Lot 206
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A CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE PAINTING-ON-GLASS
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A CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE PAINTING-ON-GLASS

AFTER GEORGE STUBBS, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE PAINTING-ON-GLASS
After George Stubbs, last quarter 18th Century
The rectangular landscape scene with two of gentleman out shooting at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire, by a thatched watermill, with a blue border and a concave-moulded giltwood frame, inscribed in pencil on the reverse 'After a picture by J. Stubbs Engraved by W. Woollett'
19½ x 24½ in. (49.5 x 63 cm.)
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Lot Essay

The painting of Two Gentlemen out shooting at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire, 1766-7, from which this picture is taken, is now in a private collection in the United States of America. It is illustrated in B. Taylor, Stubbs, London, 2nd ed., 1975, fig. 48.

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