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Bridge over a stream

Maker

(artist)
1747-1821

Title

Bridge over a stream

Date of Production

(circa) 1791

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 23.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.440

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




Notes

Farington utilises the blank paper to evoke sunlit surfaces and reflections on the water. The use of wash to convey shadow, graphite for sketching, and pen and ink to delineate details in the brickwork and foliage, are all techniques shown in other works by the artist.

Provenance

F.R. Meatyard (London, active 1912-1964); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (3 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Joseph Farington: watercolour and drawings, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 16/07/1977-03/12/1977

Literature

Joseph Farington: watercolour and drawings, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1977
cat. no. 68
no. 68
Illus. p. 106

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: bottom of a shield above letters "GR".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: throughout the drawing, artist’s colour notes in graphite, some illegible: upper left: “shade”; upper centre, with line drawn to crack in bridge: “Light through”; left of centre: “green / cement”; centre, below bridge: “lightest / part […]”. Verso: centre, graphite, Witt number: “440”.

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