The Edge of a Wood, 1800/1801

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 10.9 × 14.2 cm (4 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
mount: 15.6 × 19.7 cm (6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone

Catalogue Raisonné

Girtin 2022, no. TG1774

Accession Number

2022.40.57

Artists / Makers

Thomas Girtin (artist) British, 1775 - 1802

Image Use

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Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 5 November 1952, no. 28). (Spink & Son Ltd., London, inv. no. K3/1336). (Agnew's, London, stock no. CM2831). Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Spink & Son Ltd.
Stone, Donald

Exhibition History

1992: Britihs Landscape Painting, Leger Galleries, London, 1992, no. 33.

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

2022: Greg Smith, "The Edge of a Wood", Thomas Girtin (1775–1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist, (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022), https://doi.org/10.17658/girtin/TG1774