Mathematician’s descendant adds up to a new highest sum in the saleroom

A small flurry of recent good prices for Australian artist Herbert Ivan Babbage (1875-1916) continued at David Lay (18% buyer’s premium) in Penzance, Cornwall.

Babbage, the great grandson of the mathematician Charles Babbage, was born in Adelaide but moved t…

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