King's College, Cambridge

Details

Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
King's College, Cambridge
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
4 x 5 5/8 in. (10.2 x 14.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Leger Galleries, London.
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 25 October 1988, lot 141.

Literature

J. Reynolds, Birket Foster, London, 1984, p. 166, no. 99, illustrated.

Engraved

Some Places of Note in England, 1888, pl. 4.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present watercolour was the basis for the lithograph representing Cambridge in Birket Foster's Some Places of Note in England, published in 1888. Other sites depicted include Hampton Court, Hastings, and Lambeth Palace in Oxford. This view is typically rich in incident and detail, and shows King's College from King's Parade.

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