John Robert Cozens
London and the Thames from Greenwich

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Artist John Robert Cozens British, 1752–1797

CultureBritish

Titles

London and the Thames from Greenwich

Date1792

Place depictedLondon, United Kingdom

MediumWatercolor over graphite on laid paper

DimensionsImage: 14 3/8 × 20 5/8 in. (36.5 × 52.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Amy M. Purvis

Object number2016.345

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Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenancePrivate collection, Yorkshire, until circa 1956, [Agnew's, London, c. 1956-57]; purchased by H.G. Balfour, 1957; thence by family descent, until 1995; [Leger Galleries, London, c. 1995-1996]; purchased by Sir Edwin Manton (1909-2005), 1996; possibly [London, Sotheby’s, “Old Master & British Drawings including French Masterworks from the Dormeuil Collection,” July 3, 2013, lot 174]; gifted to Judy Caruso, New York, to 2015; [Lowell Libson Ltd., London], by 2016; purchased by the MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Agnew's, Annual Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings, 1957, no. 32.
Francis Hawcroft, Watercolours by John Robert Cozens, London 1971, p. 34, under no. 9; Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, exh. cat., New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 1980, p. 51, under no. 137.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed in watercolor, below image, left: Jn. Cozens 1792
Recto of handcolored mount: Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: J.R. Cozens 1792
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