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House among trees

Maker

(artist)
1784-1849

Title

House among trees

Medium

traces of graphite, watercolour and bodycolour, with scratching out and some gum arabic, on heavy wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.7 cm
Width: 49.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.105

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Provenance

perhaps Guy D. Harvey Samuel, London (1887-1960); his property exhibited at Fine Art Society’s (London) Spring 1960 selling exhibition, if correctly identified this one titled 'The Green Tree'; purchased there by Mr and Mrs William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967), 27 April 1960 (£475); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

Fortieth exhibition - early English water-colours and drawings., Fine Art Society, London, 1960 (Spring)

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006 ...More

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection
, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe
Spooner
, Harrogate, 1968 ...Less

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 98
ill. on p. 243

Llewellyn, Briony, 'David Wilkie and John Frederick Lewis in Constantinople, 1840: an artistic dialogue' in 'Burlington Magazine', September 2003 - pp. 624-31; CXLV
p. 630fn43

Campbell, P., 'Wilkie in Constantinople' in 'Scottish Society of Art History', 2001; 6
p. 31 ...More

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 48

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 57 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: right centre, graphite, modern hand: "Laid on mount / 1".

Collector's mark: none.

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