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La Fontaine de la Crosse, Rouen, Normandy

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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

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.

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