The Impatient Diner or Waiting for Dinner & At Dinner
$6,500 · Offered by Argosy Book Store
Signed
London: 1796. 2 Watercolor sketches, 7 3/4 x 11 1/4 each. Mounted on board. Signed and dated in ink lower left. In 1/2 red leather clam shell case with A. E. Newton bookplate and title in gold on spine. Evocative diptych of a man wearing a white wig, a jacket and ruffled cuffs holding a watch, together with the same man bent over a table to eat with a knife and fork. At right is a roast chicken on a platter, with two other dishes to either side. A
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