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    Sale 7907

    OBJECTS OF VERTU & MINIATURES

    London, South Kensington

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    3 March 1998

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    Lot 6

    English School, circa 1840

    Price realised

    GBP 414

    Estimate

    GBP 200 - GBP 250

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    English School, circa 1840
    A Gentleman and young Boy, standing in profile: the former in coat and trousers; the latter, in coat and trousers, wearing a hat and holding a closed book
    cut-out on card, heightened with gold and white, slight watercolour background
    rectangular, 10¼ x 6.5/8in. (260 x 168mm.); a young Scholar, standing in profile to right, in coat and wearing a mortar board; and a Gentleman, in profile to left, in black robes and holding a document
    cut-outs on card, the former heightened with gold, the latter with white; both with watercolour background
    rectangular, 10¼ x 6.5/8in. (260 x 168mm.) (3)

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