- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- A Lake Scene with Two Herons, Possibly in Cassiobury Park
- Date
- 1798 - 1800
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 26.2 × 30.9 cm, 10 ¼ × 12 ⅛ in
- Inscription
‘no 17’ on the back
- Object Type
- Studio Watercolour
- Subject Terms
- Hertfordshire; Lake Scenery; The Landscape Park
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1570
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 418 as 'Lake with Herons ... Possibly at Cassiobury Park'; '1800-1'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001 and April 2024
Provenance
George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757–1839); given to Richard Ford (1796–1858), 1824 (recorded by Ford in an inscription on the back of the frame); then by gift to F. L. Ford, 21 April 1837; then by descent; Sotheby's, 19 October 1949, lot 90; bought by P & D Colnaghi & Co., £170; James Leslie Wright (1862–1954); presented to the Museum, 1953
Exhibition History
Agnew’s, 1953a, no.43 as ’A Lake with Herons ... Probably at Cassiobury Park, near Watford’; Worthing, 1960, no.65; Lyons, 1966, no.61; Bourges, 1970, no.55
Bibliography
Davies, 1924, p.26, pl.16 as 'Lake with Herons (probably at Cassiobury)'; Rose, 1980, p.57
Place depicted
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