- Description
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- Creator
- Miss Maingey (active 1791)
- Title(s)
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- Landscape Composition
- Date
- 1790/08/14
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour, with grey wash border
- Dimensions
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- image height 175mm,
- image width 235mm
- Part of
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- Miss Maingey: An Album of Landscape Copies
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT853
- Description Sources
- Examination
Provenance
Untraced until acquired by Iolo Aneurin Williams (1890–1962) by 1952, and sold by a member of his family at Sotheby’s on 31 March 1999, lot 37, for £1,100 to the present owner within a sketchbook containing FT843 to FT854.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 31 March 1999, GBP 1100
- Sotheby's, London, London, 31 March 1999, lot 37
- Iolo Anuerin Williams (1890 - 1962), 1952
- Bibliography
- Iolo Aneurin Williams, Early English Watercolours, and some cognate drawings by artists not later than 1785, Connoisseur: London, 1952, p. 90
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Comment
This drawing, which appears on folio 11 (recto) of the sketchbook, is in Towne’s style. Presumably it does not depict an actual landscape.