- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- Cottages at Hawes, from Gayle Beck
- Date
- 1799 - 1800
- Medium and Support
- Graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.5 × 18 cm, 4 ½ × 7 ⅛ in
- Inscription
‘Hawes’ on the back, lower centre, by Thomas Girtin; ‘Girtin’ on the back, lower left, in another hand; ’E. Goodwin’ on the back, lower left, in another hand
- Part of
- Object Type
- Outline Drawing
- Subject Terms
- River Scenery; The Village; Yorkshire View
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- Collection
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- Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
- (1929P32)
- Versions
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Cottages at Hawes, from Gayle Beck
(TG1693)
Cottages at Hawes, from Gayle Beck (TG1694)
Cottages at Hawes, from Gayle Beck (TG1695)
Cottages at Hawes, from Gayle Beck (TG1696)
- Catalogue Number
- TG1508a
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 392i as 'Hawes, Yorkshire ... Probably 1799-retouched 1800.'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001 and April 2024
Provenance
G. Douglas Thomson of the Palser Gallery, London, by 1923; presented to the Museum, 1929
Exhibition History
Midland Federation, 1958, no.20; Worthing, 1960, no.63; Amsterdam, 1965, no.56; Prague, 1969, no.62
Bibliography
Davies, 1938, p.3
Place depicted
Footnotes
- 1 The nicks in the edge of the paper where the sheets were stitched in occur at the same points roughly 1 cm, 3.5 cm, 7.5 cm and 9.4 cm from the top, though on opposite sides as the Hawes sketch was made on the right of the double spread.
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