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THOMAS ROWLANDSON | Market day in a country town, possibly Brackley, Northamptonshire

Lot Closed

September 20, 03:56 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

THOMAS ROWLANDSON

London 1756 - 1827

Market day in a country town, possibly Brackley, Northamptonshire

Pen and brown ink with watercolour over traces of pencil

185 by 289 mm (drawing)

304 by 400 mm (mount)

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Lieutenant-Colonel Gould Read Hunter-Weston (1823-1904);

sale, London, Christie's, 22 March 1957, lot 63;

acquired by Walter Brandt (1902-1978);

by family descent until the present owner

It has been suggest that this watercolour depicts the town of Brackley, Northamptonshire. Brackley's market hall was built between 1704 and 1707. Rowlandson produced watercolours of Brackley on more than one occasion. One such example exists in a private collection, Northamptonshire, while another was formerly in the collection of J. Leslie Wright.