Lot 304
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A pair of silhouette printed handscreens, the shaped cardboard in aquatint printed with three rows of silhouettes of fashionable ladies and gentlemen dancing and conversing at a ball, probably the work of F.A. Gray, the borders painted with trompe l'oeil curtains inscribed At Home at the top, the handles of turned wood - 14 ½in. (37cm), English, circa 1818, slightly worn
A pair of silhouette printed handscreens, the shaped cardboard in aquatint printed with three rows of silhouettes of fashionable ladies and gentlemen dancing and conversing at a ball, probably the work of F.A. Gray, the borders painted with trompe l'oeil curtains inscribed At Home at the top, the handles of turned wood - 14 ½in. (37cm), English, circa 1818, slightly worn

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A pair of silhouette printed handscreens, the shaped cardboard in aquatint printed with three rows of silhouettes of fashionable ladies and gentlemen dancing and conversing at a ball, probably the work of F.A. Gray, the borders painted with trompe l'oeil curtains inscribed At Home at the top, the handles of turned wood - 14 ½in. (37cm), English, circa 1818, slightly worn
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Lot Essay

A silhouette print on a pink-surfaced, light-weight paper, inscribed "London Published, Jany. 1st. 1818, by S&J Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place", in which the figures are exactly the same as in one of the screens above, is reproduced in "Antiques", volume XXIV., 1933, page 180

There is a virtually identical pair in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum

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