- 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
Other entries in The 1794 Midland Tour with James Moore, Together with Subsequent Watercolours and Studies
Newark Castle: The Gatehouse Seen from the North
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
A Landscape with a Distant Church
Private Collection
Jedburgh Abbey, from the Riverbank
Private Collection
An Unidentified Landscape with Distant Buildings
Private Collection
Winchester Cathedral, from the North East
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
Private Collection
The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
The West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
Lincoln Cathedral: A Distant View from the North West; Unidentified Landscape
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Lincoln Cathedral: A Distant View from the North West
Private Collection
Lincoln Cathedral: A Distant View from the North West
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Lincoln Cathedral, from the West
Lincoln: The Collection
Lincoln Cathedral, from the River Witham
Private Collection
Lincoln Cathedral, Viewed from Below
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Part of the North-West Tower of the West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Private Collection
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
Courtauld Gallery, London
The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Aven
The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Private Collection, Cumbria
Southwell Minster, from the North West
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Southwell Minster, from the North West
The Deanery, Southwell Minster
Southwell Minster, from the North West
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Boston Church, from the South West
Private Collection
Tattershall Castle, from the North East
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
Tattershall Castle, from the South West
Private Collection
The West Front of the Gatehouse of Thornton Abbey
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
The East Front of the Gatehouse of Thornton Abbey
Private Collection
An Unidentified Landscape (A Moorland View)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
An Unidentified Landscape, Known as 'The Pool'
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
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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