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A young girl, in loose white shift, yellow cloak draped about her, long fair hair, crouching beside a stone, holding a blue ribbon in her left hand tied to her seated dog; tree and landscape background
Details
SAMUEL SHELLEY (1750/56-1808)
A young girl, in loose white shift, yellow cloak draped about her, long fair hair, crouching beside a stone, holding a blue ribbon in her left hand tied to her seated dog; tree and landscape background
signed and dated on the reverse '1786 painted by S: Shelley Henrietta Street Covent Garden London'
rectangular, 36 x 2 in. (91 x 65 mm.), framed
A young girl, in loose white shift, yellow cloak draped about her, long fair hair, crouching beside a stone, holding a blue ribbon in her left hand tied to her seated dog; tree and landscape background
signed and dated on the reverse '1786 painted by S: Shelley Henrietta Street Covent Garden London'
rectangular, 36 x 2 in. (91 x 65 mm.), framed
Provenance
Christie's, London, 2 May 1961, lot 148 (34gns. to Stuart).