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9 December 2016

Studies for ‘The Golden Stairs’: one of several female fgure studies, including possibly Margaret Burne-Jones and Mary Stuart Wortley, one with a subsidiary drapery study (verso) and one with a study for ‘The Nativity’ (verso). Christie's images.

Studies for ‘The Golden Stairs’: one of several female fgure studies, including possibly Margaret Burne-Jones and Mary Stuart Wortley, one with a subsidiary drapery study (verso) and one with a study for ‘The Nativity’ (verso).

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