- Description
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- Creator(s)
- (?) Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- Rhuddlan Castle
- Date
- 1799 - 1800
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour and stopping out on paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 39.5 cm, 9 ½ × 15 ½ in
- Object Type
- Studio Watercolour
- Subject Terms
- Castle Ruins; North Wales; River Scenery
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1303
- Description Source(s)
- Auction Catalogue
Provenance
Guy Bellingham-Smith (1865–1949); James Leslie Wright (1862–1954) (lent to Birmingham, 1938); then by descent to Veronica Williamson (Mrs Dorian Williamson, née Wright) (d.1976); Sotheby’s, 24 November 1977, lot 113 as 'Attributed to Thomas Girtin'
Exhibition History
Birmingham, 1938, no.109; Worcester, 1938, no.36; Birmingham, 1939, no.198; London, 1949, no.189
Place depicted
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About this Work
This watercolour of Rhuddlan Castle is known only from a black and white photograph published when the work was sold at auction in 1977 as ‘Attributed to Thomas Girtin’. The work would have been well known to Thomas Girtin (1874–1960) from its time in the collection of James Leslie Wright (1862–1954), and its omission from the catalogue of Girtin’s watercolours that the artist’s descendant produced with David Loshak in 1954 is a clear indication that he did not think that it was an autograph work (Girtin and Loshak, 1954). As far as I can tell, there is nothing to link a carelessly produced and weakly drawn watercolour to Girtin, other than the subject and the fact that it appears to have been executed roughly around 1800.