Lot Essay
George Simon Harcourt took drawing lessons from Alexander Cozens and was a pupil, friend and patron of Paul Sandby, whose influence is clearly in evidence in the works offered above.
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View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; View of the ruins of the kitchen at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; View of the ruins of the kitchen and part of the offices at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; and A landscape with travellers in a horse and cart
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George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt (1736-1809)
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; View of the ruins of the kitchen at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; View of the ruins of the kitchen and part of the offices at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; and A landscape with travellers in a horse and cart
black ink and watercolour, varnished, oval, in English period gilt frames
17½ x 21½ in. (44.5 x 54.7 cm.) (4)
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; View of the ruins of the kitchen at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; View of the ruins of the kitchen and part of the offices at Stanton Harcourt in the county of Oxford; and A landscape with travellers in a horse and cart
black ink and watercolour, varnished, oval, in English period gilt frames
17½ x 21½ in. (44.5 x 54.7 cm.) (4)
Literature
The first three were engraved and published in the Society of Antiquaries, 1785, plates II, III & IV.
George Simon Harcourt, Ruins of Stanton Harcourt, 1763.
George Simon Harcourt, An account of the Church at Stanton Harcourt, 1808.
George Simon Harcourt, Ruins of Stanton Harcourt, 1763.
George Simon Harcourt, An account of the Church at Stanton Harcourt, 1808.
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