[Francis, Francis]:

$22,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[TWENTY-TWO ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS DONE FROM LIFE DURING A CRUISE ABOARD THE LANCASHIRE WITCH]. [with:] WAR, WAVES, AND WANDERINGS. A CRUISE IN THE "LANCASHIRE ... A collection of handsome original watercolors executed from life during a gentlemen's adventure around the world in the yacht, Lancashire Witch. The artwork illustrates places in and around Madagascar, the Seychelle Islands, Burma, Japan, Alaska, the Pribilof Islands, and elsewhere, and are a unique and unpublished record of this voyage.Francis Francis published a memoir of his round-the-world voyage in a book entitled War, Waves, and Wanderings. A Cruise in the Lancashire Witch (London, 1881, two volumes bound in one: [8],300;[4],308pp., a copy is included here). Francis's published account of the voyage is unillustrated, however, and so these watercolors are a unique visual record of a lively round-the-world voyage. All of the watercolors are done in Francis Francis' quite impressive amateur hand. Their greatest strength lies in their blending of color between sky and landscape, and in the firsthand details of places and persons that Francis observed.Departing from Natal, the adventurers visited several points in Madagascar, Johanna, Zanzibar, Formosa, the Seychelles, Singapore, Siam, Japan, San Francisco, and Alaska. The watercolors as listed below are in chronological order, with Francis' titles listed first, and with appropriate references to Francis' text provided in quotations. The tone of the text is playful,

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