- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- Harewood House, from the South West
- Date
- (?) 1801
- Medium and Support
- Graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 62.9 × 95.9 cm, 24 ¾ × 37 ¾ in
- Subject Terms
- Country House View; The Landscape Park; Yorkshire View
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- Collection
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- Harewood House, Yorkshire
- (HHTP:2001.2.24)
- Catalogue Number
- TG1547
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 435 as 'Harewood House'; '1801 (possibly started 1798).'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001
Provenance
Edward Lascelles (1764–1814); then by descent to Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood (1824–92); his sale, possibly Christie’s, 1 May 1858, lot 22 as 'View of Harewood House, Yorkshire'; bought by 'Palser', 15 gns; J. Palser & Sons; bought by Edward Cohen (1817–86), 1858 (lent to London, 1875); 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 Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882–1947), 21 March 1927, £450; then by descent
Exhibition History
London, 1875, no.106; Agnew’s, 1953a, no.66; Leeds, 1958, no.56; Manchester, 1975, no.84; Harewood, 1999, no.11
Bibliography
Borenius, 1936, no.307; Mayne, 1949, p.105; Girtin and Loshak, 1954, pp.78–79; Hill, 1984a, p.29, p.31; Morris, 1987b, p.17; Hill, 1995, pp.33–34; Celeste, 2020, pp.87–88; Plumpton, 2023, pp.100-01
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