PAUL SANDBY, R.A. (NOTTINGHAM 1731-1809 LONDON)
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
15000GBP £ 15 000
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ID 1443198
Lot 48 | PAUL SANDBY, R.A. (NOTTINGHAM 1731-1809 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
St. George's Gate, Canterbury
numbered 'No 2556' (verso)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on laid paper, watermark 'J.WHATMAN'
12 ¾ x 20 in. (32.3 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
Colonel J. Nichol; Sotheby's London, 20 July 1972, lot 59 (£5,400 to Manning Gallery).
with Manning Gallery, London.
with Agnew's, London, (103rd Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, January-February 1976, no. 16).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 April 1992, lot 100.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 November 1997, lot 9, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A.P. Oppé, Sandby Drawings at Windsor Castle, London, 1947, p. 55, under no. 195.
T. Crombie, Buying British, 'The Apollo', March 1975, pp. 232-3, fig. 8.
Exhibited
Probably, London, Royal Academy, The Eighteenth Exhibition, 1786, no. 576.
Engraved
in aquatint, by P. Sandby, London, 1782.
| Artist: | Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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