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JOHN SELL COTMAN (NORWICH 1782-1842 LONDON)

Lot 225
04.12.2024 16:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 60 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1344874
Lot 225 | JOHN SELL COTMAN (NORWICH 1782-1842 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 100 000
JOHN SELL COTMAN (NORWICH 1782-1842 LONDON)
View of Howth and Ireland's Eye
with inscription 'Property of Henry A Bulwer. / 5529 Balaclava S.t VANCOUVER.-British Columbia.' (on a fragment of an old mount attached to the backboard (overmounted)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, with flour paste and with scratching out, on wove paper
11 ¼ x 16 ¾ in. (28.7 x 42.7 cm.)




Provenance

Rev James Bulwer (1794-1879).
James Redfoord Bulwer Q.C. (1820-1900).
Walter Bulwer (brother of the above, died c. 1911).
His son, Henry Alan Bulwer.





Literature

Cotmania vol. II 1927-28 (Leeds City Art Gallery).
S. D. Kitson, The Life of John Sell Cotman, London, 1938, p. 346.
William S.A. Dale, ‘A portrait by Fred Sandys’, The Burlington Magazine vol. 1907, May 1965, p. 250.
Michael Pidgley, John Sell Cotman and the Romantic Subject Picture in the 1820s and 1830s, PhD, University of East Anglia, 1975, vol. 2, p. 24, n. 284.




Exhibited

Norwich Art Circle, Ninth Exhibition, 1888, Drawings by the late John Sell Cotman, no. 182 illustrated in the catalogue by lithograph by Charles Clowes.
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