Sale 9877
London, South Kensington
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1 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 167
Estimate
English School, 18th Century Figures approaching a fortified hillside town pencil and watercolour with scratching out 18 x 25 in. (46 x 63.5 cm.); and a watercolour of hounds on the scent by Stephen T. Dadd (2)
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