Lot 290
  • 290

A folio of drawings and watercolours

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A folio of drawings and watercolours
  • including, with others, runaway horses; a design for a monument; and Posilipo, Naples
  • Five, one pen and black ink and wash; one pencil with grey wash; one watercolour heightened with bodycolour; one watercolour heightened with and pen and black ink; and one brown wash over pencil;
    one signed and one inscribed with title
  • Largest: 359 by 481 mm
by or attributed to Sawrey Gilpin, R.A. (1762-1843); George Sanders; John Laporte (1761-1839); George Augustus Wallis (1770-1847); and another hand

Condition

The works are in general good condition. There is evidence of minor creasing and some surface dirt to each of the sheets.
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