Lot Essay
Langley executed two watercolours of this subject in 1881, the present work and a similar in landscape format.
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Gossip
Details
Walter Langley (1852-1922)
Gossip
signed 'W Langley' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
16½ x 10 in. (41.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1881
Gossip
signed 'W Langley' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
16½ x 10 in. (41.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1881
Provenance
David Hedges, 1899.
Literature
R. Langley, Walter Langley Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony, Bristol, 1997, p.155.
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1881, £30.
Nottingham, Castle Museum, Special Exhibition of Paintings by Cornish Painters, 1894 (not traced).
Birmingham, Royal Society of Artists, 73rd Autumn Exhibition, 1899, no.539.
Nottingham, Castle Museum, Special Exhibition of Paintings by Cornish Painters, 1894 (not traced).
Birmingham, Royal Society of Artists, 73rd Autumn Exhibition, 1899, no.539.