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View of Paris and the Seine from the Arsenal

Maker

(artist)
1775-1802

Title

Date of Production

(?) 1802

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, with scratching out, on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 15.1 cm
Width: 44.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.50

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

In 1801 Girtin painted and exhibited a circular panorama of London, the Eidometropolis. Later that year he travelled to Paris to create its equivalent, but deteriorating health prevented him from completing it; he instead made etchings after the drawings. This drawing relates to the Paris panorama project, showing a part of the view from the Right Bank of the Seine. The pen and wash were probably added later over the initial pencil sketch.

Provenance

Leverton Harris, London (1864-1926); William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Panorama, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/09/2015-10/01/2016

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

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 90
ill. on p. 240

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 37

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 53

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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