Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

Water-Colour Drawings, Including a Small Collection, the Property of a Lady

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie’s, 31 May 1886

Lugt, Catalogues, no.45814

Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

'WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS'

  • 46 – ‘View of Melville Castle’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £7 17s 6d (TG1566)

‘The following are the Property of the Artist’s Granddaughter’ (Mary Hog Barnard (née Girtin) (1828–99))

‘T. GIRTIN’

  • 47 – ‘The Mouth of the Exe’. Bought by ‘Permain’ for £1 17s 6d (a note in the Girtin Archive records the price as 7 ½ guineas (Girtin.10))
  • 48 – ‘Rivaulx Abbey’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £25 4s (TG1057)
  • 49 – ‘Pinckney’s Farm, Radwinter, Essex’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £23 12s (TG1452)
  • 50 – ‘Gray’s Tomb, Stoke Poges Churchyard’. Bought by ‘Palser’ for £31 10s (TG1447)
  • 51 – ‘A View at Bromley’. Bought by ‘Murray’ for £5 5s
  • 52 – ‘A Castle on a Rock’. Bought by ‘Shelley’ for £3 13s
  • 53 – ‘A Church and Barn’. Bought by ‘Palser’ for £24 3s
  • 54 – ‘Crummock Water’. Bought by ‘Murray’ for £8 8s (TG1629)
  • 55 – ‘Lyme Regis’. Bought by ‘Do [ditto]’ for £7 17s (TG1250)
  • 56 – ‘Brechin Cathedral’. Bought by ‘Do [ditto]’ for £17 17s (TG0138)
  • 57 – ‘Crypt of Kirkstall’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £12 12s (TG1634)
  • 58 – ‘Southampton’. Bought by ‘Isaacs’ for £5 15s 6d (TG1236)

‘S. HOWITT AND T. GIRTIN’ (Samuel Howitt (1756–1822))

  • 59 – ‘Herne’s Oak, with deer’. Bought by ‘Palser’ for £25 4s (TG1371)
  • 60 – ‘A Landscape, with deer’. Bought by ‘Do [ditto]’ for £25 4s (TG1372)

‘The following are the Property of a LADY’

‘W. HOWITT and T. GIRTIN'

  • 108 – 'Fallow Deer in a Park’. Bought by ‘Elkins’ for £5 15s

'T. GIRTIN'

  • 109 – ‘A Priory near Dover’. Bought by ‘Murray’ for £6 16s

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