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Auction 52  18 Nov 2020
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Lot 119

Estimate: 132 GBP
Price realized: 250 GBP
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From the remaining stock of Mrs Irene [Neddy] Allen (1928-2020), British and World Medallions, David Roberts (1796-1864), orientalist painter, copper medal, 1875, by George T. Morgan for the Art Union of London, head left, rev. Robert's painting of a "Coptic Christian woman dictating a letter to a scribe", plain edge, 56.5mm. (BHM 3016; Eimer 1649; Beaulah 22), 30 medals in silver allocated, good very fine and rare
*ex Mrs. Irene "Neddy" Allen stock
To be sold on behalf of several animal charities
The image, painted in Cairo, is best known from the coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe, published in 1849.
(220-260 GBP)
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