- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- An Unidentified Landscape with Distant Buildings
- Date
- (?) 1794
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 8.9 × 17.8 cm, 3 ½ × 7 in
- Part of
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- 1794 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Colour Sketch: Studio Work
- Subject Terms
- An Imaginary Scene; Unidentified Landscape
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG0189
- Description Source(s)
- Witt Library Photograph
Other entries in The 1794 Midland Tour with James Moore, Together with Subsequent Watercolours and Studies
Newark Castle: The Gatehouse Seen from the North
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
A Landscape with a Distant Church
Private Collection
Jedburgh Abbey, from the Riverbank
Private Collection
An Unidentified Landscape with Distant Buildings
Private Collection
Winchester Cathedral, from the North East
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
Private Collection
The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
Lincoln Cathedral: A Distant View from the North West; Unidentified Landscape
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Lincoln Cathedral: A Distant View from the North West
Private Collection
Lincoln Cathedral: A Distant View from the North West
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Lincoln Cathedral, from the West
Lincoln: The Collection
Lincoln Cathedral, from the River Witham
Private Collection
Lincoln Cathedral, Viewed from Below
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Part of the North-West Tower of the West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Private Collection
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Courtauld Gallery, London
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Aven
The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Private Collection, Cumbria
Southwell Minster, from the North West
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Southwell Minster, from the North West
The Deanery, Southwell Minster
Southwell Minster, from the North West
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Boston Church, from the South West
Private Collection
Tattershall Castle, from the North East
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
Tattershall Castle, from the South West
Private Collection
The West Front of the Gatehouse of Thornton Abbey
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
The East Front of the Gatehouse of Thornton Abbey
Private Collection
An Unidentified Landscape (A Moorland View)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
An Unidentified Landscape, Known as 'The Pool'
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
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About this Work
This unidentified landscape, which is known only from a black and white photograph, appears to be related to a group of monochrome sketches that were sold together at auction in 1936 (Exhibitions: Christie’s, 27 March 1936, lot 1). Two of the drawings that have been identified as part of the group are dated 1794 – A Cloud Study (TG0186) and Jedburgh Abbey, from the Riverbank (TG0188) – and given that all of them appear to be on the same laid paper on which this landscape is painted, and with the same lateral dimensions, it is possible that they came from a sketchbook that was subsequently split up.
The material from the sketchbook is of a disparate kind. Two of the sketches, showing carefully observed clouds, were apparently sketched on the spot (TG0186 and TG0199), whilst the view of the ruined abbey church at Jedburgh, in the Scottish Borders, anticipates by two years Girtin’s visit to the site and must therefore have been copied from the work of another artist. This sketch, in contrast, closely resembles in terms of subject and handling two unidentified landscapes (TG1376 and TG1377) that appear to be imaginary scenes. Neither of the works is dated, but their striking similarity to A Cloud Study suggests that they too were produced around 1794, as the young artist sought to establish a clientele for his sketches.
1794
A Cloud Study
TG0186
1794
Jedburgh Abbey, from the Riverbank
TG0188
1794
A Cloud Study
TG0186
(?) 1794
A Sky Study
TG0199
(?) 1794
An Unidentified Landscape (A Moorland View)
TG1376
(?) 1794
An Unidentified Landscape, Known as ‘The Pool’
TG1377