Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/479
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN ZOFFANY, R.A. 1733-1810. 874 A Lapy, name unknown. Bust, viewed to the right, eyes looking full. Décolleté bodice faintly indicated. She wears a lace cap decorated in the centre with a rosette, a pearl necklace secured at the back in a loose bow. Pencil. Rectangular, 24 by 2% in. On paper. A slight but very charming sketch. (772) BOOKS ON MINIATURE PAINTING. QUARTO * 875 WILLIAMSON (GEORGE C.). Life and Works of Ozias Humphry, R.A., limited to 400 copies; plates, etc., half vellum John Lane, 1918. *..* Inserted are an A.L.s., 1l}pp., 4to., from Samuel Johnson to Humphry, dated Bolt Court, Fleet Street, April 5th, 1784. This letter is printed on p. 89 of the above work; and an A.L.s., lp. 4to., from Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Humphry, dated Friday, Aug. 18th, 1780, in which he mentions C. Fox. 876 Williamson (G.C.) Andrew and Nathaniel Plimer, Miniature Painters. Their Lives and their Works. Limited Edition, bound 1n hand-loom linen. George Bell, 1903 877 Williamson (G. C.) Richard Cosway, R.A., and his Wife and Pupils, portrait (loose) and plates, cloth ; G. Bell, 1897, etc. (4) 878 Arundel Society. A Series of Portrait Miniatures selected from the Loan Exhibition at the South Kensington Museum in 1865, photographed by C. Thurston Thompson, half morocco, n.d.—Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures, 1865 (2)