Sale 6054
London
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24 November 1998
Price realised
GBP 4,600
Estimate
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899) An awkward encounter signed with monogram (lower right) pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, and with scratching out 5 x 7.1/8 in. (12.7 x 18.1 cm.)
Provenance
with Michael Bryan, London.
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