Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 1 - 1st March 2022
Lot 188
John Frederick Lewis RA (1804-1876)
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £700
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Description
John Frederick Lewis RA (1804-1876)
Nineteen plates from 'Sketches of Spain and Spanish character', comprising Mosque at Cordova; La Puerta del Sol, Madrid; Contrabandistas; The Alhambra Palace, Granada; A couple riding a mule, Granada; Landscape at Ronda; Matador; Interior of a Posada; Two men resting on a Roadside, Andalusia; Plaza de San Francisco, Seville; Sala Capitola, Toledo; Mendicant Monks, Granada; Peasants dancing the Bolero; Portrait of a Spaniard on horseback; Las Dos Hermanas; Mountain road, Gaucin; Jewish woman of Gibraltar in fiesta dress; Gitanillas, Ronda; A young woman riding a mule, Seville
Nineteen, each tinted lithograph, some with hand colouring
Largest 33.5 x 38.9cm; 13¼ x 15¼in; Smallest 25.4 x 35.5cm; 10 x 14in (19)
Provenance:
Belton House, Lincolnshire;
Christie's, Belton House Lincolnshire, 30 April - 2 May 1984;
The Anthony and Marietta Coleridge Collection (all according to labels on Las Dos Hermanas)