Lot 133: SIR JAMES THORNHILL 1675-1734

A CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE SEEN THROUGH AN ARCH

A CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE SEEN THROUGH AN ARCH

measurements note
22 by 28 cm., 8 3/4 by 11 in.

pen and brown ink with watercolour over pencil

PROVENANCE

Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a)

EXHIBITED

London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Loan Exhibition of English Drawings and Watercolours in Memory of the Late D.C.T.Baskett, July - August 1963;
London, Guildhall, Sir James Thornhill, 1958, no.90

NOTE

The present work compares closely to Thornhill's classical landscape designs for wall decorations, now in the British Museum (see Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin working in Great Britain, 1907, p. 186, nos. 50-53)