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View of Shrewsbury from the banks of the Severn

Maker

(artist)
1810-1837

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1833

Medium

graphite, watercolour with gum arabic, bodycolour, scratching out, on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 32.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.117

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

Label Text

This peaceful river view with wooded banks, church spires and tower was probably painted somewhere in northern Europe where Vickers travelled in 1833, en route to Russia to prepare drawings for engraved plates for Charles Heath’s Picturesque Annual. His use of browns, greens, greys and pale blue is typical of his narrow colour range, while the touches of red, used as a counterpoint to the cool tones of the landscape in the middle distance, show the influence of Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828).

Provenance

William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

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

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

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 78
ill. on p. 229

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 73

Inscriptions

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Watermark: none.

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