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Guards marching through Holland

Maker

(Artists)
1757-1827

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1794

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash and watercolour on wove paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 34.2 cm
Width: 50.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.80

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

Following the outbreak of war with revolutionary France in 1793, English troops led by the Duke of York were active in the Low Countries with the armies of the First Coalition. Fighting resulted in a French victory at Fleurus on 26 June 1794. Earlier Rowlandson had crossed to Holland where he was able to draw the soldiers on the march. Tall trees divide the English troops from the Dutch civilians standing near their houses, the stoic burghers looking on dispassionately.

Provenance

Gilbert Davis (1899-1983); Sir Eldred Hitchcok, Tanganyika (1887-1959); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 24 February 1960, lot 8; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967), 28 March 1960 (£220); 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

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 34
ill. on p. 141

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, graphite: “The Guards Marching through Holland”.

Collector's mark: none.

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