Lot Essay
Kim Sloan (op. cit.) suggests that the present watercolour was possibly intended as an exhibition piece, datable to the mid 1760s.
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A landscape with men bathing and a ruined tower beyond
Details
Alexander Cozens (1717-1786)
A landscape with men bathing and a ruined tower beyond
pen and brown ink and watercolour
12¼ x 17¼ in. (31.1 x 43.8 cm.)
A landscape with men bathing and a ruined tower beyond
pen and brown ink and watercolour
12¼ x 17¼ in. (31.1 x 43.8 cm.)
Provenance
with Agnew's, London.
Literature
K. Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens - The Poetry of Landscape, 1986, p. 40, pl. 50.
Exhibited
London, Victoria & Albert Museum and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, 1986-7, no. 50.
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