David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)

Dudley Castle from the Birmingham road

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David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Dudley Castle from the Birmingham road
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper
4¾ x 7¼ in. (12 x 18.4 cm.)

Exhibited

London, W/S Fine Art, Winter 2007, no. 47.
London, W/S Fine Art, Summer 2008, no. 29.

Engraved

William Radclyffe for Eight Views of Dudley Castle and the Limestone Caverns, 25 March 1831, reissued as the frontispiece to William Hawkes Smith's Dudley Castle: an Historical and Descriptive Account of Dudley Castle in the County of Worcester, 1836.

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Lot Essay

William Hawkes Smith (1786-1840), who published the present watercolour, was a Birmingham economic and educational reformer. He may be the 'Mr Smith' of Birmingham to whom Cox sold five watercolours and 'half a dozen Sepia Drawings' in 1812 (N.N. Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, 1873, p. 24). Cox and William Radclyffe had been fellow pupils of the artist Joseph Barber (1757?-1811) in Birmingham and the two younger artists remained friends.

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