Lot Essay
[With:] "The first step to the Coach box." Watercolor and ink drawing (after?) an illustration by H. Alken. Approximately 4 x 6 in., laid down on larger sheet.
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Circle of HENRY ALKEN.* Bound volume containing a group of 6 highly finished watercolor and pencil drawings, accompanied by 8 small highly finished pencil drawings in the manner of Henry Alken. 4½ x 5¼ in. and smaller, matted and bound in a 4to, full crimson straight-grained morocco volume, g.e., by RIVIERE.
* In Christie's qualified opinion a work of the period of the artist and closely related in his style. (2)
* In Christie's qualified opinion a work of the period of the artist and closely related in his style. (2)