Lady Aberdeen

Special NoticeNo VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. Lot Description A EUROPEAN LADY FISHING UNIARA, CIRCA 1760 Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a lady sits on a hilly bank wearing blue costume, green shawl and pink hat, holding in one hand a fishing rod and in the other the line, with a fish attached, duck and fish swim amongst waterlilies in the water in front of her and to her right lie the fish she has caught, between black, red and gold rules, the margins yellow with repeated floral motif, mounted, glazed and framed Miniature 12½ x 8 3/8in. (31.7 x 21.3cm.); folio 13¾ x 9¾in. (35 x 24.8cm.) Lot Notes This unusual depiction of a European lady can be comapred to a miniature of a European holding a bird on her raised hand attributed probably to late 18th century Bikaner ( Indian Miniature Painting, exhibition catalogue, Madison, Wisconsin, 1971, no.185, pp.183-5). An almost identical composition was sold at Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2002, lot 22.

A watercolour of a lady and a Gainsborough style print

Lot #60: ATTRIBUTED TOFRÉDÉRIC SOULACROIX: A LADY IN REPOSE Oil on panel, 9 1/2 x 6 in., signed. Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 2000.00

Gouache on paper heightened with gilt, 3ll of text arranged in four columns above and below, the lady shown beneath a canopy with attendants - 9 x 5 1/8in (23 x 13cm)