LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.76 in. (75.60 cm.) (height) by 41.73 in. (106.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'W. Turner Pinx. 1820' (lower right) and inscribed 'ENN[IS] CORK LIMERICK ENNIS CORK KILLLARNIS' (centre right, on the coach)

Exhibited:

(Possibly) Limerick, Brunswick Street, Mr. O'Connor's Exhibiton Room, October 1821, as 'The Market Place and Court House Ennis'. Cork, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Whipping the Herring: Survival and Celebration in Nineteenth Century Irish Art, 4 May-26 August 2006.

Literature:

B. O'Dalaigh, 'An Early Nineteenth Century Painting of Ennis', The Other Clare, X, 1986, p. 14. C. Kinmonth in Laffan, Painting Ireland, 2006, pp. 106-7, pl. 73.

Provenance:

with M. Newman, Ltd., London.