- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Lake Como
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image height 159mm,
- image width 203mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “J.W.A.F.T. Lake of Como No.19”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- Lake Como
- Catalogue Number
- FT824
- Description Sources
- Spink records; Sotheby’s records (image)
Provenance
Descended through the White Abbott family until 9 December 1981, when it was acquired by Spink & Son from J. N. White Abbott. Spink sold it on 20 May 1982 for £450 to Bowyer. This drawing was sold at Sotheby’s on 11 November 1993, lot 81, for £700.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sotheby's, London, London, 11 November 1993, lot 81
- Gordon Bowyer, 20 May 1982, GBP 450
- Ursula Bowyer, 20 May 1982, GBP 450
- Captain John White Abbott (20th Century)
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Comment
This is a version of a now unidentified drawing (FT311). No.18 in that series is a drawing of Lake Lugano, no.20 is of Lake Maggiore. In a 2013 Bearnes auction catalogue, this work was described as “very similar” to FT825.