THREE FRAMED PAGES FROM JUVENAL'S SATIRES INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE JUNIOR, the first page 270 from Satire VIII inscribed Tho Chippendale Junr St Martins Lane Charing Cross, the second page 204 from Satire VI inscribed Tho Chippendale Junr St Martins Lane Charing Cross, the third page 120 from Satire II inscribed Tho Chippendale Junr St Martins Lane (struck out) Charing Cross, in an ebonised frame

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THREE FRAMED PAGES FROM JUVENAL'S SATIRES INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE JUNIOR, the first page 270 from Satire VIII inscribed Tho Chippendale Junr St Martins Lane Charing Cross, the second page 204 from Satire VI inscribed Tho Chippendale Junr St Martins Lane Charing Cross, the third page 120 from Satire II inscribed Tho Chippendale Junr St Martins Lane (struck out) Charing Cross, in an ebonised frame
8½in. x 14¼in. (21.5cm. x 36cm.) overall

Provenance

Bought by the vendor's husband at Sotheby's, probably during the 1940s

Lot Essay

A portrait identified as Thomas Chippendale Junior (d.1822) was illustrated as in The Cabinet-Maker, 18 April 1925, has been linked to the 'Mr. Chippendale' portraits that were exhibited at the Royal Academy in the 1790s (see: C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 299). Chippendale himself was also an exhibitor of genre scenes at this period. In his 1779 publication entitled Sketches of Ornament, he signed himself Jun'r

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