Lot 169
24 May 2006, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistMiss Catherine Andras (British, fl.1799-1824)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), profile to the left.
Natural wax in mid-relief backed with glass painted with shellac, signed along the truncation and dated C ANDRAS Jan 8 1810, inscribed on the backing paper ...able/ ...lled by Miss.../ ...in Wax to He.../ 80 Pall Ma..., gilt-mounted rectangular papier-mâché frame.
Oval, 107mm (4 3/16in) high
Natural wax in mid-relief backed with glass painted with shellac, signed along the truncation and dated C ANDRAS Jan 8 1810, inscribed on the backing paper ...able/ ...lled by Miss.../ ...in Wax to He.../ 80 Pall Ma..., gilt-mounted rectangular papier-mâché frame.
Oval, 107mm (4 3/16in) high
Footnotes
Andras exhibited a wax profile of Wellington at the Royal Academy in 1810 (no.640). There are other recorded examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Bate Collection. A version was sold at Sotheby's, 30 November 1964 (lot 83).