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John Scarlett Davis
1804-1845 or 1846
The Entrance Portico, Greenwich Hospital
1830
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-green wash, over graphite, with white opaque watercolor, on wove paper.
12 1/8 x 9 11/16 inches (307 x 246 mm)
Purchased on the E.J. Rousuck Fund.
1980.2
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Watermark: none.
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Scarlett Davis / 1830".
Provenance:
Blanche Burney; her cousin, Miss Wood, later Lady Powell; her goddaughter, Miss Stella Alleyne; sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 June 1945, lot 5 (a parcel[to Rham for £34]); Norman D. Newall, Esq., Newbrough, Northumberland (1888-1952); his sale, London, Christie's, 13 December 1979, lot 32, repr.
Associated names:
Burney, Blanche, former owner.
Powell, Lady, former owner.
Alleyne, Stella, former owner.
Newall, N. D. (Norman D.), 1888-1952, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 186.
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