Lot 216
  • 216

Edward Francis Burney

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Edward Francis Burney
  • Return from the Chase, Westwood House, Worcestershire, The Seat of Sir John Packington
  • Watercolour over pencil with pen and black ink, heightened with white, unframed

Provenance

With Walker's Galleries, London, by 1957, by whom sold in 1957 to Walter Brandt

Exhibited

Suffolk, Ickworth House, Exhibition of Early English Water-colours of the Great Period, 1968, no. 9

Condition

Although some of the colours in this work have retained their original strength, the more delicate pigments have faded. There are occasional minor areas of surface dirt to the sheet. At the edges of the sheet, soft creases are visible. This work has not been laid down.
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