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Sion, Switzerland

Maker

(artist)
1783-1852

Title

Sion, Switzerland

Date of Production

1824

Medium

graphite with stumping and white bodycolour on grey wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 37.6 cm
Width: 26.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1976.XX.5

Mode of Acquisition

Rhoda Welsford, bequest, 1976

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

the artist's estate sale, 1852; purchased there by G. Scrivens, Esq., Sussex (£4.4.0, according to mount inscription); by descent to his daughter, Miss Scrivens; given by her to Miss Rhoda Welsford, London (1894-1975), around 1924; Welsford Bequest 1976 The former mount for this drawing and D.1976.XX.6 recorded that G. Scrivens purchased them at the artist's estate sale at Southgate's Galleries, Wellington, Stroud, for £4.4.0; however, Southgate's Galeries were located on Fleet Street in London, and it appears that the artist's estate sale took place at Sotheby's. There are 3 lots in the Sotheby's sale in which a drawing of Sion and a drawing of Brig were sold together, though none sold for £4.4.0 - this based on the catalogue on Brill annotated with the prices. The BM apparently has a catalogue annotated with the names of the buyers, so that will need to be checked to verify whether Scrivens actually bought these drawings at Sotheby's and the annotater of our mount was mistaken; or perhaps the buyer at Sotheby's was Southgate, who then sold them on to Scrivens.

Exhibition History

Turner, Prout, Steer - Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute
Galleries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1980

Literature

Turner Prout Steer Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980
no. 4 (Prout)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: on gateway roof (within drawing), graphite, colour note: "br gry"; lower left, graphite, location: "Sion". Mount (removed, cut down and in object file): brown ink: "Sion, by late Saml Prout / purchased at the Sale of / his Sketches for £4.4.0"; brown ink: "Purchased by GS at the Sale of / the Late Saml Prout for £4.4.0".

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