96 Engraving of “The Hon. Anne Damer”

Category Antiquities
Auction Currency CAD
Start Price 30.00 CAD
Estimated at 60.00 - 100.00 CAD
Early 19th-century British stipple engraving in sepia tones depicting a seated young woman in classical dress, identified in the lower margin as “The Hon. Anne Damer”. Shown three-quarter length in an outdoor setting, a laurel wreath in her hair, holding a spray of flowers and resting one arm on a stone ledge, with trees and distant landscape beyond. Finely worked stipple and line engraving on wove paper, with full title and publication details printed below (partially obscured by the mount). Presented in a later gilt-composition frame with plain cream mount, glazed.