Lot 85
Paul Sandby, R.A.(British, 1730-1809)An Italianate landscape
28 October 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,200 inc. premium
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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).
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.