Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS.
Group of 4 pen and ink illustrations. First three on paper, the last on illustration board. Various sizes. All Signed in full. Vd.

Additional Details

"The Bread Seller." Italian street peddler. 394x254 mm; 15 1/2x10 inches. Nd "(Contarini)/Rio San Luca, Venice." Tranquil canal scene. 479x311 mm; 18 7/8x12 1/4 inches. Nd "Amsterdam." Storks nesting on the city's rooftops. 256x251mm; 10x12 1/4 inches. Likely for St. Nicholas or Century Magazine as evidenced by publisher's stamp on verso. Nd "The Meeting." 394x267mm; 15 1/2x12 1/2 inches on illustration board, publisher's label on verso. Illustration in "New Year's Eve" by Alice Williams Brotherton in The Century, January 1892, page 437.