Lot 120: CHARLES GORE 1729-1807

SHIPPING OFF ELSINORE, DENMARK

measurements note
14 by 48 cm., 5 1/2 by 19 in.

signed l.r.: C^hGore 1792

pen and brown and grey ink with watercolour over pencil on laid paper, watermarked

PROVENANCE

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, from whom purchased by Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1406a), 1937

NOTE

Elsinore is a seaport of Denmark, on the island of Zealand and on the western shore of the Sound. It was here that Shakespeare set the scene for Hamlet