Lot Essay
The published work of soft ground etchings was presented by the artist to Mrs. Dawson Turner, the wife of Cotman's Yarmouth patron, see S. Kitson, The Live of John Sell Cotman, London, 1937, pp. 136-7.
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Millbank on the Thames
Details
John Sell Cotman (1782-1842)
Millbank on the Thames
signed and dated 'J.S. Cotman. 1814' (lower left)
pencil, unframed
6 x 9 in. (15.9 x 24.1 cm.)
Millbank on the Thames
signed and dated 'J.S. Cotman. 1814' (lower left)
pencil, unframed
6 x 9 in. (15.9 x 24.1 cm.)
Provenance
Norman Baker Esq.
with Michael Spratt, Guildford.
with Michael Spratt, Guildford.
Engraved
J.S. Cotman, Etchings in soft ground, for the most part unpublished, by J.S. Cotman of Yarmouth, made during the years 1814-17, no. 14.
H.G. Bohn, Liber Studiorum, 1838, no. 8 (Popham, no. 303).
H.G. Bohn, Liber Studiorum, 1838, no. 8 (Popham, no. 303).