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York Minster from the River Foss above Monk Bridge

Maker

(artist)
1753-1844

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1740-1821

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1790

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 30.1 cm
Width: 42.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.73

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

Born in Yorkshire, Francis Nicholson was a fashionable drawing master and founder member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours. In The Practice of Drawing and Painting Landscapes from Nature, in Watercolours (1820), he recommends studying the works of classical Italianate painters, especially Claude Lorraine. Here he uses the Claudian convention of painting a dark foreground, light middle ground and paler horizon, and placing trees at either side to frame the distant view of the Minster.

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

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

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 30
ill. on p. 133

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 15

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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