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Bridge on the Saint Gothard

Maker

(artist)
1742-1782

Title

Bridge on the Saint Gothard

Date of Production

1770

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and black inks, watercolour with some gum arabic on laid paper, an extra strip added at the top, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 21.6 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.31

Mode of Acquisition

Dorothy Scharf, bequest, 2007 (March)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Henry Temple, Lord Palmerston, London and Hampshire (1784-1865); Edward Basil Jupp, London (1812-1877), before 1871; Thomas William Waller; Elizabeth Stauffer Moore; by descent to her great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Richardson Simmons, New York; her sale, Christie's (London), 12 November 1968, lot 140; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004), 1972, for £450; Scharf Bequest 2007

Exhibition History

96th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, Agnews', London, 1969 (January)

Literature

Wilton, Andrew, William Pars: Journey through the Alps, Zurich, 1979
no. 30
ill. on p. 42

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Mount (historic), Verso: left upper edge: "BLAUW".

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: left lower edge, graphite, cut off: "7A" [? Or ZA?]; lower centre margin, grey ink: "A VIEW NEAR St. GOTHARD."; lower right edge, graphite: "W. Pars A.R. A. 1770". Mount (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "140"; upper left corner, graphite, circled: "8789".

Collector's mark: none.

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