Lot Essay
For a note on Birket Foster's work for Charles Seely, see lot 120.
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A fruit shop, Rialto market, Venice
Details
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
A fruit shop, Rialto market, Venice
signed with monogram 'B.F.' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour
8¼ x 12 in. (21 x 30.5 cm)
A fruit shop, Rialto market, Venice
signed with monogram 'B.F.' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour
8¼ x 12 in. (21 x 30.5 cm)
Provenance
Possibly Charles Seely, M.P.
Literature
Possibly J. Reynolds, Birket Foster, Frome and London, 1984, p. 200.
Exhibited
Possibly, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Special Loan Exhibition of Pictures of the British School in Oils and Water-colours, 1896, no. 94.
Possibly Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, Special Loan Exhibition of Works by Birket Foster, 1925, no. 76.
Possibly Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, Special Loan Exhibition of Works by Birket Foster, 1925, no. 76.
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