Lot 301
Smith (Percy John Delf) Thiepval Hill from the River Ancre, watercolour, 1917.
Hammer Price: £1,700
Description
Smith (Percy John Delf, British artist-soldier, printmaker, calligrapher and book designer, 1882-1948) Thiepval Hill from the River Ancre, watercolour over pencil, black chalk, heightened with white, signed and dated in pencil in the lower right corner, further inscribed verso 'Thiepval from the left bank of the Ancre (on the road to Beaumont-Hamel/ Indications of old German Trenches as seen/ on the slopes. The mound of earth/ on the top of the hill is all that remains/ of the Castle and other buildings/ Done Tues: March 22nd 1917/ P.S.', with the artist's London address and updated address inscribed below, minor handling creases to edges, minor browning, unframed, 1917
Provenance: Private collection (bought in the late 1990s)
⁂ Fully worked-up watercolour relating to Smith's drypoint etching of the same subject, plate VIII from the series "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", published by P & D Colnaghi & Co, London, 1925.
Description
Smith (Percy John Delf, British artist-soldier, printmaker, calligrapher and book designer, 1882-1948) Thiepval Hill from the River Ancre, watercolour over pencil, black chalk, heightened with white, signed and dated in pencil in the lower right corner, further inscribed verso 'Thiepval from the left bank of the Ancre (on the road to Beaumont-Hamel/ Indications of old German Trenches as seen/ on the slopes. The mound of earth/ on the top of the hill is all that remains/ of the Castle and other buildings/ Done Tues: March 22nd 1917/ P.S.', with the artist's London address and updated address inscribed below, minor handling creases to edges, minor browning, unframed, 1917
Provenance: Private collection (bought in the late 1990s)
⁂ Fully worked-up watercolour relating to Smith's drypoint etching of the same subject, plate VIII from the series "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", published by P & D Colnaghi & Co, London, 1925.
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