Travelers on the Sands near Redcar, 1838

Not on View

Medium

watercolor with gouache over graphite with scratching out

Dimensions

overall: 49.1 x 71.4 cm (19 5/16 x 28 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2007.28.1

Artists / Makers

Peter De Wint (artist) British, 1784 - 1849

Image Use

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Provenance

Probably Lord Cavendish. Captain Charles Meeking, London, 1880s.[1] (sale, Thierry de Maigret, 17 March 2004, no. 20). (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); purchased 2007 by NGA.

[1] The first two owners here depend on the identification of this watercolor as the Holkar Sands exhibited in 1834 at the Old Watercolor Society (see Hammond Smith, Peter DeWint, 1784 - 1849, London, 1982: 133, and dealer notes in file).

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Thierry de Maigret

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 91.

Bibliography

2008: Wilcox, Timothy. "DeWint Discoveries." Apollo (April 2008), 52-53, fig. 9 (as Distant View of Redcar).