Lot 71 · Sotheby's L06122
scene from the merry wives of windsor, act iii scene iii: mrs page, mrs ford and falstaff. falstaff goes into the basket; they cover him with foul linen
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- Estimate
- £10,000–£15,000 hammer ≈ $19,147–$28,721
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Sotheby's L06122 · 23 November 2006
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3536644
- Record
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Reverend Matthew William Peters, scene from the merry wives of windsor, act iii scene iii: mrs page, mrs ford and falstaff. falstaff goes into the basket; they cover him with foul linen. Sotheby's, 23 Nov 2006, lot 71. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3536644.
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Reverend Matthew William Peters, scene from the merry wives of windsor, act iii scene iii: mrs page, mrs ford and falstaff. falstaff goes into the basket; they cover him with foul linen. Sotheby's, 23 Nov 2006, lot 71. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3536644.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait of Mrs Henry Stephen | John Linnell | £4,000–£6,000 | |
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| Self portrait | Robert Walker | £5,000–£7,000 | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.