Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

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Fortunio Matania | The Captive Mermaid

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Fortunio Matania


The Captive Mermaid, undated


275 x 198 mm (framed 476 x 388 mm), signed by artist to lower right, inscribed "World's Wonder! | The Only Mermaid | in | Captivity! | Caught in this very Bay", pencil and watercolour, mounted, framed and glazed


PROVENANCE:

Sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 10 July 1992, lot 27

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