View on Loch Torridon under Ben Shieldaig, Scotland
View on Loch Torridon under Ben Shieldaig, Scotland
View on Loch Torridon under Ben Shieldaig, ScotlandSigned lower left: George A. Fripp and signed on old label attached to the backboard: No 4/On the West Coast/of Scotland./George FrippWatercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour36.3 by 51.2 cm., 14 1/2 by 20 1/4 in.Provenance:Christie's, 12th November 1963, ?? - 450 NJ - checkExhibited:London, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1877, no. 20 as `On the West Coast of Scotland'This watercolour is accompanied by a letter written by the artist to the buyer of the picture in 1877: `Dear Sir/I made the drawing which you purchased at the summer Exhibition in a bay on Loch Torridon, under Ben Shieldaig. The little ruined Tower I added to the scene that was from another Loch in Argyllshire. I trust the drawing continues to give you pleasure/I remain dear Sir/faithfully yours/George Fripp'){kind=link}
George Arthur Fripp, R.W.S. (1813-1896)
View on Loch Torridon under Ben Shieldaig, Scotland
Signed lower left: George A. Fripp and signed on old label attached to the backboard: No 4/On the West Coast/of Scotland./George Fripp
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour
36.3 by 51.2 cm., 14 1/2 by 20 1/4 in.
Provenance:
Christie's, 12th November 1963, ?? - 450 NJ - check
Exhibited:
London, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1877, no. 20 as `On the West Coast of Scotland'
This watercolour is accompanied by a letter written by the artist to the buyer of the picture in 1877: `Dear Sir/I made the drawing which you purchased at the summer Exhibition in a bay on Loch Torridon, under Ben Shieldaig. The little ruined Tower I added to the scene that was from another Loch in Argyllshire. I trust the drawing continues to give you pleasure/I remain dear Sir/faithfully yours/George Fripp'
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