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Alexander Cozens
approximately 1717-1786
A River Between Hills
ca. 1785
Brush and black ink wash over graphite on paper, varnished.
9 1/16 x 11 7/8 inches (230 x 302 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.42
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Watermark: horn within a shield surmounted by a crown, with letters C(?) R below (similar to Heawood 2752-58).
Inscription:
Signed beneath lower left edge of drawing presumably on the artist's mount, in the same gray ink as the framing lines, "Alex[superscript letter r] Cozens", and in graphite at upper center "10."
Provenance:
Herbert Horne; Carfax Gallery, London; acquired by Sir Edward Marsh c. 1903; Hugh L. Agnew; Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names:
Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864-1916, former owner.
Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953, former owner.
Agnew, Hugh L., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 63, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 25.
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