Early British Drawings, Watercolours and Portrait Miniatures

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Lot 138
  • 138

John Linnell

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • John Linnell
  • Entrance to Dovedale from Ashbourne, Derbyshire
  • signed l.r.: J. Linnell. 1814.; inscribed below: ENTRANCE TO DOVE DALE from Ashbourne.
  • pen and brown ink with watercolour over pencil, original wash-line mount
  • 28.3 by 41.5 cm.; 11 1/8 by 16 5/16 in.

Provenance

Samuel Bagster;
Benjamin Bagster;
Robert Hoe III

Catalogue Note

Linnell executed this watercolour during his summer tour of Hertford and Derbyshire of 1814. It might be suggested that he has depicted himself sketching in this composition. Linnell had been commissioned by the publisher Samuel Bagster (1772-1851) to provide illustrations for a revised edition of Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton's Compleat [sic] Angler, which had first been published as early as 1653. Other examples of watercolours from this tour can be seen in Katharine Crouan, John Linnell, A Centennial Exhibtion, 1982, p. 11-12, cat. no. 30-31.