WILLIAM DAY (LONDON 1764-1807)

Dolmelynllyn Falls near Dolgellau, Wales

Details

WILLIAM DAY (LONDON 1764-1807)
Dolmelynllyn Falls near Dolgellau, Wales
signed and dated 'WDay/ 1792' (lower right)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper
13 3⁄8 x 18 5⁄8 in. (34 x 47.3 cm.)

Provenance

Unidentified British Collector (L.4781).

Literature

J. Egerton, 'William Day 1764-1807', The Connoisseur, July 1970, p. 181, pl. 8.

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Lot Essay

This drawing is stamped with a collectors mark composed of a leopard or a lion, with a banner beneath holding the motto 'Tenax in Fide' which translates as 'held in faith'. This motto seems to have belonged to Horace James Smith (1829-1907), later Bosanquet-Smith, and also to the Abel-Smith family, but it is not known to whose collecting it relates.

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