Old Master Drawings

Old Master Drawings

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Property of a gentleman

Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.

The River Washburn, near Lindley Bridge, Yorkshire

Auction Closed

January 27, 05:29 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a gentleman

Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.

London 1775 - 1851

The River Washburn, near Lindley Bridge, Yorkshire


Watercolor over pencil, heightened with bodycolor and scratching out on gray paper

329 by 441 mm; 13 by 17 1/8 in

Walter Ramsden Hawksworth Fawkes (1769-1825);
by descent to Reverend Walter Hawksworth Fawkes (d. 1936);
his executor's sale, London, Christie’s, 2 July 1937, lot 54, bt. Allon Dawson;
by descent to the present owner
A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Watercolour Drawings and Sketches in Watercolour by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. in the Possession of F.H. Fawkes, 1850 (as 'Guy Barn, Bank and Ford' - not numbered);
A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg, 1979, p. 372, no. 624;
D. Hill, Turner in Yorkshire, York, 1980, p. 47, under no. 69