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HUGH WILLIAM 'GRECIAN' WILLIAMS (?DEVON 1773-1829 EDINBURGH)
Lot 110

HUGH WILLIAM 'GRECIAN' WILLIAMS (?DEVON 1773-1829 EDINBURGH)

Lanark, a distant view of the old church, Scotland

Fermé5 July 2022

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GBP 1,000–1,500

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HUGH WILLIAM 'GRECIAN' WILLIAMS (?DEVON 1773-1829 EDINBURGH)
Lanark, a distant view of the old church, Scotland
inscribed 'VANITAS, VAN/ ITATUM/ OMNIA. EST/ VANITAS' (on a tombstone, lower right)
pencil and watercolour
8 1⁄2 x 11 7⁄8 in. (21.6 x 30.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 March 1974, lot 121 (90 gns to Browne).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, 7 April 1998, lot 31.

Note du spécialiste

quotation on the gravestone is from Ecclesiastes, Book I, verse ii, and reads 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity'. Dr Joe Rock has dated this drawing to 1797.