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

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Lot 156
  • 156

Cornelius Varley 1781-1873

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Description

  • Cornelius Varley
  • A folio of drawings

  • four, two signed, three inscribed with titles and two dated, one: 1807 and the other: 1820

  • pencil
including views of a street in Llanllyfni Carnarvonshire, barns at Lowestoft, a wooden cart by a tree at Purton Stafford and horses pulling a log cart

Provenance

by descent to the grandson of the artist, Alfred Henry Varley;
Purchased from The Palser Gallery, London, 1950

Catalogue Note

Cornelius Varley visited North Wales in 1802 and 1803, firstly with his brother, John, and then with William Havell.  The drawing of Llanllyfni, Carnarvonshire included in the present lot is a study for a larger watercolour dating from either his 1802 or 1803 Welsh tour.