August 2021 Catalogue

Original Painting By Acclaimed 19th-Century British Artist Septimus Dawson Depicting Irish Travelers Presumably On Their Way To America 16. DAWSON, Septimus. Irish Travelers. Sunderland, Durham, England, circa 1880. Oil painting, measuring 19 by 23 inches; framed, entire piece measures 25-1/2 by 29-1/2 inches. $5500. Engaging original oil painting of two Irish travelers by late 19th-century British artist and possible Irish Nationalist Septimus Dawson, handsomely framed. Painter Septimus Dawsonwas born in Sunderland, Durham, England in 1851. Several of his works depict working class Irishmen or Irish peasants and he seems to have been sympathetic to Irish Nationalism. This work—“Irish Travelers”—contains many of Dawson’s characteristic elements. Here, he presents two happy, pink-cheeked Irishmen in artfully tattered clothes standing at a port and discussing an advertisement for a mail steamer headed to New York (as well as, curiously, Wyoming, Nevada, “Wiscosin,” and Abyssinia). Slight wear to frame. Fine condition. Beautiful Hand-Colored Engraving Of Atlas By Frederick De Wit, Serving As The Frontispiece For His Maritime Atlas Of 1675 17. DEWIT, Frederick. Frontispiece [Atlas for Zee Karten ]. Amsterdam, 1675. Folio sheet, handsomely framed. $2500. Magnificent hand-colored engraving of the “Titano” Atlas (with the mountain at his feet and Africa pictured in the eastern hemisphere), used by famed Amsterdammap-maker Frederick DeWit as the frontispiece to his nautical atlas, Zee Karten (1675). Inthis frontispiece forFrederickdeWit’snautical atlasentitled ZeeKarten (1675), the “Titano”Atlas is correctly represented in the act of supporting the sky. The legend was subsequently distorted by describing Atlas as carrying the terrestrial world on his shoulders. DeWit was one of the most prominent and successful 17th-century Dutch engravers and publishers, whose reputation as a maker of fine maps and atlases was unparalleled in his time. A 17th-century image by the famous Amsterdammap-maker. F r a m e d ! 2 0 2 1 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s 15 14