Primrose Hill, London
Primrose Hill, London
Primrose Hill, LondonInscribed verso: Primrose Hill coloured on the spot by/Girtinwatercolour over pencil on oatmeal paper19.7 by 48.7 cm., 7 ¾ by 19 in.Provenance:With Colnaghi, London, 1947;Ray Livingston Murphy, New York, by 1950, his sale, Christie's, 19th November 1985, lot 35;Private Collection, London, until 2014Literature:T. Girtin and D. Loshak, The Art of Thomas Girtin, 1954, no. 416, p. 191Exhibited:New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Prospects, 1950, no. 18, pl. 9bThis is dateable to circa 1800, the year in which Girtin married Mary Ann Borrett and was living in his father-in-law's house at 11 Scott's Place, Islington. Primrose Hill was a rather neglected, undeveloped area owned by Eton College until it became Crown Property in 1842 and became an area for leisure and recreation.){kind=link}
Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
Primrose Hill, London
Inscribed verso: Primrose Hill coloured on the spot by/Girtin
watercolour over pencil on oatmeal paper
19.7 by 48.7 cm., 7 ¾ by 19 in.
Provenance:
With Colnaghi, London, 1947;
Ray Livingston Murphy, New York, by 1950, his sale, Christie's, 19th November 1985, lot 35;
Private Collection, London, until 2014
Literature:
T. Girtin and D. Loshak, The Art of Thomas Girtin, 1954, no. 416, p. 191
Exhibited:
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Prospects, 1950, no. 18, pl. 9b
This is dateable to circa 1800, the year in which Girtin married Mary Ann Borrett and was living in his father-in-law's house at 11 Scott's Place, Islington. Primrose Hill was a rather neglected, undeveloped area owned by Eton College until it became Crown Property in 1842 and became an area for leisure and recreation.