Lot 373

ELIZABETH DEMPSTER
A PAIR OF CARVED SANDSTONE PANELS

Auction: 8 November 2006 from 11:00 GMT
£550
Description
one depicting two opposed figures reading a book in Braille within a shell border; the other depicting a central figure signing, flanked by opposed figures transcribing into books, also within a shell border (2)
Dimensions
17cm x 34cm
Footnote
Literature: ‘Buildings of Scotland’, Edinburgh volume, pg 184
Note; These panels are two studies for larger panels, now on the frontage of the National Library of Scotland's George IV Bridge building, begun in 1938 and opened in 1956.
