LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor over pencil, heightened with pen and grey ink, touches of white and gum arabic

Size Notes:

Each

Markings:

the first signed lower left: E Dayes 1797; the second signed lower right in the same manner

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1798, nos. 501 and 517

Literature:

A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts.., London 1906, p. 278; J. Yarker, Ambition in 'The Grand Manner', 2013, pp. 9-13, cat. nos. 1a and b

Provenance:

Sale, London, Christie's, 25 April 1995, lot 55, from where acquired by the present owner