Lot Essay
Allport was a pupil and friend of John Glover (1767-1849) and like Glover, Allport emigrated to Australia in 1839.
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Romantic landscape, a figure with two donkeys sheltering from the deluge
Details
Henry Curzon Allport (Aldridge 1788-1854 Paramatta, N.S.W.)
Romantic landscape, a figure with two donkeys sheltering from the deluge
signed and dated 'H.C. Allport 1811' (lower right) and with inscription 'Glover' (on the reverse)
pencil and grey wash with scratching out, on paper
9 x 11 in. (22.8 x 27.9 cm.); An unframed drawing of the Duddery at the fair on Stourbridge by William Capon; Two unframed wash drawings of an old stone yard and Yarmouth Jetty, Norwich School, 19th Century; and An unframed drawing of a manor house, near Bromley, Kent, by another hand (5)
Romantic landscape, a figure with two donkeys sheltering from the deluge
signed and dated 'H.C. Allport 1811' (lower right) and with inscription 'Glover' (on the reverse)
pencil and grey wash with scratching out, on paper
9 x 11 in. (22.8 x 27.9 cm.); An unframed drawing of the Duddery at the fair on Stourbridge by William Capon; Two unframed wash drawings of an old stone yard and Yarmouth Jetty, Norwich School, 19th Century; and An unframed drawing of a manor house, near Bromley, Kent, by another hand (5)
Provenance
the fourth, Yarmouth Jetty, Leonard Duke (his catalogue no. D2786 on the old mount).
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.