John Sell Cotman (Norwich 1782-1842 London)Chepstow Castle
inscribed and numbered 'Chepstow Castle/ 15' (on verso)
watercolour with stopping out
29.6 x 23.1cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/8in).注脚Provenance
Derek Clifford
With Stanhope Shelton, Suffolk (according to inscription on the reverse)
Sale, Bonhams, London, 12 June 2003, lot 629

Cotman set off for Wales from Bristol late in June 1800 making drawings of Caldicot, Chepstow and Goodrich castles before going on to Brecknock and Conway where he was to join Sir George Beaumont and a group of young artists he had gathered together to study landscape drawing. A pen and wash view of the river Wye at Chepstow by Cotman bearing the number '13' in brown ink verso was offered at Sotheby's on 13 March 1980, lot 64.