- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- The Hamble River, near Southampton
- Date
- 1797 - 1798
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.7 × 36.2 cm, 5 × 14 ¼ in
- Object Type
- Colour Sketch: Studio Work
- Subject Terms
- Hampshire View; River Scenery
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1238
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 398 as '1800'
- Description Source(s)
- Girtin and Loshak, 1954
Provenance
Madeline Clifton (née Knox) (1890–1975); Thos. Agnew & Sons; bought by the Hon. Marion Evelyn Wood (née Ashton); given to Baroness Ashton of Hyde (née Marjorie Nell Brookes); with her in 1954
Exhibition History
Agnew’s, 1953a, no.95 as ’Near Southampton, previously known as Easby Abbey’
Place depicted
Other entries in The 1797 West Country Tour:
Sketches and Subsequent Watercolours
The Ruined Chancel, Netley Abbey
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
The Gateway of the Bishop's Palace, Wells
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
A Distant View of Southampton
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Bursledon Ferry on the River Hamble, near Southampton
Private Collection
The Hamble River, near Southampton
Private Collection
A Cliff-Top View, Probably on the Coast of Dorset
Leeds Art Gallery
The Market Rooms, Weymouth
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, San Marino
An Old Bridge, Possibly near Abbotsbury
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
An Old Bridge, Possibly near Abbotsbury
Private Collection
The Tithe Barn, Abbotsbury
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
Abbotsbury: The Tithe Barn, with a Pond
Leeds Art Gallery
Abbotsbury: The Tithe Barn, with a Pond
Private Collection
The Coast of Dorset, with Lyme Regis Below
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
The Coast of Dorset, with Lyme Regis Below
Private Collection
A Panoramic View near Lyme Regis
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Above Lyme Regis, Looking across Marshwood Vale
Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum
The Interior of Exeter Cathedral, Looking from the Nave
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter
Exeter, from Trew’s Weir
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter
Exeter Cathedral, from the South
Koriyama City Museum of Art
On the River Exe, Exeter
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Shaldon, Seen from Teignmouth
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Kingswear, from Dartmouth
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Kingswear, from Dartmouth
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Sharpham House on the River Dart
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
The Marine Barracks at Stonehouse, Plymouth
Private Collection
Okehampton Castle, from the West Okement River
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Cattle by a River with a Castle Beyond, Probably Okehampton Castle
Private Collection
The Estuary of the River Taw
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Wells Cathedral, from the Moat of the Bishop's Palace
Private Collection
St Vincent's Rocks from Nightingale Valley, near Bristol
Private Collection
Bristol Cathedral, from College Green
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Bristol: St Mary Redcliffe, from the Harbour
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Bristol Harbour and St Mary Redcliffe
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
A Wharf with Shipping, Possibly at Bristol
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Ships in a Harbour, Possibly at Bristol
Harewood House, Yorkshire
An Unidentified Estuary, Probably in the West Country
Tate, London
An Unidentified Landscape, Possibly a West-Country Tor
Tate, London
The Marine Barracks at Stonehouse, Plymouth
Private Collection
A House Reflected in the Waters of an Estuary
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
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About this Work
This work has not been seen in public since an exhibition in 1953, and, because it does not seem to have been photographed, we are dependent on the description of Thomas Girtin (1874–1960) and David Loshak, who must have viewed it shortly prior to the publication of their catalogue (Exhibitions: Agnew’s, 1953a, no.95). They recorded that the panoramic composition encompassed a view of the river Hamble near Southampton that included the ‘estuary at low tide with channels and mud flats; low wooded hills beyond; some ships on the water’, and they dated it to around 1800 (Girtin and Loshak, 1954, p.189). It is clearly not possible to confirm the attribution of the work, though its subject (a view near Southampton) and the extreme extended proportions of the composition (almost three times as wide as high) both point to a Girtin work resulting from his West Country trip of 1797. Only the work known as An Unidentified Estuary (TG1293) exceeds the proportions recorded here, and that too appears to show a West Country scene. It would be particularly interesting to see the work again, not least to establish its relationship to another panoramic view on the river Hamble that is now attributed to François Louis Thomas Francia (1772–1839) (TG1238) but that sounds from Girtin and Loshak’s description as though it shows a similar scene.
1798 - 1799
An Unidentified Estuary, Probably in the West Country
TG1293
1797 - 1798
The Hamble River, near Southampton
TG1238