Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2585BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 04, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Nicholas S. (Nicola) Cammillieri (France and Malta, Italy, 1762-1860)
Ship Maitland comming [sic] into Malta 1835. Signed l.r., titled and dated below. Watercolor on paperboard, 17 3/4 x 22 in., in a later molded wood frame. Condition: Light toning, scattered foxing, scratches, light moisture stain.
Estimate $800-1,200
Scattered small dark spots of foxing to sky, a few spots on sails, and in water, scratches: center left sky, lower right and lower left through water and title areas, a faint one through lower center sail; also a superfluous faint blue line to sky, close to left most sails, light moisture "splash-form stain l.l. water area.