14th Apr, 2025 10:00
Antiques & Collectors’ Items with Paintings, Sculptures & Books (Devon)
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MAJOR JOHN GEDGE (1903-2001); an extensive collection of watercolours of Random Sketches and Architectural Notes, contained in three folio sized folders, many laid down on paper, with the first folio containing forty-six drawings with an index at the front identifying where the buildings and scenes were painted, the second and third folders containing many watercolours and pen and ink architectural drawings with many loose, with pencil descriptions to many below those stuck down, but neither have an index and some pages have had the sketches taken out, together with, by the same artist, a watercolour of an unknown church, 20 x 16cm, and an architectural watercolour titled 'Mereworth Castle, Kent, Colen Campbell Arch't 1722-1725, for the Hon. John Fane (later Earl of Westmorland)' and dated 1985, 42 x 75cm, both framed and glazed (2).
Major John Gedge was an architect in Bedford and his specialist area of interest was the renovation of churches. He was a talented artist in his spare time travelling all over England painting buildings and landscapes.
Sold for £320
MAJOR JOHN GEDGE (1903-2001); an extensive collection of watercolours of Random Sketches and Architectural Notes, contained in three folio sized folders, many laid down on paper, with the first folio containing forty-six drawings with an index at the front identifying where the buildings and scenes were painted, the second and third folders containing many watercolours and pen and ink architectural drawings with many loose, with pencil descriptions to many below those stuck down, but neither have an index and some pages have had the sketches taken out, together with, by the same artist, a watercolour of an unknown church, 20 x 16cm, and an architectural watercolour titled 'Mereworth Castle, Kent, Colen Campbell Arch't 1722-1725, for the Hon. John Fane (later Earl of Westmorland)' and dated 1985, 42 x 75cm, both framed and glazed (2).
Major John Gedge was an architect in Bedford and his specialist area of interest was the renovation of churches. He was a talented artist in his spare time travelling all over England painting buildings and landscapes.
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Auction: Antiques & Collectors’ Items with Paintings, Sculptures & Books (Devon), 14th Apr, 2025
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Friday 11th April 2025 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Saturday 12th April 2025 from 10:00 to 4:00pm
The Devon Saleroom
The Antique Village
Station Road
Hele
Exeter
EX5 4PW
01392 719826
hele@adampartridge.co.uk
