A sketchbook of sixty-nine landscape and figure drawings including views of Epping Forest; Golden Hill, Loughton, Essex; Summer Hill and Appledore, Devon

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William John Hennessy (1840-1917)
A sketchbook of sixty-nine landscape and figure drawings including views of Epping Forest; Golden Hill, Loughton, Essex; Summer Hill and Appledore, Devon
signed twice 'W.J. Hennessy' and further signed with initials and dated variously 16 May 1869-28 October 1870 and extensively inscribed on the pages of the album
four pencil, the majority pencil and pen and ink, five with wash, one with coloured crayon and two pencil and watercolour, nine heightened with touches of white
6¼ x 9 in. (15.9 x 22.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Hennessy was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Christopher Wood Victorian Painters, Suffolk, 1995, notes in his entry on Hennessy that he moved from America to London in 1870. The drawings in the present album, which were executed in Appledore, Devon, date from 1869, there is then a gap in dates until summer 1870 and the views in and around Essex, presumably executed after he had moved to London.

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