Lot 343
  • 343

Dudley Hardy

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Dudley Hardy
  • A Lady Wearing Shooting Dress
  • signed l.r.: Dudley Hardy
  • chalk and watercolour heightened with white
  • 27 by 18cm., 10¾ by 7¼in.

Provenance

Potters Books, Surrey
J.S. Maas & Sons, London
A gift from the present Duke to his mother, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014)

Condition

STRUCTURE This watercolour is in good overall condition. There are a few minor spots of fixing and the paper is lightly time-stained. The sheet is flat. Unexamined out of the frame. FRAME This picture is contained in a simple gilt frame with a clean mount and under glass.
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