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W. Heath
Joseph Grimaldi, half length in blue coat, white waistcoat, buff trousers, a loosely tied orange and yellow cravat, holding letters, landscape background
signed on label on reverse
rectangular, 4in. (100mm.) high; and a watercolour said to be Grimaldi's cottage in Greenwich (2)

Lot Essay

Joseph Grimaldi (1779-1837) was an English comic actor and pantomimist. He contributed greatly to the development of the modern clown.

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