- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Mont Blanc
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, grey and blue wash
- Dimensions
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- image height 263mm,
- image width 347mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “Mount Blanc from Mount Avert. / F.T. JWA”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- Mont Blanc
- Catalogue Number
- FT835
- Description Sources
- Sotheby's records (image)
Provenance
Sold by the artist’s great-granddaughter Rosetta Frances Dobson (1892–1965) to Agnew’s (no.2601) on 3 December 1937 among a group of twenty-five John White Abbott drawings (including FT828, FT833b, FT833c). Agnew’s sold it to Walker’s Galleries on 22 February 1938. At some point before 1963 it was in the collection of E. M. Scott-Mason (see also 67, 818) and by 1961 was in the collection of Henry Charles Green (1883/1884–1966), who sold it at Sotheby’s on 18 October 1961, lot 2, to Colnaghi (no.A25612), who sold it on 15 January 1963 for £45 to Sir John Witt (1907–1982), at whose posthumous sale at Sotheby’s on 19 February 1987 it was sold as lot 100 for £1,400, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sotheby's, London, London, 19 February 1987, lot 100
- Sir John Witt (1907 - 1982), London, 15 January 1963, GBP 45
- P&D Colnaghi & Co, London, London, 18 October 1961, no.A25612
- Sotheby's, London, London, 18 October 1961, lot 2
- Henry Charles Green (1883/84 - 1966), 1961
- Mrs E. M. Scott-Mason
- Walker's Galleries, London, 22 February 1938
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 3 December 1937, no.2601
- Rosetta Frances Dobson (1892 - 1965)
Other entries in John White Abbott
The Alps near the Source of the Rhine, descending Mount Splugen
From the Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon
The Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon
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Comment
This is a copy of a lost drawing by Towne (FT386), which may or may not have been the source of his 1808 Royal Academy exhibit (FT645). “Mount Avert” is Montanvert, but the drawing shows the Aiguille du Midi, with the peak of Mont Blanc itself off to the left of the picture. J. M. W. Turner chose the same viewpoint for a watercolour of 1809 (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).