Nov 11, 2005 - Sale 2056

Sale 2056 - Lot 131

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ALDO COSOMATI HAMPTON COURT / BY TRAM. 1923.
30x20 inches. Waterlow & Sons, Ltd. , London.
Condition B+: repaired tears and overpainting along margins and sharp vertical and horizontal folds.
Italian born Cosomati studied graphic arts in Germany and Switzerland before he settled in London around 1920. His image for Hampton Court shows "the Tudor facade [of Hampton Court] in silhouette dominated by the figure of King Henry VIII, who seized the palace from Cardinal Wolsey in 1529 and enlarged it for his own use." Underground p. 74.