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JOHN HENRY GROSSMAN'S 1806 PRINT: A GROUP OF COCHIN CHINESE -GAMBLING/MAGIC

$ 66

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Condition: NOT EXAMINED OUT FRAME, SLIGHT SEALED TEAR
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

    Description

    POTTER AND POTTER AUCTIONS, INC.
    CHICAGO, IL
    WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER THE FOLLOWING ITEM(S) OF MAGICIAN MEMORABILIA FOR YOUR COLLECTION:
    FROM THE ESTATE OF PROMINENT MAGIC COLLECTOR:
    DR. JOHN HENRY GROSSMAN
    FRAMED 1806 AQUATINT TITLED:
    A Group of Cochin Chinese
    DEPICTING A GROUP OF NATIVE COCHIN-CHINESE (NOW VIETNAMESE)
    in either a gambling or magic scene.
    ,
    this is plate 14 from A Voyage to Cochinchina by John Barrow (1764-1848)
    engraved by Thomas Medland (1755-1823) 1806
    (aquatint)
    frame size 12 x 10"
    verso of frame with handwritten notation in ink reading:
    Purchased by JHG at Nichols Methodist Church Antique Fair, Winter 1966
    NOT EXAMINED OUT OF FRAME, APPEARS TO HAVE A SEALED TEAR IN BACKGROUND, LEFT OF PARASOL
    GOOD CONDITION