Richard Simkin (1840-1926)

The 1st Life Guards, passing Her Majesty in Review order

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Richard Simkin (1840-1926)
The 1st Life Guards, passing Her Majesty in Review order
signed lower right R. Simkin and titled The British Army No 2
pencil, watercolour, gouache and heightened with white on paper
18.2 x 23.5 cm;
and Fifteen watercolours of British armies by the same hand (16)

Lot Essay

The watercolours in the present lot were used to illustrate R. Simkin's Our Armies, a review of amongst others the British Cavalry, British Artillery and Infantry and the Indian Native army, containing one hundred and one facsimile watercolour drawings and published by Day & Son, London.

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