Lot 113
  • 113

Valentine Green

Estimate
100 - 200 GBP
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Description

  • Valentine Green
  • The British Naval Victors; after Gainsborough Dupont, Francis Cotes, Richard Morton payne, and Lemuel Francis Abbott
  • Published London 1799
  • Black and white etching of the mezzotint engraving
  • visible sheet: 633 by 508mm; 24 7/8 by 20in
Mezzotint, 1799, on wove paper, framed

Condition

With margins, with a tear extending from the inside of upper mount into the image (measuring approx. 65mm), some water stains mostly visible in the lower and right margin, some pale spots of bloom and pale foxmarks, the sheet glued down and sandwich-mounted with associated creases in the sheet, framed.
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