The Large and Important Collection (in portfolio) Comprising Drawings of the English Water Colour School … Richard Johnson, Esq., J. P. Deceased
J. C. Platt, London
Reference: J. C. Platt, London, 26 April 1912
The sale took place over four days, 23–26 April 1912
Lugt, Catalogues, no.71167
Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London
Day 4
Thomas Girtin
- 879 – ‘Two Small Sepia Sketches, on one mount’
- 880 – ‘Sunrise Effect; lead pencil and sepia sketch’,16 ½ × 11 ¼ in (41.9 × 28.6 cm); ‘a pencil and sepia study’, 16 ½ × 10 ¾ in (41.9 × 27.3 cm) (see TG1503 figure 1)
- 881 – ‘A Wayside Inn; pen and sepia design’, 9 ¼ × 5 ¾ in (23.5 × 14.6 cm)
- 882 – ‘Three Landscapes’, 10 ½ × 7 ½ in (26.7 × 19.1 cm); 8 ½ × 5 in (21.6 × 12.7 cm); 9 ½ × 2 ¾ in (24.1 × 7 cm)
- 883 – ‘A River Scene’, 13 ¾ × 5 ½ in (34.9 × 14 cm)
- 884 – ‘Landscape’, 9 ½ × 6 ½ in (24.1 × 16.5 cm)
- 885 – ‘River Scene’, 18 ½ × 9 ½ in (47 × 24.1 cm). Bought by ‘Palser’ for £31
- 886 – ‘Knarsbro’’, 20 ¼ × 12 ½ in (51.4 × 31.8 cm) (TG1671)
- 887 – ‘Ripon’, 17 ½ × 10 ½ in (44.5 × 26.7 cm)
- 888 – ‘Bridge at Llanriost; designed by Inigo Jones’, 19 × 11 ½ in (48.3 × 29.2 cm)
- 889 – ‘Italian Town and Bay’, 17 ¾ × 8 in (45.1 × 20.3 cm) (TG0452)
- 890 – ‘Near Richmond, Yorkshire’, 16 ¼ × 20 ½ in (41.3 × 52.1 cm)
- 891 – ‘St Augustine’s Canterbury; (early)’, 22 ¾ × 17 in (57.8 × 43.2 cm)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
- 842 – ‘Italian Town and Bay’, 14 ×19 ½ in (35.6 × 49.5 cm)
- 866 – 'Dover - pencil and sepia sketch (Ruskin Coll.)’, 8 ¼ × 10 ¾ in (21 × 27 cm) (TG0808)
Identified Exhibits
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Thomas Girtin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Robert Cozens
A View of Geneva, from Cologny
British Museum, London
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Thomas Girtin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Henderson
Figures on a Fishing Vessel in Dover Harbour
Private Collection
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Thomas Girtin
Knaresborough
Private Collection