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Peter de Bath, facing left in scarlet coat with blue facings and collar, large silver buttons, silver epaulettes, wearing silver cross-sash and crescent, frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
Details
SAMUEL SHELLEY (1750/56-1808)
Peter de Bath, facing left in scarlet coat with blue facings and collar, large silver buttons, silver epaulettes, wearing silver cross-sash and crescent, frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
signed on the backing paper 'S: Shelley Henrietta Street Cov. Garden'
oval, 27/8 in. (73 mm.) high, gold fausse-montre frame, the reverse with central lock of hair tied with seed pearls set in gold, split-pearl border with blue glass surround and gold and white enamel border
Peter de Bath, facing left in scarlet coat with blue facings and collar, large silver buttons, silver epaulettes, wearing silver cross-sash and crescent, frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
signed on the backing paper 'S: Shelley Henrietta Street Cov. Garden'
oval, 27/8 in. (73 mm.) high, gold fausse-montre frame, the reverse with central lock of hair tied with seed pearls set in gold, split-pearl border with blue glass surround and gold and white enamel border
Provenance
with H. E. Backer in 1947.