Sale 6647
London, South Kensington
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25 October 1994
Price realised
GBP 198
Estimate
James Ferguson Hester Chapone, née Mulso, facing right in lace-bordered dress and lace bonnet plumbago, turned wood frame oval, 2 1/8in. (53mm.) high
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Hester Chapone (1727-1801) was an English essayist known for her Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1772)
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