- Description
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- Creator(s)
- (?) Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- The Doric Temple at Southill
- Date
- (?) 1800
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 22.1 × 32.9 cm, 8 ¾ × 12 ⅞ in
- Object Type
- Colour Sketch: Studio Work
- Subject Terms
- Bedfordshire View; The Landscape Park
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1568
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 396 as '"In Mr. Whitbread's Park"'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001
Provenance
J. Palser & Sons; bought from them by Paul Oppé (1878–1957), 1913, £1; then by descent; bought by Tate as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, 1996
Exhibition History
London, 1934b, no.1204; Chelsea, 1947, no.24; Sheffield, 1952, no.34; South London Art Gallery, 1951, no.155; London, 1958a, no.155; Ottawa, 1961, no.47; London, 1984a, no.73 as ’In Mr. Whitbread’s Park’
Bibliography
Oppé, 1957–59, p.97, no.198; Tate Online as 'In Mr Whitbread’s Park. The Doric Temple at Southill, Bedfordshire, Built Circa 1795' (Accessed 18/09/2022)
Place depicted
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