- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Peter De Wint (1784-1849)
- Title
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- Lincoln Cathedral, Viewed from Below
- Date
- (?) 1810
- Medium and Support
- Graphite, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 44.5 × 58.4 cm, 17 ½ × 23 in
- Object Type
- Studio Watercolour
- Subject Terms
- Gothic Architecture: Cathedral View
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1013
- Description Source(s)
- Wilcox, 2008
Provenance
Charles James Pooley (1836–1900) (lent to London, 1875; London, 1877); his sale, Christie’s, 6 March 1880, lot 94 as by Thomas Girtin; bought by 'Hogarth', £62; Miss Rollins; bought from her by Thos. Agnew & Sons, 17 April 1916 (stock no.8404); bought by the Museum, 21 November 1919, £230
Exhibition History
London, 1875, no.7 as by Thomas Girtin; London, 1877, no.314; Agnew’s, 1919, no.7 as 'Query, an early De Wint'
Bibliography
Finberg, 1919, pp.26–27; Girtin and Loshak, 1954, p.209 as by Thomas Girtin; Wilcox, 2008, pp.50–51 as by Peter De Wint
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
Abbott and Holder, London
Jedburgh Abbey, from the Riverbank
Abbott and Holder, London
An Unidentified Landscape with Distant Buildings
Private Collection
Winchester Cathedral, from the North East
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Southwell Minster, from the North West
Southwell Minster, The Deanery
Southwell Minster, from the North West
Private Collection
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, The 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 Museums & 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, The University of Manchester
The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon
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
Southwell Minster, The Deanery
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, The 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 south was included in two early exhibitions as by Girtin, and was listed as an untraced work by the artist in Thomas Girtin (1874–1960) and David Loshak’s 1954 catalogue (Girtin and Loshak, 1954, p.209). However, as Timothy Wilcox has clearly demonstrated, it was produced by a young Peter De Wint (1784–1849), confirming the earlier doubts of Alexander Finberg (Finberg, 1919, pp.26–27; Wilcox, 2008, pp.50–51). In retrospect, it is difficult to see how the attribution remained unchallenged for so long, since not only is the style of the work, with its bold outlining in pen and ink, alien to Girtin’s approach, but also the view shows the cathedral’s western towers without the characteristic spires that feature in the older artist’s views of Lincoln (such as TG1008), which were removed around 1808, six years after his death.
1794
Lincoln Cathedral, from the West
TG1008