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Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry

William Powell Frith, R.A.

The Glove seller: A scene from Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'

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July 8, 02:03 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry

William Powell Frith, R.A.

Aldfield 1819 - 1909 London

The Glove seller: A scene from Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'


Black and white chalk, heightened with red chalk;

signed and dated lower right: WP Frith 1851

545 by 433 mm

Sudbury Gainsborough's House, A Peculiarly English Art, English Drawings and Watercolours, 1994, no. 47
The subject is taken from Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, a novel first published in 1768. It shows the principal character, the Reverend Yorick, flirting with a pretty glove seller. The playful cat on the chair symbolises his intentions.

Frith painted two oil paintings of this subject: one was exhibited at the British Institution in 1845, the other is dated 1853.1

We are grateful to Mark Bills for his help when cataloguing this lot.

1. The first was sold at Christie's, London on 1 December 2016, lot 75; the second forms part of the collection at The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Yorkshire.