PORTRAITS OF A PRIZE RAM AND EWE, 1828

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
76

W.E. RILEY

(1807 – 1836)
PORTRAITS OF A PRIZE RAM AND EWE, 1828

lithograph

22.5 x 29.5 cm

inscribed below image: Exhibited at Paramatta Oct. 1828 before the Agricultural Society of New South Wales from the Electoral Saxon flocks of Raby.

Estimate: 
$4,000 – 6,000
Sold for $5,856 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1987

Exhibited

Australian and Australian-Related Art: 1830s-1970s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 25 November – 11 December 1987, cat. 2 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)