The Property of the Artist’s Family, by inheritance and descent
Anne Seymour Damer
Shock Dog
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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The Property of the Artist’s Family, by inheritance and descent
Anne Seymour Damer
Sevenoaks 1748 – 1828 London
Shock Dog
signed: ANNA. / ΣEIMOPIΣ. / ΔAMEP. EΠOIEI, and inscribed: 1795
terracotta
30 by 38 by 31cm., 11¾ by 15 by 12¼in.
Bequeathed by the artist to her cousin, Louisa Johnston (1776-1852);
Thence by family descent to the present owner.
M. Whinney, Sculpture in Britain: 1530-1830, London, 1988, p. 320, fig. 232;
I. Roscoe, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 335;
R. Webb, Mrs D: The Life of Anne Damer (1748-1828), Brewin, 2013, pl. XII and p. 269
Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, Hounds in Leash: The Dog in 18th and 19th Century Sculpture, 2000, no. 3;
London, Strawberry Hill, Anne Seymour Damer – Sculpture and Society, 2014, no. 22
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