Beschreibung:

Browne (Hablot Knight, 1815-1882). Three medieval huntsmen on horseback with dogs, pencil on wove paper, signed with pencil monogram HKB to lower left corner, and with some measurements in pencil to upper margin, very light mount stain, sheet size 11.2 x 17.6 cm (4.5 x 7 ins), laid down on card, mounted, together with other 19th century English drawings, including: a pencil sketch of a working horse in harness and labourer, attributed to Edwin Landseer sheet size 10.5 x 14 cm (4 x 5.5 ins), mounted; 2 pen & brown ink caricatures of male figures by William Makepeace Thackeray each monogrammed lower left, sheet size 23.3 x 14.6 cm (9 x 5.75 ins) and slightly smaller, matching mounts; a head and shoulders pencil drawing of art critic Dr. Gustav Freidrich Waagen by F. Taylor, inscribed 'Finis Coronat opus' and 'Elcho 1885', sheet size 23.3 x 20.2 cm (9 x 8 ins), tipped onto paper and mounted; 4 drawings by John Leech 3 mounted together on an album leaf, including one of an artist in his studio, the fourth depicting a street scene with figures, signed lower left, sheet size 12.2 x 18.2 cm (4.75 x 7 ins), mounted; 2 Cruikshank-style pen & ink drawings, one with watercolour, sheet size of latter 18.6 x 13.4 cm (7.25 x 5.25 ins), each mounted; a pencil drawing of a Turkish figure and detail of face by Thomas Charles Wageman, sheet size 11.7 x 10.4 cm (4.5 x 4 ins), with a copy of the engraving for which it was drawn mounted beneath, engraved by C. Taylor and published by R. Cruikshank; and a group of pencil portraits of gentlemen by an unknown hand, one titled "The Artist" and dated 1850 (Qty: 19) Provenance: Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.