Sale 6104
London
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29 April 1999
Price realised
GBP 2,760
Estimate
Lionel Grimston Fawkes (1849-1931) Eight views in Barbados six watercolour, two pen and ink 5 x 9in. (14.6 x 22.8cm.) and smaller Queen's House, Barbados; Queen's House Windmill; Queen's House, View from drawing-room window - Gun Hill in distance; Fishing for Mullet, 5 November 1876; Woman on a Sugar Estate, Barbados; W.I. soldiers; Street scene, Barbados; and Figures beneath an Arch, Barbados (8)
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Exhibited
London, J.L.W. Bird in association with Morton, Morris & Company, Thrice Happy Isles!, an exhibition of drawings of the West Indies by Lionel Grimston Fawkes (1849-1931), 6-22 June, 1979.
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