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Interior of the Pump Room, Bath

Maker

(artist)
1750-1818

Title

Interior of the Pump Room, Bath

Date of Production

1792

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour with touches of red bodycolour and gum arabic, on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 37 cm
Width: 52 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3681

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

pump rooms




Provenance

anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 21 February 1945, lot 40; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£26); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Regency Exhibition, Brighton, 1951

Literature

Hayes, John, Rowlandson: Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1972
p. 48
fig. 44 on p. 48

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 37

William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
p. 144

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right edge: "J WHATMAN".

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, brown ink, upper centre with marble statue in niche “BATH / HOSPITAL”; within the drawing, brown ink, on sheets of paper held by male figures, at right of centre “PARIS” and near right lower edge “ARRIV…”; within the drawing on sheet at lower right corner, brown ink “BATH JOURNAL”; lower right edge, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “J. Nixon 1792”. Verso: upper centre edge, graphite, partially erased and difficult to read: “Drg Hasarde drawing paper out [?]”; centre, graphite: “Interior of old / Pump room / Bath.”.

Label: John Nixon//Old Pump Room//Exhibited Brighton 1951

Collector's mark: none.

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