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#271 ~ Sandby - Untitled - [Music by Moonlight]
#271 ~ Sandby - Untitled - [Music by Moonlight]
Lot #271

Artist Paul Sandby
Title Untitled - [Music by Moonlight]
Media watercolour on paper
Dated 1788
Size 11.5 x 18.75 x 1 in. / 29.2 x 47.6 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed and dated '88 lower left; laid down on paperboard

Reference
see The Art of Paul Sandby, by B.Robertson, Yale Centre for British Art, 1985 for another version [cat.#115]; the author notes the 'L.G. Duke recorded that he had seen a version with additional hills on the right. This was probably the drawing etched by C.O. Murray for Cosmo Monkhouse, Earlier English Water Colour Painters, 1980'

Provenance
from family members, England to private collection, Edmonton
Estimate CAD$5,000-$6,000

Sold
CAD $4,675
1997/05/05
#271 ~ Sandby - Meltis [Mellis?] Suffolk
#271 ~ Sandby - Meltis [Mellis?] Suffolk
Lot #271

Artist Paul Sandby
Title Meltis [Mellis?] Suffolk
Media watercolour on paper
Size 14.5 x 21 x 1 in. / 36.8 x 53.3 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
unsigned; laid down on paperboard

Provenance
Fine Art Society, London [purchased from P & D Colnaghi London in 1944 and sold to J.H. Bulcock in 1948 - copy of letter enclosed]; from family members, England to private collection, Edmonton
Estimate CAD$5,000-$6,000

Sold
CAD $4,400
1997/05/05

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