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Lot Essay
This drawing, executed on a small scale, relates to the group of works in the British Museum (TB CCCLXXIX), discussed in detail in the article by A. Wilton, 'The 'Monro School' Question: Some Answers', Turner Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 11-14.
Andrew Wilton, loc.cit. states that both Turner and Girtin seem to have been employed in making a long series of small watercolours in about 1797, perhaps for a publication in a projected topographical work for Dr Thomas Monro, the more likely since very many of them were included in the Monro sale at Christie's, 1833.
Andrew Wilton, loc.cit. states that both Turner and Girtin seem to have been employed in making a long series of small watercolours in about 1797, perhaps for a publication in a projected topographical work for Dr Thomas Monro, the more likely since very many of them were included in the Monro sale at Christie's, 1833.