WHILE some items are likely to make substantial sums, there are a number of drawings and watercolours that are estimated to sell for just one or two hundred pounds in next Monday evening's picture sale at Adams of Blackrock, Co Dublin. Two abstract pencil drawings by Mainie Jellett, for example, are expected to make £150-£220 each, a Lilian Davidson watercolour landscape £100-£150 and a 19th century Irish school watercolour of Dublin city centre £150-£200.

Naturally, from this figure prices start to rise, taking in a portrait engraving by James McNeill Whistler (£1,600-£2,000), a Tony O'Malley oil from his St Ives period (£1,000-£1,400), a Nathaniel Hone canvas called Sunset with Windy Road (£2,000-£3,000) and a typical Frank McKelvey view of cattle grazing by a river bank (£6,500-£7,500).

There are three watercolours by Percy French, varying in estimates from £1,500 to £2,500, but the evening's highest price will undoubtedly by made by a large beach scene at Tangiers by Sir John Lavery. This is expected to make £30,000-£35,000.