View of Liverpool Waterworks, Rivington Valley, Lancashire

Details

Frederick William Hulme (Swinton, Yorkshire 1816-1884 London)
View of Liverpool Waterworks, Rivington Valley, Lancashire
inscribed 'Liverpool water works/Rivington Water' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, on paper
10 1/8 x 18½ in. (25.8 x 47 cm.); A view of Shoreham; and An extensive landscape, both by other hands (3)

Provenance

the first, with Michael Ingram.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

The waterworks, 25 miles from Liverpool, were constructed between 1850 and 1857. The present drawing must date from circa 1856-7. It is a study for Frederick Hulme's oil painting Rivington Valley, now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The picture was published as a chromolithograph in 1857, the year in which the waterworks project was completed. A much larger oil version of the painting was commissioned in 1872 (Bolton Art Gallery).

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