Description
Watercolour with scratching out
Dimensions
26cm x 46cm (10.25in x 18in)
Footnote
Provenance:H.C.Green
L.G.Duke
Sotheby's 29 April 1972, Lot 103
Literature:Major-General Michael Lewis C.B.E, John Frederick Lewis R.A 1805-1876, 1978, cat. no. 254, illustrated fig.30
Note:The same or similar mule with comparable trappings but differently posed appears in two of the lithographs in Lewis's Spain & Spanish Character, 1836, no.11, Muleteers of the Ronda and no. 18, Gaucin smugglers coming out of Gibraltar. The original watercolour for the latter is in Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn for her help in the preparation of this catalogue entry