$326
Sarah Hodges Swan (American, 1825-1910) Lot of Five Italian Views, Including the Villa Wollkonsky, Grand Canal, View of Abbey San Pietro in Perugia from the Hotel Bonfani , and Appian Way , c. 1887 Three initialed, inscribed, and dated "SHS...March 1887" l.l. or l.r., two unsigned. Watercolor on paper, sight sizes to 6 1/4 x 10 in., framed. N.B. The artist, a resident of Cambridge, wrote and illustrated The Story of An Old House and of The People Who Lived In It , 1897, an account of her mother's home in Boston, at the corner of Washington and Winter Streets. (1) (1) http://www.cambridgehistory.org/HLN_House/HLN_Library/collection_pages/Hodges-Swan%20Finding%20Aid.html
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-04-14