Antique French musical picture clock

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Robert a’ Paris. Circa 1840 Oil painting on canvas of a country scene with the river Rhine,mountains and a town in the distance. In the foreground a village with travellers on a road passing through an arch under the clock tower. In its original gilded gesso frame. There is a label inside, written by hand “ View of the Rhine, with clock plays fine airs by Copeland “ The clock movement by Robert, Paris is an 8-day French movement with silk suspension, striking the hours and the halves on a gong, after the hour has struck the clock activates the music which plays one of 2 tunes. The music can be stopped from automatic play via the lever protruding out of the underside of the frame and the tune can be changed via a second lever. Dimensions; 39.5 inches wide, 33.25” high, 7.5” deep


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