Open IIIF manifest What is IIIF IIIF viewers

Indian riverside village with washerwomen and shrine

Maker

(artist)
1774-1852

Title

Date of Production

1802 - 1825

Medium

graphite and watercolour with scratching out on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 26.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.14

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

Trade with India and the Far East and the popularity of topographical engravings gave rise to increasing public interest in these unfamiliar locations, and provided artists with new patrons among the British merchants and administrators resident there. Between 1802 and 1825 George Chinnery worked in India as a successful portrait painter. A swift and accomplished draughtsman, his pencil studies of village life are numerous. This unfinished sketch, with broadly applied washes running into each other, shows all the signs of being done on the spot.

Provenance

D.M.L., April 1955? (see file for inscription, now no longer visible); perhaps Fine Art Society (London), where titled 'Oriental Coastal Scene'; if so, then purchased there by Mr and Mrs William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967), 1960; 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

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. 49
ill. on p. 171

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 32
ill. on p. 6

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: left, above the pictorial area, graphite, erased but still legible: "SHOW OTHER SIDE". Verso (this must have been on a backing sheet, since removed, but recorded in the file): graphite: "repainted in spots / - April 1955. DML. (the drawing has been retouched on the left side)".

Collector's mark: none.

Information on this object may be incomplete and will be updated as research progresses. We are particularly committed to addressing any discriminatory or offensive language and ideas that might be present in our records. To help improve this record, and to enquire about images of The Courtauld Gallery Collection, please email gallery.collectionsonline@courtauld.ac.uk. Find out more about using and licensing our images.

____________________________

Buy a print from our collection