Lot 25
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The Babes in the Wood, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured engraving with three scenes: a dual by a ruined arch, with grey horse in the foreground, a young couple with a rabbit emerging from its burrow in the foreground and to the right the young couple sleeping in a wood as birds cover them with leaves with an ostrich in the foreground, unsigned probably by Gamble or by Chassereau, with bone sticks - 11in. (27cm.), circa 1740
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The Babes in the Wood, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured engraving with three scenes: a dual by a ruined arch, with grey horse in the foreground, a young couple with a rabbit emerging from its burrow in the foreground and to the right the young couple sleeping in a wood as birds cover them with leaves with an ostrich in the foreground, unsigned probably by Gamble or by Chassereau, with bone sticks - 11in. (27cm.), circa 1740

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The Babes in the Wood, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured engraving with three scenes: a dual by a ruined arch, with grey horse in the foreground, a young couple with a rabbit emerging from its burrow in the foreground and to the right the young couple sleeping in a wood as birds cover them with leaves with an ostrich in the foreground, unsigned probably by Gamble or by Chassereau, with bone sticks - 11in. (27cm.), circa 1740
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