Lugt, Catalogues, no.6646

Copy consulted: Archive of Christie’s, London

The drawings by Thomas Girtin were consigned by the artist’s widow, Mary Ann Girtin (1781–1843). The catalogue notes that all the drawings 'are in Portfolios, and in fine Preservation'. The sale also included 'Original Sketches and Finished Drawings by Sawrey Gilpin, Esq. R. A.'.

• 1 – ‘TWENTY-FOUR Various’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for 14s
• 2 – ‘Seven, Views from Nature, York, &c.’. Bought by ‘Sir H. Englefield’ for £4 14s 6d
• 3 – ‘Six, Ditto, Ruins, &c.’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for 12s
• 4 – ‘Eight Views from Nature, Studies and Figures, &c.’. Sold for 16s
• 5 – ‘Six, Studies from Nature, York, &c.’. Sold for £1 3s
• 6 – ‘Five, Ditto’. Bought by ‘Sir H. Englefield’ for £2 6s
• 7 – ‘Ditto’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for 17s
• 8 – ‘Ditto’. Bought by ‘Thane’ for £2 15s
• 9 – ‘Eight Ditto’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for £1 3s
• 10 – ‘Ditto’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for £2 15s
• 11 – ‘Ditto’. Sold for £2 4s
• 12 – ‘Five Ditto’. Bought by ‘Barret’ for £2 3s
• 13 – ‘Three Ditto’. Bought by ‘Neville’ for 14s
• 14 – ‘Three Ditto’. Bought by ‘Barret’ for £2 12s 6d
• 22 – ‘Four, Black Lead Sketches’. Bought by ‘Barret’ for £2 2s
• 23 – ‘Ditto’. Bought by ‘Thane’ for £1 18s
• 24 – ‘Four, Studies from Nature’. Sold for £1 11s
• 25 – ‘Ditto’. Bought by ‘Vendramini’ for £4
• 26 – ‘Ditto’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £3 10s
• 27 – ‘One, a Drawing in Pencil’. Bought by ‘Sir H Englefield’ for £2 18s
• 28 – ‘Port St. Denis’. Sold for £4 6s (?TG1892)
• 38 – ‘Rippon Minster, Study from Nature’. Bought by ‘Spilsbury’ for £2 15s
• 39 – ‘Battersea Reach’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £10 10s
• 40 – ‘Cottage in Essex’. Sold for £9 9s
• 41 – ‘Warkworth Hermitage’. Bought by ‘Girtin’s Friend’ for £8 8s
• 42 – ‘York Minster’. Bought by ‘Barret’ for £4 16s
• 43 – ‘A Study from Nature’. Sold for £3 13s 6d
• 44 – ‘Four, tinted studies from Nature, York, &c.’. Bought by ‘Graham’ for £1 18s
• 54 – ‘A Mill and Warkworth Hermitage, Studies from Nature’. Sold for £2 18s (?TG1095)
• 55 – ‘A Study from Nature, Widmore, near Totness’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £2
• 56 – ‘Mill, at Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon’. Bought by ‘Capt. Birch’ for £2 19s
• 57 – ‘Two Studies from Nature, Knaresborough’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £1 8s
• 58 – ‘Four, Plymouth Dock, with Part of Mount Edgecombe, &c.’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £1 8s
• 59 – ‘A Study from Nature, Ruins’. Bought by ‘Leitham’ for £3 15s
• 60 – ‘A Mill in Wales’. Bought by ‘Leitham’ for £5 18s
• 61 – ‘Two, Tynemouth, black lead, and 1 in Tints’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £3 18s
• 62 – ‘A Study from Nature’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £2 10s
• 63 – ‘Ditto’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for £4
• 64 – ‘Two Ditto, Ruins’. Sold for £1 6s
• 65 – ‘A Study from Nature’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for £7 7s
• 76 – ‘Three, a Sketch in Bister, and 2 Studies from Nature’. Bought by ‘Spilsbury’ for £2 2s
• 77 – ‘Three. 1, Richmond, Yorkshire, 1 from Nature, 1 of Ruins’. Sold for £4 4s
• 78 – ‘River Ex, Devon’. Bought by ‘Barrett’ for £7 17s 6d
• 79 – ‘A Study from Nature, Tintern Abbey, and 1 of Widmore’. Bought by ‘W^s’ for £5 15s 6d
• 80 – ‘Coast of Dorsetshire, with Town of Lyme’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £5 10s (?TG1251)
• 94 – ‘One, from the Toy, Hampton Court’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for £3 15s (TG1748)
• 95 – ‘One, an East India View’. Bought by ‘Harman’ for £2 (?TG0863)
• 96 – ‘One, Scar Cross, Devon’. Bought by ‘Barrett’ for £7 7s (?TG1456)
• 97 – ‘One, Dartmouth, Devon’. Sold for £2 2s
• 120 – ‘Rippon Minster, an exceedingly high finished Drawing’. Sold for £11 11s
• 122 – ‘Leathersellers’ Hall, Bishopsgate Street, before it was pulled down’. Sold for £5 10s (TG1410 or TG1411)
• 123 – ‘Interior of St. Albans’. Sold for £6
• 129 – ‘Ouse Bridge, York’. Sold for £21 10s 6d (?TG1649)
• 130 – ‘One of the Gates at York’. Sold for £22 1s (?TG1652)
• 131 – ‘A View in the North of Devonshire, framed’. Sold for £2 10s
• 132 – ‘A View in Devonshire’. Sold for £7 12s
• 133 – ‘A VIEW OF BOLTON BRIDGE, Yorkshire, the only Picture this ingenious Artist ever painted’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for £25 4s (TG1687)
• 134 – ‘An Historical Picture’. Bought by ‘Girtin’ for £3