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Sea front at Blackpool (formerly 'Rhyl Sands, North Wales') (recto)
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1783-1859
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Width: 36.7 cm
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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
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986 ...More
David Cox 1783-1859, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Victoria & Albert Museum, 26/07/1983-14/10/1983
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976-78
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973
Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968 ...Less
Literature
cat. no. 66
ill. on p. 205
Bauer, Gerald, David Cox 1783-1859. Precurseur des Impressionistes?, Arcueil: Editions Anthese, 2000
p. 87
ill. on p. 87
English Watercolours and Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1996, 1996
no. 39
ill. ...More
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 80
ill. on p. 185
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 73
Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 19
English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 13
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 54
pl. VI
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 47
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 55
David Cox 1783-1859, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983
cat. no. 100
ill.
David Cox: 1783-1859, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; V&A, London, 1983-84
no. 100
ill. on p. 106 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, on walls of houses (and once in sky above), graphite, repeated 7 times: “W”; on wall of tall house in foreground, graphite: “W / S”. Verso: lower right, graphite: “door of Royal H[cut off] / green”. Mount (removed, cut down and now in object file): left centre, graphite: ““Ryhl Sands, North Wales” / (circa 1854-5) / Watercolour Study for the Oil Painting “Rhyl Sands” / in Manchester City Art Gallery, for which David Cox / obtained his highest price.”; printed on separate label glued down, right centre, black ink: “184”; right edge, graphite: “David Cox / 1783-1859”.
Collector's mark: none.
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