ADC Art & Books catalogue 2014

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ADC Art & Bookscatalogue 2014

Featuring the works of:

• Ted Nasmith

• Cor Blok

• Peter Pracownik

• JRR Tolkien

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The works of Ted Nasmith - oRIGINAL Paintings

Conversation with Smaug

Size: 17 inches x 13.5 inches

Price: £7000

The Riddle Game

Size: 12 inches x 14.5 inches

Price: £5000

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The works of Ted Nasmith - oRIGINAL Paintings

Barrel Rider

Size:18 inches x 24 inches (Framed)

Price: £6000

Nauglimir

Size: TBA

Price: £3000

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The works of Ted Nasmith - Greetings Cards

Packs of all 12 cards with envelopes and quotations £10 plus postage

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Whole set for sale for £8000 - one large & 8 small

Roverandom flies to the MoonSize: 36.5 inches x 29 inches

Little Rovers Big MistakeSize:

Psamathos the Sand-sorceror helps

RoverandomSize:

Roveradom arrives on the moonSize:

Escape! Roverandom and Moon-Rover flee the

White DragonSize:

The works of Ruth Lacon - oRIGINAL Paintings - Roverandom The works of Ruth Lacon - oRIGINAL Paintings - Roverandom & Mr bliss

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The works of Ruth Lacon - oRIGINAL Paintings - Roverandom & Mr bliss

In the Mer-King’s Palace:Roverandom meets Sea-Rover

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Oooops! The Great Sea-Serpent is Bitten

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Roveradom gets his own shape back

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Roverandom and Little Boy Two are reunitedSize:

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The works of Ruth Lacon - GreetinGs Cards

On all cards outside back:

Artist Ruth LaconIllustrations inspired by JRR TolkienContact ADC Art & [email protected]: +44 (0)7785 110512Illustrations © Ruth Lacon

Set of 4 Farmer Giles cards £7.50

Niggle ‘s first sight of the Tree

Large Card £2 each

Farmer Giles set off in search of the dragon

The Mock Dragons Tail

Farmer Giles at Chrysophylax’s den

Giles and the Giant

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12 greeting cards with selected art depicted.These cards are all cellophane wrapped, have envelopes and are blank inside for your personal message.

£10 for a set of 12

Queen Beruthiel Cast Adrift

Fifteen Birds in Five Fir Trees

Bilbo and the Black Emperors

Beorn and the Dancing Bears

Bilbo and the Three Trolls

The Auction at Bag End

Tinuviel - Beren Pursues Luthien

Up Came Bombur

Bombur Falls into the

Enchanted Stream

Lake Town Leaving for the Mountain

The Battle of Five Armies

Hobbiton Across The Water

The works of Ruth Lacon - Greetings cards

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The works of Ruth Lacon - Greetings cards

Little Rovers Big Mistake

Psamathos the Sand-sorceror

helps Roverandom

Roveradom arrives on

the moon Escape! Roverandom

and Moon-Rover flee the

White Dragon

In the Mer-King’s Palace:

Roverandom meets

Sea-RoverOooops! The Great Sea-

Serpent is Bitten

Roveradom gets his own

shape back

Roverandom and Little

Boy Two are reunited

On all cards outside back:

Artist Ruth LaconIllustrations inspired by JRR TolkienContact ADC Art & [email protected]: +44 (0)7785 110512Illustrations © Ruth Lacon

Set of 8 Roverandom cards £7.50

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The works of Ruth Lacon - Original Paintings

Niggle’s first sight of the Tree

Size: 28 inches x 36 inches

Price: £3000

Beorn and the Dancing Bears

Size: TBA

Price: £2250

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The works of Cor Blok - Collection of Original art, book & prints

All original art, prints and signed copy of ‘A Tolkien Tapestry’ - £10,000

Black Rider at the Ferry

Limited Print 3/20

The Shire view of Bywater

Limited Print 3/20

The Company ascent of Caradhras

Limited Print 3/20

TheParty Arrested

Original ArtThe Nagzul at Minis Tirith

Original Art

Frodo caught in the Barrow-downs

Original Art

The Cow jumped over the Moon

Limited Print 3/20

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The works of Peter Pracownik - The Lord of the Rings

Each of these Original Paintings, inspired by the Lord of the Rings measure 15 x 19.5 inches

Elendil’s ShieldPrice £550

Gimli’s AxePrice £400

Shield of GondorPrice £550

Mithril ShirtPrice £550

Morgul BladePrice £400

GwaihirPrice £550

NarsilPrice £550

Shield of RohanPrice £400

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The works of Peter Pracownik - The Lord of the Rings

Each of these Original Paintings, inspired by the Lord of the Rings measure 15 x 19.5 inches

Smaug Treasure-Price £400

Spiders WebPrice £400

WargsPrice £550

The Prancing Pony (Bree)

Price £550

The Green DragonPrice £550

The Red ArrowPrice £550

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The works of Peter Pracownik - Tolkien Inspired Limited Edition Prints

One White Tree

Limited to 100Size: 16x20 inches approx.Price £125, unframed.

The Company

Limited to 100Size: 24x16 inches approx.

Price £125, unframed.

Map of Middle Earth


Old Whiteface



Return of the King


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My Precious - Gollum


Lord of the Rings



Elven Prince



The Way is Closed


Middle Earth



The works of Peter Pracownik - Tolkien Inspired Limited Edition Prints

GollumLimited to 100Size: 23 inches x 18 inches Price £125 unframed

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Original Art - JRRTolkien

New Lodge at StonyhurstAugust 1947

Price: Offers over £100,000.

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Artist: JRR TolkienTitle: New Lodge at StonyhurstDate: August 1947

A wonderful colour drawing 150mm x 185mm (unframed), titled, dated and initialled, inscribed to rear, `for Mr & Mrs Bailey in memory of a beautiful holiday, August 1947, J.R.R.T.

Provenance; by direct descent. On several occasions J.R.R. Tolkien stayed at New Lodge when visiting Stonyhurst College. The inscription is to the then occupiers of the Lodge. The foreground of the picture contains runner beans in full flower. Comparisons have been drawn between this scene and the view of Tom Bombadil`s house in the Fellowship of the Ring (p.139); `Frodo ran to the eastern window, and found himself looking into a kitchen-garden grey with dew .., his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond them the grey top of the hill loomed up ... and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves` . see Hammond (Wayne G.) & Scull (Christina), J.R.R. Tolkien, Artist and Illustrator, 2004, p. 31-2]

The JRR Tolkien Companion & Guide, Chronology p299, Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond25th March to 1st April 1946. Tolkien stays at New Lodge Stonyhurst Lancashire where his son John has stayed several times in the period 1942-1945. In the register Tolkien firmly declares himself “English” rather than (as in other entries) “British”. In a letter to Stanley Unwin on 21 July 1946 he will say that he came “near to a real breakdown” around this time, and went away and “ate and slept and did nothing else, by orders, but only for three weeks, and not for the six months my doctor prescribed… but I came back to a term so troublous that it was all I could do to get through it”. (Tolkien- George Allen & Unwin archive, Harper Collins).

The JRR Tolkien Companion & Guide, Chronology p301, Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond26th June to 4th July 1946. Tolkien and his wife stay at New Lodge Stonyhurst. Edith signs the visitors’ book first and dittoes from the previous entry “British” as her nationality, Tolkien does the same, Edith writes in the “remarks” column “A very enjoyable visit”, which Tolkien dittoes in agreement. This is the first holiday they have had alone together for over twenty years.

The JRR Tolkien Companion & Guide, Chronology p321, Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond12-21st August 1947. Tolkien and Priscilla (daughter) stay at New Lodge Stonyhurst. In the Guest Book they sign their nationality as “English” (not British). During the visit Tolkien makes a drawing, New Lodge Stonyhurst, which he gives to the owner of the establishment. On 21st September Tolkien write to Stanley Unwin: “For a few days my daughter and I had there blazing sun, a rare commodity in those parts, and abundant food, less rare there than in some other places” (Tolkien- George Allen & Unwin archive, Harper Collins).

Published in JRR Tolkien Artist & Illustrator fig 28Wayne Hammond and Christina ScullNew Lodge, Stonyhurst depicts the garden of the guest house at which Tolkien stayed in Stonyhurst, Lancashire on three occasions. Tolkien made the drawing in August 1947 and gave it to the family who owned New Lodge. The drawing is featured in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, fig. 28


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Extract from The Lancashire Evening Telegraph Thursday 26th July 2001Inspired by beauty of Lancashire countryside

SCHOLARS have long believed that Professor JRR Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, regularly visited Stonyhurst College in the Ribble Valley. They knew that one of his sons, Michael, taught classics at Stonyhurst and St Mary’s Hall in the 1960s and ‘70s and that his eldest son, John, who was studying for the priesthood, was evacuated with the English College in Rome to St Mary’s Jesuit seminary during the Second World War.

South African-born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973), an Oxford professor, is one of the world’s most popular fiction writers. But proof that he stayed in the Ribble Valley had remained hidden until the recent discovery of a college visitors’ book in which his name appears many times be-tween 1942-47.

Another astonishing find was his sketch of the guest house, New Lodge, on the back of which is a personal note to the owners thanking them for a wonderful holiday. The detective work has been done by Jonathan Hewat, a teacher at St Mary’s Hall, who uncovered the evidence as part of proposals to launch a new Tolkien library and study centre at St Mary’s.

The woman he obtained the guest book and sketch from wishes to remain anonymous, but she is the daughter of the guest house owners in the 1940s. She remembers Tolkien visiting and being told as a child to be very quiet while he stayed at New Lodge, which is now used as staff accommodation. The first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Rings -- starring, among others, veteran British actor Christopher “Dracula” Lee -- is due to be released as a film later this year. The two remaining films, which have already been shot, will be released 12 and 24 months after the first one’s arrival on the big screen. Mr Hewat said: “It was during his time spent staying at Stonyhurst College that JRR Tolkien penned the long-awaited story of The Lord of the Rings, encouraged to do so by numerous requests from those who had read and loved The Hobbit.

“Some of the most dramatic and vivid chapters were written during the war years -- from Gandalf’s fall into darkness in Moria, written in 1941, to the long, painful journey of Frodo and Sam into Moria, which occupied much of 1944.” A photograph of the garden of New Lodge, with runner beans in full flower, seems to echo Frodo’s view from Tom Bombadil’s house in The Lord of the Rings (Book 1, chapter 7): Frodo ran to the eastern window and found himself looking into a kitchen-garden grey with dew . . . his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond the grey top of the hill loomed up against the sunrise. The sky spoke of rain to come; but the light was broadening quickly, and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves.

Mr Hewat, who now hopes to contact the trilogy’s producers about the Ribble Valley connection, said: “JRR Tolkien was renowned for his love of nature and wooded landscapes. The countryside around Stonyhurst College and St Mary’s Hall is richly beautiful and the area is dotted with names that are familiar from The Lord of the Rings -- Shire Lane in Hurst Green, for instance, or the River Shirebourn, perhaps named after the Shireburn family who had built Stonyhurst and owned the estate in the 16th and 17th centuries.

“The green countryside is dominated by the dark shape of Pendle Hill, famous for its association with witches, sorcery and black magic in the 16th century -- surely inspiration for Middle Earth’s Misty Mountains or The Lonely Mountain?”

He said Tolkien found time to write part of The Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the upper gallery at Stonyhurst College and would take walks with his son when not writing. “As a professor at Oxford, JRR Tolkien even taught a few lessons at Stonyhurst College during his stay,” Mr Hewat said.

“He returned to Stonyhurst towards the end of his life to stay with his son in another house belonging to the college, a few hundred yards away from St Mary’s Hall, in Woodfields. His love of trees continued throughout his life and he persuaded Michael to plant a copse in the garden, evidence of which can still be seen today.”


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