Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon: 763. A Seated Figure by an Archway

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

763. A Seated Figure by an Archway

Today, Lawrences of Bletchinley in Surrey continue an auction of Antiques and Collectables that started yesterday and will end tomorrow, selling 1725 items: carpets, enamel sings, fly rods, tools, guitars, stamps, terracotta plaques, stoneware, silver salvers, jewellery, but also oils, drawings, pastels, lithographs and other prints.

One of the lots contains a drawing by Charles Shannon. It is described as a pencil drawing, a study of a seated figure by an archway. The initials C.H.S. can be seen in the lower right hand corner, the format is 26 by 18 cm.

C.H.S. [Charles Shannon?],
Seated Figure by an Archway
(undated pencil drawing)

There seems to be no lithograph or painting that can be connected to this study. The three initials C.H.S. seem to indicate that this might be an early drawing.

At £10, the opening price seems reasonable.

Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), artist, book designer, collector, art critic, set and costume designer & Charles Shannon (1863-1937), lithographer, painter and art collector : a weekly blog written by Paul van Capelleveen

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With contributions by Paul Delaney (no. 11, no. 100, no. 300), Paul Delaney and Armand Robichaud (no. 500), Barbara Pezzini (no. 39, no. 40), Paul Durham (no. 136), Philip R. Bishop (no. 150), Vincent Barlow (no. 189), Rebecca Mitchell (no. 400), Geoff Dibb (no. 433), John Aplin (no. 450, 476, 481, 482), Jan Piggott (no. 455, no. 492), Anna Gruetzner Robins (no. 564), Helen Ritchie (no. 600) and Mariko Hirabayashi (no. 706)

Thanks are due to Marja Smolenaars.