Somerset House and the City of London from the Thames
Somerset House and the City of London from the Thames
Somerset House and the City of London from the ThamesInscribed upper centre: Somerset HouseWatercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour on laid paper watermarked J WHATMANProvenance:Private Collection, LondonMichael Liversidge has dated this drawing to to the late 1780s or early 1790s. It relates to three sketches of Somerset House in the British Museum volume of London views by Marlow (1877-8-11), two of which are particularly close to the present drawing, one in pen and ink and one pen and grey wash. The latter is on the same sheet as study for a painting `The Adelphi with York Water Tower looking towards Westminster' (Government Art Collection). A related oil `Somerset House from the Thames' is in the collection of the Earl of Rosebery.){kind=link}
William Marlow (1740-1813)
Somerset House and the City of London from the Thames
Inscribed upper centre: Somerset House
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour on laid paper watermarked J WHATMAN
Provenance:
Private Collection, London
Michael Liversidge has dated this drawing to to the late 1780s or early 1790s. It relates to three sketches of Somerset House in the British Museum volume of London views by Marlow (1877-8-11), two of which are particularly close to the present drawing, one in pen and ink and one pen and grey wash. The latter is on the same sheet as study for a painting `The Adelphi with York Water Tower looking towards Westminster' (Government Art Collection). A related oil `Somerset House from the Thames' is in the collection of the Earl of Rosebery.
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