Cottage among trees

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
by-nc

Maker

(artist)
1775-1802

Title

Cottage among trees

Date of Production

(circa) 1798

Medium

graphite and watercolour on laid paper, laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 24.9 cm
Width: 33.5 cm

Object Number

D.1967.WS.51

Mode of Acquisition

Mary Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

Label Text

In his early career Girtin rarely featured cottages and farms, but such scenes increased as his dependence on the market for antiquarian topography declined. His preoccupation in the mid to late 1790s with rural buildings was partly encouraged by his father-in-law, whose Essex farmhouse properties he depicted in a similar in style to this drawing. Wispy smoke from the chimney creates a homely air, as do the rustic couple who play a significant role in defining the character of the scene.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (removed - no longer extant but attested to in notes in file): "6077 T Girtin".

Collector's mark: none.

Provenance

Horace Bernard Milling (1898-1954); by descent to his widow and her second husband, Mrs Mary Spooner and 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
English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977
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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
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
English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe
Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
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Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 52
ill. on p. 177
English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 20
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 30
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English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 29
Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 34
English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 48
The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 48
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