- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- A Panoramic View near Lyme Regis
- Date
- 1797 - 1798
- Medium and Support
- Graphite and watercolour on laid paper, on a mount of wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 54.9 cm, 9 ½ × 21 ⅝ in
- Object Type
- Studio Watercolour
- Subject Terms
- Panoramic Format; The West Country: Devon and Dorset
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- Collection
- Versions
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A View near Lyme Regis
(TG1252)
- Catalogue Number
- TG1253
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 239 as 'Above Lyme Regis, Dorset'
- Description Source(s)
- Exhibition Catalogue; Gallery Website
Provenance
Edward Cohen (1817–86); then by bequest to his niece, Annie Sophia Poulter (c.1846–1924); then by descent to Edward Alexander Poulter (1883–1973); J. Palser & Sons; bought by Victor Rienaecker (1887–1972), 25 May 1926; Winifred M. Church; her sale, Sotheby’s, 4 May 1949, lot 2; bought by Thos. Agnew & Sons, £460; bought by the Gallery, 1950
Exhibition History
Washington, 1989a, no.81; New York, 1999, no number; Ottawa, 2005, no.19
Bibliography
Morris, 1986, p.17
Place depicted
Footnotes
- 1 The financial records of the artist's brother John Girtin (1773–1821) include two loans he made to Thomas Girtin during the trip. The records are transcribed in full in the Documents section of the Archive (1804 – Item 1).
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