- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
- Title
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- Knaresborough Castle, from the High Bridge
- Date
- 1799 - 1800
- Medium and Support
- Graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.6 × 17.8 cm, 4 ⁹⁄₁₆ × 7 in
- Inscription
‘Knaresbro’ on the back
- Part of
- Object Type
- Outline Drawing
- Subject Terms
- Castle Ruins; River Scenery; Yorkshire View
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- Catalogue Number
- TG1511
- Description Source(s)
- Gallery Website
Provenance
Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855–1935); his posthumous sale, Sotheby's, 11 April 1935, lot 66, one of three; bought by Tancred Borenius for Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882–1947), £7; then by descent to George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923–2011); his sale, Christie’s, 13 July 1965, lot 164 as 'A View of the River at Bilton Bank, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, with the Abbey on the skyline'; bought by 'Agnew', 70 gns; Thos. Agnew & Sons (stock no.5447); bought from them by an anonymous collector, 1966, £200; presented to the Museum, 1973
Exhibition History
Agnew’s, 1966, no.197 as ’The River at Bilton Bank, Knaresborough’
Bibliography
Borenius, 1936, no.312; Hill, 1999, p.44
Place depicted
Footnotes
- 1 Details are transcribed in the Documents section of the Archive (1804 – Item 1).
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