Lot 365

Wilkie, Sir David




Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
7 etched plates of genre subjects, presentation copy "To the Right Hon. Robert Peel, with the humble respects of his obliged servant, D. Wilkie, Feb. 3rd 1825" and inscribed "Lord Peel from Ronald Sutherland Gower, 7 Nov. 1907", Robert Peel's bookplate, the plates comprising: The Sedan Chair (Dodgson 8, V), Woman at a window, reading a letter (Dodgson 3, II); Interior with Three Boys and a dog (Dodgson 2, II); The Cottage Door (Dodgson 10, VII), Reading the Will (Dodgson 11, IV), The Lost Receipt (Dodgson 9, IV); The Flemish Mother (Dodgson 12, VII), contemporary red half morocco, paper label on upper cover, slightly spotted, rubbed
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire



