A Most Exceptional Pair Of Silkwork Pictures
Stock No
3727
2015
- £4,800.00
- €5,703 Euro
- $5,852 US Dollar
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Item Description
The Sailor Boy's Return from a Prosperous Voyage. A Shipwreck'd Sailor Boy telling his Story at a Cottage Door.
An exceptional pair of silkwork pictures with chenile thatch and foliage.
The faces and backgound finely executed in watercolour over the silk support; all retaining excellent colour.
Within the original gilt gesso frames with a running pattern of honey-suckle and lily and with a bright burnished hollow.
French circa 1800.
The images derived from the original works by William Redmore Bigg (British, 1755–1828), published by Thomas Gaugain in 1791.
o.s: 23 in x 20 in
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United Kingdom
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