The Ingram Collection - Drawings from the Collection of the late Michael Ingram

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Lot 120
  • 120

Charles Gore 1729-1807

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Description

  • Charles Gore
  • Shipping off Elsinore, Denmark
  • signed l.r.: ChGore 1792
  • pen and brown and grey ink with watercolour over pencil on laid paper, watermarked

Provenance

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, from whom purchased by Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1406a), 1937

Catalogue Note

Elsinore is a seaport of Denmark, on the island of Zealand and on the western shore of the Sound.  It was here that Shakespeare set the scene for Hamlet