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ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS (BRITISH, 1829-1904)

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£ 75 600
Auction dateClassic
13.12.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 878482
Lot 28 | ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS (BRITISH, 1829-1904)
ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS (BRITISH, 1829-1904)

Cassandra

signed with initials and inscribed 'Cassandra. F.S.' (upper right)

pencil, watercolour and coloured chalks on light blue paper

14 1/8 x 21 in. (35.8 x 53.3 cm.)





Provenance

Harold T. Hartley, 1904-25, and by descent to

Sir Christopher Hartley; Christie's, South Kensington, 5 June 1996, lot 150.

with The Maas Gallery, London.

Private Australian collector, now deceased.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 November, 2003, lot 139, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

E. Wood, 'A Consideration of the Art of Frederick Sandys', The Artist, London, 1896, p. 61.

The Studio, October 1904, p. 13, illustrated.

B. Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture, Oxford, 1986, p. 48, illustrated.

B. Elzea, Frederick Sandys, Woodbridge, 2001, cat. 5.22, p. 283.



Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, 1904, no. 23.

London, International Society, 1905, no. 164.

Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, untraced.

Glasgow, Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Book Illustrations of the 'Sixties', 1924-5, no. 414.



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