Live Auction 6468Christie's Interiors
Dr. William Crotch (Norwich 1775-1847 Taunton, Somerset)
Lot 806

Dr. William Crotch (Norwich 1775-1847 Taunton, Somerset)

Sir Joseph Lock's organ room, Oxford

Closed18 July 2012

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GBP 400

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Dr. William Crotch (Norwich 1775-1847 Taunton, Somerset)
Sir Joseph Lock's organ room, Oxford
numbered, inscribed and dated 'No 1 Sir Joseph Lock's Organ Room Oxford/Over the organ, A Cast of Roubiliac's Mont of Handel Westminster Abbey/& 2 Sphinxes - The/Original Egyptian/Sphinx is supposed by some/to be the figure of some animal wch has by Time assumed a/resemblance to the female face & bust - others say it is a combination of/the 2 summer signs of the Lion & the Virgin/Copied Aug 31 1842. The original is in oblique perspective/The Organ was built for his/own/daughter by England' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour, on paper
7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.8 cm.); and A watercolour of the interior of a roccoco style drawing room, English School, 19th Century (2)

the first, with Iolo Williams.

Specialist note

Roubiliac was largely employed for portrait busts, and from the 1740s especially for sepulchral monuments, in essence the two outlets for free-standing sculpture in Britain at the time. Several full-length portrait sculptures are also known. His chief works in Westminster Abbey are the monuments of Handel (1761), Sir Peter Warren, Marshal Wade, the theatrical monument of Lady Elizabeth Nightingale (1761), his most celebrated work, and the Duke of Argyll (1748), the last of these being the work which first established Roubiliac's fame as a sculptor. Crotch was Professor of Music at Oxford University.