LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour over pencil

Measurements:

12.40 in. (31.50 cm.) (height) by 15.35 in. (39.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed l.c.: Edwd. Dayes. 1788

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the J. Leslie Wright Collection of Masters of British Water-Colour (17th-18th Centuries), 1949; Worthing, City Art Gallery, English Watercolour Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Cecil Keith, 1963, no. 32; London, Agnew's, The Watercolour Collection formed by Mrs Cecil Keith, 1 - 25 May 1984, no. 14

Literature:

J. Dayes, 'Edward Dayes 1763 - 1804', The Old Water Colour Society's Club, Vol XXXIX, 1964, pl.XXVII; M. Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in Britain, 1966, vol I, pl. 193

Provenance:

with the Fine Art Society, London by 1946; J. Leslie Wright, by 1949; with Agnew's, London by 1981; Mrs Cecil Keith until sold Sotheby's London, 12 March 1987, lot 84