Lot 180: RICHARD  PARKES  BONINGTON

ARNOLD  1801  -  1828  LONDON
STUDY  AFTER  THE  MONUMENT  TO  SIR  FRANCIS  VERE  (D.  1609),  WESTMINSTER  ABBEY
together  with  another  study  of  the  same  monument  by  Alexandre-Marie  Colin  (1798-1875)
Quantity: 2
The  first:  pen  and  brown  ink  over  traces  of  pencil;
inscribed,  verso:  after  Tomb  in  Westminster  abbey,.Sir  aubry  [sic]  de  Vere  /  R.  P.  Bonington  /  S.K.  Book;  unframed 
the  second:  pencil  on  prepared  paper;
inscribed,  lower  right:  Westminster;  unframed
The  first  146  by  196  mm;  the  second  230  by  147  mm

The first: London, The Alpine Gallery, Exhibition of Early English Watercolour, April 1971, un-numbered

The first: Reproduced, Burlington Magazine, March 1971, p. IXXXII;
P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, The Complete Drawings, Yale 2011, p. 119, no. 212;
the second: P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, The Complete Drawings, Yale 2011, p. 13, fig. 12

The first: with The Alpine Gallery, London, by 1971;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 June 1982, lot 569;
the second: sale, London Christie's, 5 March 1974, lot 84 (as by Richard Parkes Bonington)