Sale 6516
London
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21 November 2001
Price realised
GBP 6,110
Estimate
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899) View from Ponte dei Pugni, Venice signed with monogram 'BF' (lower right) pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour 5½ x 3 7/8 in. (14 x 9.7 cm.)
Provenance
with Frost and Reed, London, 1945.
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The church beyond is probably Santa Barnaba.
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