Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day Two - 6th July 2023

Lot 379

FIVE ENGRAVINGS OF MONKEYS

Estimate £100 - £150 | Hammer £150

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Description

FIVE ENGRAVINGS OF MONKEYS
17TH CENTURY AND LATER

comprising: an engraving of four monkeys after Pierre Firens (c.1580-1638), signed to plate 'firens ex.' and numbered '17', a pair of hand-coloured engravings of monkeys with fruit, a hand-coloured engraving of a monkey with a corncob, and a hand-coloured engraving with a satirical depiction of a barber monkey with his client, each in a glazed silvered frame (5)
26 x 21.5cm (max)

 To be sold without reserve. 

Provenance
The Collection of Robin and Rupert Hambro.