Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Pencil and watercolour
  • 14 ⅛ × 10 ¼ inches · 362 × 273 mm
  • Drawn c. 1807–11

Collections

  • Purchased from the artist by his pupil the Revd James Bulwer (1794-1879);
  • Bulwer family, by descent, until 1926;
  • With Walker’s Galleries 1926;
  • C. Morland Agnew (1855-1931);
  • With Thomas Agnew & Sons by 1936;
  • A. T. Loyd, Lockinge House, Wantage, acquired from the above, March 1936;
  • Christopher ‘Larch’ Loyd, to 2007;
  • W/S Fine Art Ltd, London, 2007;
  • Private collection, UK, acquired from the above, 2007, to 2016.

Exhibitions

  • Norwich Art Circle, John Sell Cotman, 1888 (20);
  • London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, John Sell Cotman, 1888, no. 29;
  • London, Walker’s Galleries, John Sell Cotman, 1926, no.9;
  • London, Agnew’s, Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings, 1936, no. 129;
  • London, W/S Fine Art, Landscape on Paper, 2007, no. 22 repr. in colour.

Literature

  • C. F. Bell, ‘John Sell Cotman (The Bulwer Collection)’, Walker’s Quarterly, nos. 19 – 20, 1926, cat. no. 9, p. 22 and colour plate II;
  • Francis Russell, The Loyd Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. 1990 revised edition, no. 77, p. 34 and plate 62.

Private collection