Private collection, USA
Canonteign
- Pen and grey ink and grey washes on six conjoined sheets of paper on the original wash-line mount
- 19 ⅝ × 25 ½ inches · 500 × 650 mm
- Signed and inscribed on the verso of the mount: ‘Canonteign Devon. JWA. Sept. 5. 1804’ and in another hand: ‘Given to Frances Abbott March 1. 1832’
Collections
- John White Abbott;
- Frances Abbott, daughter of the above;
- By descent to 1997;
- Sotheby’s, 10 April 1997, lot 41 (£9,200 to Spink-Leger);
- John and Jill Fairchild, New York, acquired from the above;
- Fairchild sale, Stair Galleries, 17 May 2023, lot 43 (as English School);
- Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
Literature
- Paul Oppé, ‘John White Abbott of Exeter’, The Walpole Society, 1924-5, vol XIII, p.78.