Documents: A Year by Year Record of Dated Watercolours and Prints, Early Accounts of the Artist and His Works, Manuscript Material Relating to Sales and Collections

1791 Documents

Documents, Dated Watercolours and Early Accounts of the Artist

Dated Watercolours

Rochester, from the River Medway (TG0015)
Unidentified Coastal Village, Said to Be Clovelly (TG0017)

Dated Sketch

St Mary’s Church, Battersea (TG0016)

5 February 1791

Mr. Greenwood, A Few Paintings and High Finished Drawings, 2–5 February 1791

Day 4

98 – ‘Two views from Nature, by Girton’
116 – ‘Two in Berkshire, Girtin’
118 – ‘Two views from Nature, Girtin’

27 February 1791

James Moore (1762–99) sketches the ruins of the Albion Mills, Southwark (see source images TG0105 and TG0114).

10 June 1791

Mr. Greenwood, Collection of Pictures and Drawings of Mr. Elias Martin, of Bath, 8–11 June 1791

Day 3

Includes works by Thomas Girtin:

37 – ‘Two ditto of Windsor and Eton’ (?TG0013)
38 – ‘Two ditto of London’
39 – ‘Three ditto, Tynemouth priory, &c’ (?TG0055)
95 – ‘Two views’
96 – ‘Two Durham castle’ (?TG0012)
97 – ‘Two, on the lakes’ (?TG0073 and ?TG0078)

Summer 1791

James Moore (1762–99) tours Hampshire, Devon and North Wales, producing dated drawings at Amesbury and Salisbury (29 June), Abbotsbury (5 and 12 July), Corfe Abbey (7 July), Exeter (9 July), Weymouth (12 July), Portland (13 July), Berry-Pomeroy (18 July), Cerne Abbey (23 July), Netley Abbey (2 August), Newark Priory (5 August), Valle Crucis (21 August), Hawarden (22 August), Denbigh Castle (23 August), Caernarvon Castle (24 and 25 August) and Ludlow (30 August).