In Windsor Park
Watercolour
1807 (painted)
1807 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
David Cox (1783-1859) was a leading watercolourist of his generation. This early work from 1807 is a view of Windsor but echoes the work of the admired 17th-century landscape painter, Gaspard Dughet, whose oil paintings Cox is known to have copied.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | In Windsor Park |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour with some scraping out, on paper |
| Brief description | David Cox (1783-1859), Windsor Park, 1807, watercolour |
| Physical description | Watercolour of Windsor Park showing the Castle in the grounds currently in gilt frame. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | D.Cox 1807 (Signed and dated) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by S.C.Turner |
| Object history | This watercolour drawing was previously in the collections of Mrs. Rhodes, by whom it was lent to the Liverpool Art Club's David Cox Exhibition in 1875, and of Mrs. Fitzgerald. It was exhibited at the Louvre, Paris, in 1938. |
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| Place depicted | |
| Summary | David Cox (1783-1859) was a leading watercolourist of his generation. This early work from 1807 is a view of Windsor but echoes the work of the admired 17th-century landscape painter, Gaspard Dughet, whose oil paintings Cox is known to have copied. |
| Bibliographic reference | Wilcox, Scott. Sun, Wind, and Rain. The Art of David Cox New Haven, Conn. : Yale University, 2008
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | P.24-1948 |
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| Record created | August 31, 2007 |
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