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These handsome and finely-made bookcases belonged to the cricketer Reginald Gervis Hargreaves (1852-1926) and his wife Alice, née Liddell (1852-1934). Alice was immortalized in the 1860s as the inspiration to Charles "Lewis Carroll" Dodgson for the title character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The story that became the 1865 beloved children's novel originated on 4 July 1862, when Dodgson, with his fellow Oxford don, Robinson Duckworth, invited the young Alice and her sisters, Ina and Edith, on a picnic during which he invented a fairy-story for the girls to pass the time. Dodgson, a friend of the Liddell family, practiced photography as well as writing, and Alice provided much further inspiration to him as a model in subsequent years.
The cabinet sections of the bookcases are labeled 'Emma Painting Materials' and 'Fanny Painting Materials', presumably for Reginald’s sisters, Emma Caroline and Fanny Helena Hargreaves. A photograph of the three siblings as children, circa 1860, was sold from the estate of Alice Liddell Hargreaves by Sotheby’s, London, 6 June, 2001, lot 59 and is today preserved in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession no. 2015.2038).
The cabinet sections of the bookcases are labeled 'Emma Painting Materials' and 'Fanny Painting Materials', presumably for Reginald’s sisters, Emma Caroline and Fanny Helena Hargreaves. A photograph of the three siblings as children, circa 1860, was sold from the estate of Alice Liddell Hargreaves by Sotheby’s, London, 6 June, 2001, lot 59 and is today preserved in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession no. 2015.2038).
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拍品 239
拍卖编号 23577
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ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1820
A NEAR PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BOOKCASES
估价: USD 25,000 - 40,000
拍品 239
拍卖编号 23577
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1820
A NEAR PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BOOKCASES
估价: USD 25,000 - 40,000
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