An Extensive View in Shropshire

1803

Cornelius Varley

Associated Names
Cornelius Varley

Artist, British, 1781 - 1873

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Diane Allen Nixon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 25.2 x 32.2 cm (9 15/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.74.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist's family; by descent to Mrs. Fleetwood Walker, England; by descent to Mr. and Mrs. G. L. V. Walker, England; (P & D Colnaghi, London); (Spink-Leger, London).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours by Cornelius Varley, P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1973, no. 16, pl. 10.

2000

  • Feeling Through the Eye: The "New" Landscape in Britain 1800 - 1830, Spink-Leger, London, 2000, no. 90, as Open Landscape with distant hills, Shropshire.

2007

  • Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Inscriptions

verso, in watercolor: blue color trials

Wikidata ID

Q64540596

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