Lot Essay
The present work depicts the lighthouse known as Smeaton's Tower, which marked the dangerous Eddystone Rocks southwest of Plymouth in Cornwall from 1759-1882.
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED WEST COAST COLLECTION
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
Eddystone Light
Details
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
Eddystone Light
signed indistinctly 'WT Richards' (lower left)—signed again 'William T Richards' and inscribed with title (on a label affixed to the reverse)
gouache on paper laid down on board
23 x 36 in. (58.4 x 91.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1880.
Eddystone Light
signed indistinctly 'WT Richards' (lower left)—signed again 'William T Richards' and inscribed with title (on a label affixed to the reverse)
gouache on paper laid down on board
23 x 36 in. (58.4 x 91.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1880.
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, by 2001.
Literature
J. Vigué, Great Masters of American Art, New York, 2004, p. 251, illustrated.
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