LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor over pencil, heightened with bodycolor, stopping out and scratching out

Measurements:

11.02 in. (28.00 cm.) (height) by 15.59 in. (39.60 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, 45 Grosvenor Place,. Collection of Watercolour Drawings in the Possession of Walter Fawkes, Esq. , 1819, no. 7;. Leeds, Music Hall,. Leeds Public Exhibition in Aid of the Mechanics Institute, 1839, no. 52; . London, Agnew's,. Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. , 1913, no. 41;. York, York City Art Gallery,. Turner in Yorkshire , 1980, no. 35;. Wakefield, Wakefield Art Galleries and Musuems, 1988 (on loan);. London, Royal Academy,. Turner: The Great Watercolours , 2000-2001, no. 49

Literature:

L. Caldesi & Co.,. The Farnley Hall Collection of Turner Drawings in the Possession of F.H. Fawkes, Esq., 1864, pl. 13;. A.J. Finberg,. Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley Hall, London 1912, no. 91;. A. Wilton,. The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner , Fribourg 1979, p. 362, no. 546;. D. Hill,. Turner in the North, Yale 1996, pp. 38 & 199;. L. Bailey, 'Turner's Purposeful Patron: Walter Fawkes' 1819 Watercolour Exhibition',. Turner Society News, 131, Spring 2019, pp. 16-20, illust. fig. 7

Provenance:

Walter Ramsden Hawksworth Fawkes (1769-1825), Farnley Hall, Yorkshire,. by family descent to Ayscough Fawkes (1831-1899),. his sale, London, Christie's, 28 June 1890, lot 40, bt. Agnew's,. with Agnew's, London;. John Edward Taylor (1830-1905), by 1890,. his executor's sale, London, Christie's, 5 July 1912, lot 50, bt. Agnew's on behalf of John Edward Taylor Allen (1864-1919), John Edward Taylor's nephew,. thence by family descent to the present owner