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Old Gateway, Charterhouse

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Old Gateway, Charterhouse

Date of Production

(circa) 1816

Medium

graphite, pen and brown and blue inks, watercolour, bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 34.3 cm
Width: 25 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.12

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





charterhouses

Label Text

Trained as an architect and scene painter, William Capon’s antiquarian knowledge and skill as an architectural draughtsman enabled him to produce historically accurate, if somewhat old-fashioned topographical views. By Capon’s time the Charterhouse, a Carthusian priory founded near Smithfield in 1371, was both a school and a hospital for pensioners. The arched medieval gateway and figures here take centre stage, but it is the immaculately rendered brickwork and blue-fenced tree that capture the attention.

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

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

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

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

Literature

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 13

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 12

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 38
ill. on p. 149

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite: "W. Capo. / Charterhouse / Old Gateway"; lower right, graphite: "£25".

Collector's mark: none.

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