Benjamin West
Two large drawings connected to designs for the King’s Chapel, Windsor; A) The Death of Jacob B) Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red🍷 Sea
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April 21, 06:04 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Benjamin West
1738 - 1820
Two large drawings connected to designs for the King’s Chapel, Windsor;
A) The Death of Jacob
B) Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea
Both pen and brown ink on blue prepared paper, within black ink fra💞ming🎃 lines
Each 22 x 32 in.; (55.5 by 81cm.)
(2)
Mrs. F. Howard;
Sotheby's, London, March 22, 1979, lot 26 (part of lot)
Sotheby's, London, March 22, 1979, lot 26 (part of lot)
H. von Effra and A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London 1986, p. 295, under cat. no. 250, footnote 38 and p. 298, under cat. no. 254, footnote 6