- Description
-
- Creator
- John Jeffrey Short (1753 - 1801)
- Title(s)
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- Alpine Landscape
- Date
- 1796
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 560mm,
- image width 370mm
- Mount
- the paper laid on to a contemporary mount
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “J.Short / delt. 1796”
- in brown ink, perhaps in Towne’s hand
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “No.7 John Short delint. 1796”
- in brown ink in Towne’s hand
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT896
- 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
Other entries in Other Pupils, identififed
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A View on the Haven Banks of Part of the City of Exeter
A View on the Haven Banks of Part of the City of Exeter
Patience Carpenter, Lady Trelawny
Near the Cascade at the Head of Lake Windermere
Near the Cascade at the Head of Lake Windermere
Patience Carpenter, Lady Trelawny
A View near Countess Wear Bridge looking towards Topsham and Exmouth
A View near Countess Wear Bridge looking towards Topsham and Exmouth
William Mackinnon
Alpine Landscape, after Johann Ludwig Aberli
Alpine Landscape, after Johann Ludwig Aberli
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Comment
This is surely a copy after a Swiss watercolour by Towne.