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Lot Essay
The complete inscription on the litho reads TO SIR CHARLES LOCK EASTLAKE, PRESIDENT OP THE ROYAL ACADEMY 8cc 8cc 8cc
Whose Works and Whose influence have ever tended to foster and taste for the highest style - this lithographic Print of the Ceiling of the Sistene Chapel by Michael Angelo executed at the expence of J.S. HARFORD ESQre OF BLAISE CASTLE is inscribed by him with every sentiment of respect & esteem. and Executed and printed in colours under the direction of J.Storch at the Lithographic Institute of Winckelmann & Sons at Berlin 1852-1853. Drawn on stone in colours under the direction of C. Kopper. Pratesi Delt L.Gruner direxit.
Whose Works and Whose influence have ever tended to foster and taste for the highest style - this lithographic Print of the Ceiling of the Sistene Chapel by Michael Angelo executed at the expence of J.S. HARFORD ESQre OF BLAISE CASTLE is inscribed by him with every sentiment of respect & esteem. and Executed and printed in colours under the direction of J.Storch at the Lithographic Institute of Winckelmann & Sons at Berlin 1852-1853. Drawn on stone in colours under the direction of C. Kopper. Pratesi Delt L.Gruner direxit.