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

1792 Documents

Documents, Dated Watercolours and Early Accounts of the Artist

Dated Watercolour

  • London from Highgate Hill (TG0060)

Dated Sketch

  • All Saints’ Church, Fulham, from the Seven Bells, Putney (TG0059)

25 January 1792

Mr. Greenwood, Some Exceeding Fine Modern Drawings, Framed and Glazed, 24–25 January 1792

Includes works by Thomas Girtin:

  • 66 – ‘Leihaiden castle gate’
  • 68 – ‘A pair of cottages, views from nature’
  • 69 – ‘Rochester castle, and bridge’ (?TG0057)
  • 72 – ‘Rochester castle’
  • 74 – ‘Cilgarron’

1 February 1792

Prints after Edward Dayes’ (1763–1804) Third Regiment of Foot Guards published with hand-colouring by Girtin (see TG0063b).

9 February 1792

Mr. Greenwood, Fine Drawings in Water Colours, 9–10 February 1792

Includes works by Thomas Girtin:

  • 77 – ‘Two, drawings, London and Canterbury’

1 May 1792

Windsor (see print after TG0065) is published in The Copper-Plate Magazine (Walker, 1792–1802).

7 June 1792 (Thursday)

An inscription on Girtin’s drawing All Saints’ Church, Fulham, from the Seven Bells, Putney (TG0059) indicates that he was sketching on the river Thames on this date.

29 July 1792 (Sunday)

An inscription on Girtin’s drawing All Saints’ Church, Fulham, from the Seven Bells, Putney (TG0059) indicates that he was sketching on the river Thames on this date, completing a sketch begun on 7 June.

August–September 1792

James Moore (1762–99) tours Scotland and Northumberland with a fellow antiquarian, John Charles Brooke (1748–94), producing dated sketches at York (14 August), Warkworth (18 August), Lindisfarne (19 August), Bamburgh (19 August), Kelso (20 August), Jedburgh (21 August), Melrose (22 and 23 August), Edinburgh Castle (26 August), St Andrews Cathedral (30 August), Dunnottar Castle (5 September), Aberdeen Cathedral (6 September), Duff House (11 September), Boyne Castle (12 September), Cawdor Castle (17 and 18 September), Dunstaffnage (22 September), Glasgow Cathedral (26 September) and Sweetheart Abbey (29 September).

16 October 1792 (?)–14 February 1793 (?)

Portfolio of documents relating to James Moore (1762–99) (Print Room, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) (Moore, Payments, 1792–93)

A portfolio containing Moore’s correspondence includes a note of payments to Girtin covering work on twenty-six dates, probably from the end of 1792 to the beginning of 1793. The figures are difficult to interpret precisely, but the inscription of ‘21/’ after the brackets seems to indicate three payments of 21s (£1 5p), or a guinea, for work on seven dates between 16 October and 10 November, 14 November and 6 December, and 9 December and 20 January at a daily fee of 3s (15p). The sum paid for five dates between 25 January and 14 February is unclear, but was presumably 15s if Girtin received the same daily rate. The text below should be read as two columns, with the second set of dates continuing from the first.

Girtin
Octr – 16th    Decr     G  
–– 21     13  
–– 27     27  
–– 30 21/   30  21/
           
Novr.  4   Jany 10  
   8   ––  16  
  10    ––  20  
           
Novr 14th        
 –– 18        
 –– 22         
 –– 24  21/  Feby  7  [unclear numeral]1/
 –– 28    ––  9  
 Decr.  1    –– 14  
   6        
 Decr.  9        

 

1792

London from Highgate Hill

TG0060

1792

All Saints’ Church, Fulham, from the Seven Bells, Putney

TG0059

(?) 1791

Rochester Castle, from the River Medway

TG0057

1792

Third Regiment of Foot Guards, 1660: Drummer and Private

TG0063b

(?) 1792

Windsor Castle, from the River Thames

TG0065

1792

All Saints’ Church, Fulham, from the Seven Bells, Putney

TG0059

1792

All Saints’ Church, Fulham, from the Seven Bells, Putney

TG0059