View of the Needles, and White Cliffs Taken from Allum Bay, Isle of Wight, 1772/1781

Not on View

Medium

watercolor with pen and ink over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 36.2 x 50.4 cm (14 1/4 x 19 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2006.9.1

Artists / Makers

Anthony Devis (artist) British, 1729 - 1817

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Lowell Libson, Ltd.

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.