L12040

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Lot 191
  • 191

Thomas Seddon

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Seddon
  • View on the Nile near Cairo, Egypt
  • Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour and stopping out;
    signed with monogram, lower left

Provenance

With Spink's, London, 1985
with Andrew Wyld, London,
by whom sold to John, Lord D'Ayton (1922-2003);
thence by descent to the present owners

Exhibited

London, Tate Britain, The Lure of the East, British Orientalist Painting, 2008, un-numbered

Condition

This watercolour has been very well preserved. The colours are fresh and strong and there appears to be very little fading. The sheet has not been laid down, but is instead attached to a window-mount at the extreme edges verso.
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