etching on cream wove paper, signed in pencil, C. Stanley Pollitt, lower right, titled lower left, hinged into a contemporary thin card window mount, inscribed in pencil in the artist’s hand, Paris Salon 1929, lower centre. The mount, only, with some fine spotting, damp-staining and surface dirt,
Pollitt (Charles Stanley)
The Hotel de Sens, Paris,
£150
, , c.1929.
depicting a quiet corner of the medieval palace of the Archbishop of Sens, now housing the Bibliothèque Forney. Charles Stanley Pollitt (1888-1965), painter and printmaker, was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites having trained as the studio assistant of William Holman Hunt. Later he travelled and worked on the Continent, including as a copyist at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, then becoming Professor of English at the Vatican..
195 by 120mm (7¾ by 4¾ inches).


