Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Drawings and Watercolours

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co.

Reference: Sotheby's, 19 July 1979

Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

Thomas Girtin

  • 134 – ‘Belle Vue and Pont de Sèvres from St. Cloud, hand coloured soft ground etching … collection of Sir Hugh Beaver’. Sold for £600 (plate thirteen of Picturesque Views in Paris)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 17 – ‘Buildings Beside a Gatehouse, Possibly Llanthony Abbey; An Elizabethan House Seen from a Farm and; Boats on a River (two), four, pencil and grey wash, and watercolour, all on laid paper, all partially laid on blue paper, all numbered 1–4 and inscribed Turner R. A. In pen and ink on mount, mounted on two sheets, each 2 ½ × 3 ½ in, 6 × 9 cm’. Sold for £1,100

‘The Property of a Lady’

  • 41 – ‘In Dover Harbour – Fishing Boats near the Pier Head – Low Tide’. Sold for £1,000 (TG0823)
  • 42 – ‘In Dover Harbour – Drying the Sails’. Sold for £1,100 (TG0820)

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