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Lot 128

WENTWORTH (LADY)
A small archive of personal items relating to Lady Wentworth, author of The Authentic Arabian Horse, and her parents, including; a group of 5 portrait plaque roundel portraits of Lady Wentworth, her head in profile with surrounding caption "Judith A.D.B. Lytton 1915", etc. (small quantity)

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WENTWORTH (LADY)

A small archive of personal items relating to Lady Wentworth, author of The Authentic Arabian Horse, and her parents, including; a group of 5 portrait plaque roundel portraits of Lady Wentworth, her head in profile with surrounding caption "Judith A.D.B. Lytton 1915", 3 bronze, 2 coloured plaster (one cracked), 130mm., [1915]; A portrait miniature of Lady Wentworth as a young girl, attributed to her mother Lady Anne Blunt, watercolour, in gilt frame, image approximately 80 x 65mm. inscribed on verso "Painted August 1876"; idem, in a gold frame, the reverse with blue enamel border surrounding the initials "J.A.D.B.", approximately 70 x 75mm.; a charming painted miniature box decorated by Lady Wentworth, on lid and sides with scenes of Arab horses, hunting dogs, fishing on a lake, etc., ink initials N.L. [i.e. Judith's husband Neville Lytton] on lid, approximately 50 x 30 x 50mm.; 2 other smaller decorated boxes by Wentworth (one inscribed to her mother Anne); 'Sea horse', watercolour and bodycolour, attributed to Lady Wentworth in pencil on verso, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 87 x 132mm.; a watercolour of a duck with outstretched wings, attributed to Judith's mother Anne (1837-1817), framed and glazed, image 152 x 270mm.; and others, including an enameled photographic portrait of Wilfred Scawen Blunt (Judith's father), "a turquoise from Mount Sinai", and Egyptian scarab "beetle picked up by ?Nutlak March 24 1906", etc. (small quantity)

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A collection of items relating to Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917), who in 1878 founded Crabbet Arabian stud, "one of the greatest private studs, destined to influence Arabian horse breeding worldwide" (ODNB) and her daughter Judith, Lady Wentworth (1873-1957), who continued breeding Arab stallions, and wrote the classic The Authentic Arabian Horse, 1945. Both women were accomplished artists, Lady Anne having been taught drawing by John Ruskin.

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