Sale 5444
London, South Kensington
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4 June 2008
Price realised
GBP 275
Estimate
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.)
Provenance
with Abbott & Holder.
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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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