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Description

John Hopkins (exh. 1791-1809) after Sir David Wilkie

Rent Day
watercolour over pencil with gum arabic on paper
43.5 x 62cm



Provenance:
With The Fry Gallery, London, by 1970, when sold to Walter Brandt,
Thence by descent to his grandson;
Private collection



The present watercolour is a copy after the oil painting by Sir David Wilkie in the collection of the Earls of Mansfield.



Few surface scuffs near the top edge. Light tears to the mount in the lower left quadrant. Slightly abraded paint layer in the darker pigments - particularly in the bottom right corner, see for instance the wine cooler. Not examined out of frame. Framed size 65 x 83.5cm

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