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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian History
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2017 ~ 10am
• Lot #:
  797
• Lot Description:
  Rowan, Alexander
  (English, active mid-19th Century)
  [KANGAROO] “How are you? And how’s your cough? I’ve just arrived.”
  Unpublished pen and ink sketch on laid paper watermarked Joynson
  180 x 115mm
  Artist’s caption beneath image; verso inscribed “Bertha as she appeared by Alexander Rowan. London, August 1861.”
• Notes:
  Probably an original illustration for a children’s book which was never published. Bertha’s puff of cigarette smoke appears to have alarmed the kangaroo.
• Estimate:
  A$250 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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