Lot 112
  • 112

Valentine Green

Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description

  • Valentine Green
  • The British Naval Victors; after Gainsborough Dupont, Francis Cotes, Richard Morton payne, and Lemuel Francis Abbott
  • Published London, 1799
  • Mezzotint engraving
  • plate: 634 by 512mm; 25 by 20 1/8 in
  • sheet: 667 by 556mm; 26 1/4 by 21 7/8 in
Mezzotint with hand-colouring, 1799, on wove paper, framed

Provenance

Sotheby’s London, Trafalgar: Nelson and the Napoleonic Wars, 5 October 2005, lot 147

Condition

With margins, in generally good condition, with light surface soiling in the margins, the occasional nick and crease at extreme sheet edges, a small loss at upper right tip of sheet, some remains of previous mounting in the margins with associated unobtrusive areas of skinning, the verso with some areas of water-staining with associated areas of skinning, framed.
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