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    Town & Country Perspectives - The Charles Plante Collection

    London, South Kensington

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    4 June 2008

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    • GENERAL EDWARD W. WRAY (BRITIS
    Lot 110

    GENERAL EDWARD W. WRAY (BRITISH, 1823-1892)

    Smoking after a Turkish bath, Constantinople

    Price realised

    GBP 275

    Estimate

    GBP 400 - GBP 600

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    GENERAL EDWARD W. WRAY (BRITISH, 1823-1892)
    Smoking after a Turkish bath, Constantinople
    signed with initials 'E W' (lower right)
    pen and black ink and watercolour heightened with white, with scratching out
    5½ x 9¼ in. (14 x 23.5 cm.)

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    with Abbott & Holder.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    C.Plante, Inside Out: Historic Watercolour Drawings, Oil sketches and Paintings of Interiors and Exteriors 1770-1870, London, 2000, no. 46.


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