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Masts

Maker

(artist)
1802-1828

Title

Masts

Date of Production

(circa) 1824

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 28.3 cm
Width: 19.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1979.WS.8

Mode of Acquisition

Mary Spooner, bequest, 1979

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Bonington was born in Nottingham, but moved with his family to Calais in 1817. The following year he met Louis Francia who gave him lessons in watercolour. Like his teacher, he spent some time in the 1820s painting marine subjects along the coast of Dunkerque and St-Omer. This drawing is a carefully executed but confident study of the rigging and limp sails of two boats at anchor and may have been a preparatory sketch for an oil or watercolour painting.

Notes

Patrick Noon dates this drawing to ca. 1824 (Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Drawings, 2011, no. 180.)

Provenance

Etienne Arago, Paris (1802-1892); Martine-Marie-Pol de Behague, Comtesse de Bearn, Paris (1869-1939); Pierre de Nolhac, Paris (1859-1936); Horace Bernard Milling (1898-1954); by descent to his widow, Mrs Mary Spooner; Spooner Bequest 1979

Exhibition History

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 Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977 ...More

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968 ...Less

Literature

Noon, Patrick, Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Drawings, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
no. 180

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 75
ill. on p. 223

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 49 ...More

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 46

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 52

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 6

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 66 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite: “Bonington 1825“. Verso: graphite: “fully - vin... . w... / D. Cox plain / Urgen[t] / JA".

Collector's mark: none.

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