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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  13 May 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  96
• Lot Description:
  Thomas Woolner
  (1825-1892)
  William Charles Wentworth 1854
  bronze
  22.9 cm diameter
  signed and dated 'T.Woolner Sc. 1854' lower centre
• Provenance:
  Simpson's Antiques, Sydney; Private Collection, South Australia
• Exhibited:
  Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture (Joanna Barnes Fine Arts Ltd), The Matthiesen Gallery, London, 31 October - 12 December 1991; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, 15 January - 15 March 1992, no. 62 (another cast)
• References:
  Medallion of Mr Wentworth', Empire, Sydney, 22 February 1854, p. 2; 'Medallion of Mr W.C. Wentworth', The Illustrated Sydney News, 25 February 1854, p. 2; Letter, W.C. Wentworth to Thomas Woolner, 28 February 1854, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. Eng. Lett. D.293; 'Medallion to Mr Wentworth', The Argus, Melbourne, 1 March 1854, p. 5; 'Mr Woolner's Medallions', Empire, Sydney, 2 June 1854, p. 2; 'A Memorial of Mr Wentworth', Empire, Sydney, 9 February 1857, p. 4; Amy Woolner (ed.), Thomas Woolner R
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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