WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS) - photo 1
WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS) - photo 2
WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS) - photo 3
WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS) - photo 4
WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS) - photo 5

WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS)

Lot 147
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1513596
Lot 147 | WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
WILLIAM LOCK THE YOUNGER (NORBURY 1767-1847 PARIS)
The Death of Cato; and Danae and her child Perseus
the first inscribed and dated ‘Paris. 9 Sept 1831 / Cato’ (upper left); the second inscribed ‘fm Simonides’ (lower centre) and further inscribed ‘Danae with her son Perseus exposed to the fury of the seas by her father to prevent the accomplishment of an Oracle which foretold that he shoud [sic] be slain by his Grandson. / Dan: O my Child! Thou regardest not the roaring of the winds, nor the dashing of the waves around thee; nor knowest thy Mothers griefs, else woudst [sic] thou bend thy tender / ears to her complaint, Sleep on sweet Babe! Sleep with him ye billows & my saviours!’ (on the artist’s original mount)
the first pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper; the second pencil, stump, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on paper
the first 18 7/8 x 25 1/8 in. (48 x 63.9 cm.); the second 17 x 18 ¾ in. (43.2 x 47.5 cm.)(2)




Provenance

The artist, and by descent to his daughter
Elizabeth, Lady Wallscourt (1806-1877), and by descent in the family until
with Daniel Shackleton, Edinburgh (Exhibition of Drawings by William Lock of Norbury 1767-1847, 1990, nos. 29 and 9).
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8 King Street, St. James's
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United Kingdom
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