Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art
Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art
Property of a Gentleman
SIMEON SOLOMON | For the Souls of the Dead at Moscow
Auction Closed
July 11, 02:12 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
SIMEON SOLOMON
1840 - 1905
For the Souls of the Dead at Moscow
signed with initials l.r. and titled u.l. and l.l.
pencil
42 by 32cm., 16½ by 12½in.
Lionel Lambourne OBE, (Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London);
Private collection
It has been suggested that this drawing may have been a reaction to the 1892 epidemic of cholera in Russia which particularly impacted Jewish communities in Moscow.