?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
GEORGE STUBBS A Lion Devouring a Horse.
Soft-ground etching and engraving printed in dark brownish black on cream laid paper, before 1788. 250x335 mm; 9 3/4x13 1/4 inches, with narrow margins outside the image. An extremely scarce, unrecorded working proof in soft-ground etching and engraving only.
We have found only 4 other impressions from the published state at auction in the past 25 years; this is the first proof before the roulette additions to be offered at auction in the past 25 years. Lennox-Boyd 71.
