Sale 12186
New York
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20 September 2016
Price realised
USD 16,250
Estimate
J. Quigg, 19th Century View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, circa 1870 signed J, Quigg, lower right oil on board Sight 22 ¼ x 30 ¾ in.
Provenance
Leonardo L. Beans, Trenton, New Jersey Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 30 April - 3 May 1980, lot 1136 Thomas G. Rizzo, New York Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 29 April 1982, lot 23
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Exhibited
Williamsburg, Virginia, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, The Folk Artist Looks at the Civil War, August - November 1960. New York, Museum of American Folk Art, Celebrate the Hudson, October - November 1980.
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