Lot Essay
These works, depicting Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, were presented to the couple on their 50th wedding anniversary by their children Irving M. Scott, Henry T. Scott, and Mary Frances Scott Orrick.
Labor and Leisure: A Pair of Paintings
Details
Enoch Wood Perry (1831-1915)
Labor and Leisure: A Pair of Paintings
each, signed and dated 'E.W. Perry '77' lower left
each, oil on board
each, 7 x 9in. (17.8 x 22.8cm.) (2)
Labor and Leisure: A Pair of Paintings
each, signed and dated 'E.W. Perry '77' lower left
each, oil on board
each, 7 x 9in. (17.8 x 22.8cm.) (2)
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, San Fransicso, California, 1877
Mr. John B. Nowland, Sr., Loma Mar, California, great-grandson of the above
Sale: New York, Sotheby's, March 11, 1992, lot 19
Mr. John B. Nowland, Sr., Loma Mar, California, great-grandson of the above
Sale: New York, Sotheby's, March 11, 1992, lot 19