John Sell Cotman (Norwich 1782-1842 London)


Rouen pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper23.8 x 18.5cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/16in).
|ProvenanceThe Collection of Mrs. Haldimand (as part of an album, formed in 1826, with assistance from the artist George Fennel Robson)Her estate sale, Christie's, London, 21 June 1861, lot 80, as 'the celebrated album of drawings by all the most celebrated painters living in the year 1826', where purchased byWith Agnew's, LondonWith Vokins, Gallery, London, where reacquired by The Haldimand Collection, by whom soldSale, Christie's, London, 18 March 1980, lot 216Sale, Christie's, London, 9 July 2009, lot 648ExhibitedLondon, Vokins Gallery, 1883London, Dulwich Picture Gallery , Cotman in Normandy, 10 October 2012- 13 January 2013, cat. no. 35 LiteratureT. Wilcox, Cotman in Normandy, London, 2012, exh. cat. ill. p. 99 and on the back cover