Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

A Very Extensive and Valuable Assemblage of Drawings in Water Colours

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie's, 28 June 1860

Lugt, Catalogues, no.25677

Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

‘Framed and Glazed’

Thomas Girtin

  • 10 – ‘A rocky glen, with a ruined farm-house’. Sold for 12s
  • 38 – ‘Rye, on the Sussex coast, from the marshes – twilight effect’. Bought by ‘Robson’ for £5 15s

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 36 – ‘An Italian Landscape, with distant mountains covered with snow. An exquisite early drawing, of his Wilson period’. Bought by ‘Cousons’ for £8
  • 40 – 'A River Scene, with a waterfall, in Wales. A beautiful drawing of his early period'