Cookham on Thames
Cookham on Thames
Cookham on the ThamesWatercolour over traces of pencil on two sheets of paper joined15.5 by 47.4cm., 6 by 18 ½ in.Provenance:Harriet de Wint:By descent to Helen Tatlock;With Agnew's, London, by 1924;William Craig Henderson (1873-1959);By descent to the present ownerLiterature:A.P. Oppé, The Watercolours of Turner, Cox and De Wint, 1925, no.134, pl. XXXIVExhibited:London, Agnew's, Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings by Turner, Cox and De Wint, 1924, no.134;Lincoln, Usher Art Gallery, Peter de Wint, 1937, no.31The distinctive building in the distance may be Formosa Place, a gothic house built in 1785 by Sir George Young, Bart on the edge of the river on Formosa Island which is next to Cookham Lock. The house was demolished shortly after the Second World War.){kind=link}
Peter de Wint (1784-1849)
Cookham on the Thames
Watercolour over traces of pencil on two sheets of paper joined
15.5 by 47.4cm., 6 by 18 ½ in.
Provenance:
Harriet de Wint:
By descent to Helen Tatlock;
With Agnew's, London, by 1924;
William Craig Henderson (1873-1959);
By descent to the present owner
Literature:
A.P. Oppé, The Watercolours of Turner, Cox and De Wint, 1925, no.134, pl. XXXIV
Exhibited:
London, Agnew's, Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings by Turner, Cox and De Wint, 1924, no.134;
Lincoln, Usher Art Gallery, Peter de Wint, 1937, no.31
The distinctive building in the distance may be Formosa Place, a gothic house built in 1785 by Sir George Young, Bart on the edge of the river on Formosa Island which is next to Cookham Lock. The house was demolished shortly after the Second World War.