JOHN WHITE ABBOTT (BRITISH 1763-1851)
THE LOWER PART OF CORRA LINN, FALLS OF CLYDE
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Auction: 19 March 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
watercolour, pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
23cm x 18cm (9in x 7in)
Provenance
The Artist's great, great, grandson
with The Fine Art Society, London, 1946
Loyd Collection
Christie's, London, British Art on Paper, 5 June 2007, lot 3
Christie's South Kensington, Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours, 5 December 2013, lot 105
Footnote
Exhibited: Newbury, Newbury Spring Festival, The Development of English Landscape Painting in Watercolours and Drawings, 1984, no. 9
Literature: Leslie Parris, The Loyd Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, Bradbury Agnew, 1967, no. 67, p. 30, pl. 59.
Francis Russell et al, The Loyd Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, privately published, 1991, no. 67, p. 30, pl. 67According to Christie's cataloguing in 2013, the original mount bore the inscription 'The lower part of Corriag... Lynn - one of the Falls of the Clyde./JWA. July 6.1791' and was numbered 'No 42' (on the verso of the mount)
The lot was further footnoted: Abbott's earliest known watercolours date from 1791, when he undertook a tour of Scotland and the Lake District, through Lancashire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire. There is another drawing of Corra Linn, from the same tour, numbered 47, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.324-1924).