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Lot Essay
For a note on Blackfriars Bridge, see lot 24.
Dayes was very much in demand by publishers to whom he supplied drawings for engraving. His best known designs were used in J. Walker's Copper Plate Magazine. A similar view to the present watercolour was engraved in 1796 by Walker for the The Itinerant. Dayes, the master of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), is considered one of the most elegant draughtsmen working in London at the end of the 18th century. He greatly influenced J.M.W. Turner, R.A. and much of Turner's early work is very close in style to the watercolours of Dayes.
Dayes was very much in demand by publishers to whom he supplied drawings for engraving. His best known designs were used in J. Walker's Copper Plate Magazine. A similar view to the present watercolour was engraved in 1796 by Walker for the The Itinerant. Dayes, the master of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), is considered one of the most elegant draughtsmen working in London at the end of the 18th century. He greatly influenced J.M.W. Turner, R.A. and much of Turner's early work is very close in style to the watercolours of Dayes.