Lot 92
92
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A WILLIAM AND MARY GRAINED WING-BACK ARMCHAIR with arched padded back, sides and outscrolled arms covered in pale green cut velvet, on shaped turned legs joined by a later waved X-shaped stretcher and with later feet and brass caps, the caps stamped PATENT BS&T and a sunburst, the back feet spliced

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A WILLIAM AND MARY GRAINED WING-BACK ARMCHAIR with arched padded back, sides and outscrolled arms covered in pale green cut velvet, on shaped turned legs joined by a later waved X-shaped stretcher and with later feet and brass caps, the caps stamped PATENT BS&T and a sunburst, the back feet spliced
Engraved
Dr. Samuel Parr (1747 - 1825), the 'Whig Dr. Johnson'
Thence by descent to the present owner

Lot Essay

This lot is sold with three prints of Samuel Parr, one of the great celebrities of his time, famous as a pedagogue, as 'the greatest scholar of the age' and as 'The Whig Dr. Johnson'. An ardent champion of civil and religious liberty, he was also notorious as 'a left wing parson'. A biography by Warren Derry was published by the Oxford University Press in 1966. A marble bust of him and his papers have been donated to the Bodleian Library

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