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Christie’s on 12 June 1973 auctioned George Richmond’s “Samson slaying the Philistines with the jaw-bone of an ass” with figure studies on the reverse (pen and brown ink, 6 × 5 ½ ins.), and Samuel Palmer’s “Ruined castle at sunset” (watercolor heightened with white and gold, 13 ½ × 10 ¼ ins.). Both works are reproduced in black and white in Christie’s advertisement in Apollo, June 1973, p. 46.
begin page 61 | ↑ back to topSotheby’s (London) sold Fuseli’s “Weird Sisters” on 4 April 1973. There is a picture in Apollo, March 1973, p. 168.
Sotheby Parke Bernet of Los Angeles illustrated their advertisements for an auction of important silver pieces, 30 April and 1 May 1973, with a brilliant color reproduction of the “Achilles” silver-gilt shield made for Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, by Philip Rundell of London and designed by John Flaxman. Catalogues of the sale may still be available ($5 postpaid, 7660 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca., 90036). There is a full-page color plate in Antiques, April 1973, p. 612. (Our thanks to Thomas Minnick for these items. Eds.)