An Eastern Muleteer

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WILLIAM JAMES WEBBE (BRITISH, 1830-1904)
An Eastern Muleteer
signed 'WJ Webb' (lower left); numbered, inscribed and signed ‘No. 3/An Eastern Muleteer/W.J. Webb/18 John Street/Downshire Hill/Hampstead N’ (on a label on the reverse)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
20 x 13 ½ in. (50.8 x 34.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 20 March 1995, lot 41.
with The Fine Art Society, June 1995.
Private collection, Saudi Arabia.
Gifted by the above to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Webbe specialized in animal subjects and particularly those that he saw on his trip to the East. He repeated the subject of the white and brown donkey in two other watercolors but with a camel rather than the third donkey as in the present work. For a note on the artist see lot 62.

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