John Robert Cozens 1752-1799

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Description

John Robert Cozens
Between Lauterbrunn and Grindelwald
inscribed with title on a fragment of the original label attached to the backboard
watercolour over pencil with pen and grey ink and grey wash, on laid paper
23.7 by 35.8 cm.; 9 1/4 by 14 1/4 in.

Provenance

Richard Payne Knight;
The Hon. Rowland Allanson-Winn;
Herbert Horne;
Edward Marsh;
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 19 November 1992, lot 42

Exhibited

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1916, no. 77

Literature

C.F. Bell & T. Girtin, 'The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens,' The Walpole Society, vol. XXIII, 1935, no. 19, I.

Catalogue Note

This view looks along the river Schwarze Lutschine towards the Mettenberg, Switzerland. There is a second, larger version of this composition, signed and dated 1778, formerly in the collection of William Esdale (Bell & Girtin, lit. op. cit., no. 19, II). Two other, slightly different versions of the subject are known, one in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (Dyce Bequest, 1869, D. 711) and the other in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (A.E. Anderson Gift, 1922; see Bell & Girtin, Lit. op. cit., no. 18 I & II).

Two other views from this journey were sold in these Rooms on 13th July 1989, 'Near Sallanches in Savoy' (lot 114, £14,000) and 'Mont Blanc from the Arve near Sallanches' (lot 116, £39,000).