View of the Needles, and White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay, Isle of Wight
1772/1781
Artist, British, 1729 - 1817

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor with pen and ink over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 36.2 x 50.4 cm (14 1/4 x 19 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2006.9.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collector GKH (not in Lugt). (sale, Bonhams London, 8 March 2005, no. 26); (Lowell Libson Ltd., London); purchased 2006 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
Watercolours and Drawings, Lowell Libson Ltd., London, 2005, no. 10.
2008
Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 58.
Inscriptions
lower center in brown ink: View of the Needles, & White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 2; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 5
Wikidata ID
Q64536185