THOMAS GIRTIN (LONDON 1775-1802)

Lot 94
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Lot 94 | THOMAS GIRTIN (LONDON 1775-1802)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
THOMAS GIRTIN (LONDON 1775-1802)

Melrose Abbey, Scotland

pencil and watercolour

11 3⁄4 x 13 in. (29.8 x 33 cm.)





Provenance

James Moore (1762-99) and by descent to his widow

Mary Moore (née Howett) (d.1835), by whom bequeathed to

Anne Miller (1802-90), by whom bequeathed to

Edward Mansel Miller (1829-1912), by whom bequeathed to

Helen Louisa Miller (1842-1915).

with Leggatt Brothers, London, 1916.

with The Fine Art Society, London,1946, where purchased by

Paul Tod; Christie's, 25 May 1956, lot 54 (52 gns to the Fine Art Society)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 10 July 1980, lot 121 (as by Edward Dayes).

Anonymous sale; Christie's, 18 November 1980, lot 22.

with Martyn Gregory, London.

F. Alan Cummings, Tallahassee, Florida.



Literature

T. Girtin and D. Loshak, The Art of Thomas Girtin, London, 1954, p.138, no. 37 as 'Melrose Abbey, Roxburgh … 1793 …copied with minor variations from a water-colour’ by Edward Dayes’.
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