Stags in Knole Park, Kent, 1839

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 38 × 50 cm (14 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin

Accession Number

2019.62.2

Artists / Makers

Robert Hills (artist) British, 1769 - 1844

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist at lower right, R. Hills 1839; by later hand, center verso in graphite: Hills, No. 20

Provenance

presumably John Garle, F.S.A. (the artist's executor); by descent to Mrs. Lavinia Garle. (Thos. Agnew and Sons, London). (John Nicholsons Fine Art Auctioneer, Haslemere, Surrey, 23 November 2016, no. 221); private collection; (Guy Peppiatt Fine Arts Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Garle, John
Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Exhibition History

1970: 97th Exhibition of Watercolours, Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, 1970, no. 93.

1977: 104th Exhibition of Watercolours, Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, 1977, no. 88.

2018: One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours, Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London, 2018-2019, no. 35.

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