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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 3, 2019 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Works on Paper | 417 | $****** - ****** | SUN-RISE. WHITING FISHING AT MARGATE |
Works on Paper
42.6 x 64.8 cm (16.77 x 25.51 in)
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and stopping out
signed and dated lower left: J.M.W. Turner 1822
Commissioned by William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855);
Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790-1867);
John Edward Fordham (1799-1880), by 1861,
by descent to his daughter-in-law, Mrs John Hampden Fordham, née Catherine Lawson (1836-1909),
by descent to her son Alexander Russell Fordham (1873-1945),
his sale, London, Christie's, 20 April 1917, lot 58, bt. King;
Henry Folland (1876-1926),
Mrs Henry Folland, C.B.E., née Thomas (1874-1957),
her sale, London, Christie’s, 5 October 1945, lot 5; bt. Mitchell,
with The Mitchell Gallery, London,
from where acquired by the father of the present owner, 1945
London, W.B. Cooke Gallery, 9 Soho Square, 1823, as ‘Margate Sunrise’;
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1886, lent by Mrs Fordham;
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, and Paris, Petit Palais, Richard Parkes Bonington 'On the Pleasure of Painting', 1991-1992, no. 48;
London, Agnew's, Turner Watercolours, 1994, no. 6;
Canberra, National Gallery of Australia and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Turner, 1996, unnumbered;
London, Royal Academy, J.M.W. Turner: The Great Watercolours, 2000-2001, no. 57;
London, Tate Britain, and Minneapolis, Minneapolis Art Gallery, Constable to Delacroix British Art and the French Romantics, 2003, no. 158;
London, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Turner and the Sea, 2014, no. 45;
Margate, Turner Contemporary, Turner and Colour, 2016, unnumbered;
New York, The Frick Collection, Turner’s Ancient and Modern Ports, 2017, no. 19
Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, London 1902, p. 265;
W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, London 1908-13, p. 373, II, p. 373, no. 772;
A. Wilton, The Life and Works of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, no. 507;
E. Shanes, Turner’s England 1810-1838, London 1990, p. 119, no. 94
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and stopping out;
signed and dated lower left: J.M.W. Turner 1822
426 by 648 mm.
