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Smailholm Tower and Sandyknowe Farm

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Date of Production

1838

Medium

graphite, watercolour, pen and red and brown ink on board (Bristol or London)

Dimensions

Height: 32.2 cm
Width: 26 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.48

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

son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), 1838; Thomas E. Plint (1823-1861); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 7 March 1862, lot 171; purchased there by Smith (?); Hugh A.J. Munro, Novar (1797-1864); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 2 June 1877, lot 1; purchased there by Wallis (?); John Feetham; his sale, Christie's (London), 27 May 1895, lot 114; purchased there by H. Quilter; Charles Wheeley Lea (1827-1898); his wife, Amy Mary Wheeley Lea, Parkside (1833-1916); her estate sale, Christie's (London), 11 May 1917, lot 37; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Rt. Hon. Charles P. Allen, 1917; Walter F. Morice; his sale, Christie's (London), 12 May 1922, lot 63; purchased there by Martin (?); J & W Vokins (London); I.M. Stewart; his sale, Sotheby's (Gleneagles), 31 August 1967, lot 16; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by a private collector; purchased from them by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004), 1973; Scharf Bequest 2007

Exhibition History

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008

Turner's Vignettes, Tate Gallery, London, 29/09/1993-23/01/1994

Literature

Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld Gallery, Wordsworth Trust; Courtauld Gallery, 2008-2009
no. 24
ill.on p. 125

Finley, Gerald, Landscapes of Memory: Turner as illustrator to Scott, London, 1980
p. 150
fig. 65, pl. 43

Wilton, Andrew, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, London, 1979
no. 1071?
Courtauld ex. cat. says this drawing is not in Wilton, may refer to another Smailholm drawing

Inscriptions

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Watermark: Repeated at Recto upper left and upper right: SLADE / 1836 .

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