Pen and grey and black inks and watercolour over traces of pencil
10 9/16 × 8 ¾ inches · 270 × 222 mm
On the original backing sheet
Drawn c.1806-7
Engraved:
by Luigi Schiavonetti in etching and engraving for ‘The Grave, A Poem’, facing page 28,
image 274 x 222 mm, published by Cadell & Davies, 1808.
Collections
Robert Cromeck, commissioned from the artist, d.1812;
By inheritance by his widow;
Thomas Sivright;
Sivright sale, C.B.Tait, 10 February 1836, lot 1835 (part lot);
John Stannard d.1882;
Henry John Stannard, son of the above, d.1920;
Henry John Sylvester Stannard, son of the above, d.1951;
By Stannard family descent to 2000;
Caladonia Books, Glasgow, 2000-2001;
Paul Williams, Fine Books, Ilkley, acquired from the above in 2001;
Libby Howie, acquired from the above;
Subject to an Export Licence stop, March 2005, Permanent licence subsequently granted;
Howie sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 2 May 2006, lot 9;
Private collection, acquired after the sale, to 2018