- Description
-
- Creator
- John Jeffrey Short (1753 - 1801)
- Title(s)
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- Mer de Glace
- Date
- 1796
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Mount
- paper laid on to a contemporary mount
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, recto, lower left
- “John Short / delt 1796”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.6 / Mer de Glace / drawn by John Short / 1796”
- in brown ink in Towne’s hand
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT897
- Description Sources
- Examination
Provenance
Descended from the artist to Mr and Mrs Tremlett of Bickham House, who sold it at Hampton and Littlewood, Exeter, on 1 May 2008, lot 508.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 1 May 2008
- Hampton & Littlewood, Exeter, 1 May 2008
lot 508 - Mr and Mrs Tremlett
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Comment
This is clearly a copy after a lost Towne view of the Mer de Glace, similar to but distinct from the version Towne made for the Cliffords (FT573), but perhaps based on a common source work from 1781 (FT383). A date about that time, of the mid-1790s, is also consistent with 1796, the date of this work.