A 19thC French Table Globe Prepared by Maison Dèlamarche Paris 1870 antiques She wears a dark blouse

She wears a dark blouse and teal dress and is also painted with a draped curtain

has been endlessly copied ever since by artists interested in giving their figures greater animation

Girls pictured with skipping ropes and hoops are also a favoured Georgian pose for children in portraiture and always command high prices when depicted in oils or watercolours

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A 19thC French Table Globe Prepared by Maison Dèlamarche Paris 1870 antiques She wears a dark blouseOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 17(the whole) Width: 11 at widest point Base Diameter: 6 The attractive, finely mapped and well proportioned paper, plaster and cardboard, eight inch terrestrial table globe having a brass meridian circle and equatorial etched brass table and standing on the original draught turned ebonised base, the whole prepared by Maison Dlamarche Paris in 1870 and stamped as such within