€2,400
"Horatia Feilding's Harp"
A fine Regency gilt and gesso Concert Harp, with ornate brass mounts and fluted column figural capital, and forty-five string points (unstrung and distressed) decorated in the Neo-classical taste; together with another Musical Instrument. (2)
* A well known early photograph taken by Horatia's half-brother, Henry Fox Talbot depicts a woman, said to be Horatia, who subsequently married Thomas Gaisford, playing what looks like this instrument. Patent No. 2311 or 2341
Distressed with loss and damage and with poor repair. As a musical instrument sold as is, with all faults. Patent No. 2311 or 2341
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