Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

The Choice Collection of Water-Colour Drawings of C. J. Pooley, Esq.

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie’s, 6 March 1880

Lugt, Catalogues, no.39961

Copy consulted: National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

'WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS'

Thomas Girtin

  • 1 – ‘Hardwick Old Hall’, 10 ¾ × 18 ⅛ in (27.3 × 46 cm). Bought by 'Weston' for 9 guineas
  • 26 – ‘St Agatha’s Abbey’, 10 × 15 ¾ in (25.4 × 40 cm). Bought by ‘Grundy’ for 19 guineas (TG1060)
  • 27 – ‘Norwich’, 12 ½ × 18 ¾ in (31.8 × 47.6 cm). Unsold at a reserve of £21 10s (TG0056) (a note in the Palser Records suggests an attribution to ‘Cotman’)
  • 28 – ‘Valle Crucis Abbey’, 8 ½ × 11 ¾ in (21.6 × 29.9 cm). Bought by ‘Grundy & Smith’ for £19 19s (TG1343)
  • 29 – ‘Jedburgh’, 15 × 12 in (38.1 × 30.5 cm). ‘From the Heugh Collection’. Bought by ‘Arnold’ for £27 6s (TG1230) (despite the note, the work appears not to have been sold as it reappeared in a later sale from the collection of Charles James Pooley (1836–1900)) (Capes & Dunn, Manchester, 28 February 1882, lot 40 )
  • 30 – ‘Farm House, and Figures’, 9 ¾ × 13 in (24.8 × 33 cm). Bought by ‘Hogarth’ for 19 guineas
  • 31 – ‘Norham Castle’, 16 ½ × 22 ¼ in (41.9 × 56.5 cm). Bought by ‘Grundy & Smith’ for £36 15s (TG1406)
  • 90 – ‘Guisborough Abbey’, 11 ¾ × 18 ½ in (29.9 × 47 cm). Bought by 'Squarey' for £36 8s (TG1699)
  • 91 – ‘Bolton Abbey’, 12 ½ × 18 ½ in (31.8 × 47 cm). Bought by ‘Radley’ for £33 12s (TG1678) (despite the note, the work appears not to have been sold as it reappeared in a later sale from the collection of Charles James Pooley (1836–1900)) (Capes & Dunn, Manchester, 28 February 1882, lot 42)
  • 92 – ‘A Landscape, with Bridge’, 8 ¾ × 11 ¾ in (22.2 × 29.9 cm). Bought by 'Radley' for £23 12s 6d
  • 93 – ‘St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne’, 20 ¾ × 15 ½ in (52.7 × 39.4 cm). Bought by 'Williams' £24 3s (TG1083)
  • 94 – ‘Lincoln Cathedral’, 18 × 23 in (45.7 × 58.4 cm). Bought by ‘Hogarth’ for £62 (TG1013)
  • 95 – ‘Richmond, Yorkshire’, 14 ¾ × 19 ½ in (37.5 × 49.5 cm). Bought by 'Williams' £78 15s (TG1067)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 119 – 'Southwell Minster', 9 ½ × 11 in (24.1 × 27.9 cm). Bought by 'F. Clarke' for £22 1s

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