Lot Essay
A similar, slightly larger watercolour, depicting a young boy fishing for eels, with eel pots stacked on a punt, was sold at Christie's London, 7 April 1998, lot 123 (13,225).
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Eel pots, on the banks of a river
Details
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
Eel pots, on the banks of a river
signed with monogram 'BF' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic
10.5/8 x 14.3/8 in. (26.9 x 36.5 cm.)
Eel pots, on the banks of a river
signed with monogram 'BF' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic
10.5/8 x 14.3/8 in. (26.9 x 36.5 cm.)