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Provenance
With Roy Miles Fine Paintings, 1981, as The Butterfly.
Private collection, UK.
Literature
Rosamond Allwood, George Elgar Hicks, Painter of Victorian Life, exhibition catalogue, 1983, no. 33a, illustrated.
Recorded in Hicks Portraits notebook at the end of 1878: 'Mrs Chas Roses two boys/hunting butterflies. 35 x 25 (ins) 120 gs.', a sketch for the present lot was included in the Hicks exhibition in 1983.