Lot 55
Lot 55
Sold to Benefit Historic Deerfield: The Collection of a Lady
Fore-edge painting

Holy Bible, 1794

    Price Realised USD 2,142
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    Fore-edge painting

    Holy Bible, 1794

    Price Realised USD 2,142
    Price Realised USD 2,142
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    FORE-EDGE PAINTING – The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1794.

    An early 19th-century example of fore-edge painting, featuring five men within a frame of bricks and mortar, probably inside a cathedral, leaning forward in intimate discussion beneath a hanging oil lamp.

    Large quarto (317 x 237mm). Fore-edge painting, possibly signed "A.R." (a little faded, small surface scratch). Early 19th-century green morocco gilt, red morocco inlayed border and central panel (some rubbing at extremities).
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