Thomas Hicks
Edwin Booth as Iago , 1864 (Executed)
Lot #79 |
2016-10-05 |
Doyle, New York
American Paintings, Furniture & Decorative Arts
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
USD 2,500 - 4,500 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Doyle
Auction number: 7658
Auction name: American Paintings, Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2016-10-05
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 19th Century American Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 14 x 10 inches
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
35.56
Width In Centimeters:
25.4
Height In Inches:
14
Width In Inches:
10
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Year notes: Executed in 1864.
Provenance
The artist Edwin Booth, acquired from the above, 1864 Adelson Galleries, Inc., Boston, MA, inv. no. A1576 Private collection, acquired from the above, 1971
Condition
Trimmed to the tacking edge and wax lined. Craquelure, surface grime. Minuscule loss near the upper right edge, two inches from the right corner. No evidence of inpaint under UV exam.
Literature
The Magazine Antiques, Mar. 1968, p. 272, illus. Letha Clair Robertson, The Art of Thomas Hicks and Celebrity Culture in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York, doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, 2010, p. 142