Antiques & Collectables, Gold & Silver (14% Buyers Commission)
Lot 19:
Description
A pair of hand-colored prints by W.G. Baxter, titled ‘A Quiet Game at Nap’. Each print depicts a humorous caricature scene of four men playing a card game, executed in ink with watercolor washes. The visible text below the image reads: “A QUIET GAME AT NAP” and “II.-“SPOOFED, BY JOVE!”, indicating the title and a humorous exclamation related to the card game Napoleon. Signatures are present on the artwork itself, with “W. G. Baxter” on the lower left and “Pears” on the lower right, indicating the artist and publisher/printer respectively. Each print is set within a light-colored mat and presented under glass in a dark, possibly gessoed and gilded, wooden frame.
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