- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- The Thames from Westminster to Somerset House: Colour Study for the Eidometropolis, Section Four
- Date
- (?) 1801
- Medium and Support
- Graphite and watercolour on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 53.8 cm, 9 ½ × 21 ⅛ in
- Part of
- Object Type
- Colour Sketch: Studio Work; Study for a Panorama
- Subject Terms
- City Life and Labour; London and Environs; The River Thames
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG1855
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 229 as 'Girtin's Panorama of London (Eidometropolis): Sector V'; '1799'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001, 2002 and 2016
Provenance
John Jackson (d.1828), almost certainly from his son-in-law, John Girtin (1773–1821); his posthumous sale, Foster's, 24 April 1828, lots 342–45 as 'unfinished Views of London'; bought by Colnaghi'; Henry Peter Standly (1782–1844); his posthumous sale, Christie's, 16 April 1845, lot 398, ‘coloured drawings, views of London, the drawings taken on the spot which afterward served to paint the large panorama’; bought by 'C. Hall' £5 15s; Chambers Hall (1786–1855); presented to the Museum, 1855
Exhibition History
London, 1972, no.322; Manchester, 1975, no, 26; Manchester, 1983, no.25; London, 1985, no.82b; London, 1988a, no.34; London, 1993, no.149; London, 2002, no.154
Bibliography
Binyon, 1898–1907, no.32; Binyon, 1900, pl.14; Sparrow, 1902, p.93; Finberg, 1905, p.58, p.60; Whitley, 1924, fig.3; Paris, 1945, p.26; Mayne, 1949, pl.36; Lemaître, 1955, p.203; Hardie, 1966–68, vol.2, p.9; Pragnell, 1968, p.18; Wilton, 1977, p.32, p.187; Bermingham, 2001, pp.128–29; Eisenman and others, 2002, pp.123–24; Smith, 2018, pp.54–56; Charles, 2020, p.254; Robbins, 2021, p.64; Bransgrove, 2023, pp.249–50
Place depicted
Footnotes
- 1 This highly informative review is transcribed in full in the Documents section of the Archive (1802 – Item 3).
- 2 The financial records of the artist's brother John Girtin (1773–1821) include the income he received from the Eidometropolis as well as the expenses he incurred. They are transcribed in the Documents section of the Archive (1804 – Item 1).
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