- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Unknown Artist
- Title
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- Lincoln Cathedral, from the River Witham
- Date
- 1795 - 1800
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.6 × 48.3 cm, 10 ⅞ × 19 in
- Object Type
- Studio Watercolour
- Subject Terms
- Gothic Architecture: Cathedral View; Lincolnshire; River Scenery
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1011
- Description Source(s)
- Witt Library Photograph
Provenance
Henry Oppenheimer (1859–1932) (lent to Lincoln, 1926); his posthumous sale, Christie's, 21 July 1936, lot 150 as by Thomas Girtin; bought by the Fine Art Society, London, £54 12s
Exhibition History
Lincoln, 1926, no.8, catalogue untraced; Fine Art Society, 1937, no.29 as by Thomas Girtin
Place depicted
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About this Work
This view of Lincoln Cathedral from the river Witham, looking north, has not been seen in public since 1934 and is known only from a poor-quality black and white photograph. The work was not included by Thomas Girtin (1874–1960) and David Loshak in their 1954 catalogue of Girtin’s works, and it is unlikely to be an autograph work by the artist (Girtin and Loshak, 1954). The composition, showing the cathedral from the south, is reasonably close to the lost watercolour Lincoln, from the Brayford Pool (TG1010), which was engraved for Bartholomew Howlett’s A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln (1805), and it is conceivable that it was adapted from the print, presumably by a competent amateur working broadly in Girtin’s style.
1794 - 1795
Lincoln, from the Brayford Pool
TG1010