- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- A Panoramic Landscape, near Norwood
- Date
- 1797 - 1798
- Medium and Support
- Graphite and watercolour on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 12.4 × 21.6 cm, 4 ⅞ × 8 ½ in
- Inscription
'Near Norwood' on the back
- Object Type
- On-the-spot Colour Sketch
- Subject Terms
- London and Environs; Panoramic Format
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1390
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 213 as 'Near Norwood'; '1797'
- Description Source(s)
- Auction Catalogue
Provenance
Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877–1963); his posthumous sale, Sotheby’s, 9 December 1964, lot 263 as 'A View near Norwood'; bought by Thos. Agnew & Sons, £340
Place depicted
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
St Albans Abbey: The West Porch
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St Albans Abbey, from the North West
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
An Interior View of St Albans Abbey, from the Crossing
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Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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Private Collection
Barns and a Pond, Said to Be near Bromley
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Barns and a Pond, Said to Be near Bromley
Private Collection, Norfolk
Trees and Pond, Said to Be near Bromley
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
A Sandpit, near Logs Hill, Widmore
Private Collection
A Sandpit, near Logs Hill, Widmore
Private Collection
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stone-next-Dartford
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Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Farm Buildings, Probably in Surrey
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester
Tintern Village, Seen across the Forge Pond, Formerly Known as ‘The Mill-Pond’
Private Collection
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Private Collection
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Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
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Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, San Marino
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Private Collection
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The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
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British Museum, London
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, San Marino
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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Private Collection
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Private Collection
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About this Work
This small panoramic landscape is known only as a poor-quality black and white image, and it is therefore impossible to confirm with any confidence either the attribution of the work to Girtin or the identity of the scene as near Norwood in south London. Thomas Girtin (1874–1960) and David Loshak knew the work when it was in the collection of Sir Bruce Ingram (1877–1963), however, and they included it in their catalogue of Girtin’s watercolours, stating that it was in ‘a very strong scheme of blues’ and dating it to 1797 (Girtin and Loshak, 1954, p.163). Though it is not clear whether they thought the work was sketched on the spot, arguably, just enough evidence is visible to suggest that this may have been the case, and the location of Norwood, on the way to Bromley in Kent, might even mean that it was produced travelling either to or from the home of Girtin’s patrons, Sir Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough (1760–1838) and his wife Amelia Long, Lady Farnborough (1772–1837), though it may be that they did not actually move to that location until rather later. The inscription ‘Near Norwood’ on the back of the drawing did not strike Girtin and Loshak as being in Girtin’s hand, but there does not appear to be any reason to question the identification of the location, any more than the attribution to Girtin. Therefore, although there is a tendency for any panoramic sketch of a scene in the vicinity of London to be attributed to Girtin with little or no evidence to back this up, in this case I suspect that the reappearance of the work might confirm that it is an on-the-spot colour sketch from around 1797–98. However, if the work did turn out to be connected in some way with Amelia Long, one of Girtin’s favourite pupils, then the sketch might prove to date from a little later and a time when the artist was apparently working at Bromley, as evinced in works such as A Sandpit, near Logs Hill, Widmore (TG1422).
1798 - 1799
A Sandpit, near Logs Hill, Widmore
TG1422