John Scarlett Davis 1804-1844

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Description

John Scarlett Davis
A folio of drawings and watercolours
twelve, five signed, six inscribed, three dated between 1831 and 1832 and one numbered l.r.: 150
five watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour, five pencil and two brown wash over pencil, one on grey paper, one with a drawing of cottages dated 1944 attached to the same mount, fourteen with watermarks

including views of Hotel de Cluny Paris, Antwerp, a cottage at Bolton, the interior of Hereford Cathedral, the interior of a cathedral, interior of the church of St James Antwerp, figures worshipping in a church in Antwerp, Carnarvon Castle, a continental street scene, a church interior, a graveyard, Hereford Cathedral, near the Hotel de Ville Antwerp, Greenwich Hospital and others

Provenance

Paul Oppe, from whom acquired by Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a) (The Interior of Hereford Cathedral; A Church Interior);
Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a) (Near the Hotel de Ville Antwerp; Hotel de Cluny; Interior of the church of St James' s; A Continental Street Scene)
the remaining six in the folio from the collections of L.G. Duke, Lord Farnborough and other sources