SIX WATERCOLOUR STUDIES OF HANDS AND FEET

A series of six highly accomplished watercolour studies of hands and feet by a pupil of the South Kensington Art Schools (renamed the Royal College of Art in 1896). The largest measuring 21.5 x 15 cm. Each bearing the embossed stamp E.S.K. (Examined South Kensington). The set is in very good condition with just the occasional dot of foxing and a small area of browning to the foot of one image. The colours remain fresh and vivid. Housed in a bespoke quarter leather solander case.

A remarkably realistic series of late nineteenth-century watercolours which skilfully capture the delicacy and nuance of their subjects, executed by a pupil at what would soon become the prestigious Royal College of Art. Hung together they form a most attractive and unusual group.