Estuary, with a boat drawn up to the beach, and a beacon

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
by-nc

Maker

(artist)
1772-1839

Title

Estuary, with a boat drawn up to the beach, and a beacon

Date of Production

(circa) 1826

Medium

graphite, watercolour on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 26.3 cm

Object Number

D.1967.WS.45

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Label Text

Born and trained in Calais, Francia left for England in 1790 where he worked with Girtin and other distinguished watercolour painters before returning to Calais in 1817. During the 1820s he travelled extensively along the coast of northern France, sketching the scenery and shipping. This unidentified view shares features with similar scenes drawn near St-Omer. The panoramic landscape is dominated by a wooden beacon which punctuates the wide, placid sky. Numerous small studio watercolours such as this preserve something of the spontaneous informality of Francia’s sketches.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Mount (removed, cut down and now in file), Recto: graphite: "circa 1824/25 showing strong Bonington influence." and "François Louis Thomas Francia. / 1772-1839. //". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file), Verso: remnant of a label, lower half, printed in black ink on a red label: "[...] / UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MUST THIS / WORK BE REMOVED FROM ITS FRAME / New Zealand //"; lower left corner, graphite, abraded: "j/10/".

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
Louis Francia 1772-1839, Calais & France, 15/10/1988-09/01/1989
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English Landscape Drawings & Watercolours from the Witt and Spooner Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, June 1979-September 1979
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1976-1976; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976-1976
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973
English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971
Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968
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Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 48
ill. on p. 169
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 61
Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 30
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English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 24
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 44
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 36
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 47
Louis Francia 1772-1839, Calais, France, 1988-1989
cat. no. 64
ill.
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