The Salmon Trap
The Salmon Trap
David Cox (1783-1859)
The Salmon Trap
Signed lower left: David Cox
Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with stopping out and gum arabic
52.3 by 74.9 cm., 20 3/4 by 29 1/2 in.
The 1890 exhibition catalogue dates this watercolour to 1850 and locates it as near Bettws-y-Coed.
check christie's sales/stencils: 217CO and 774 HT
Provenance:
Sir John Pender (1816-1896) by 1872, his sale, Christie's 29th May 1897, lot 1, bt Agnew's for 190 guineas;
With the Graves Gallery, Birmingham;
James Gresham, his sale, Christie's, 12th July 1917, lot 10, bt. Bowden for 60 guineas;
Anon sale, Christie's, 8th November 1946, lot 58;
By descent until 2015
Literature:
N. Neil Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, 1873, p. 280-1;
Whitworth Wallis and Arthur Bensley Chamberlain, Catalogue of a Special Collection of Works by David Cox, 1890, no. 214, p.39
Dimensions:
Sir John Pender (1816-1896) by 1872, his sale, Christie's 1897, lot ??, bt Agnew's for 190 guineas; With the Graves Gallery, Birmingham; Anon sale, Christie's, 8th November 1946, lot 58 - check; By descent until 2015
N. Neil Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, 1873, p. 280-1; Whitworth Wallis and Arthur Bensley Chamberlain, Catalogue of a Special Collection of Works by David Cox, 1890, no. 214, p.39