Thomas Girtin
Wetherby Bridge and Mills, Yorkshire, Looking Across the Weir

ArtistBritish, 1775–1802
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Wetherby Bridge and Mills, Yorkshire, Looking Across the Weir
Datec. 1800
Place depictedYorkshire, United Kingdom
MediumWatercolor over graphite on laid paper
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 12 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (31.8 × 52.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Bonner Means Baker Moffitt and her family
Object number2016.302
Non exposé

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ProvenanceArthur Thomas Keen (1861–1918); then by descent to Francis Watkins Keen (c. 1864–1933; by descent to C. A. Keen; [his sale, Sotheby’s London, Fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Drawings and Watercolours, April 20, 1972, lot 57, pl. VI (as A Riverside Town)]; purchased by Edward Fremantle, 1972–d. 1984; [his sale, Christie’s, London, Important English Drawings and Watercolours, November 20, 1984, lot 102 (as A Chapel and Bridge at Wetherby, Yorkshire)]; purchased by Robert Tear, 1984; purchased by Robert Tear (1939–2011), 1984–d. 2011; [his posthumous sale, Sotheby’s, Old Master & British Drawings, July 9, 2014, lot 188]; [Lowell Libson, Ltd., London, 2014-2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryDavid Hill, Thomas Girtin, Genius in the North, exhibition catalogue, Yorkshire (Harewood Hose), 1999, p. 42, no. 23
Greg Smith, ed., Thomas Girtin: The Art of Watercolour, exhibition catalogue, London (Tate), 2002, p. 172

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