Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/479
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. 1785-1841. 846 SiR WALTER Scott. Half-length, viewed to the left, seated in a high-backed arm-chair. Black stock, peak collar, a plaid across his breast, a black smoking-cap on his head. Coloured chalks. Rectangular, 74 by 94 in. On paper. It has a coronet and a monogram A.T.E. stamped upon it. AN IMPORTANT PORTRAIT. (372) [See ILLUSTRATION. ] SIR DAVID WILKIE, &.A. 847 STUDIES FOR TWO GENTLEMEN’S PoRTRAITS, names unknown. b x Pencil. Rectangular, 64 by 52 in. On paper. (266) SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. 4 848 THE ORIGINAL STUDY FOR ‘“‘ THE WATERLOO GAZETTE,” or “Chelsea pensioners reading the ‘ Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo.’ Representing an old man reading a newspaper seated by a doorway, over which hangs a wicker bird-cage. A baker with a tray of loaves on his head stands on the left. Nine other figures are sketched in the background. Pen and ink. Rectangular, 3 by 34 in. On paper. Drawn in 1817. The picture was sold by Wilkie to the Duke of Wellington for 1,200 guineas. (637)