensive menagerie of birds and mammals. His record of keeping and breeding rare and later extinct species of bird is still regarded as extraordinary; he was the first to breed in captivity such species as the nene (or Hawaiian goose) and the passenger pigeon. He was probably the first person to breed the Australian budgerigar in captivity in Britain, hatching two chicks in his aviaries in February 1848. Fish and reptiles were also kept in the Knowsley collections; the first live African lungfish (Protopterus sp.) seen in Britain were brought there from the Gambia in 1843. They were placed in warm tanks within the plant-houses and successfully induced from their mud cocoons (Clemency Thorne Fisher for DNB). The fine lithographs of the animals in Derby's menagerie were drawn from life by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, who specialized in natural history subjects and who had prepared the plates for 'Illustrations of Indian Zoology' (1830-35), also edited by Gray. He also contributed forty-nine plates, illustrating fish and reptiles, to Charles Darwin's 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle'. However, he is best known for creating with Richard Owen at the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 "the first major public display of the progression of life on earth, comprising life-sized iron and stone models of fourteen genera of extinct animals, together with reconstructions of fossil plants and geological strata. He held a dinner party on 31 December 1853 in the mould of the largest model, of the dinosaur Iguanodon. The Crystal Palace work was terminated in the summer of 1855, with the display incomplete, but it made a significant contribution to popular understanding of the nature of the development of life on earth and now provides an important insight into palaeontological knowledge in the mid-1850s" (Steve McCarthy for DNB). Edward Lear had been engaged at Knowsley from 1832 to 1836 and had drawn nine birds, seven mammals and a turtle for the first volume of the "Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall" published in 1846, also with text by Gray. Gray was a formidable natural historian of his day, in addition to being Keeper of the British Museum form 1840-1856, during which he fostered the concept of the British Museum as a comprehensive national institution for natural history and helped to make it one of the foremost museums in the world, Gray was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1832. He was a founder member of the Zoological Society in 1826 (vice-president in 1865-74), of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, of the Entomological Society in 1833 (president, 1858-9), of the Botanical Society of London in 1836 (president, 1836-57), and of the Palaeontographical Society in 1847. In 1854 the University of Munich conferred on him the honorary degree of doctor philosophiae in recognition of his having formed the largest zoological collection in Europe. (R. J. Cleevely for DNB). BM(NH) II,p.713; see Nissen ZBI 1691. Guidance: Sotheby's, November 15, 2001 - 12,900 GBP
Arader Galleries
Sep. 25, 2015
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (British, 1807-1894) Four studies of Pheasantslithographs, unframed18 x 13in. (46 x 33cm.). (4)
Est: £120 - £150
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (British, 1807-1894) Four studies of Pheasants lithographs, unframed 18 x 13in. (46 x 33cm.). (4)
Martel Maides
Sep. 25, 2015
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (British, 1807-1894) Three studies of Herons and an Owllithographs, unframed18 x 13in. (46 x 33cm.). (3)
Est: £100 - £150
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (British, 1807-1894) Three studies of Herons and an Owl lithographs, unframed 18 x 13in. (46 x 33cm.). (3)
Martel Maides
Sep. 16, 2015
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) - Argus Pheasant Hen
Est: £100 - £150
Lithograph, with hand colouring, on wove paper Published by Englemann & Co., c.1850 33 x 41 cm. (13 x 16 in) Together with a pair of etchings of tropical birds, by George Edwards (1694-1773) , with hand colouring, circa 1755, each c. 24 x 19 cm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/2); and with a pair of engravings of a canary and a gold finch, by Elizabeth Albin, hand coloured, each c.21 x 16 cm. (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in); and an engraving of a roebuck, with hand colouring, by another hand, (6)
Dreweatts 1759
Sep. 21, 2014
B. Waterhouse Hawkins, "Aequetoon - Damalis," c. 1900, colored antelope print, presented in a paint washed frame, H.- 12 1/2 in., W....
Est: $300 - $500
B. Waterhouse Hawkins, "Aequetoon - Damalis," c. 1900, colored antelope print, presented in a paint washed frame, H.- 12 1/2 in., W.- 17 1/2 in.
Crescent City Auction Gallery
Feb. 11, 2014
Benhamin Waterhouse Hawkins - Coloured lithograph
Est: £100 - £150
Benhamin Waterhouse Hawkins - Coloured lithograph - "Black Cobra Capello", 17ins x 12ins, published by Treuttel & Wertz, Soho Square, in ebonised frame and glazed
Canterbury Auction Galleries
Jan. 22, 2014
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894)
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) >Six Plates of Eagles, from: John Edward Gray (1800-1875), Illustrations of Indian Zoology<br>a set of six hand-coloured lithographs, on wove paper, 1830-1834, with binding holes along the left sheet edges, occasional pale foxing, generally in good condition, each framed >Image: 450 x 300 mm. (and similar); Sheet: 476 x 337 mm. (and similar)<br>
Christie's
Oct. 02, 2013
WATERHOUS HAWKINS 'Argus Pheasant Hen',
Est: £30 - £50
WATERHOUS HAWKINS 'Argus Pheasant Hen', lithograph, hand-coloured, printed by Engelmann & Co, 13" x 18 1/4"; and two further lithographs depicting exotic birds (3)
Mallams
Nov. 21, 2009
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (British, 1807-1894)
Est: $350 - $500
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (British, 1807-1894) "Aequetoon Damalis", from John Edward Gray's Gleaning From the Menagerie at Knowsley, hand-colored lithograph printed by McLean & Co., sight 11-1/4" x 16-1/2". Glazed, matted and presented in a molded giltwood frame.
St Charles Gallery
May. 30, 2009
Two Benjamin Hawkins lithographs (Benjamin
Est: $150 - $250
Two Benjamin Hawkins lithographs (Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, British, 1807-1894), possibly from John Edward Gray, Illustrations of Indian Zoology, London, 1829(?)-1834: Crabo Javannica, or Javan Cormorant, 5-1/2 in. tear with tape stain; Centropus Sirkee, or Sirkeer Cuckoo, hand-colored lithographs on wove paper, unframed, approximately 13-3/8 x 19 in. Pencil inscriptions front and verso, paper tape verso all edges. Walter C. Barnwell Collection (label verso)
Brunk Auctions