A young Girl, full face in blue dress with lace bodice and lace on her sleeves, flowers in her upswept fair hair; landscape background
Details
JOSEPH LEE (1780-1859)
A young Girl, full face in blue dress with lace bodice and lace on her sleeves, flowers in her upswept fair hair; landscape background
enamel on copper
oval, 1.7/8 in. (47 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
A young Girl, full face in blue dress with lace bodice and lace on her sleeves, flowers in her upswept fair hair; landscape background
enamel on copper
oval, 1.7/8 in. (47 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Mrs M. Ballin; Sotheby's, London, 20 December 1965, lot 45 (£52 to W. A. Rappolt).
Edwin E. Simmons.
Edwin E. Simmons.
Literature
D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, p. 136 ('This is a most attractive miniature in fresh colours') illustrated opp. p. 136, colour pl. 10C.
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, illustrated opp. p. 136, colour pl. 10C.
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, illustrated opp. p. 136, colour pl. 10C.
Exhibited
London, Sotheby's, Childhood, 1988, no. 194, illustrated in colour p. 76.