- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) after Thomas Hearne (1744-1817)
- Title
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- Kelso Abbey, from the North West
- Date
- (?) 1795
- Medium and Support
- Graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 21 × 15.1 cm, 8 ¼ × 5 ⅞ in
- Subject Terms
- Monastic Ruins; The Scottish Borders
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- Collection
- Versions
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Kelso Abbey, from the North West
(TG0270a)
- Catalogue Number
- TG0270
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 170 as 'Kelso Abbey'; 'Until recently attributed to G. I. Parkyns'; '1796'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001 and 2016
Provenance
Charles Stokes (1785–1853); then by descent to Thomas Hughes; then by descent to his neice, Alice Ellen Hughes; her sale, Sotheby’s, 28 November 1922, lot 141 as 'Kelso Abbey, Ruins of the Transept' by Joseph Mallord William Turner; bought by Thos. Agnew & Sons, £13 for Thomas Girtin (1874-1960); presented by him to the Museum, 1929
Bibliography
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1929, p.20 as by George Isham Parkyns, after Thomas Hearne; Bell, 1938–39, p.99 as by Edward Dayes, after Thomas Hearne; Brown, 1982, p.338, no.737 as by Thomas Girtin
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