LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with gold paint, on laid paper, watermarked with the Strasburg Lily, unframed

Measurements:

9.09 in. (23.10 cm.) (height) by 12.20 in. (31.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper centre: Font / A Pix or of. Copper Gilt and enamelld. [sic]; further inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower centre: The Body is adorned with Six pounds where on are figured as many Storys, out of / the Old Testament, alludeing [sic] to the Sacrament and in the fascia over the said rounds are inscriptions / in Blew [sic] enamell [sic] explaining each history. about august 1717 it was bought at a Braziers shop in Lond.

Provenance:

With The Fry Gallery, London, by 1970, by whom sold in 1970 to Walter Brandt