LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil and watercolour, on paper

Measurements:

7.01 in. (17.80 cm.) (height) by 8.98 in. (22.80 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

numbered, inscribed and dated 'No 1 Sir Joseph Lock's Organ Room Oxford/Over the organ, A Cast of Roubiliac's Mont of Handel Westminster Abbey/& 2 Sphinxes - The/Original Egyptian/Sphinx is supposed by some/to be the figure of some animal wch has by Time assumed a/resemblance to the female face & bust - others say it is a combination of/the 2 summer signs of the Lion & the Virgin/Copied Aug 31 1842. The original is in oblique perspective/The Organ was built for his/own/daughter by England' (on the reverse)

Provenance:

the first, with Iolo Williams.