John White Abbott
On Windermere near Lowwood

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Artist John White AbbottBritish, 1764–1851

CultureBritish

Titles

On Windermere near Lowwood

Date1791

Place depictedUnited Kingdom

MediumPen and ink and watercolor over trace of graphite on wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.8 × 23.8 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Barbara Ivy Jogerst

Object number2019.192

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe artist; [Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London, Inv. no. 14336, possibly in the early 1980s]; James and Audrey Flannery, St. John’s Wood, London, UK, sometime between the late 1970s and 2005 (1); by descent, until 2018; [Karen Taylor Fine Art, 2018–2019]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.

(1) The Flannery collection was assembled by James and Audrey Flannery who lived in St. John’s Wood, London. Irish by birth, James Flannery was a consultant surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London and also had a Harley Street practice. They started collecting in the 1970s and continued until he died in 2005. They mainly took advice on purchases from the late Andrew Wyld.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Verso: Label in pen and ink, attached to backboard, upper right corner: On Winandermere [sic] near Lowwood. / JWA. July 16.1791.

Verso: Inscribed in graphite[?]: Near Low wood July 16/Evening light on the […?] from the Right [missing word may be “birches”] (Inscription is repeated in graphite, in a different hand, slightly lower down and towards the center of the sheet).

Recto: [none]
Verso: signed in ink, upper center of backboard, on mount: JWA. [cursive]

Recto: Label in printed ink, bottom center: Thos. Agnew & Sons. Ltd.. / No. 14336 / Fine Art Publishers to H.M. King George V / London, / 43, Old Bond Street, / Piccadilly, W.

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