Henry Alken
Unknown
Estimate: 500 - 800 GBP
Price realised: 3.250 GBP
Price realised: 3.250 GBP
Description
HENRY ALKEN
PANORAMA -- Fashion and Folly, or, the Buck's Pilgrimage. London: William Sams, 1822. Continuous hand-coloured aquatint strip panorama by Henry Alken mounted on linen, each section with two 4-line stanzas of verse at foot, approximately 124 x 6,100mm (a few repaired tears, some minor fraying), rolling into contemporary boxwood drum with lid and original printed label (panorama detached from box). Abbey Life 487.
PANORAMA -- Fashion and Folly, or, the Buck's Pilgrimage. London: William Sams, 1822. Continuous hand-coloured aquatint strip panorama by Henry Alken mounted on linen, each section with two 4-line stanzas of verse at foot, approximately 124 x 6,100mm (a few repaired tears, some minor fraying), rolling into contemporary boxwood drum with lid and original printed label (panorama detached from box). Abbey Life 487.
Artwork auctioned at four times the upper estimate price
The work Unknown by Henry Alken was worth GBP 3,250.00 (€ 4,109.30) to a buyer in September 2008. This price was achieved in the auction The Sporting Sale at Christies in London and exceeded the previously set upper estimate of GBP 800.00 many times over. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Henry Alken achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work British Start For The Derby, 1847; And Cossack Winning The Derby, 1847 (Two Works) in December 2008 with an auction result of USD 80,500.00 (€ 57,834.61).
Kunstwerk zum Vierfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Die Arbeit Unknown von Henry Alken war einem Käufer im September 2008 GBP 3.250,00 (€ 4.109,30) wert. Dieser Preise wurde in der Auktion The Sporting Sale bei Christies in London erzielt und übertraf den zuvor angesetzten oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 800,00 um ein Vielfaches. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Henry Alken erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit British Start For The Derby, 1847; And Cossack Winning The Derby, 1847 (Two Works) im Dezember 2008 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 80.500,00 (€ 57.834,61).
Henry Alken - Auction history
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