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On the River Dart

Maker

(artist)
1740-1821

Title

On the River Dart

Date of Production

1790

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour, touches of bodycolour with some scratching out on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 29 cm
Width: 40.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.72

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

Nicholas Pocock, best known for his marine painting, was a founder member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours. With his combination of topographical and nautical interest, he has united both landscape and ships in this river view. Smoke billowing, probably from a lime kiln, and labourers at work add an industrial note to an otherwise rural scene. Pocock’s characteristic treatment of foliage is evident from the trees and vegetation which border the scene.

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

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. 18
ill. on p. 109

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 54

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 9

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right (within drawing, on rock), brown watercolour, signed and dated: "NPocock / 1790".

Collector's mark: none.

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