The Commercial Traveller in an Inn, Lancaster
The Commercial Traveller in an Inn, Lancaster
David Cox (1783-1859)
The Commercial Traveller in an Inn, Lancaster
Watercolour over traces of pencil
26.3 by 17.8 cm., 10 1/2 by 7 1/4 in.
Provenance:
Philip H. Rathbone, 1890;
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 21st November 1978, lot 117
Exhibited:
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Grand Loan Exhibition of Pictures, 1886, no.1105;
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Works by David Cox, 1890, no. 260
Literature:
Whitworth Wallis and Arthur Bensley Chamberlain, Catalogue of a Special Collection of Works by David Cox, 1890, no. 260, p. 44
The Birmingham exhibition catalogue of 1890 dates from this drawing to 1840 and describes it as `Painted in the Coffee Room of an Inn at Lancaster.' Lancaster in 1840'
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