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Pool of London, below London Bridge

Maker

(artist)
1787-1808

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1790

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on laid paper, laid down on a historic wash mount

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.5

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

Samuel Atkins, a London drawing master, was best known for watercolours in which ships are drawn with a delicate precision and technical accuracy. This example shows merchant shipping anchored near the Legal Quays that stretched for 500 yards from the Tower of London to London Bridge. Here, all ships with cargo on which import duty was charged were required to unload.

Provenance

Mr 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

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969 ...More

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe
Spooner, Harrogate, 1968 ...Less

Literature

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 14

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 40
ill. on p. 153

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre (likely in the top sheet of the mount, though difficult to discern as verso of the mount has been abraded by removal from a former mount): Strasburg lily above a cursive "W" (a Whatman mark - see tracing in file).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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