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Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes

Paul Sandby, R.A.

Recto: Boy cracking a whip Verso: a figure study

Lot Closed

September 23, 03:36 PM GMT

Estimate

700 - 900 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes

Paul Sandby, R.A.

Plympton, Devon 1723 - 1792 London

Recto: Boy cracking a whip

Verso: a figure study


Pencil and grey wash on laid paper;

inscribed lower left: TPS, further inscribed upper centre: Sandby

105 by 58 mm

With Agnew's, London;
sale, London, Christie's, 9 June 2005, lot 7

This study which, according to the inscription, represents Sandby’s second son Thomas, relates to a figure that appears to the left of the composition in Sandby’s 1776 acquatint Windsor Terrace looking Westwards.1 


1. British Museum, London, acc. no. 1872,0713.487