Boats, on the Thames, off Greenwich

Boats, on the Thames, off Greenwich

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David Cox (1783-1859)
Boats, on the Thames, off Greenwich

Signed lower left: D. Cox. 1828
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour and scratching out
12.4 by 17.6cm., 4 ¾ by 6 ¾ in.

This may be the watercolour of this title exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-colours in 1829, no.321. Cox exhibited a number of views on the Thames in the late 1820s. He returned to live in London, from Hereford, in 1827 and remained there until 1841 when he returned to Birmingham.