RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON
(1802-1828)
Shipping off St-Valery-sur-Somme
Signed ‘R P Bonington’ (lower left)
Brown wash over graphite with scratching out
5 ¾ x 8 ½ inches
Acquired by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Provenance
Feodor Aleksandrovich Romanov, Prince of Russia (1898-1968)
Christie’s, 9 November, 1993, lot 41
Private Collection, UK
Literature
Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, The Complete Paintings, Yale University Press, 2008, no.24, p.33, illus. col.
This watercolour was made circa 1821 and depicts the estuary of the Somme at high tide.
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