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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  The Art of Constant Rearrangement
• Sale Date:
  05 May 2019 ~ 12noon (AEST)
• Lot #:
  11
• Lot Description:
  Peter Mazell [1759 - 1797] - Watts’s Shark. 1789
  copper engraving hand coloured, 18 x 23cm; also Caspian Tern, 24 x 17cm, From Governor Arthur Phillip’s, “Voyage to Botany Bay.” (2)
• Notes:
  “This fish was met with in Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, by Lieutenant Watts, and is supposed to be full as voracious as any of the genus, in proportion to its size for after having lain on the deck for two hours, seemingly quiet, on Mr. Watts’s dog passing by, the shark sprung upon it with all the ferocity imaginable, and seized it by the leg nor could the dog have disengaged himself had not the people near at hand come to his assistance.”
• Estimate:
  A$150 - 200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Affordable Art

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