Print and frame
A. Duruy
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1890
Materials
Paper, Wood, Glass, Metal
Measurements
295 x 335 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1330084.2
Summary
One of a pair of French coloured prints depicting three ladies riding bicycles at speed along a woodland path. All wearing cycling bloomers over white stockings, the bodices of the front two ladies emulate medieval style with slashed, puffed sleeves, and each wears an ostrich plumed beret, one of which has blown off. Surrounded by a cream mount in a glazed gilt frame. Signed 'A. Deury', c.1870's
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
A. Duruy, artist