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 parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Baker, Jr.
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 (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 HistoryThomas Girtin, Genuis in the North, Leeds: Harewood House Trust, 1999, 42, cat. 23 (exh. cat. by David Hill).

Lowell Libson Ltd British Art, British Art: Recent Acquisitions. London: Lowell Libson British Art, 2015, 2015, 70-73.

Thomas Girtin: The Art of Watercolor. Exh. cat. London: Tate Gallery, 2002, 172, cat. 133. (exh. cat. by Smith, Greg, ed.).
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Catalogue raisonnéSmith, Greg. Thomas Girtin (1775-1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022, cat. TG1642.
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