Lot 220
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William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932)
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William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932)

Mont Blanc; The Matterhorn

Details
William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932)
Mont Blanc; The Matterhorn
signed with monogram and dated 'WC 1870'
pencil and watercolour on paper
7 3/8 x 5 5/16in. (18.7 x 13.5cm.) (2)
Provenance
The artist, and thence by descent.
with The Maas Gallery, London.
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Sale room notice
The artist should read Attributed to William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932). An attribution to his father William Collingwood (1819-1903) has also been suggested.

Lot Essay

A pupil of Ruskin at Oxford, and later his secretary, neighbour in Cumbria and biographer, Collingwood accompanied his father on sketching tours from an early age. The present two early works presumably juvenilia from these first excursions. For a later work by Collingwood, see lot 244.

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