Live Auction 13322Old Master Drawings and British Drawings and Watercolours
Francis Barlow (Lincolnshire? circa 1626-1704)
Lot 106

Francis Barlow (Lincolnshire? circa 1626-1704)

A shepherdess garlanding her swain, a young man playing a pipe

Closed7 December 2016

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GBP 10,000

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Francis Barlow (Lincolnshire? circa 1626-1704)
A shepherdess garlanding her swain, a young man playing a pipe
pencil, pen and brown ink, grey wash, on the original washline mount
5 ¼ x 7 1/8 in. (13.4 x 18.1 cm.)

W. Fawkener (L. 2620).
Leonard Duke; Sotheby's, London, 29 September 1971, lot 8, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

There is a comparable drawing of a man playing cithern, a design for the frontispiece of John Playford's Musick's Delight on the Cithern, 1666, in the British Museum, formerly attributed to Richard Gaywood (fl. 1644-1677), and now given to Barlow (1928,0716.10).