Lot 118

ENGLISH SCHOOL CIRCA 1790

Fermé20 January 2010

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ENGLISH SCHOOL CIRCA 1790
Harriet Davison, née Gosling (1770-1826), in white muslin wrap-front dress, white pearl-bordered bandeau in her powdered curling hair
on ivory
oval, 3 5/16 in. (85 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse centred with lock of hair and gold wire on opalescent glass panel, within translucent blue glass surround, within velvet-lined hinged burgundy leather travelling case

Harriet Davison (1770-1826) of Swarland Hall, Northumberland.
Dorothy Widdrington (formerly Cook, née Davison) (b.1794) and by descent at Newton Hall, Northumberland.

Note du spécialiste

The present sitter was the daughter of John Gosling, banker, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and wife of Alexander Davison (1750-1829).