ID 991636
Lot 104 | GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDALL)
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
Two partly dismembered sketchbooks: the first 7 sheets in a marbled paper binding, with drawings of a proposed house design and a letter; the second 17 sheets, unbound, with various head studies and some compositional drawings, including for Portrait of Mrs Morwood, The Death of General Wolfe, and King Lear
the first inscribed and dated 'September 1792/ No 2/ Ark' (on the cover); the second variously inscribed throughout
pencil, pen and ink and wash
the first 5 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (15 x 24.1 cm.); the second 6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (15.5 x 21 cm.)
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Provenance
Patricia Jaffé, and by inheritance to the present owners
| Artist: | George Romney (1734 - 1802) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Artist: | George Romney (1734 - 1802) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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