Stags in Knole Park, Kent
1839
Artist, British, 1769 - 1844
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin
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Dimensions
sheet: 38 × 50 cm (14 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2019.62.2
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
by the artist at lower right, R. Hills 1839; by later hand, center verso in graphite: Hills, No. 20