Lot 295
  • 295

William Percy French

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • William Percy French
  • ON THE FRENCH PARK ESTATE
  • signed with initials and dated 93; titled, signed and inscribed with the artist's address on a label attached to the backboard
  • watercolour
  • 23 by 36cm., 9 by 14in.

Literature

An Inventory […] of Pictures at West Horsley Place, Surrey, The property of the Marquess of Crewe, 1938, p. 52

Condition

The sheet does not appears to be laid down and cockles slightly. Some spots of foxing and discolouring to the sheet. Held under glass in a simple gilt frame with a gilt mount; unexamined out of frame.
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