Lot 153
  • 153

Thackeray, William,

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

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A Procession of Men (watercolor, ink and sepia), ca. 1830



(40 x 8 1/2 in; 1000 x 220 mm). 3 folding leaves joined to form a panoramic caricature  of bustling metropolitan street life, likely extracted from one of the author's Parisian sketchbooks (backed to old card, old repairs to 3 long closed tears and a few intermittent edge tears). 

Provenance

From the Wellesley Collection (sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 28 June, 1920, lot 779)