John Linnell the Elder
Shoreham, Kent

CultureBritish
Titles
  • Shoreham, Kent
Datec. 1828
Place depictedShoreham, Kent, England
MediumGraphite, white chalk, and watercolor on buff wove paper
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 11 × 17 3/8 in. (27.9 × 44.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Cecily E. Horton
Object number2016.318
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; by descent in the family; [Sotheby’s, London, April 14, 1994, lot 339]; Mrs. T.S. (Valerie) Eliot (1926-2012) collection; [her sale, Christie’s, London, “A Life’s Devotion the Collection of the late Mrs. T.S. Eliot,” Volume II, November 20, 2013, lot 283]; purchased by Cecily Horton, Houston, 2013-2016; given to MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryP. & D. Colnaghi, John Linnell and his Circle, London, January—February 1973, no. 66.
City Library, Salisbury, John Linnell, 1977, no. 6.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, John Linnell, October 1982—March 1983, no. 65.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and inscribed, lower right: J Linnell / Shoreham / Kent
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Recto: Signed and inscribed, lower right: J Linnell / Shoreham / Kent
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