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Lot 85

Paul Sandby, R.A.
(British, 1730-1809)
An Italianate landscape

28 October 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,200 inc. premium

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Paul Sandby, R.A. (British, 1730-1809)

An Italianate landscape with a family resting beneath a tree and boats on a river in the distance
indistinctly signed and dated 1789 (on the rock lower left); inscribed in a contemporary hand 'P.Sandby/1762' (lower centre)
black chalk and watercolour
36 x 51.8cm (14 3/16 x 20 3/8in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
with William Smith, F.S.A;
property of William Sandby;
thence by decent to G.J.A. Peake (grandson of Thomas Sandby's daughter Charlotte and of Hubert Peake);
with J. Pratt and Son, Derby;
Anon. sale, Christie's, 14 February 1978, lot 134, where purchased by the present owner.

EXHIBITED:
Midland Counties Exhibition, Nottingham Castle, 1884, no. 101, loaned by William Sandby.

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