Signed, inscribed and numbered: ‘No1/ “With drooping lids/
Veiling her clear sweet eyes/And heavy fall/Of golden hair unfilleted”
/Sold/Fredk. J. Shields/Cornbrook Park/Manchester’

(on an old label attached to the backboard)

Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, lined with conservation
Japanese paper and laid on the original wooden board

12 ½ x 15 ⅝ in. (31.8 x 39.7 cm.)

18 ½ x 21 ⅜ in. (47 x 54 . cm.) (framed)

1870

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£8,000​​​​​