An Album of Drawings by or attributed to Bernard Lens III including: two drawings of the West Prospect of the Mount, Kensington Gardens; Kingston Bridge; His Majesty's Water House in Hyde Park and Army encampments

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An Album of Drawings by or attributed to Bernard Lens III including: two drawings of the West Prospect of the Mount, Kensington Gardens; Kingston Bridge; His Majesty's Water House in Hyde Park and Army encampments

18 drawings and 14 prints loosely bound together, some inscribed and numbered, a few dated variously 1729-1732; pen and brown and grey ink, grey wash
6 x 8½in. (152 x 216mm.) and smaller; the album 9¾ x 7in. (248 x 179mm.)

Lot Essay

An Album of seventeen drawings entitled 'The Grenadiers Exercise of the Grenade, 1735' was sold in these Rooms 19 November 1985, lot 123 (¨5,000). There is an album of seventeen views of England five of them measuring circa 7 x 9in. and smaller. The library at Windsor, see
A.P. Oppé, English Drawings at Windsor Castle Stuart and Georgian Periods, 1950, no. 420

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