April 12, 2024
1896 Print over 100 years old Park Lane Dudley House
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Shop Search Shop Pages Shop Home Contact Us Welcome to the Hasgar Emporium eBay Shop Antique print dated 1896. The page is over 100 years old and in very good condition. In order to enhance and protect the page we have set in within a bespoke frame and mount.Frame size 400mm x 370mm. Available also in a brown with gold pencil-line frame, your choice. RL.209. Entitled - Park Lane. Below the picture an inscription reads: Park Lane. - Dudley House, at the north-western corner of Upper Brook Street, until recently the residence of the Earl of Dudley, was noted for containing a gallery of pictures of the Flemish and Italian schools. The collection formed here is described by Dr. Waagen (in 1835 as a very mixed one. He enumerates a few by Bellini, Francia, Cuyp, Ruysdael, etc., adding, "I looked in vain for the 'Three Graces,' by Raphael, which Passavant saw there." It is understood, however, that the present Earl has added considerably to his gallery. There are also several fine specimens of sculpture, including a "Venus," by Canova. In this house lived the eccentric Earl of Dudley, who died in 1833, and who was for some time Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Canning's Administration. During the general depression in 1825-27, Lord Dudley remarked to a friend that his coal-mining income had fallen off during one year
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