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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  28 Nov 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 617
  29 Nov 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 2: Lots 618 - 1216
• Lot #:
  695
• Lot Description:
  Artist Unknown [EDGELL, John, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England 1813 - Sugarloaf Creek, Victoria, 1848] - Silhouette portrait…
  ...of Port Phillip squatter John Edgell of Mount Piper Station, together with another silhouette of a young woman assumed to be his daughter Clara.
  Watercolour and ink on paper, both mounted and framed individually
  26.5 x 16.5cm and 18 x 14cm,
  dated in pencil lower left “24 April 1841”
• Notes:
  Assumed to have been commissioned before Edgell emigrated to the new colony at Port Phillip. Edgell acquired the 26,000 acre Mount Piper pastoral run in 1842. It was located 90 kilometres north of Melbourne on land which would include the township of Broadford.
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 750
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Affordable Art

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