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Thomas Girtin
English, 1775–1802
Mountainous Landscape with Overshot Mill and Bridge
c. 1795
Image Caption
Thomas Girtin, Mountainous Landscape with Overshot Mill and Bridge, c. 1795, watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.121
Medium
watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 7/8 in. (26.4 × 37.8 cm)
Frame: 18 5/8 × 22 5/8 in. (47.3 × 57.5 cm)
Object Number
2007.8.121
Acquisition
Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Whittingham, S. "Sales." Turner Studies. 2.1. Summer. 1982. Wilton, Andrew. "The 'Monro School' Questions: Some Answers." Turner Studies. 4.2. Winter. 1984:8-23. Upstone, R. "News and Sales Record." Turner Studies: His Art and Epoch 1775–1851 11, no. 1 (Summer 1991). Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.
Provenance
Possibly Dr. Thomas Monro, sale, Christie’s, London, 26-28 June and 1-2 July 1833; John Dobbs Berger, sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16 July 1981, no. 45; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 23 Oct. 1990, no. 6; sale, Christie’s, London, 7 Apr. 1998, no. 26, to Ackermann; [Ackermann & Johnson, London, Apr.–Nov. 1998, sold to Manton, Nov. 1998]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1998–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.