LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

14.50 in. (36.83 cm.) (height) by 12.00 in. (30.48 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and dated lower right “J.F. Cropsey 1866”. Alternately titled “Burial Place of Shakespeare - Stratford on Avon”, “Interior of Church at Stratford-on-Avon”, “Shakespeare’s Burial Place” and “Gothic Church Interior”

Condition:

framed

Exhibited:

Utica Art Association, Utica, New York, 1867, no. 198, as “Interior of Church at Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare’s Burial Place”, Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, 1956: “Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900, The Colorist of the Hudson River School” as “Interior of an English Cathedral”

Provenance:

P.V. Rogers, Esq., July 10, 1866, “Burial Place of Shakespeare - Stratford on Avon 150.00” (JFC account book), Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, by 1946, no. 893 as “Interior of an English Cathedral”, Bessie Cropsey Gillender, 1946. Howard A. Sharrott, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. References: “Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900, The Colorist of the Hudson River School” by Bartlett Cowdrey in the May 1946 issue of Panorama , p. 89. Illustrated as “Interior of an English Cathedral”, “Looking Anew At Cropsey’s Landscapes” by Jo Gibbs in the May 15, 1946 issue of, The Art Digest , p. 8. Titled “Interior of an English Cathedral”, Talbot 1977, p. 432, no. 145, illustrated as “Gothic Church Interior”, Yarnall and Gerdts 1986, p. 885, no. 21461