b'89752 756 THE FRENCH IN THE PACIFIC],[after) LORD FREDERICK LEIGHTON (1830-1896),(JAMES GILLRAY (1765-1815), The Bath Of Psyche,The CANEING in Conduit Street. oil on canvas,Dedicated to the Flag Officers of the British Navy, housed in original ornate gilt frame,[London : 1798; the Bohn restrike of 1851,127 x 43cm, 159 x 76cm overallauthorized by Gillrays widow], $2,0003,000 hand coloured,26 x 35cm, 44 x 54cm overall. 757Gillray caricatures Thomas Pitts streetcorner assault onARTIST UNKNOWN,George Vancouver. Pitt came aboard HMS Discovery to partake in the Vancouver Expedition to the Pacific. While at(country scene with shepherdess),Tahiti, Pitt was flogged for trying to trade a piece of brokenoil on canvas,barrel-hoop for the romantic favours of an island woman.65 x 105cm, 75 x 127cm overallVancouver had given strict orders against romancing the$100200 natives. Pitt was flogged again for unauthorized trade with Indians at Port Stewart and then again for breaking the binnacle glass while skylarking with another gentleman. On758their return to England, Pitt challenged Vancouver to a duel. SUSANNAH Sissie HEMMING (1862 - ?)Vancouver gravely replied that he was unable in a privateUntitled (portrait of a girl gathering flowers),capacity to answer for his public conduct in his official duty and offered instead to submit to formal examination by flagpencil and charcoal,officers. Pitt chose instead to stalk Vancouver, ultimatelysigned Sissie Hemming and dated 1881 lower right,assaulting him on a London street corner. approx 36 x 35cm.$300500Accompanied by a similar portrait of a young boy in sailor outfit, unsigned and undated; presented in matching birds-eye maple frames with gilt slips. (2). Each overall 59 x 49cm.753 $300500ARTIST UNKNOWN (19th century),(three children gathering sticks), 759Two framed hand-coloured lithographs of romantic scenes, oil on board,signed lower left (illegible), 19th century,Art Union Of Great Britain label verso65 x 50cm each overall (2)December Drawing, 1865. Prize No. 265, $120200 22 x 29cm, 26 x 44cm overall$200300760S. G. WILLIAM ROSCOE (BRITISH, 1852-1922), 754 Richmond Castle, Yorkshire,THOMAS DAVIDSON (1863-1903),watercolour.Viola, Shakespeares Twelfth Night, signed lower right S. G. W. Roscoe,oil on board, 35 x 52cm, 53 x 75cm overallartists label and title verso, $400600 23 x 14cm, 36 x 28cm overall$300500 761D. LAW (BRITISH), 755 (Windsor Castle),ELIZABETH THOMPSON (1846-1933)watercolour,The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras, signed lower left D. Law,aquatint, 1875, 16 x 28cm, 32 x 47cm overall30 x 63cm, 63 x 92cm overall. $120200 The original oil painting on which this aquatint is based, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. 762The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as aARTIST UNKNOWN (BRITISH),preliminary engagement to the decisive Battle of Waterloo that occurred two days later. The battle took place nearThe Old Back Door,the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras and was contestedwatercolour,between elements of the Duke of Wellingtons Anglo-alliedsigned lower right and titled verso (illegible),army and the left wing of Bonapartes French Arme du Nord46 x 29cm, 48 x 31cm overallunder Marshal Ney. While the battle was a coalition victory,$120200 Napoleon achieved his larger strategic aim of preventing Wellingtons forces from aiding the Prussian army at the Battle of Ligny, which the French won the same day. 763An antique coloured engraving, and an Egyptian scene $150200 watercolour signed A. HASSAN,the larger 25 x 32cm overall (2)$60100 '