An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Lady c.1900-20 sub-Architectural & Garden The Whooper Swan is one

The Whooper Swan is one of the larger swan species

The reverse shows most of the original paper backing

as Quain wrote

and is a great piece of advertising and tobacco history

The condition of the picture is pleasing given the considerable age

An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Lady c.1900-20 sub-Architectural & Garden The Whooper Swan is oneOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 22. 5 Width: 11. 5 Depth: 9. 5 (all at extremities) The striking early twentieth century plaster bust depicting a young lady, her head inclined with a contemplative, almost theatrical poise, and modelled wearing a deeply folded ruffled collar, on an architectural socle base, in its original green wash paint and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth