Drawings and Pastels

EDWARD JULIUS DETMOLD (1883-1857): "DARWIN'S DREAM" 48cm x 33cm A pencil and pastel sketch depicting naturalist Charles Darwin sitting in a cane chair, surrounded by various skulls of beasts and a large globe and telescope. Darwin also appears to have a living child sitting on his knee. Drawn by Detmold circa 1920's, after Darwin's death, it was perhaps a working sketch for a painting that appears to have never been completed. Label to verso for Detmold's agent Oliver O'Donnell Frick, for 6 Margaretta Terrace in Chelsea. This drawing is previously unknown and unrecorded.

SAMUEL PEPLOE (SCOTTISH 1871-1935): A PENCIL DRAWING ON PAPER DEPICTING A NUDE LIFE MODEL, 35cm x 23cm Signed in pencil. Provenance: Purchased by the owner at Sotheby's, Lot 94, 26th April 2007. Mounted in a frame and glazed. 62cm x 45cm

EDWARD ROBERT HUGHES (1851-1914) 'NUDE' STUDY OF A LADY, Signed bottom left in pencil E.R. Hughes. In mount, but unframed. 45cm x 28cm

JOHN PIPER (BRITISH 1903-1992) A CHALK AND INK DRAWING TITLED 'READING', 30cm x 22cm Provenance: Purchased by the owner from Louise Kosman Gallery, previously with The Artist's Studio and Bonhams London 'Three British Artists 2006, Moore, Piper and Sutherland'. Mounted in a frame and glazed. 54cm x 49cm

ATTRIBUTED TO GUERCINO, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI (1591-1666) OR THE CIRCLE OF: A RED CHALK STUDY OF A MALE PROFILE, 24.5cm x 20cm The red chalk drawing on paper depicting a study of a man's face and upper body, in a pensive position. The drawing on paper, laid on paper, labelled in pencil to verso 'Guercino da cento'. Originally mounted in a frame and glazed. The drawing has been removed from the frame for inspection. Light reveals an octagonal or decagonal watermark on the paper over the man's face (see photos)