Lot 159
SIR JAMES DROMGOLE LINTON (1840-1916)
CLASSICAL BEAUTY
Auction: Day One: 09 July 2008 | From 12:00
£1,200
Description
Signed with initials, watercolour and bodycolour
Dimensions
34.5cm x 25.5cm (13.5in x 10in), and a companion, 'Alice Bridgenorth' (2)
Footnote
Alice Bridgenorth was a character from Sir Walter Scott's 'Peveril of the Peak' of 1823, in which a young woman, Alice, from a Puritan family, falls in love with a Royalist cavalier. Despite intrigue and apparently insurmountable difficulties, they are ultimately united