Private collection, UK
The corner of the artist’s studio
- Pen and black ink and grey wash on laid paper
- 7 ⅝ × 7 ⅜ inches · 195 × 187 mm
- Inscribed lower left: To Mrs. Ireland / Maiden Lane, and further inscribed verso in Esdaile's hand: ‘Mortimer / [Ire] lands Sale, 1810, W.E / P / 68 N 50’
Drawn c. 1775
Collections
- Presented by the artist to Mrs John Ireland;
- John Ireland (d. 1808);
- Ireland executor's sale, King and Locheé, 5-6 March 1810, lot 174, or lot 214;
- William Esdaile (1758-1837), acquired at the above sale via 'Parker';
- Anonymous sale, London, Hodgson & Co., 21 October 1960, part of lot 561;
- P & D. Colnaghi, London;
- Leonard Gordon Duke (1890-1973);
- Cyril and Shirley Fry, a gift from the above;
- Fry sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7th July 2021, lot 4;
- Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
Literature
- John Sunderland, ‘John Hamilton Mortimer His Life and Works’, The Walpole Society, 1988, vol.LII, cat. no.104, p.168.