Furness Abbey, 1777

Not on View

Medium

graphite and pen and gray ink with gray wash on light tan laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 18.2 x 27.2 cm (7 3/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.138

Artists / Makers

Thomas Hearne (artist) British, 1744 - 1817

Image Use

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Inscription

by artist's hand? on mount, lower right verso in gray ink: North Aspect Furness Abbey 1777; by later hand on mount, upper left verso in graphite: 10; by later hand on mount, center verso in graphite: 4065

Provenance

(Appleby Bros. Ltd., London, by 1961); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1961; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Appleby Bros. Ltd.
McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

1961: Spring Exhibition, Appleby Bros. Ltd., London, 1961, no. 60.

1974: British Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the J.F. McCrindle collection, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1974, no 8.

Bibliography

2012: Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 169 (color).