Henry Roberts Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Henry Roberts Art Value Price Guide

May. 26, 2024
HENRY ROBERTS (1756 - 1796), "Plan of Adventure Bay on Van Diemen's Land..." and "View of the South Side of Adventure Bay.", copper plate engravings on a single sheet; some hand colouring, From Cook & King: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, for making
Est: $150 - $200
HENRY ROBERTS (1756 - 1796), "Plan of Adventure Bay on Van Diemen's Land..." and "View of the South Side of Adventure Bay.", copper plate engravings on a single sheet; some hand colouring, From Cook & King: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore.....", c.1784, 20.5 x 25cm; framed 54 x 43cm overall. Adventure Bay is on Bruny Island on the east coast of Tasmania
Leski Auctions Pty Ltd
Apr. 12, 2022
(Attributed to Henry Roberts, 1756 - 1796) A Drawing with Watercolour Highlights of HMS Resolution (c. 1773)
Est: £10,000 - £20,000
From the Collection of Admiral Grindall, an Able Seaman aboard Captain Cook?s Resolution during his second circumnavigation; thence by direct descent through his family. Attributed to Henry Roberts, 1756 - 1796. A drawing with watercolour highlights of HMS Resolution. On paper. c. 1773. Copiously inscribed to the reverse. Unrestored. This drawing was likely executed by Roberts, who was aboard the Resolution, while she was off the coast of Tahiti between August 16, 1773 and August 24, 1773 (cf. Georg Forster's account of the journey below). (in ink) "The Resolution Capt: Cooke" (in pencil) "Forster Matara, Hodges Oreo, Grindall Terino, Sparrman Pamanee, George Teoree." These were the names given to members of the crew by the Tahitians whom they encountered as they were unable to pronounce the English names. This fact is documented in Georg Forster's A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years 1772, 3, 4, 5. Georg Forster, the celebrated naturalist, accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on Cook's second circumnavigation aboard the Resolution. Forster's account of the journey, especially his observations of the people of Polynesia, was significant both as an ethnographic work and as a contribution to the bourgeoning genre of scientific travel literature. He was subsequently admitted to the Royal Society at the age of twenty-two. Dimensions: 4 in (H) x 3 in (W)
Sloane Street Auctions
Mar. 18, 2021
Henry Roberts (1756 - 1796) Carte Generale offrant les decouvertes faites par le Capitaine Jacques Cook dans ce voyage et dans les d...
Est: $300 - $500
Henry Roberts (1756 - 1796) Carte Generale offrant les decouvertes faites par le Capitaine Jacques Cook dans ce voyage et dans les deux voyages precedens, ansi que la route des vaisseaux qu'il commandoit. hand-coloured copper engraving 57.5 x 90 cm (frame: 103 x 131 x 3 cm) .
Lawsons
Jul. 19, 2012
Henry Abraham Roberts (19th Century) The old
Est: £40 - £60
Henry Abraham Roberts (19th Century) The old gardener, signed in pencil, watercolour and pencil, 13 ½" x 10"
Mallams
Apr. 10, 2003
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD CARLTON HOUSE DESK
Est: $23,850 - $39,750
The rectangular top with raised superstructure of six small cedar-lined drawers and two secret drawers below a three-quarter pierced baluster brass gallery, curving round a black leather-lined writing-surface with ratcheted slope, above three mahogany-lined frieze drawers, on turned tapering legs headed by tasselled collars, brass caps and castors, the handles, gallery and castors replaced 351/2 in. (90 cm.) high; 56 in. (142 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep NOTES THE HISTORY OF THE CARLTON HOUSE DESK The first published design of a desk of this type was one illustrated in A. Hepplewhite & Co. The Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices, 2nd ed., 1793, pl. 21. The best known form of 'Carlton House' desk is that usually executed in mahogany, with a stepped superstructure of two or three tiers and curved back. This form of desk became associated with Carlton House, the residence of the Prince Regent, later King George IV, after Rudolph Ackermann had illustrated a writing-table of this design in 1814, claiming that it was called a Carlton House desk 'from having been first made for the august personage whose correct taste has so classically embellished that beautiful palace' (see H. Roberts, 'The First Carlton House Table?', Furniture History, XXXI, 1995, pp. 124-128). The recent discovery of a bill among the Prince of Wales's accounts in the Royal Archive revealed that 'a large Elegant Sattin wood Writing Table containing 15 Drawers and 2 Cupboards' and with '16 Elegant Silver handles with Coronets' was supplied by John Kerr, a recipient of several orders for the Prince of Wales, in 1790, a full two years before the earliest known published design for a table of this form ( ibid. p. 127). A desk conforming precisely to this description was recently with Mallett with a traditional provenance that the table had been presented to Captain John Willett Payne, acting Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales until 1796. On receiving the news of his dismissal, Captain Payne refused any pension or emolument, and a presentation of a table of this type would indeed seem plausible. It is also interesting to note that the Carlton House inventories of 1793 also record that there was a 'A large writing Table' in the library of Captain Payne's apartment at Carlton House ( Carlton House Inventories, vol. A (Coutts), 1793, f. 42). A similar satinwood Carlton House desk, of rounded rectangular form was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 4 July 2002, lot 34 (œ57,360).
Christie's
Nov. 28, 2002
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD CARLTON HOUSE DESK
Est: $38,750 - $62,000
The rectangular top with raised superstructure of six small cedar-lined drawers and two secret drawers below a three-quarter pierced baluster brass gallery, curving round a black leather-lined writing-surface with ratcheted slope, above three mahogany-lined frieze drawers, on turned tapering legs headed by tasselled collars, brass caps and castors, the handles, gallery and castors replaced 351/2 in. (90 cm.) high; 56 in. (142 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep NOTES THE HISTORY OF THE CARLTON HOUSE DESK The first published design of a desk of this type was one illustrated in A. Hepplewhite & Co. The Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices, 2nd ed., 1793, pl. 21. The best known form of 'Carlton House' desk is that usually executed in mahogany, with a stepped superstructure of two or three tiers and curved back. This form of desk became associated with Carlton House, the residence of the Prince Regent, later King George IV, after Rudolph Ackermann had illustrated a writing-table of this design in 1814, claiming that it was called a Carlton House desk 'from having been first made for the august personage whose correct taste has so classically embellished that beautiful palace' (see H. Roberts, 'The First Carlton House Table?', Furniture History, XXXI, 1995, pp. 124-128). The recent discovery of a bill among the Prince of Wales's accounts in the Royal Archive revealed that 'a large Elegant Sattin wood Writing Table containing 15 Drawers and 2 Cupboards' and with '16 Elegant Silver handles with Coronets' was supplied by John Kerr, a recipient of several orders for the Prince of Wales, in 1790, a full two years before the earliest known published design for a table of this form ( ibid. p. 127). A desk conforming precisely to this description was recently with Mallett with a traditional provenance that the table had been presented to Captain John Willett Payne, acting Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales until 1796. On receiving the news of his dismissal, Captain Payne refused any pension or emolument, and a presentation of a table of this type would indeed seem plausible. It is also interesting to note that the Carlton House inventories of 1793 also record that there was a 'A large writing Table' in the library of Captain Payne's apartment at Carlton House ( Carlton House Inventories, vol. A (Coutts), 1793, f. 42). A similar satinwood Carlton House desk, of rounded rectangular form was offered anonymously, in these Rooms, 4 July 2002, lot 34 (œ57,360).
Christie's
Jul. 04, 2002
A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED SATINWOOD CARLTON HOUSE DESK
Est: $46,500 - $77,500
Crossbanded overall in rosewood, the U-shaped superstructure with rounded rear edge and with brass baluster gallery, above four cedar-lined drawers, each simulated as two around a gilt-tooled green leather-lined writing-surface, flanked by two further cedar-lined drawers at each side, one fitted with divisions, a pen-tray and two associated square glass ink-wells, above three cedar-lined frieze drawers, on turned tapering legs and toupie feet with later brass caps and castors, repairs to the top of the legs, the metalwork rings and rosewood on the legs possibly Regency 35 in. (89 cm.) high; 371/4 in. (94.5 cm.) wide; 191/2 in. (49.5 cm.) deep PROVENANCE Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 7 July 1988, lot 69. NOTES THE HISTORY OF THE CARLTON HOUSE DESK The first published design of a desk of this type was one illustrated in A. Hepplewhite & Co. The Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices, 2nd ed., 1793, pl. 21. The best known form of 'Carlton House' desk is that usually executed in mahogany, with a stepped superstructure of two or three tiers and curved back. This form of desk became associated with Carlton House, the residence of the Prince Regent, later King George IV, after Rudolph Ackermann had illustrated a writing-table of this design in 1814, claiming that it was called a Carlton House desk 'from having been first made for the august personage whose correct taste has so classically embellished that beautiful palace' (see H. Roberts, 'The First Carlton House Table?', Furniture History, XXXI, 1995, pp. 124-128). The recent discovery of a bill among the Prince of Wales's accounts in the Royal Archive revealed that 'a large Elegant Sattin wood Writing Table containing 15 Drawers and 2 Cupboards' and with '16 Elegant Silver handles with Coronets' was supplied by John Kerr, a recipient of several orders for the Prince of Wales, in 1790, a full two years before the earliest known published design for a table of this form ( ibid. p. 127). A desk conforming precisely to this description was recently with Mallett with a traditional provenance that the table had been presented to Captain John Willett Payne, acting Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales until 1796. On receiving the news of his dismissal, Captain Payne refused any pension or emolument, and a presentation of a table of this type would indeed seem plausible. It is also interesting to note that the Carlton House inventories of 1793 also record that there was a 'A large writing Table' in the library of Captain Payne's apartment at Carlton House ( Carlton House Inventories, vol. A (Coutts), 1793, f. 42). A similar satinwood Carlton House desk, but of rectangular form was offered anonymously, in these Rooms, 11 November 1999, lot 40.
Christie's
Jun. 13, 2002
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID YEW-WOOD AND AMARANTH SERPENTINE COMMODE
Est: $44,100 - $73,500
Attributed to Mayhew and Ince Cross and diagonally-banded overall, the quarter-veneered eared top above two short and two long drawers, with chequer-banded borders and rocaille handles, with fluted angles and quarter-veneered sides, on bracket feet with lignum vitae castors, lacking two castors, the handles original but reattached with later screws 291/2 in. (75 cm.) high; 403/4 in. (103.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep PROVENANCE Possibly supplied to Thomas, 3rd Viscount Weymouth, later 1st Marquess of Bath (1734-1796) for Longleat, Wiltshire and by descent to Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837) and by descent at Longleat. LITERATURE 1896 Inventory (2nd Marquess' Heirlooms), f 54 r No. 45 Bedroom, 'A 3 ft 6 in shaped ditto commode with two long and two short drawers, brass handles and fluted side pilasters'. NOTES This commode belongs to a group of yew-wood commodes attributed to John Mayhew and William Ince of Golden Square, London. The idiosyncratic use of yew as a veneer has been identified as a leit-motif through more than thirty years of their work, for example in the Broadlands, Hampshire commission (see H. Roberts, 'Furniture at Broadlands - II', Country Life ', 5 February 1981, pp. 346-347). The use of yew-wood combined with ebonised mouldings, 'therm' angles, chequered line borders and optical treatment of veneers, all found on this commode, are especially typical of the firm's work in the 1760s. Another commode of identical form but larger, was sold by David Style, Esq., Wateringbury Place, Kent, Christie's house sale, 31 May - 2 June 1978, lot 625. There is a further related group of yew-wood commodes by Mayhew and Ince, although of a more obviously French form and probably influenced by the work of the ‚migr‚ ‚b‚niste, Pierre Langlois. A pair of commodes of this serpentine French form was supplied to Sir Brook Bridges, Bt., for Goodnestone Park, Kent in 1764, and exhibited in 'Treasures from Kent Houses', Royal Museum, Canterbury, September - October 1984, no. 57. Another commode, of almost identical form to the Goodnestone commodes, was supplied to the antiquarian James West for Alscot Park, Warwickshire in 1766 at a cost of œ12.12s and a further pair, almost certainly supplied for Langford Grove, Essex, was sold by Thomas Seymour, Esq., in these Rooms, 3 July 1997, lot 97. This French form is repeated on another mahogany and yew-wood commode from the group, previously in the Moller Collection and illustrated in R.W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, 1955, fig. 166 ( The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 589-598).
Christie's
Sep. 20, 2001
A REGENCY MAHOGANY CARLTON HOUSE DESK
Est: $21,900 - $36,500
By Gillows Crossbanded overall in rosewood, the curved galleried top above six mahogany-lined short drawers flanked by curved doors, with stepped sides enclosing two mahogany-lined drawers, with gilt-tooled green leather-lined writing-surface and hinged reading-slope, the leather continuing under the removable flanking drawer-sections, above three frieze drawers, on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors, the underside of some drawers inscribed in ink 'Nash Oak Lodge', stamped 'GILLOWS LANCASTER' 38 in. (96.5 cm.) high; 641/2 in. (164 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep PROVENANCE Nash, Oak Lodge. NOTES The 1796 design for this 'Carleton House Desk' features in the Estimate Sketch Book of Gillow of London and Lancaster, and derives, with minor variations, from Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s 'Gentleman's Writing Table' featured in their Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices, 2nd ed., 1793 (pl. 21). In that year interest in the elegant furnishings of Carlton House was promoted by the publication of Thomas Sheraton's, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, which illustrated some interiors of the London mansion created by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV. Gillow's pattern, ordered from their London showrooms, was named after the large 'Writing Table', with a top which contained 'Drawers and 2 Cupboards', that had been invoiced in February 1790 by the Pall Mall court cabinet-maker John Kerr (d. 1808) (H. Roberts, 'The First Carlton House Table?', Furniture History, 1995, pp. 124-128). The present desk, which was ordered from London and manufactured in Lancaster, bears the inscription 'Nash, Oak Lodge'. It is therefore tempting to associate it with the architect John Nash (d. 1835), who was employed during this period at Richard Page's Middlesex estate, known as The Park. He was later architect to George, when Prince Regent, but already by 1798 he had exhibited at the Royal Academy a drawing of a magnificent conservatory dedicated to George as Prince of Wales (J. Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash Architect, London, 1980, fig 7c).
Christie's