Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd.
Reference: Christie's, 30 April 1954
Catalogue untraced, details from the Girtin Archive.
- 117 – 'A River Scene, with a rainbow', 24 × 45 in (61 × 114.3 cm). Bought by 'Appleby' for 65 guineas 'for America'. Thomas Girtin (1874–1960) described seeing the oil painting in the 1920s when it was initially said to represent Bolton Bridge the subject of Girtin's only oil painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1801. The artist's descendent added a note to a photograph of the work (Girtin Archive: 41) describing how the view differs from the topography of Bolton Bridge and suggesting that the painting was a modern forgery.