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Old Master and British Works on Paper Online
THOMAS PECKHAM | Elegant figures resting by a river, possibly Ivy Bridge, Devon
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September 20, 03:29 PM GMT
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THOMAS PECKHAM
London 1758-1807
Elegant figures resting by a river, possibly Ivy Bridge, Devon
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with black ink and bodycolour;
signed lower left: T. Peckham / 1791.
382 by 507 mm (drawing)
507 by 634 mm (mount)
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With Agnew's, London, by 1974;
acquired by Walter Brandt (1902-1978);
by family descent until the present owner
Thomas Peckham was 'a draughtsman at the Tower of London from 1780. He is also known to have taught at the Addiscombe Military College and at Woolwich from 1790. By 1802 he had been appointed second assistant at the Tower'.1
1. H. Mallalieu, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920, London, 1988, p. 97