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Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, OM, RA (1836-1912)

Three composition studies for the unrealised 'The Contrary Oracle', two with details of figure studies verso
each signed with initial to the recto, one inscribed 'for the contrary / Oracle', another inscription obscured by the mount
pencil and stump on paper
21.6 x 29.7cm; 30.4 x 16.5cm; 16.5 x 20.3cm (3)



Provenance:
The artist.
Edmund Gosse, from whose family acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1920s or 1930s and by descent

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