Fishermen on the Thames at Bugsby's Reach, Blackwall
Fishermen on the Thames at Bugsby's Reach, Blackwall
Fishermen on the Thames at Bugsby's Reach, BlackwallSigned lower left: D. CoxWatercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour18.7 by 25.3 cm., 7 ¼ by 10 in.Provenance: Bearne's Auctioneers, Torquay, 1984;With Anthony Reed, London, 1986;With Lowell Libson Ltd, London, 2006; Christopher Cone, his sale, `A Green and Pleasant Land - Two Centuries of British Landscape Painting', Sotheby's, London, 22nd May 2014, lot 114, where bought by the present owner Bugsby's Reach is a stretch of the river east of the City of London near Greenwich. In the distance are visible the towers of Greenwich Hospital. Cox drew a number of similar watercolours of fishermen on the Thames in the late 1820s and early 1830s.){kind=link}
David Cox (1783-1859)
Fishermen on the Thames at Bugsby's Reach, Blackwall
Signed lower left: D. Cox
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour
18.7 by 25.3 cm., 7 ¼ by 10 in.
Provenance:
Bearne's Auctioneers, Torquay, 1984;
With Anthony Reed, London, 1986;
With Lowell Libson Ltd, London, 2006;
Christopher Cone, his sale, `A Green and Pleasant Land - Two Centuries of British Landscape Painting', Sotheby's, London, 22nd May 2014, lot 114, where bought by the present owner
Bugsby's Reach is a stretch of the river east of the City of London near Greenwich. In the distance are visible the towers of Greenwich Hospital. Cox drew a number of similar watercolours of fishermen on the Thames in the late 1820s and early 1830s.