Lot 203
  • 203

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN SELL COTMAN | The Fishermen

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • The Fishermen
  • Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil, heightened with scratching out, stopping out and gum arabic
  • 150 by 220 mm

Provenance

With Agnew's, Manchester, by 1926,
by whom sold to the Rev. R.E.T. Allen 

Exhibited

Manchester, Whitworth Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by J.R. Cozens and J.S. Cotman, 1937, unnumbered

Condition

This watercolour is in superb condition. The colours are fresh and strong.
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