Lot 139: CORNELIUS VARLEY

CORNELIUS VARLEY 1781 - 1873 TALSARNAU, NORTH WALES pen and brown ink and brown wash over pencil on wove paper. Together with Cornelius Varley, A Boat Ashore; Foliage Studies ( verso ), wash over pencil on wove paper, signed C Varley lower left. 2 works . the first 10 1/4 by 14 7/8 in.; the second 4 1/8 by 4 1/2 in. 27.4 by 37.7 cm; 10.5 by 11.5 cm

The first: New York, Davis Gallery, Nineteenth-Century English Watercolors and Drawings, 1969, no. 47
Morgan 2001, no 63
Yale 2010, no. 49
The second: London, Lowell Libson, Cornelius Varley; The Art of Observation, June-July 2005, no. 74
Yale 2010, no. 116

Engraved:
The second: Lithographed by J. and C. Varley for Shipping, Fishing Boats and other Vessels, 1809

Denis Thomas and Ian Bennett, The Price Guide to English Watercolours, 1971, p. 307

The first: John Herbert Roberts, 1υst Baron Clwyd (1877-1963)
Sir Bruce Ingram (L. 1405a)
Manning Galleries, London
David Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above, 1969
The second: Lowell Libson, London
Acquired from the above, 2005