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DescriptionProperty from the Estate of the late Alys RickettSir Edwin Henry Landseer R.A.London 1802 - 1873Jacko, a macaque monkey
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil;signed with the artist's initials lower left86 by 108 mmCondition reportIt is possible the red and green slightly faded, otherwise the image is strong and clear. The paper has time-staining. The sheet is not laid down.
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S. Shrubb, Upwood, 1896;
with the Fine Art Society, London, by circa 1965,
by whom sold to Ronald John Rickett (d. 1970),
by family descent to the present owners
 Catalogue noteAccording to a transcription of an old inscription, which survives on the reverse of the current frame, this watercolour dates to 1830 and was later given to Mrs Rice, a servant within the artist's household.
The macaque monkey known as Jacko was also drawn by John Frederick Lewis R.A. who included an image of him as plate 11 in his publication: Etchings of Domestic Subjects (London 1836).1
The present work has descended in the family of Ronald John Rickett, known as John, who was a director of British Pictures at Sotheby’s in the 1960s.
1. Lewis's original drawing for the etching was sold as part of the Sir Bruce Ingram collection in these Room, 17 February 1965, lot 658.