The Orientalist Sale
The Orientalist Sale
Property from a British Private Collection
Thomas Seddon
A Halted Caravan on the Borders of the Egyptian Desert
Auction Closed
April 25, 02:17 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Thomas Seddon
British
1821-1856
A Halted Caravan on the Borders of the Egyptian Desert
signed and dated TSeddon / 1856 lower left
oil on canvas
Unframed: 26.8 by 35.3cm., 10½ by 14in.
Framed: 40.6 by 50cm., 16 by 19¾in.
Purchased from the artist by William Marshall of Penwortham Hall, Preston, Lancashire, 5 August 1856 (original receipt sold with this picture); thence by family descent to the present owner
John Pollard Seddon, Memoir and Letters of the Late Thomas Seddon, Artist, MDCCC.LVIII, London, pp. 151, 154-5