Important English Drawings & Watercolours
Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd.
Reference: Christie’s, 6 November 1973
Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London
‘The Property of S. D. Wetham’
- 143 – ‘Pont-y-Pair, Bettws-y-Coed, Caernarvonshire’, 13 ¾ × 20 ½ in (34.9 × 52.1 cm). Bought by ‘Fry’ for £1,785 (TG1333)
- 181 – ‘View of Paris with the Louvre Taken from the Pont Marie, soft ground etching and watercolour’, 7 ¼ × 11 ¾ in (18.4 × 29.9 cm). Bought by ‘Spink’s’ for 1,000 guineas (plate three of Picturesque Views in Paris, TG1865b)
Identified Exhibits
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Thomas Girtin
Pont y Pair, Betws-y-Coed
Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Loan from George and Patti White
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Thomas Girtin
The Ile de la Cité, with the Louvre and the Pont Neuf in the Distance, Taken from the Pont Marie: Colour Study for Plate Three of Picturesque Views in Paris
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison