Beschreibung:

English school (circa 1835), Lion in Love, double portrait, cut silhouettes with colour, yachts and paddle steamer on a lake background, titled lower centre, 26.5cm x 21.5cm; Samuel Metford (circa 1840), double portrait, cut silhouettes with lithographed background, signed Saml. Metford Fecit ... Broadway lower right, 25cm x 18cm; English provincial school (circa 1830), a group of a farmer's wife, a prize pig and a cockerel, cut silhouettes with bronzing and watercolour ground, 18.5cm x 23.5cm, each framed (3) The Lion in Love is a cautionary tale of Greek origin which was counted among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 140 in the Perry Index. Samuel Metford was born in Somerset in 1810 and went to America circa 1834. He seems to have centred his activities on Connecticut and neighbouring states, such a New York, as here.