DAVID COX, SEN., O.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1783-1859)

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF NINA R. AND ARTHUR A. HOUGHTON, JR. (LOTS 94-97 AND 100-129)

DAVID COX, SEN., O.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1783-1859)

Calais beach with shrimpers and a dog

Details

DAVID COX, SEN., O.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1783-1859)
Calais beach with shrimpers and a dog
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out
6 x 8 ¾ in. (15.2 x 22.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Agnew's, London, where purchased for the present collection.

Literature

N. Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, London, 1873, p. 322.

Exhibited

London, Society of Painters in Watercolours, summer 1832, no. 304.

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay

This drawing dates from Cox's last trip to the Continent, when he concentrated his time on the three French ports of Calais, Boulogne, and Dieppe. Cox more frequently depicted shrimpers in Wales and the north of England in the latter part of the 1830s and into the 1840s.

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