- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) after Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827)
- Title
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- Derwentwater
- Date
- 1799 - 1800
- Medium and Support
- Graphite and watercolour on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 31 cm, 9 ½ × 12 ¼ in
- Object Type
- Work after an Amateur Artist
- Subject Terms
- Lake Scenery; The Lake District
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1585
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 316 as 'c. 1799'
- Description Source(s)
- Auction Catalogue; Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive
Provenance
Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753–1827); then by descent to Sir George Howland Francis Beaumont, 12th Baronet (1924–2011), 1949; David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles (1904–99); P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd, 1979; Christie’s, 15 June 1982, lot 39, £2,376; Christie's, 15 November 1983, lot 167, £1,188
Exhibition History
London, 1963b, no.39; Colnaghi’s, 1979, no.57
Bibliography
Herrmann and Owen, 1973, p.47
Place depicted
Footnotes
- 1 A list of subscribers is included in John Girtin’s account of the income he received from the Picturesque Views in Paris, together with the expenses incurred in completing the project. They are transcribed in the Documents section of the Archive (1804 – Item 1).
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