Title:
Landscape with cattle by a pool (1850)
Maker:
Cox, David, the elder; painter; British artist, 1783-1859
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
Date:
1850
School/Style:
British
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
oil paint; material
panel (wood); support
Technique
Description:
oil on panel
Dimension(s):
height, 22.2, cm
width, 26.7, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Riches, Thomas Henry
Provenance:
Edwin Bullock, sold Christie's, 8 May 1887 (35), bt. Agnew; James Orrock, by 1890
Acquisition Credit:
Thomas Henry Riches, 1935, with a life-interest to his widow, who died 1950
Inscription(s):
signature; lower left; David Cox
date; lower left; 1850
label; verso; printed; B.A.M. David Cox Exhibition (rest of label destroyed, part of 'Orrock')
label; verso; printed; David Cox Exhibition, Birmingham, 1890
label; verso; printed; Messrs. Agnew
label; verso; printed; (older than all the above, which partly cover it, but quite illegible)
label; verso; MS; ex Orrock collection
stencil; verso; (obscured by labels)
Exhibition(s):
David Cox Exhibition. 1890
Venue: Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham
Notes: lent by James Orrock
Catalogue number: 159
British Landscape Paintings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 1992-09-17 - 1992-10-20
Venue: Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo
Notes: repr. colour
Catalogue number: 30
Documentation:
Goodison, J.W.. 1977. Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. 58-59
pl. 35
1992. British Landscape Paintings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.Tokyo: p. 80-81
cat. no. 30, reproduced (colour)
Accession:
Object Number: PD.10-1950
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 842; input: 1999-12-23; modified: 2011-03-09)
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Identifier:
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