
Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
This auction has ended. View lot details


Sold for £3,825 inc. premium
Our Old Master Paintings specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
Head of Sale
Provenance
Collection of F.L. Pearson
With John Baskett, by whom given in 1970 to
Dudley Snelgrove
His sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1992, lot 294 (as Circle of Thomas Malton II)
The Collection of John P. Foster, Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey (1973-88), and thence by descent to the present owner
Many of Malton's London views were made in preparation for publication in aquatint in his 1792 series Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster. He is believed to have collaborated with other artists such as Francis Wheatley to paint the figures, which probably accounts for the considerable variation in their quality between different watercolours. Another version of this composition by Malton, taken from a slightly different angle, was sold at Phillips, London, 21 November 1988, lot 20, for £16,500.