Property from the Estate of the late Alys Rickett
Thomas Rowlandson
A rural landscape, possibly Cornwall
Lot Closed
July 6, 01:44 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of the late Alys Rickett
Thomas Rowlandson
London 1756 - 1827
A rural landscape, possibly Cornwall
Pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pen🍎cil
144 by 234 mm
Ronald John Rickett (d. 1970),
by family descent to the present owners
by family descent to the present owners
This watercolour m🔥ay represent Cornwall, a county that Rowlandson visited regularly from the 1790s until 1819, in order to see his friend and patron Matthew Michell (d🍃. 1819) of Hengar House near Bodmin.
The present work has descended in the family of Ronald John Rickett, k🀅nown as John, who was a director of British Pictures at Sotheby’s in the 1960s.