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Lot 1070

After Henry William Bunbury (English, 1750-1811), Pair of Reverse Painted Glass Charlotte Scenes

Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Early 19th century, polychrome reverse painted glass panels, including Charlotte and The First Interview of Werter and Charlotte, after prints published circa 1782, depicting scenes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of the Young Werther, surrounded by a starred cobalt border within a giltwood frame, not signed.

Frame dimensions of each 16 1/8 in. dia.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Some scattered areas of retouching visible under UV light inspection, minor spotting and degradation to pigments.