Scottish Art

Scottish Art

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Property from the Robertson Collection, Orkney

Stanley Cursiter, C.B.E, P.R.S.W., R.S.A.

The Roadside, Stromness

Lot Closed

November 22, 01:09 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Robertson Collection, Orkney

Stanley Cursiter, C.B.E, P.R.S.W., R.S.A.

1887-1976

The Roadside, Stromness


signed Stanley Cursiter and dated 1914 (lower right); titled, dated July 1914 and inscribed The Masts of the "Beagle" (on the reverse)

watercolour on paper

unframed: 24 by 28cm.; 9½ by 11in.

framed: 43.5 by 45.5cm.; 17 by 18in.

Executed in 1914.

Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, where acquired by John Robertson and thence by family descent to the present owners
Pamela Beasant, Stanley Cursiter, A Life of the Artist, Orkney Museums and Heritage, 2007, illustrated p. 27