View of the Thames, from Somerset House with St Paul's Cathedral in the distance, London

Details

Francis Nicholson, O.W.S. (1753-1844)
View of the Thames, from Somerset House with St Paul's Cathedral in the distance, London
with signature and date 'F NICHOLSON 1794' (on the mount, lower left) and with inscription 'View on the Thames' (on the mount, lower centre) and with a further inscription 'View on the Thames, near Somerset House' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour, over etched outline
15 x 20 3/8 in. (38.1 x 51.7 cm.)

Exhibited

Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, A Peculiarly English Art, English Drawings and Watercolours, 20 August - 9 October 1994, no. 44.

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Lot Essay

Thomas Rowlandson executed a version of this view after Nicholson (see H. Mallalieu, Understanding Watercolours, London, 1985, p. 182). Other versions of this composition by Nicholson himself, which differ in the placement of the figures in the foreground, were sold Sotheby's, London, 4 May 1978, lot 137 and 7 July 1983, lot 41.

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