Sidney Harold Meteyard

Lot 111: SIDNEY HAROLD METEYARD

Name: SIDNEY HAROLD METEYARD
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: x0netx65tq

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USD

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USDecember 11, 2003

Item Overview

Description

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
signed with monogram (lower right)

Dimensions

18 1/2 by 11 3/8 in.<br><br>47 by 29 cm

Artist or Maker

Sidney Harold Meteyard

Medium

pencil, watercolor and gouache on artist's board

Literature

H.W. Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1910, illustrated opposite p. 1

Provenance

Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 21, 1987, lot 64, illustrated

Notes

Meteyard painted this work as an illustration for Longfellow's The Golden Legend, published in 1910. The following caption accompanied the illustration:

"The spire of Strasbourg Cathedral. Night and Storm. Lucifer, with the Powers of Air, trying to tear down the cross."

Auction Details

The Collecting Eye of Seymour Stein

Sotheby's

December 11, 2003, 12:00 AM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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