Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (1785-1841)

Sketch for The Cottage Toilet

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Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (1785-1841)
Sketch for The Cottage Toilet
pen and brown ink, with fragmentary watermark
3 x 4.3/8 in. (8.9 x 11.1 cm.)
Provenance
with Anthony Reed, London.

Lot Essay

This drawing appears to relate to the oil painting The Cottage Toilet, in the Wallace Collection, London (see J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures, London, 1985, p. 193, no. P352). The painting was executed in 1824. Another drawing has been identified as a preliminary study for the painting was sold at Sotheby's London, 24 November 1977, lot 95.

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