La Fontaine de la Crosse, Rouen, Normandy
Maker
(artist)
1782-1842
1782-1842
Title
La Fontaine de la Crosse, Rouen, Normandy
Date of Production
(circa) 1822 - 1830
Medium
graphite and brown wash on wove paper, laid down on a paper support
Dimensions
Height: 31.9 cm
Width: 23.6 cm
Width: 23.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1967.WS.20
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
William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967
Exhibition History
La Normandie romantique et pittoresque, Musee des Beaux-Arts & Rouen & France, 16/05/2009-16/08/2009
Voyages pittoresques : Normandie, 1820-2009, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen; Musée Malraux du Havre; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, 2009
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
Voyages pittoresques : Normandie, 1820-2009, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen; Musée Malraux du Havre; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, 2009
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
Literature
Rajnai, Miklos and Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, John Sell Cotman. Drawings of Normandy in Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk Museums Service 1975
p. 83
The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 63
ill. on p. 199
Goujard, Lucie et al. (eds), Voyages pittoresques Normandie 1820-2009, Milan 2008
no. I-14
ill. on p. 228
p. 83
The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 63
ill. on p. 199
Goujard, Lucie et al. (eds), Voyages pittoresques Normandie 1820-2009, Milan 2008
no. I-14
ill. on p. 228
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Support, Recto: upper right edge: "J WHATMAN" [a date below has been cut off by the edge].
Inscription: Recto: upper right (within drawing), graphite over brown wash: "RUE DE / L'HOPITAL"; lower edge, graphite, located, signed and dated: "La Fontaine de La Crosse Rouen. J S Cotman 1817.". Support, Verso: lower right, graphite: "Cotman / 7/6".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper right (within drawing), graphite over brown wash: "RUE DE / L'HOPITAL"; lower edge, graphite, located, signed and dated: "La Fontaine de La Crosse Rouen. J S Cotman 1817.". Support, Verso: lower right, graphite: "Cotman / 7/6".
Collector's mark: none.
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