A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870 sub-Natural History and his outline engravings of

and his outline engravings of 1793-5 illustrating Homer and Dante won him an international reputation unmatched by any contemporary British artist

focusing on picture framing

the largely in-tact human skull dating to the middle or later part of the nineteenth century

Torkaman rugs are handmade mostly in north-western and eastern Iran

over a thick ring turned gun barrel pedestal and raised on shaped cabriole legs and pad feet to the original concealed castors

A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870 sub-Natural History and his outline engravings ofOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 24 Width: 20 The defaced portrait of a French lady in oval form, executed in pastels on paper and laid to card, wearing a navy dress with brooch clasp, her hair tied up, her face totally and intentionally damaged, on a beautiful green grey ground, the work unframed and surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century France. The photographs show clearly that there are