Cayton Mill near Scarborough, Yorkshire

Cayton Mill near Scarborough, Yorkshire

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Francis Nicholson (1753-1844)
Cayton Mill near Scarborough, Yorkshire

Signed and inscribed on the original mount:
F. Nicholson 1793 and inscribed by the artist on the back of the original mount: F. Nicholson Knaresborough Yorkshire/or at No 58 Cornhill London and further: Miss Erskine with Mr Carr's Compts/Leeds 29 October 1793
Pen and black and ink and watercolour over pencil
23.5 by 32.8 cm., 9 ¼ by 13 in

Provenance:
Mr Carr, a Merchant, Leeds;
Given by him to Miss Erskine, 1793;
With Agnew's 2004;
Private Collection, UK, until 2011

Exhibited:
Add Agnew's exhibition 2004, no.10
Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole,
Francis Nicholson, March-May 2012

Cayton is a village on the coast four miles south of Scarborough. The mill at Cayton was still recorded in the 1850s but has long since disappeared.