Live Auction 5934The Sunday Sale - The Collection of the Late Christopher Wood
Lot 31

AFTER WILLIAM POWELL FRITH, R.A.

The Derby Day

Closed8 November 2009

Price Realised

GBP 500

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AFTER WILLIAM POWELL FRITH, R.A.
The Derby Day
engraving with hand-colouring on wove paper, by Auguste Blanchard, published by E.Gambert & Co., London, 1863, stamped 'L.E.Lefevre, St. James' (lower left), minor scattered foxing, unexamined out of the frame
P. 610 x 1195 mm.
In a bird's-eye maple and parcel-gilt frame

Specialist note

William Powell Frith's painting was an overwhelming success with the Academy crowds of 1858 who came to witness the social panorama of the Derby Day. It was sent to Paris to be engraved by Blanchard and then on a world tour to America, Vienna and the Antipodes. The original painting is in the Collection of Tate Britain, London.